ABOUT EDSBY & YOUR DATA
Users of Edsby want to know it’s designed to be safe and secure. Learn how your information is stored in Edsby, who owns it and how it’s being used. The following are excerpts of the privacy and terms of use policies. The full privacy policy and the full terms of use policy can be found at www.edsby.com/about-privacy-data
WHAT IS EDSBY AND WHO USES IT?
Edsby is a cloud-based software service that modernizes how teachers, students and parents engage with each other. The types of education organizations which use Edsby include public school districts and private schools. Edsby is selected by these organizations, often through a formal competitive procurement process and rigorous evaluation of many factors including privacy and security of student data, and is managed by the education organization as one part of the suite of technology solutions that every education organization requires.
EDSBY AND DATA OWNERSHIP
Unlike many free education solutions on the internet which bypass the approvals and management controls of education organizations, districts and schools pay to use Edsby and when an education organization chooses to use Edsby, it decides what information to provide to Edsby. Each education organization provides Edsby with data about its staff, students and parents so that Edsby can create accounts for those users. The education organization owns this data and strictly controls what is done with this data. Edsby only uses this data to provide services to the education organization.
Parents are not permitted to download/screen capture pictures or video from Edsby for the purposes of reposting on public webites (eg. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
When Edsby users create or add information into Edsby (e.g. a teacher posting a lesson, a student submitting an essay) the user retains ownership of that information. Under Edsby’s Terms of Use agreement, the user agrees to let Edsby store and display that information in order to provide the service.
The education organization provides stewardship of all user-contributed content in their Edsby site, and Edsby manages the retention and deletion of that data at the direction of the administrators of the education organization.
Edsby never sells the data it has or collects from the education organization, as Edsby makes no claim to be the owner of the data.
The only possible situations in which data within Edsby is shared with outside organizations are when
- The company is legally compelled to share data through a valid court order; or
- The education organization requests Edsby to share specific subsets of information with a designated third party which the education organization has approved
EDSBY AND DATA OWNERSHIP
Edsby does not provide any form of advertising to Edsby users. Nor does Edsby provide or sell information gathered from the usage of Edsby to advertisers or any other third party to help them target advertisements to members of the education organization. The company’s business is supported solely on basis of Edsby usage fees paid