Student Privacy Notice
PBS LearningMedia does not collect, use, or disclose your students’ personal information online unless the teacher, parent, or other legal guardian (“you”) consents or as permitted by law. To learn more about the measures we have taken to help protect students online, please refer to the information below and read our Privacy Policy.
Once you create a student assignment, we may collect information from your students, such as information that the student may include in online submissions (including videos, photos, and audio files), usernames, secret questions and answers, search queries, IP addresses, device identifiers and other persistent identifiers, cookie information, and other standard server log information (collectively, “student data”). Please note that a student’s Storyboard may be viewed by others if they receive the precise URL for the student’s Storyboard page. By creating a student assignment at http://www.pbslearningmedia.org (the “Site”), you consent to this collection, as well as our use and disclosure of your students’ information consistent with this Student Privacy Notice and the Privacy Policy. You certify that you or your school has obtained any parental consents that are required for us to collect, use, and disclose the students’ personal information.
By creating a student assignment, you also designate PBS and the WGBH Educational Foundation as “school officials” under your “direct control” and with “legitimate educational interests” in any “personally identifiable information” contained in “education records,” as those terms have been interpreted under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”) and its implementing regulations.
Consistent with applicable law, you or the student remain the owner and controller of, and are solely responsible for, any and all student data you provide in connection with your use of the Site. PBS LearningMedia will collect, use, and disclose information protected by FERPA and applicable law only for the purpose of performing institutional services or functions for which the school or district would otherwise use its own employees consistent with this Student Privacy Notice. To the extent that PBS LearningMedia discloses student data to authorized third party service providers, as described in the Privacy Policy, such third party service providers shall only collect and use student data for authorized school purposes as directed or authorized by the school. PBS LearningMedia will not sell student data or use student data for targeted advertising purposes.
PBS LearningMedia has adopted commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and physical procedures to help protect student data from loss, misuse, and alteration. We also require authorized third party service providers to employ reasonable and comprehensive security protocols. In the event of unauthorized disclosure of student data, PBS LearningMedia will notify affected individuals in accordance with applicable law.
Schools, teachers, parents, or other legal guardians may terminate the service or request access to, review of, and deletion or destruction of student data in accordance with applicable law by contacting us at LearningMediaSupport@pbs.org . Upon notification of your termination, PBS LearningMedia will use commercially reasonable efforts to return, delete, or destroy all personally identifiable student data it maintains in connection with your use of the Site and notify you once such return, deletion, or destruction is complete.