Privacy Policy

Definitions

Capitalized words have special meaning in this Notice and are defined below.

“Child,” “Children” means a user or users of the Service in the United States who are under the age of 18.

“Child Account” means the user account, made available through an Educator, through which a Child has access to and uses the Service.

“Educator,” “Educators” means an individual, or individuals, authorized to act on behalf of the School contracting with STF for use of the Service.

“Parent” means a legal guardian of a Child.

“Personal Information” means information about a Child that can reasonably be used alone or in combination with other reasonably available information, to identify, locate, or contact a specific Child.

“Service” means the educational software Service, websites, mobile applications, and any other online interactive features or services that collect Personal Information from Children provided to Schools under STF’s Terms and Conditions.

“School” means a school, district, or other educational institution that has contracted with STF for use of the Service.

Child Access and Use of the Service

A Child may only use the Service with the prior consent of a Parent or School acting on behalf of the Child’s Parent in connection with legitimate educational purposes. A Parent’s or School’s consent is required for the collection, use, or disclosure of Personal Information from Children, and STF will not collect, use or disclose any such Personal Information without such consent. The School may consent to the collection, use or disclosure of Personal Information from Children by entering into an agreement to use the Service.

Child Users cannot access or use the Service without first being added by their School or an Educator. Child Users access the Service through either a student information system or single sign-on that the School already uses, or, if the student’s School does not use such a system for purposes of accessing the Service, through a separate username and password.

If We learn that a Child’s Personal Information has been collected through the Service without the appropriate consent of the Child’s School or Parent, We will take appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a Parent and discover that your Child has a registered account with the Service without a School or Parent’s consent, please contact the Child’s School to request that We delete that Child’s Personal Information from Our systems.

Personal Information We Collect

Information provided through use of the Service

STF only collects information from a Child that is reasonably necessary for the Child to use the Service for educational purposes authorized by a School.

STF collects personal information in connection with visits to and use of the Service. The personal information we collect includes the information listed below:

A School creating a Child Account will provide the following information regarding a Child:

• Name
• Date of birth
• School enrollment information such as grade and school name
• Student email address
• Student identification numbers
• Gender
• Demographic information such as race, ethnicity, economic classifications
• Educational classifications such as English language learner, individualized education plan, gifted/talented
• Corrective eyewear information
• State, region, province, and country of residence
• (optional) Disability information
• (optional) English language learner proficiency level
• (optional) Whether the child has been diagnosed with dyslexia
• (optional) Independent reading level and literacy assessment scores

Once a Child Account is created, STF will collect the following information directly from a Child:

• Materials a Child submits, posts, displays, provides, or otherwise makes available on the Service

Information collected automatically

• Usage information. We and/or Our service providers may automatically collect certain "Usage Information" whenever users, including Children, access and use the Service. For example, We may collect information regarding how often a user accesses certain features. Usage Information may include the browser and operating system a user is using, approximate regional data from the user’s IP address, all of the areas within Our Service that users visit, and the time of day they used the Service, system errors, response times, and diagnostic data for addressing Service quality, among other information. We may use Usage Information for a variety of purposes, including to enhance or otherwise improve the Service.
• Information collected via cookies and other tracking technologies. We and/or Our service providers may use “cookies” (a small file sent to your computer by a website or device to allow the website or app to store information which uniquely identifies you) or other similar technology for random session monitoring and to collect data for error reporting for system analytics purposes. Users can disable cookies at their browser or device’s settings without impairing functionality of the Service. We do not use cookies or any other tracking technologies to direct advertisements to Children.

How We Use Personal Information

STF uses Children’s Personal Information for purposes authorized by their School, as listed below:

• Service delivery. We may use a Child’s Personal Information to:
  • Provide the Service to the Child;
  • Personalize the Service experience; and
  • Provide support for the Service.
• Compliance and protection. We may use a Child’s Personal Information to:
  • Comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities;
  • Protect Our, your, the Child’s, or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims) and audit Our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements or Our internal policies;
  • Enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and
  • Prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.
• To create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data. We create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data from a Child’s Personal Information. We make Personal Information into anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data by removing or obscuring information that make the data contained therein personally identifiable to the Child. We use this anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data and may share it with third parties for Our lawful business purposes, including for research and development purposes and to improve the Service.
• With consent. We may ask for consent from the School or the Parent to collect, use, or share a Child’s Personal Information for purposes not identified here..

We do not use Children’s Personal Information for marketing or advertising purposes.

How We Share Personal Information

We may share a Child’s Personal Information with the following parties or as otherwise agreed to by the School:

• With Schools and Educators. We may share Personal Information of a Child with the Child’s School and Educators, subject to the agreement between STF and the relevant School. We do not control, and are not responsible for, Educators’ handling of the Personal Information of Children. As noted above, if you are a Parent and have questions with respect to Personal Information that We process, please direct these questions to your School.
• With service providers. We may share Personal Information with third parties that provide services on Our behalf or help Us operate the Service or Our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, and email delivery providers). The following service providers may collect or maintain personal information from a Child through the Service:
  • Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Ave., N., Seattle, WA 98109-5210
  • Datadog, Inc., 620 8th Ave., 45th Floor, New York, NY 10018
• Professional advisors. We may share Personal Information with professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
• Authorities and others. We may share Personal Information with law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as We believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the compliance and protection purposes described above.
• Business transferees. We may share Personal Information with acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations of or due diligence for such transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, STF (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

Note regarding third-party content, links to other sites, and STF content found outside of the Service. Certain content provided through the Service may be hosted and served by third parties. In addition, the Service may link to third-party websites or content over which STF has no control and which are governed by the privacy policies and business practices of those third parties. Please note that STF content may be included on web pages and websites that are not associated with Us and over which we have no control. These third parties may independently collect data. STF is not responsible or liable for the privacy practices or business practices of any third party.

What Personal Information is visible to others using the Service?
No Child’s Personal Information is made available or visible generally to the public through use of the Service. Educators may view a Child’s information, including learning metrics and grades, through their connected account. Children using the Service cannot view each other’s Personal Information.

How Schools and Parents Can Access and Manage Personal Information of Children

The collection, maintenance and use of any Personal Information in Our Service is controlled by the School that contracts with STF for use of the Service. A School can review, manage, or delete a Child’s information through the Service management application, the School’s student information or learning management system, or by contacting Us at support@stfvision.org.

If you are a Parent and have questions regarding your Child’s Personal Information in connection with the use of our Service, please contact your Child’s School for support, including any questions regarding your rights to review, delete, and refuse to allow further collection of your Child’s Personal Information. Because Child Accounts are authorized and provided by your Child’s School, you must contact their School to opt-out of sharing such Personal Information. STF cannot delete, change, or divulge any Child’s Personal Information from the Service unless authorized by your Child’s School.

Retention

STF will delete Personal Information within a reasonable amount of time after the termination or expiration of the agreement between STF and the Child’s School in accordance with the terms agreed to by the School.

Security

We maintain reasonable measures that are designed to preserve the confidentiality and availability of Personal Information processed by STF in accordance with the terms agreed to by the Child’s School.

Changes to this Notice

We reserve the right to modify this Notice at any time. If We make material changes to this Notice, We will notify you by updating the date of this Notice and posting it on Our website or other appropriate means. Any modifications to this Notice will be effective upon Our posting the modified version (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, a Child’s use of the Service after the effective date of any modified Notice indicates acceptance of the modified Notice.