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Privacy notice for itlearning.tech

Effective 29 October 2026. This notice explains what personal data the ITLearning learning platform at itlearning.tech collects, why, where it is processed, how long we keep it and your rights. It follows the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA) and, for learners in the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It applies to itlearning.tech; our website itlearning.ng has its own privacy policy.

1. Who we are

itlearning.tech is operated by ITLearning, a subsidiary of SaamSoft Systems Nig Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria ("we", "us"). We are the data controller for the personal data described here.

Privacy questions and requests: info@itlearning.ng. You can also use Data requests and Contact the privacy officer on your profile page.

2. What we collect

• Account data: your name, email address, username, a hashed password, and anything you choose to add to your profile (city, country, picture, description).
• Learning data: your enrolments, activity completion, quiz answers and grades, assignment submissions (including links to your GitHub repositories and deployed services), feedback and rubric grades from mentors, and certificates issued to you.
• Code you submit to coding quizzes: sent to our code-checking server to be compiled and run against the question's tests. The server deletes it once the run finishes; your answer and its results are kept in your quiz attempt.
• Assessment sessions: the capstone defence and the live-coding assessment may be recorded (screen and audio) so that grades can be checked fairly. You are told before a recording starts.
• What you write to others: forum posts, messages and blog posts.
• Security and sign-in data: for staff, multi-factor authentication settings (an authenticator-app secret, or one-time codes sent by email); for everyone, failed sign-in counts used to lock accounts after repeated failures.
• Technical data: IP address, browser and device details, the pages and activities you open and when (activity logs), and our web servers' access logs.
• Support requests: what you send us and our replies.

We do not collect special categories of data (such as health, religion or biometrics) and ask you not to put them in your submissions or posts.

3. Why we use it, and our legal basis

• To provide the courses (your account, progress, grading, feedback and certificates): necessary to perform our agreement with you.
• To keep the platform secure and fair (sign-in protection, preventing abuse of the code-checking server, academic-integrity checks, backups and monitoring): our legitimate interest in running a safe, reliable service.
• To let employers verify a certificate you share with them: your consent, given when you share it; and our legitimate interest in certificates being trustworthy.
• To improve the courses using combined, de-identified results (for example which questions most learners miss): our legitimate interest.
• To meet legal obligations, for example responding to lawful requests from authorities.

We do not sell or rent your personal data, and we do not use it for advertising.

4. Automated grading

Topic quizzes, coding quizzes and the end-of-phase exam are marked automatically. Capstones, module projects, the capstone defence and the live-coding assessment are graded by people. If you think an automatic mark is wrong, ask us to review it: a person will check it and explain the result.

5. The AI course assistant

Courses may offer an optional AI assistant (for example to summarise a page). It runs on a language model hosted on our own server: what you send it is not shared with any outside AI company. Don't include personal information in your requests.

6. Who else processes your data

• Hosting: Hostinger International Ltd hosts the platform, its database, email and backups in Frankfurt, Germany. Hivelocity, Inc. hosts our code-checking server in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They act on our instructions.
• Mentors and assessors engaged by us see your submissions, grades and recordings of your assessment sessions, only to assess and support you.
• Google: sign-up and sign-in pages use Google reCAPTCHA to stop automated abuse, which sends Google information about your device and use of the page. Lesson videos are embedded from YouTube in privacy-enhanced mode, so YouTube receives data only when you play a video. Both are covered by Google's privacy policy.
• Moodle app notifications: if you use the Moodle mobile app and allow notifications, they are delivered through Moodle Pty Ltd's push-notification service.
• GitHub: your repositories are yours, on GitHub under GitHub's terms. We only store the links you submit.
• Authorities, only where the law requires it.

7. International transfers

Our servers are in Germany and the Netherlands, so your data is transferred outside Nigeria. Both countries are subject to the GDPR, which provides an adequate level of protection; we rely on that adequacy under Part VIII of the NDPA, together with our providers' contractual commitments.

8. How long we keep it

• Your account and learning records: while your account is active, and for 3 years after your last sign-in, so you can return and so we can confirm your results. Then they are deleted or anonymised.
• Certificate verification records (your name, the certificate, its date and code): for as long as we run the programme, so employers can verify them, unless you ask us to delete them.
• Activity logs: 12 months. Web server access logs: about 4 weeks.
• Recordings of assessment sessions: 12 months after the grade is final.
• Backups: each nightly backup is kept for 7 days.
• Code sent to the code-checking server: deleted when the run ends.
• When you ask us to delete your account, we do so within 30 days, except what the law requires us to keep.

9. How we protect it

Encrypted connections (HTTPS) everywhere; hashed passwords; account lockout after repeated failed sign-ins; multi-factor authentication for staff accounts; administration tools that are not reachable from the internet; a code-checking server isolated from the internet; access limited to the people who need it; monitoring and nightly verified backups. No system is perfectly secure: if a breach is likely to put your rights at risk, we will notify you and the Nigeria Data Protection Commission as the law requires.

10. Your rights

You can ask us to: give you a copy of your personal data (use Data requests → Export all of my personal data on your profile); correct it (most of it you can edit yourself); delete it (Data requests → Delete all of my personal data); restrict or object to how we use it; and give it to you in a machine-readable form. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time. We answer within 30 days. You can also complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission, or, in the EU, to your national data protection authority.

11. Age

itlearning.tech is for learners aged 16 and over. If you are 16 or 17, a parent or guardian must agree before you join: at sign-up you are asked your age, and if you are under 18 we ask you to contact us, and we confirm your parent's or guardian's consent before creating your account. We do not knowingly accept learners under 16; if we find we have, we delete the account.

12. Cookies

• MoodleSession keeps you signed in. It is essential and expires when you close your browser or sign out.
• MOODLEID1_ remembers your username, only if you choose that on the sign-in page.
• Google reCAPTCHA and YouTube (when you play a video) may set their own cookies, as described in Google's privacy policy.

We do not use analytics or advertising cookies.

13. Changes

If we change this notice in a way that matters, we will publish a new version here and ask you to read and accept it the next time you sign in.

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Terms of use for itlearning.tech

Effective 29 October 2026. These terms govern your use of the ITLearning learning platform at itlearning.tech, operated by ITLearning, a subsidiary of SaamSoft Systems Nig Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria. By creating an account you agree to them and to our privacy notice. Contact: info@itlearning.ng.

1. Your account

• You must be 16 or over; if you are 16 or 17, a parent or guardian must agree first (see the privacy notice).
• One account per person, in your real name, as it should appear on your certificates.
• Keep your password private, and tell us straight away if you think someone else has used your account. Staff accounts must use multi-factor authentication.

2. Learning honestly

Certificates from this programme tell employers what you can do. To keep them meaningful:

• Your submissions, quiz answers and assessment sessions must be your own work. Discussing ideas with other learners is encouraged; submitting someone else's work, or sharing quiz or exam answers, is not.
• AI assistants are allowed for learning, as the course teaches, but you must understand and be able to explain everything you submit. The capstone defence and the live-coding assessment check this, and are done without AI help.
• Don't share, publish or sell exam questions, reference solutions for mentors, or assessment tasks.

If we find misconduct, we may cancel the affected grades, require you to redo an assessment, revoke a certificate, or suspend your account. We will tell you why and let you respond first.

3. Using the platform fairly

• Code you submit to coding quizzes must be attempts at the question. Don't try to break, overload or misuse the code-checking server, other learners' accounts or the platform, or get round its security.
• Be respectful in forums and messages. No harassment, hate speech, spam, advertising, illegal content or other people's personal data.
• Don't upload malware or content you don't have the right to share.

We may remove content or suspend accounts that break these rules.

4. Content and intellectual property

• Course content is © ITLearning. You may use it for your own learning; you may not republish or sell it. Datasets keep their own licences, and embedded videos belong to their creators.
• You keep the rights to the code and work you create. You give us permission to store, review and grade it, and to use de-identified examples to improve the courses.

5. Assessments and certificates

• Certificates are issued automatically when you meet all the requirements listed in the course. Each has a verification code that employers can check.
• If you disagree with a grade, ask for a review within 30 days of receiving it; a different mentor will look at it where possible.
• A certificate shows that you completed this programme. It is not a university degree or a vendor certification, and we don't guarantee a job.

6. Availability and changes

We work to keep the platform available and accurate, but we can't promise it will always be uninterrupted or error-free, for example during maintenance. We may update courses, these terms and the platform. If we change these terms in a way that matters, we will ask you to accept the new version when you next sign in.

7. Liability

The platform and courses are provided "as is". To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of the platform. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

8. Ending your account

You can stop using the platform and ask us to delete your account at any time (see the privacy notice). We may close accounts that break these terms, or that have been inactive for more than 3 years.

9. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We will try to resolve any dispute with you informally first.