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Privacy Evaluation for Example of Better Practices with Quick Rating

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Applications and services with a Pass rating have met our minimum requirements for privacy and security practices. Before using an application or service with this rating, parents, teachers, schools, and districts are strongly advised to read the full privacy evaluation as a starting point for the process of vetting the application or service. In addition, a more detailed review should happen before any child or student data is shared with a product.

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Overview

This is an example of a quick rating that answers only our rating criteria questions with better responses to illustrate the best privacy practices a company's policies should include if the product is collecting personal information from kids and families, or student data from students in K-12 schools or districts. A green check mark in the Rating section below indicates a product's policies disclose that they engage in a better privacy practice, and an yellow alert icon indicates that the particular practice is risky or unclear and that users should investigate further prior to use.

The following 3 policies were used to evaluate Example of Better Practices with Quick Rating: 1, 2, and 3. This evaluation only considers policies that have been made publicly available prior to an individual using the application or service.

Rating

This product received a Pass rating based on the following details:
  • Personal information is not sold or rented to third parties.
  • Personal information is not shared for third-party marketing.
  • Personalised advertising is not displayed.
  • Data are not collected by third-parties for their own purposes.
  • User's information is not used to track and target advertisements on other third-party websites or services.
  • Data profiles are not created and used for personalised advertisements.

This type of evaluation is a Quick Rating which is meant to help parents, educators, and consumers make quick decisions about privacy. Quick ratings can help answer one of the most important privacy questions about a product, which is whether the company is making money from your data. Quick ratings display a Pass, Warning, or Fail badge with icons for answers to each of the rating questions. However, a Quick rating does not display an Overall Score, or Evaluation Concerns, which requires one of our more comprehensive privacy evaluations to compare products for use in different contexts.

About Privacy Evaluations

The privacy evaluations have been designed with the help and support of a consortium of schools and districts across the United States. These evaluations are designed to help educators make informed decisions about the potential privacy implications of educational technology used to support teaching and learning.

Our core evaluation criteria will always be freely available. People are encouraged to read the questions we use and our information security primer. Vendors are encouraged to use our questions and the information security primer to self-evaluate. You can also learn more about our evaluation process. Please be in touch with any questions or feedback.