Before a teacher in your school or district can use a new digital tool with students, someone has to make sure it protects student data. Usually that’s a technology director or privacy officer, working through a Data Privacy Agreement line by line and trading redlines for weeks while the tool waits.
We’d like to make that part faster. Our new Trust Center brings everything about how Taito Learning, the company behind TypeTastic, handles student data into one place.
Your Data Stays Yours
Student data belongs to the school district. We process student information only on behalf of, and under the direction of, your school or district. That principle sits under everything else, from how our services run to the agreements we sign with you.
Our services use secure cloud infrastructure and industry-standard security practices, and our privacy practices are aligned with federal and state student privacy laws, including FERPA, COPPA, California’s SOPIPA and AB 1584, and Illinois’ SOPPA.
Agreements Built on a Shared National Framework
Most districts send us their own Data Privacy Agreement, and most of those are based on the Student Data Privacy Consortium’s National Data Privacy Agreement (NDPA). The SDPC, part of the Access 4 Learning Community, created the NDPA so districts and edtech providers could start from shared terms instead of drafting from scratch. Its registry now holds more than 150,000 data privacy agreements from over 6,700 districts.
That means the terms your team already knows are the terms we sign.
Across Much of the Country, You Can Skip the Negotiation
Districts in 39 states take part in the SDPC. Where a district in your state has already signed an agreement with us, you can usually adopt the same terms by signing the General Offer of Privacy Terms, known as Exhibit E, instead of negotiating a new agreement from scratch.
The steps are short:
- Search for TypeTastic in your state’s SDPC Resource Registry.
- Open our countersigned agreement and download its Exhibit E.
- Sign Exhibit E and send it to our compliance team.
- Keep a copy for your records.
New York districts will also find the additional documentation required under Education Law 2-d.
Search the SDPC Resource Registry
Some states outside the SDPC have their own statewide route. In Connecticut, for example, TypeTastic is listed in the Connecticut Educational Software Hub.
No agreement with us in your state yet? Send us your district’s DPA and we’ll review it with you.
Questions? Ask Us Directly
Privacy reviews matter, and they shouldn’t hold up good teaching for a whole semester. If your team has questions about how student data is handled, our compliance team is glad to walk through them with you. Write to us at privacy@taitolearning.com.
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