FERPA Policy | ALE España-火狐体育手机

At ALE International and our affiliated entities (collectively, “ALE,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), 我们致力于保护客户教育数据的安全和隐私. 我们努力的核心是遵守1974年《火狐体育手机》(“FERPA”).S. K-12及专上教育界别的客户(“学校订户”). This policy addresses how we comply with the requirements of FERPA.

How does ALE protect its School Subscribers’ data?

ALE致力于保护学校用户数据的安全和隐私，包括将我们的隐私做法提交给合格的独立第三方审计师进行评估，并定期进行漏洞扫描和渗透测试，以评估我们的安全状况并识别新的威胁.

What is FERPA?

FERPA is a U.S. federal law that protects the privacy of student educational records. FERPA赋予父母关于子女教育记录的某些权利. 这些权利在学生年满18岁或就读高中以上学校时转移给学生(“合格学生”)。.

To what institutions does FERPA apply?

FERPA适用于所有根据适用的美国法律获得资金的学术机构.S. Department of Education programs.

What rights does FERPA grant to parents (or Eligible Students)?

FERPA grants parents (or Eligible Students) the following rights:

有权在学校收到查阅要求之日起45天内查阅和审查教育记录.
如果家长(或年满18岁的学生)认为教育记录不准确，有权要求修改教育记录.
有权同意披露包含在学生的教育记录中的个人身份信息, 除非FERPA在未经同意的情况下授权披露.
The right to file a complaint with the U.S. 就学校涉嫌未能遵守FERPA的规定向教育部提出申诉.

The Student Privacy Policy Office administers FERPA. Its address is U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20202-4605.

What are “education records”?

教育记录与学生直接相关，由教育机构或代表该机构或机构的一方维护. Video recordings/streams, chat logs, transcripts, 以及学校订户在使用ALE服务时收集或保存的其他信息，在某些情况下可能被视为教育记录.

What is “personally identifiable information” under FERPA?

根据不同的法律，“个人身份信息”一词可能有不同的含义. For the purposes of FERPA, 个人身份信息(“PII”)是指以下任何信息, alone or in combination, 是否与某个特定的学生有关联或可关联，从而允许学校社区中一个合理的人, who does not have personal knowledge of the relevant circumstances, to identify the student with reasonable certainty. PII includes, but is not limited to, the student’s name, 家长姓名(包括母亲婚前姓名或学生其他家庭成员的姓名), address, 个人标识符(如社会安全号码或学号), biometric information, date of birth, and place of birth.

How does ALE receive PII from education records?

For the purposes of FERPA, ALE被视为“学校官员”，可以通过其与学校订户的合同协议接收PII，因为ALE正在执行一项促进“合法教育利益”的服务.e., the provision of educational services in a remote setting). As set forth in our Children’s Educational Privacy Statement, ALE maintains student PII on behalf of, and at the direction of, 学校订户不得将学生个人资料用于其他目的，除非适用法律允许, 包括FERPA和与学校和地区的适用协议.

ALE如何协助学校遵守FERPA的资料保护规定?

ALE使用旨在帮助保护PII免遭未经授权访问的技术和组织措施, use, or disclosure. These measures include:

提供有关如何实施和利用旨在保护参与者隐私的帐户设置的指导. Certain features are enabled by default for K-12 account users, including use of meeting passwords, the Report a User feature, restrictions on screen sharing privileges, which are set by default to “Host Only,” and the virtual Waiting Room feature.
加密在运行ALE客户端的任何设备之间传输的所有客户内容，以及在ALE云中的永久存储中静态的所有客户内容.
限制ALE收集、使用和披露学生PII的情况. Specifically, ALE只收集和使用学生的个人信息，以提供和改善我们的服务，或按照学校订户的指示. ALE不出售学生个人信息，也不将学生个人信息用于基于兴趣的广告.
仅在第三方提供商帮助ALE提供其服务所需的范围内向他人披露学生个人信息, for legal reasons, or in other limited circumstances in compliance with FERPA.
在帐户终止后，保留学生PII的时间仅为遵守法律义务所必需的时间. Customer content stored on the ALE Cloud is retained for the life of the account; however, School Subscribers are free to delete this content at any time. After an account is terminated, 根据ALE与学校订户的政策和协议，客户内容将自动删除.

How can parents (or Eligible Students) exercise their FERPA rights?

If a parent or Eligible Student would like to access, review, refuse further collection, or request deletion of student PII, they must contact their School Subscriber to make such requests. ALE cannot respond directly to such requests, 有关该等要求的任何决定均由学校订户自行决定. ALE will cooperate with requests by a School Subscriber for assistance in accessing or deleting student PII; however, in most cases, 学校订户可以直接接受家长或合资格学生的要求，而不需要ALE的额外参与.