Privacy Policy

COMTOR principles

COMTOR was developed to address two core issues:

• To help users learn how to document their source code. It is our hope that by using this system new programmers and computer science students will develop good documentation habits that will remain with them throughout their careers as software engineers and developers. We also hope that seasoned developers will be able to strengthen and evolve their current documentation skills through the use of the system.
• To provide a standard for evaluating source code comments. Standards and conventions for the definition of quality source code documentation often vary among various computer science classes, professors, and institutions; often generating a wide range for what is considered an acceptable comment. COMTOR seeks to automate the process for evaluating comments and give students and professors an overall standard for quality documentation.

Privacy Overview

By accessing COMTOR, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy. If you have questions or concerns about this policy, you can contact Dr. Peter DePasquale at .

Information Handling

When you utilize COMTOR you provide us with a couple of types of information: information you knowingly disclose (such as submitted source code files), and information collected by us as you navigate our site.

When you create an account on COMTOR you provide us with your name, email address, and institution. Additional information such as proof of being a professor at a given institution may be required when you create an account. The name you provide us with as well as your email address will be released to the other members in your course for the purpose of communicating with those in your class.

When you enter our site we collect information such as your browser type, your screen resolutions, which pages you visit, the amount of time you spend on our site, and your location. This information is stored anonymously and is used collectively so that we can determine various metrics regarding the COMTOR platform and system performance.

All source code you upload to our site as well as all the reports generated based on this code will only be visible to the site administrators, your professor (if you are registered in a course), and yourself. There will be no third party access by anyone at anytime. This data will be kept on a secure database and will be removed following a period of five (5) years. If you wish, upon request, we will remove your account, source code and all reports generated.

Changing and Removing Information

Users may modify or change their account at any time by accessing the account management page.

When you disable your account, we keep all of your information submitted to the system including your name, email, institution, and submission reports. If you wish to have your account activated in the future, please contact an administrator.

If you wish for this information to be permanently deleted, use the Requests to request that your account be deleted. In this case you, should not disable your account.

If a course is disabled, course information, including all dropboxes and reports submitted to the dropboxes, will be remain associated with the course.

If your wish for a course to be permanently deleted, please contact an administrator. In such a case, all of the course information, including all dropboxes and reports submitted to the dropboxes, will be disassociated from the course. However, the submitted files will remain in the database but will appear to have been submitted for no specific course.

Revisions

We reserve the right to change our privacy policy in the future. Please check this page for policy revisions.