Privacy Policy
This page explains how Uedu collects, processes, and protects your personal data, ensuring that your privacy is fully safeguarded when you use the platform's services.
Scope of This Privacy Policy
What This Policy Covers
Uedu values the privacy of every user. This Policy explains how we collect, process, and protect your personal data, ensuring that your privacy is fully safeguarded when you use the platform's services.
Scope of Application
This Policy applies to personal data provided or generated when you use the services offered by the Uedu website (uedu.tw), its university subdomain sites, and its mobile applications
Outside the Scope
This Policy does not apply to third-party websites linked from this website, nor to persons not commissioned by or involved in the management of this website
Privacy Protection
Your personal data is fully protected
Collection, Processing, and Use of Personal Data
What Data We Collect
| Data Type | Details | Purpose of Collection |
|---|---|---|
| Account Information | Name, email address, and contact information | Identity Verification Service Delivery |
| Browsing Records | IP address, browsing time, browser type, and click records | Internal Analysis System optimization |
| Interactive Feature Data | Name, email address, contact information, and usage time provided through the service mailbox and survey responses | Service Response Statistical Analysis |
| Survey Statistics | Anonymized results derived from statistical analysis | Academic Research Publication |
| Local AI conversation records | Text, voice, and file interactions with the virtual teaching assistant | Educational Research AI Optimization |
| Learning Profiling | Psychological scale responses and results (voluntary participation) | Self-reference Academic Research |
| Health and Physiological Data | Health data uploaded from wearable or mobile devices (sleep, HRV, step count, etc.) | Personalized Feedback Academic Research |
| Women's Health Data | Garmin Women's Health (menstrual cycle tracking) data, including cycle phase, period, and pregnancy records (requires separate authorization in Garmin Connect; not used for academic research) | Self-reference |
| Gender and Demographics | Research-related information such as gender identity and sexual orientation (provided voluntarily) | Academic Research Encrypted Storage |
| Classroom Recordings | Classroom screen captures and camera footage | After-class review Digital Classroom Observation |
Anonymization
After statistical analysis, survey data may be released publicly in a form that does not identify any individual. You may request the correction or deletion of your personal data at any time; please refer to the contact information at the bottom of this page.
AI Conversation System and Virtual Teaching Assistant
The platform provides a virtual teaching assistant powered by generative artificial intelligence to support course instruction and adaptive learning. Your conversations with the virtual teaching assistant (including text, uploaded files, and voice messages) are recorded and stored on the platform.
Instructor Access
Course instructors may review students' conversations with the virtual teaching assistant in their courses to optimize the virtual teaching assistant's settings, improve instructional design, and conduct educational research
Scope of TA access
Ordinary course TAs may not browse the full conversation records between students and the virtual teaching assistant, with two exceptions: (1) teachers and TAs of a course may both view the full messages of Socratic Dialogue and Simulated Debate sessions in the "Dialogue Grading" feature; (2) a "Super TA", for whom the teacher has signed an authorization consent form and who has personally signed a confidentiality agreement, may browse and export course conversation records during a one-month authorization period.
User Notice
Please do not enter highly sensitive personal information in conversations, such as credit card numbers, account passwords, or national ID numbers. After de-identification, conversation data may be used for academic research on AI-assisted teaching.
Learner Trait Exploration (Psychological Scales)
The platform offers learner trait exploration features, including open-source psychological assessment tools such as the Holland occupational interest inventory, the Big Five personality inventory, and a psychological type indicator.
Entirely Voluntary Participation
Completing the scales is entirely voluntary and does not affect other platform features or course grades
For Personal Reference Only
Scale results are for your personal reference only and are not shared with instructors or other students
Gender, Identity, and Demographic Data
For academic research purposes, the platform may invite you to provide information such as biological sex, gender identity, preferred pronouns, sexual orientation, and date of birth. The purpose of collection is to explore, through data science methods, potential associations between these factors and learning cognition, in order to provide more appropriate virtual teaching assistant responses.
Entirely Voluntary to Provide
Every item includes a "prefer not to disclose" option, and leaving items blank does not affect your use of the platform
Strict Privacy Protection
Not disclosed to instructors or teaching assistants; stored only in encrypted form and used solely for de-identified statistical analysis
Research Purpose
To examine differences in learning outcomes among learners of different gender backgrounds in generative AI-assisted teaching environments, in order to design virtual teaching assistants that benefit learners of all genders.
Classroom Recording Features
Screen and Camera Recording
Course instructors may record the screen and/or camera footage during class to support digital classroom observation and post-class review
Speech-to-Text
Classroom audio may be converted to text using speech recognition technology for live captions or post-class reference
Recorded audio and video files are stored on the platform's servers and managed by the course instructor. Instructors may decide whether to make recordings available to enrolled students.
Instructor Data Export
Course instructors may export student interaction data from their courses through the platform, including conversation records, uploaded files, voice messages, forum discussions, and survey responses.
Encrypted Archive
Exported data is provided as an encrypted archive with a randomly generated password
Completion Notification
Instructors are notified upon export completion and reminded of the data's sensitivity
Confidentiality Recommendation
If analysis is delegated to others, signing a non-disclosure agreement is recommended
Data Protection
Technical Safeguards
Firewall and Antivirus Systems
This website employs security mechanisms such as firewalls and antivirus systems to safeguard data storage and transmission
Access Control
Strict access controls ensure that data is accessible only to authorized personnel
Sensitive Data Encryption
Data in sensitive categories, such as health, physiological, and gender identity data, is stored in encrypted form
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
Accounts with instructor, teaching assistant, or administrator privileges are required to enable TOTP two-factor authentication to prevent leakage of students' personal data due to account compromise. See the Two-Factor Authentication Policy for details.
Administrative Safeguards
Personnel Confidentiality Agreements
All personnel authorized to access data have signed confidentiality agreements to prevent data leakage
Contracted Vendor Oversight
Contracted vendors must also sign confidentiality agreements and are subject to this website's supervision
External Links from This Website
This website may contain links to other websites to provide additional reference information. Once you click these links and leave this website, your privacy is governed by the policies of those websites.
External Website Privacy Notice
The privacy policies of externally linked websites are not covered by this website's protections. Please refer to the privacy policies of those websites.
Policy on Sharing Personal Data with Third Parties
This website will never arbitrarily provide, exchange, rent, or sell your personal data to any external party.
Third-Party Sign-In Services
OAuth services from Google, Apple ID, and GitHub are used, and only basic profile information is received
Local AI Chat
The OpenAI API is used to provide AI conversation features; conversation content is transmitted to OpenAI for processing
Data is disclosed only in the following circumstances, as required by law or in the public interest:
Exceptions
With your written consent
As expressly required by law
To protect your life, body, liberty, or property
For public-interest or academic research after anonymization
Necessary disclosure in cases of Terms of Service violations or harm to the rights of third parties
When it is in your interest
When processing is outsourced, this website will exercise due supervisory responsibility
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed in your browser by the web server to identify your browser and provide personalized services.
Providing the Best Service Experience
This website uses cookies to provide optimized service content and user experience
You Can Manage Cookies Yourself
You may refuse cookies through your browser settings, though this may affect the normal operation of some features
How to Manage Cookies
Most browsers accept cookies by default. You can adjust the cookie acceptance level in your browser's Settings or Preferences, including refusing all cookies or being notified whenever a cookie is received.
Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Health and Physiological Data
Wearable Device Data (Garmin)
After you authorize the platform to link your Garmin account, we may access the following activity information:
Women's Health Data (Garmin Women's Health)
If you separately enable Women's Health data sharing in your Garmin Connect permission settings, the platform may receive menstrual cycle tracking data:
This category of data is treated at the platform's highest sensitivity level: it is available only to you for personal reference, and is not used for academic research, not included in the authorizable scope of research projects, and not provided to instructors or any third party. The platform receives this data only when two conditions are both met: you check the box consenting to share Women's Health data on the Garmin authorization page, and you actually use the menstrual cycle tracking feature in Garmin Connect — if either condition is absent, the platform receives no Women's Health data at all. Users who linked Garmin before this service launched are unaffected: existing authorizations do not automatically enable this sharing, which takes effect only after re-authorization with the box checked. You may cancel this sharing at any time in Garmin Connect's third-party app permission settings, or revoke the Garmin authorization entirely.
Mobile Device Health Data
When you upload health data through the Uedu mobile application, the platform may receive the following information:
Data sources include Apple HealthKit and Android Health Connect.
How the Data Is Used
Personalized Recommendations
Providing personalized health and learning feedback
De-identified Research
Conducting de-identified analysis and academic research
Service Optimization
Improving the learning platform and service design
Internal Use Only
Data is used internally only, and disclosed solely with your explicit consent or as required by law
Revoke Authorization at Any Time
You may revoke authorization at any time and request the deletion of related health and physiological data
This policy was last updated on September 14, 2026
This website reserves the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time; revisions will be announced on this page. In the event of material changes, the platform may notify users through website announcements or email.
If you have any questions about this Policy, or wish to access, correct, or delete your data, please contact
Assistant Professor Chia-Kai Chang, Center for General Education, National Central University
Uedu Privacy Policy
1. Scope of the Privacy Policy
- This policy applies to personal data that you provide or that is generated when you use the services provided by the Uedu website (uedu.tw) and its university subdomain sites (such as ncu.uedu.tw, ntu.uedu.tw, etc.).
- This policy also applies to data collected by Uedu-related mobile applications.
- This policy does not apply to third-party websites linked from this website, nor to personnel not commissioned by or involved in the management of this website.
2. Collection, Processing, and Use of Personal Data
- Depending on the nature of each service function, we will ask you to provide necessary personal data and will use it only within the scope of the specific purpose.
- The types of data this platform may collect include, but are not limited to:
- Account information: name, email address, contact details, etc.
- Browsing records: IP address, access time, browser type, click records, etc., used for internal analysis only
- AI conversation records: text, voice, and file interactions with the virtual teaching assistant (see Section 3)
- Learning Profiling data: responses to and results of psychological scales (see Section 4)
- Health and physiological data: health data uploaded from wearable devices or mobile devices (see Section 5)
- Gender and demographic data: research-related information such as gender identity and sexual orientation (see Section 6)
- Class recordings: classroom screen captures and camera footage (see Section 7)
- Survey and forum data: survey responses, forum discussion content, etc.
- After statistical analysis, survey and interaction data may be used for academic publication or made public in a manner that does not identify individuals.
- You may request to access, correct, or delete your personal data at any time; please refer to the contact information in Section 14.
3. AI Conversation System and Virtual Teaching Assistant
- This platform provides a virtual teaching assistant function based on generative artificial intelligence to support course instruction and adaptive learning.
- The content of your conversations with the virtual teaching assistant (including text, uploaded files, and voice messages) will be recorded and stored on this platform.
- Instructor viewing rights: Course instructors may view the conversations between students and the virtual teaching assistant in their courses in order to optimize the virtual teaching assistant's settings, improve instructional design, and conduct teaching research.
- Restrictions on teaching assistant rights: Course teaching assistants may only use teaching management functions (such as quiz design, survey design, grading, forum management, and data statistics) and may not view the plaintext content of students' conversations.
- Role assignment: The instructor role is assigned by the system administrators of this platform; course teaching assistants are assigned by the instructor of the respective course.
- Notice to users: This platform is designed for learning and exchange. Please do not enter highly sensitive personal information in conversations, such as credit card numbers, account passwords, or national ID numbers.
- After de-identification, conversation data may be used for academic research on AI-assisted teaching.
4. Learning Profiling (Psychological Scales)
- This platform provides a Learning Profiling function, including open-source psychological assessment tools such as the Holland Vocational Interest Scale, the Big Five Personality Scale (IPIP Big Five), and the Psychological Type Scale (OEJTS).
- Completing the scales is entirely voluntary and does not affect your use of other platform functions or your course grades.
- You may complete each scale repeatedly; all previous responses and results will be retained for your self-review and tracking of personal development.
- Scale results are for your personal reference only and will not be provided to course instructors or other students.
- De-identified aggregated data may be used for academic research in learning analytics.
5. Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Health and Physiological Data
- Wearable device data: When you authorize this platform to connect to your Garmin account, the information we may access includes steps, distance, calories, heart rate, GPS location, activity time, and device information.
- Mobile device health data: When you upload health data through the Uedu mobile application, the information this platform may receive includes sleep duration and sleep stage distribution, heart rate variability (HRV), steps, active calories burned, distance traveled, resting heart rate, etc. Data sources include Apple HealthKit and Android Health Connect.
- The above data are used to provide personalized health and learning feedback, conduct de-identified academic research analysis, and optimize the design of platform services.
- The data are used only within the platform, or disclosed where you have given explicit consent or where required by law.
- You may revoke your authorization at any time and request the deletion of the relevant health and physiological data.
6. Gender, Identity, and Demographic Data
- For academic research, this platform may invite you to provide the following information: biological sex, gender identity, preferred pronouns, sexual orientation, and date of birth. The purpose of collection is to explore, through data science methods, potential associations between these factors and learning cognition, in order to provide more appropriate teaching responses from the virtual teaching assistant.
- The collection of the above data is entirely voluntary, and a "Prefer not to say" option is provided for each item.
- To ensure the timeliness and accuracy of the data, this platform may invite you approximately every six months to confirm or update the relevant information.
- Privacy protection measures: Such data will not be disclosed to course instructors or course teaching assistants, will be stored only in encrypted form, and will be statistically analyzed only in de-identified, aggregated form.
- The purpose of collection is to examine differences in learning outcomes among learners of different gender backgrounds in generative AI-assisted teaching environments, in order to design a virtual teaching assistant that benefits the learning of all genders.
7. Class Recording Function
- Course instructors may record screen content and/or camera footage during class to support digital class observation and after-class review.
- Recorded audio and video files are stored on this platform's servers and managed by the course instructor.
- Course instructors may decide at their own discretion whether to make recordings available to enrolled students.
- Speech in class may be converted into text through speech recognition technology for use as real-time captions or after-class reference.
8. Instructor Data Export
- Course instructors may export student interaction data from their courses through this platform, including but not limited to conversation records, uploaded files, voice messages, forum discussions, and survey responses.
- Exported data are provided as encrypted compressed files; the archive password is randomly generated and displayed on the web page for the instructor to record.
- This platform will notify the instructor upon completion of the export and remind them that the exported data are highly confidential teaching and research data that must be properly safeguarded.
- If an instructor needs to engage others to assist in analyzing the exported data, it is recommended that an appropriate confidentiality agreement be signed.
9. Data Protection
- This platform employs technical measures such as firewalls, access control, and data encryption to ensure data security.
- Data in sensitive categories, such as health and physiological data and gender identity, are stored in encrypted form.
- All personnel authorized to access data have signed confidentiality agreements.
- Outsourced parties must also sign confidentiality agreements and are subject to the supervision and management of this platform.
10. External Links on the Website
- This website contains links to other websites, but their privacy policies are not covered by the protection of this website.
- Users are advised to refer to the privacy policies of those websites.
11. Policy on Sharing Personal Data with Third Parties
- This platform will not arbitrarily provide, exchange, rent, or sell your personal data to others.
- This platform uses third-party OAuth services (Google, Apple ID, GitHub) to provide account sign-in and receives only the basic profile information provided by those services (such as name, email address, and profile picture).
- This platform uses the OpenAI API to provide AI conversation functions; conversation content will be transmitted to OpenAI's servers for processing, and the related data processing is governed by OpenAI's data usage policies.
- Data will be disclosed in accordance with the law or on the basis of public interest only in the following circumstances:
- With your written consent.
- Where expressly required by law.
- To protect the safety of your life, body, freedom, or property.
- For public or academic research after de-identification.
- Where disclosure is necessary due to a violation of the terms of service or harm to the rights of a third party.
- Where it is beneficial to your rights and interests.
- Where processing is outsourced, this platform will fulfill its duty of supervision.
12. Use of Cookies
- This website uses cookies to provide the best service.
- You may refuse cookies through your browser settings, but this may affect the use of certain functions.
13. Amendments to the Privacy Policy
- This platform reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time; the amended version will be posted on this page.
- In the event of significant changes, this platform may notify users through website announcements or by email.
14. Contact Information
- If you have any questions about this policy, or wish to access, correct, or delete your personal data, please contact:
- Assistant Professor Chia-Kai Chang, Center for General Education, National Central University
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 03-4227151 ext. 33415
- Website: https://uedu.tw
This policy was last updated on February 23, 2026