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Last updated May 1, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SchoolStatus, LLC (“SchoolStatus<\/strong>,” \u201cwe<\/strong>,\u201d or \u201cus<\/strong>\u201d) is a unified K-12 platform for centralized school-home communication, data-driven attendance management, and streamlined educator development and feedback. We enable an integrated and impactful educational experience, from district leadership to families at home. With more than two hundred million successful school-home interactions, and millions of users, SchoolStatus drives meaningful results for districts and schools across the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can visit SchoolStatus.com (the \u201cWebsite\u201d) to find out more about our products and services:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SchoolStatus Attend<\/strong><\/td>The most effective way for a school district to tackle chronic absenteeism. Our data-driven attendance management platform and processes provide automatic interventions and positive reinforcement to support student success, increase daily attendance, and reduce administrative overhead<\/td><\/tr>
SchoolStatus Boost<\/strong><\/td>A collaborative platform for guiding and documenting educator development programs, with dynamic goal-setting, coaching, and observations\u2014fully customized for your district. Centralize all feedback with equitable, data-driven observations to improve student learning and increase staff investment and retention. .<\/td><\/tr>
SchoolStatus Connect<\/strong> <\/td>A centralized communication hub that enables districts and schools to build relationships and keep families informed with impactful, data-driven messages. Bridge school-home communication divides by providing resources and updates in the family\u2019s preferred language and channel, including SMS, email, phone, newsletters, and mass notifications. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These User Terms of Service (the \u201cUser Terms<\/strong>\u201d) govern your access and use of SchoolStatus Connect<\/strong> and SchoolStatus Boost<\/strong>, so please read them carefully. Terms and Conditions for SchoolStatus Attend<\/strong>, can be found here: https:\/\/www.schoolstatus.com\/attend-terms-of-service<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These User Terms are a legally binding contract between you and us. As part of these User Terms, you agree to comply with the most recent version of our Acceptable Use Policy<\/a>, which is incorporated by reference into these User Terms. If you access or use the Service, or continue accessing or using the Service after being notified of a change to the User Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy<\/a>, you confirm that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by the User Terms and the Acceptable Use Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Relationship With Us<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCustomer<\/strong>\u201d refers to the school, school district, or other similar education-related institution with which you have a relationship, created your SchoolStatus account, and\/or invited you to sign in and use SchoolStatus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Customer has separately agreed to our Master Services Agreement<\/a> and\/or entered into a written agreement with us. In either case, the \u201cContract<\/strong>\u201d permitted Customer to create and configure SchoolStatus Attend<\/strong>, Boost<\/strong>, and\/or Connect<\/strong> implementation(s) so that you and others could benefit from these Services. Each invitee granted access to the Service, including you, is an \u201cAuthorized User<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an Authorized User, you agree that you are acting consistent with the purpose of the Services and have received all necessary permission from the Customer to enter into this Agreement and to register and use the Service as part of your classroom activities. As further addressed below in Customer and User Responsibilities and Ownership<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are an Authorized User so long as you have a relationship with the Customer, have been invited by the Customer, and such invitation has not been revoked by the Customer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Access to and Use of the Service<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Your user account must be a unique email address or phone number and cannot be used for any other account or more than one account. You may login with your user account via our direct login at https:\/\/www.schoolstatus.com\/log-in<\/a>. If applicable, you may also use a third-party authentication service (e.g., Google Apps for Education); if you do, we may extract information you provided to those services (such as your real name, photograph, email address, or other account information) to log you into SchoolStatus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These User Terms remain effective until Customer\u2019s Subscription for you expires or terminates, or your access to the Service has been terminated by Customer or us. For SchoolStatus Attend<\/strong> and SchoolStatus Boost<\/strong>, please contact Customer if you at any time or for any reason wish to terminate your account, including due to a disagreement with any updates to these User Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy<\/a>.\u00a0 For SchoolStatus Connect<\/strong>, you may terminate your use of the Service or your Account at any time by deleting your account in your account settings tab or by emailing us at help@schoolstatus.com<\/a> and the Service will cease. However, SchoolStatus may retain User Submissions or other content or information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in these Terms or our Privacy Policy<\/a>, while we have a business need to do so in connection with your account or as required by law (for example, for legal, tax, accounting or other purposes), whichever is the longer. Account termination may result in deletion or de-identification of any content or information associated with your account, so keep that in mind before you decide to terminate your use of the Service or your account. Consistent with our Master Services Agreement<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>, SchoolStatus is also free to terminate (or suspend access to) your use of the Service or your account for any reason at any time, including your violation of these Terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Content<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

All content included on the Service, including information, data, text, software, music, sounds, photographs, graphics, videos, messages, scripts, tags, compilations of the foregoing, and\/or other materials accessible through the Service, including all associated intellectual property rights, (the \u201cSchoolStatus Content\u201c) is the property of SchoolStatus and\/or its licensors, as applicable, and protected by United States and international intellectual property and other laws and treaties. Except as expressly permitted under these Terms, no reproduction, transmission, modification, or display of any SchoolStatus Content is permitted without our prior, express written permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customer and User Responsibilities and Ownership<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

The Services allow the submission of information, content, and materials by you and other Authorized Users (\u201cUser Submissions\u201d), and the hosting, sharing, and\/or publishing of such User Submissions. You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions (\u201cYour Content\u201d) and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with Your Content, you affirm, represent, and warrant that you own, or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use, and authorize SchoolStatus to use all intellectual property and any other proprietary rights in and to any and all of Your Content to enable inclusion and use of Your Content in the manner contemplated by the Service and these Terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Importantly, you agree that it is solely Customer\u2019s, and in no way our, responsibility to (a) inform you and any Authorized Users of any relevant Customer policies and practices and any settings that may impact the processing of Customer Data; (b) obtain any rights, permissions, or consents from you and any Authorized Users that are necessary for the lawful use of Customer Data and the operation of the Service; (c) ensure that the transfer and processing of Customer Data under the Contract is lawful; and (d) respond to and resolve any dispute with you and any Authorized User relating to or based on Customer Data, the Service, or Customer\u2019s failure to fulfill these obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For clarity, you and\/or Customer shall retain all of your ownership rights in Your Content. SchoolStatus does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, translate, adapt, perform, and display Your Content in connection with your use of the Service, for any purpose permitted under our Privacy Policy<\/a>, including to maintain, analyze, customize, and improve our Services and your experience. You also grant the users of the Service the right to access Your Content in connection with their use of the Service. You understand that the technical processing and transmission of data associated with Your Content may involve (1) transmissions over various networks; and (2) changes to conform and adapt to the technical requirements of servers, connecting networks, or devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SchoolStatus assumes no responsibility whatsoever in connection with or arising from User Submissions. SchoolStatus assumes no responsibility for actively monitoring User Submissions for inappropriate content. If at any time SchoolStatus chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor User Submissions, SchoolStatus nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the content of the User Submissions, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate User Submissions, and no responsibility for the conduct of the user submitting User Submissions. Further, SchoolStatus does not endorse and has no control over the content of User Submissions submitted by other Authorized Users. SchoolStatus makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the content of User Submissions or the accuracy and reliability of any User Submissions. However, we reserve the right to remove, screen, edit, or reinstate User Submissions from time to time at our sole discretion and without notice to you. We have no obligation to retain or provide you with copies of Your Content, subject to our Privacy Policy<\/a> regarding certain information about you, nor do we guarantee any confidentiality with respect to Your Content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You alone are responsible for Your Content, and once published, it cannot always be withdrawn. You assume all risks associated with Your Content, including anyone\u2019s reliance on its quality, accuracy, or reliability, or any disclosure by you of information in Your Content that makes you personally identifiable. You represent that you own, or have the necessary permissions to use and authorize the use of Your Content as described herein. You may not imply that Your Content is in any way sponsored or endorsed by SchoolStatus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You Must Be over the Legal Age<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Except as provided in the Section Children Using SchoolStatus Connect<\/strong> that immediately follows and only applies to SchoolStatus Connect, to the extent prohibited by applicable law, the Services are not intended for and should not be used by anyone under the age of 18. You represent that you are over the legal age and are the intended recipient of Customer\u2019s invitation to the Service. You may not access or use the Service for any purpose if either of the representations in the preceding sentence is not true. Without limiting the foregoing, you must be of legal working age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children Using SchoolStatus Connect<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

We do not allow individuals under the age of 18 to access the Service unless the individual is formally accessing the Service through an Educational Entity, as described in the Educational Entity Subsection below.\u00a0 If you are under the age of 18 and are not accessing the Service because your Educational Entity invited you to do so, please do not access, use, or submit any personal information through the Service. If you have reason to believe that we may have accidentally received personal information from an individual under the age of 18, please email us immediately at privacy@schoolstatus.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protecting Children\u2019s and student\u2019s privacy is especially important to us. We participate in the iKeepSafe Safe Harbor program<\/a>. We have been granted the iKeepSafe COPPA Safe Harbor seal signifying that Our Apps that were formerly known as ClassTag Apps have been reviewed and approved for having policies and practices surrounding the collection, use, maintenance, and disclosure of personal information from Children consistent with the iKeepSafe COPPA Safe Harbor program guidelines. COPPA protects the online privacy of Children under the age of 13. Here is an email for the iKeepSafe Safe Harbor program: privacy@ikeepsafe.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educators who represent an Educational Entity can act as an agent of a parent or guardian (\u201cParent\u201d) and provide consent of the Parent for their student to access the Service under COPPA based on the concept of school consent. In order for individuals under the age of 18, and specifically children under the age of 13, to access the Service based on the request of an Educational Entity, the following process has to take place:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As described in the Section Your Relationship with Us<\/strong> at the beginning of these User Terms, the Customer must have signed the Contract with SchoolStatus to access Connect. After Customer enters the Contract, an educator for that Customer, using a one-time individualized token, invites a student to access that educator\u2019s resources through a student account. Only the educator will have the ability to create the Student Account as well as share and monitor any of the content accessible to the student.\u00a0 Educators will also have the option to remove any of the students or adding new students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the invitation from the educator, the student creates a username and password and will receive access to that educator\u2019s resources. The student will not be given access to all of Connect\u2019s services but will be limited to features specific to that Educational Entity.  Students cannot publish any content publicly or make any content publicly available.  Students in this online environment only share their class work and profiles with the educator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For students accessing the Service via an Educational Entity, our Data Handling, including collection, involves specifically (some of these data are collected from the Educational Entity, Parent, or Student):<\/p>\n\n\n\n