If your administrator or IT department is asking about SLP Toolkit compliance with the Colorado student data privacy laws, we've got you covered. You can find information about how to comply with the regulations (CDE Student Data Transparency and Security Act) below. Although we are well versed in the statutes, we are not legal experts (we stick to speech pathology and software). So you should consult your district about how to fully comply too.
1. Summary
Here is a quick summary of all the important bits:
A Contract Provider shall not:
Use or share Student Personally Identifiable Information for purposes of targeted advertising to students.
Sell Student Personally Identifiable Information.
Use Student Personally Identifiable Information to create a Personal Profile of a Student other than for supporting purposes that are authorized by contract.
A Contract Provider shall use or disclose student data if/when:
In order to ensure legal or regulatory compliance or to take precautions against liability.
Respond to or participate in the judicial process.
Protect the safety of users or others on the School Service Contract.
If needed to investigate a matter related to public safety.
SLP Toolkit has procedures in place to cover all of these plus much more. In addition to reading our basic privacy policy (here) and procedures (here), you can generate a student data privacy agreement (see section 3 below).
2. Useful information
You can see all the student data elements that we collect, along with the reason we collect them in the knowledge base article below. You can print out a copy or save a PDF for your records.
We use subcontractors to store and access student data. Their information and their policies concerning privacy and security are listed in the knowledge base article below.
SLP Toolkit complies with FERPA and more information can be found in the article below.
SLP Toolkit uses best practices to securely store and transmit data to the SLPs with authorized access. You can read more about how we keep your data safe in the article below.
3. Data Sharing & Privacy Agreement
If your district would like a signed data sharing & privacy agreement (DSPA), you can generate and download one using this form (click here).
Hopefully, this demystifies the Colorado student privacy laws and you can get on with helping the students. As always, let us know if there are any questions about this or other privacy standards by sending an email to privacy@slptoolkit.com or contacting support.