Students in VR is an Educators in VR project to bring together students to learn, share, and educate others with the support of teaches and mentors to excel in virtual reality, augmented reality, and extended reality studies and projects.
Students in VR hosts regular meetups, workshops, and conferences for students to share and present their perspective on using spatial technologies in the classroom through all levels of education, experience, and expertise.
As Students in VR often works with underage youth, our policies include compliance with the GDPR and other privacy and online policies that regular online content for children.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available for review. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Educators in VR and Students in VR representatives monitor the comments on this site. They have the right to edit or remove comments found to be in violation of the Students in VR Code of Conduct.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Media
Images used on this site are used with the permission of the copyright holder. Images of underage youth used are also done so with the permission of their guardians or parents.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Please note that images used on this site are copyrighted intellectual property and usage is only permitted under Copyright Fair Use for non-commercial usage.
Contact Forms, Email Notifications, and Newsletters
The use of the contact forms on this site are optional, thus by using them, you are opting to share your name, email, and website information with Students in VR and Educators in VR. Both companies agree to not share, sell, or use your contact information without your express permission. Submitted contact information may be used to contact you regarding your comment or request in response.
WordPress sites offer options for receiving optional notifications for new posts and comments. You may turn these on and off at your convenience through the site, Gravatar, or WordPress accounts. Unsubscribe and the ability to turn these options on and off is your responsibility as the site admins have no access to your subscriptions and notifications.
If you opt-in to receive newsletters or other subscription-based information from this site, please note that the ability to unsubscribe is included in each one you receive.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year, though maybe removed at any time.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
While we do our best to provide access to vetted, safe, and related content, Educators in VR and Students in VR and its representatives are not responsible nor liable for third-party content.
Analytics
This website uses analytics available through its web hosting service and WordPress. Information collected is standard as found on most websites and no additional efforts have been made to collect additional information without your notification and ability to opt-in such as with polls, surveys, and other inquiries. Responses are optional.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Educators in VR and Students in VR does not share your personal and private data with others.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Disclosures
Educators in VR’s partnership agreements are available upon request.
Students in VR is under the umbrella of Educators in VR and is considered a branch or department within the organization with limited autonomy.
Agreements with sponsors for projects, workshops, conferences, and other public events, research, and activities may include permission to publish, promote, and link to sponsored content, but does not include permission or access to private data on this site.