1. What This Policy Covers

This Policy covers how you use Red Comet's platform, your account, and the course materials on it. It applies to every student taking a Red Comet course, in every state, and to a parent/guardian or a school staff who has an account on the platform to observe student enrollments.

For students, this Policy sits alongside the Red Comet Student Code of Conduct. This Policy is about the system: your account, the platform, and course content. The Code of Conduct is about how you conduct yourself and treat other people. What is and is not permitted regarding AI tools, sources, and collaboration is set out in the Academic Integrity, Artificial Intelligence, and Research Policy.

2. Student, Parent/Guardian, & School Staff Policy

Your Red Comet account is for you and only you.

• Keep your password to yourself. Do not share it with anyone including a friend, a colleague, a classmate, not a sibling.
• Do not use anyone else's account. Do not look at, change, or try to access an account that is not yours.
• Do not pretend to be someone else on the platform or make submissions in another person's name.
• Tell Red Comet right away if you think someone else has used your account or learned your password. You will not get in trouble for reporting it promptly.

You are responsible for what happens under your account. That is why the rules above matter.

What You Must Not Do on the Platform

The Red Comet platform does not allow any of the below actions. Do not hack to use the platform to reach or pressure other users.

• No advertising, selling, fundraising, or promoting a business
• No chain messages, spam, or mass messaging
• No campaigning for a candidate, cause, organization, or belief
• No collecting other users' email addresses or personal information

Do not post or send content that:

• Threatens, harasses, or intimidates any person
• Is sexual or sexually explicit
• Attacks or demeans a person or group based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age
• Is knowingly false and intended to damage someone’s reputation
• Belongs to someone else and that you do not have the right to use, including copyrighted text, images, music, or video

Do not interfere with the system. DO NOT

• Probe, scan, or test the platform's security
• Bypass security or authentication measures
• Upload or transmit viruses, worms, or anything designed to damage a system or data
• Overload, flood, or disrupt the platform or the networks it runs on
• Take apart, decompile, or reverse engineer the platform or its courses
• Use scripts, bots, or automated tools to create accounts, run searches, or scrape data
• Send disguised, spoofed, or falsified identifying information

Use the platform lawfully. Do not use Red Comet's systems for anything illegal.

Reporting Problems

If you find a security weakness, tell Red Comet instead of exploring it. Reporting a problem in good faith is never a violation of this Policy. Testing it yourself is a violation of this Policy.

3. Student-Specific Policies

Using the Platform for School

Red Comet accounts, the platform, and school email are for your education.

• Use them for coursework and school communication.
• Follow the instructions for each assignment and assessment. Do not try to get around how an assessment is set up, and do not try to hack the system to delete work that has already been graded. Do not tamper with a course that you are enrolled in.
• Do not enter or tamper with courses you are not enrolled in.

Your Work and Red Comet's Course Content

These are different things, and the rules are different.

Your own work belongs to you. Your essays, answers, drafts, notes, outlines, and calculations are yours. Keep them. The Academic Integrity, Artificial Intelligence, and Research Policy asks you to retain material showing how your assignment developed, and a teacher may ask to see it. Save your work somewhere you can find it.

Red Comet's course content belongs to Red Comet. Lessons, audios, videos, assignment prompts, assessment questions, and answer keys are Red Comet's material, provided for your use while you are taking the course. You may not:

• Copy, post, share, or sell Red Comet course content, assignment prompts, assessment questions, or essays and answers
• Publish screenshots, video, or recordings of Red Comet course materials anywhere
• Try to download and keep copies of Red Comet course content after your course ends

This rule follows the material. It does not matter where you post it, a homework-help site, a tutoring service, a group chat, a social media account, or anywhere else. Red Comet's course content is Red Comet's intellectual property, and posting it anywhere is a violation of this Policy.

The short version: what you wrote is yours to keep. What Red Comet made is not yours to spread.

This policy does not limit your coursework. Red Comet courses cover government, history, world religions, and current events, and you are expected to engage with them and to hold and express views. Using the platform to push something at other people outside of coursework is a violation of this Policy.

Privacy on the Platform

Your Red Comet account is not private space. Red Comet can access your course activity, submissions, posts, and messages on its systems at any time, and does so when there is a legitimate reason, including reviewing a suspected violation of this Policy, the Code of Conduct, or the Academic Integrity, Artificial Intelligence, and Research Policy. Per accreditation and state regulations, Red Comet is required to save all your work and information indefinitely and present it to auditors upon request. Any review is limited to what is relevant to the concern.

How Red Comet collects, uses, shares, and retains information is described in the Privacy Policy.

School-Provided Devices

If Red Comet provides you with a device, this Policy applies to your use of it. Use it for schoolwork and take good care of the device.

If These Rules Are Broken

Consequences under this Policy are handled through the Student Code of Conduct which describes how a concern is reviewed, your opportunity to respond, how you appeal, and what outcomes are possible.

Your records. If your access to the platform is limited or ended for any reason, your academic records, grades, transcripts, and completed coursework, are retained and remain with Red Comet. Losing platform access does not mean losing your student record.

Acknowledgment and Changes

This Policy will appear in your Red Comet course for which you are earning credit and a grade. Acceptance of the Policy is required before you can start the course.

Questions

If you are not sure whether something is allowed, ask your teacher before you do it.