1. Overview
Rellie is dedicated to learning and we take the privacy of our users seriously. Keeping students’ personal information safe is a priority at Rellie. This Student Privacy Policy explains how we use the personal information we collect from and about students when they engage with Rellie in the classroom through the products that are offered to schools and teachers (the “Educational Services”). As set forth below, we use such personal information solely as a service provider or “data processor” to our school and school district customers.
To learn about our practices with respect to other users, including teachers who sign up for Rellie and student accountholders who use Rellie outside of the school environment, please read our Privacy Policy here.
2. Our Handling of Student Information
As a trusted provider of tools that help teachers and schools, Rellie is particularly concerned about the use of students’ personal information. We only request the personal information of students that we need to provide the Educational Services, and we comply with privacy laws, such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), as applicable.
Rellie does not collect, retain, use or share students’ personal information, except as necessary for authorized educational purposes, at the direction of our school and school district customers. Without limitation, this means that:
- We do not sell students’ personal information.
- We do not serve targeted ads on our platforms and do not use information we collect to serve targeted ads on other services. Rellie does not use or disclose information collected through our services for any targeted advertising purposes.
- We do not build a profile of a student other than in support of authorized educational purposes.
- We do not retain students’ personal information beyond the time period required to support the authorized educational purposes.
We support our school customers in providing parents and eligible students with access to their personal information and in fulfilling other requests that parents and eligible students may make, such as to request deletion of students’ personal information or to refuse its further collection or use. Rellie maintains a comprehensive program designed to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality and integrity of students’ personal information.
3. Student Personal Information
3.1 Personal Information we Collect from Students
Student: Rellie collects only a nickname or alias, which is anonymous and not linked to a persistent identifier, from a student who merely engages with the Rellie App. We use the nickname or alias to permit the student to participate.
Personal information collected: Certain features of the Educational Services permit Rellie to collect information about individual students, such as attendance, results, learning profile, answers submitted when using Rellie (including in response to open-ended questions) and performance. We use such information only to provide the services to the student, teacher and parent, such as to permit Rellie to interact with students and track their progress over time.
3.2 Information collected automatically
No personal information is collected automatically from students who engage with Rellie through the Educational Services. Product usage data that is collected by Rellie from the Educational Services is always anonymized or aggregated.
3.3 Anonymized information
We may anonymize and/or aggregate personal information so that it no longer identifies any student. We may use and disclose such anonymized and/or aggregated information for any purpose, including for analytics purposes, to help us understand how our products are used and improve upon them.
4. Security
Rellie maintains a comprehensive security program designed to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality and integrity of Personal Information within our organization. We have in place appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Information. Our security measures include data encryption, firewalls, data use, and access limitations for our personnel and service providers, and physical access controls to our facilities. Our service providers that process payment data, maintain the applicable Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance levels.
If you have any questions about the security of your Personal Information, please info@rellie.com.
5. Compliance with FERPA and COPPA
We comply with FERPA and COPPA when applicable to us. When FERPA applies, we act as a “school official” to our school or school district customer, which means that we are under the direct control of the school or district and use students’ personal information only to provide our services to the school, district, student or parent and not for our own purposes. To the extent COPPA applies, the school or district may provide us with any necessary consent on behalf of students’ parents or guardians to permit use of Rellie in the classroom.
6. Changes to this Policy
We may change this Student Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy is reflected by the version date located at the top of this Student Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this Student Privacy Policy often to stay informed of changes that may affect you.
If we make material changes in the Privacy Policy, for example if we seek to use personal information in a materially different way than we had previously, we will provide prior notice by, for example, email or a pop-up so that you have sufficient time to evaluate the change in practice. Of course, you can always opt-out by deleting your account if you do not accept the change.
7. Changes to this Policy
About Rellie
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rellie.com
info@rellie.com
