Student Data Privacy Policy
Kemmetmueller Photography values student’s and staff’s privacy. Data privacy is a crucial concern in the digital era. This data is valuable but must be handled with care to ensure privacy and security. We believe that any vendor should be transparent about data collection practices, implement strong security measures, and avoid spamming families. Additionally, photography vendors must consider privacy when taking and using photographs of students. These photos can also reveal personal information and should only be taken and used with explicit consent from parents and students.
Kemmetmueller Photography is compliant with both the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Student Privacy Pledge. The Student Privacy Pledge is a public and legally-enforceable statement to safeguard student privacy regarding the collection, maintenance, use, and sharing of student personal information. By prioritizing student data privacy, schools and companies can build trust with families and ensure the protection of students' personal information.
Per the FPF Student Privacy Pledge, we commit to
- Not collect, maintain, use or share student personal information beyond that needed for authorized educational/school purposes, or as authorized by the parent/student.
- Not sell student personal information.
- Not use or disclose student information collected through an educational/school service (whether personal information or otherwise) for behavioral targeting of advertisements to students.
- Not build a personal profile of a student other than for supporting authorized educational/school purposes or as authorized by the parent/student.
- Not make material changes to school service provider consumer privacy policies without first providing prominent notice to the account holder(s) (i.e., the educational institution/agency, or the parent/student when the information is collected directly from the student with student/parent consent) and allowing them choices before data is used in any manner inconsistent with terms they were initially provided; and not make material changes to other policies or practices governing the use of student personal information that are inconsistent with contractual requirements.
- Not knowingly retain student personal information beyond the time period required to support the authorized educational/school purposes, or as authorized by the parent/student.
- Collect, use, share, and retain student personal information only for purposes for which we were authorized by the educational institution/agency, teacher or the parent/student.
- Disclose clearly in contracts or privacy policies, including in a manner easy for parents and teachers to understand, what types of student personal information we collect, if any, and the purposes for which the information we maintain is used or shared with third parties.
- Support access to and correction of student personally identifiable information by the student or their authorized parent, either by assisting the educational institution in meeting its requirements or directly when the information is collected directly from the student with student/parent consent.
- Maintain a comprehensive security program that is reasonably designed to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality, and integrity of student personal information against risks – such as unauthorized access or use, or unintended or inappropriate disclosure – through the use of administrative, technological, and physical safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
- Require that our vendors with whom student personal information is shared in order to deliver the educational service, if any, are obligated to implement these same commitments for the given student personal information.
- Allow a successor entity to maintain the student personal information, in the case of our merger or acquisition by another entity, provided the successor entity is subject to these same commitments for the previously collected student personal information.
