Privacy Policy

Last Updated February 13, 2024

Our Commitment To Privacy

This Privacy Policy explains our information practices and defines your options for controlling our use and collection of your information, including our obligations under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and Family Education Rights And Privacy Act Of 1974 (“FERPA”) in the United States,

Because of technology changes or changes in privacy law, we might make changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes, we will notify you by means of a notice upon logging in to the Service. You can provide continued consent by clicking on a button labeled “I agree.”

The Information / Data We Collect

This policy applies to all information collected via the Service. You provide personal information to us when you register to use the Service and entirely at your choice if you would like to be contacted by post-secondary options. The personally identifiable information we collect from users registering for the Service includes the following:

Name
Username
Password
Email address

Phone Number (optional)
Address

High School

Graduation Year

GPA

Class Rank (optional)

ACT (optional)

SAT score (optional)
Your direction after high school

Career Interests

Post-Secondary interests (optional)

Survey Information

Date of Birth

Gender

Religion (optional)

Ethnicity (optional)

We store all personal information submitted by users for registration purposes, and all blog text and media (images, video, embedded content) posted using the Service.

When you post or comment, other users or visitors to the Service are able to view its content.

WE URGE USERS TO EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN POSTING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE OR OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THE SERVICE. REMEMBER, ANY INFORMATION YOU DISCLOSE IN THESE AREAS MAY BECOME PUBLIC INFORMATION THROUGH THE ACTIONS OF ANY USER HAVING VIEWING PRIVILEGES.

In addition to the personal information you supply, we may collect additional information to improve the Service design, layout, and appearance; to provide personalization of the Service for users; and to evaluate the performance of any communication related to the Service. The technologies we use to gather this information may include web browser cookies, clear gifs, browser detection, and metadata.

How we use this information

We collect personally identifiable information from registered users so that they may have secure access to the Service. Users are responsible for safeguarding their own usernames, passwords, and email addresses. If your registration or account information has been breached, you can contact us for assistance at [email protected]. We may use your email address to answer email we receive from you and to provide status updates for the Service.

We will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to third parties, and we will not use or disclose your information for behavioral targeting of advertisements.

TO THE EXTENT THAT THE INFORMATION THAT MYSTUDENTPATH.COM COLLECTS AS PART OF THE SERVICE INCLUDES PERSONAL INFORMATION REGARDING STUDENT USERS, THE TEACHER, SCHOOL, OR SCHOOL DISTRICT RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH STUDENT’S USE OF THE SERVICE MAY REQUEST AT ANY TIME THAT MYSTUDENTPATH.COM CORRECT OR DELETE ALL SUCH PERSONAL INFORMATION BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO [email protected]. EXCEPT AS NECESSARY TO PROVIDE THE SERVICE OR AS OTHERWISE SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, MYSTUDENTPATH.COM SHALL NOT SHARE, DISCLOSE, CREATE A PERSONAL PROFILE REGARDING A STUDENT USER OR OTHERWISE USE SUCH PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL MYSTUDENTPATH.COM USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION REGARDING STUDENTS SHALL BE IN CONJUNCTION WITH APPLICABLE LAWS.

Our Commitment to Data Security

Protecting your information is extremely important to us and we take several precautions to ensure that user information is secure:

Password protection – Secure passwords are the first line of defense for your account. In order to prevent unauthorized access to your account, we recommend choosing a password that is memorable but hard to guess, and keeping your password confidential at all times.
Database protection – Our databases are password protected. Student Paths replicates data over multiple systems to help to protect against accidental destruction or loss. Student Paths protects data by encrypting web Service traffic via modern TLS (“https”) protocols, and by employing firewall technologies to prevent unauthorized access to our servers.
Datacenter host – We utilize industry-standard application hosting providers who agree to perform frequent diagnostics, operating system updates, and network security monitoring.

While we do our best to keep your data secure, we cannot guarantee the security of your data. Several factors including, but not limited to, hardware/software failure, outages, human error, attacks, or unauthorized use may compromise the security of our users’ information. In the case of a data security breach, we will do our best to alert any affected users electronically via our website, the email account you have provided, and/or another medium that we deem appropriate, depending on the magnitude and severity of the breach.

Resources

Upon request, we are happy to provide training to protect the security and privacy of Student PII while using Student Paths.

External Websites

We often link to websites that are not owned and operated by us. We are not responsible for the content or practices of such websites, including their practices with respect to your data. We have no responsibility or liability for such practices, and such practices govern your use of those websites. If this site includes any mapping features, these mapping features are powered by Google, Inc. and governed by Google’s privacy policy, as amended from time to time.

Our Commitment To Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

Choices and Access

Residents of certain countries, including European Union member states (and the United Kingdom), may have additional rights listed under “Information for European Consumers” below.

Marketing Emails: To stop receiving marketing emails from us, please follow the instructions at the bottom of any email message to unsubscribe. Even if you unsubscribe, we may still send administrative (i.e., non-marketing) messages. To unsubscribe from a third party’s communications, contact that third party directly or follow the instructions to unsubscribe in the applicable marketing email.

Please note that we will not be able to remove your data from third parties databases, and you will need to contact them directly and/or use any available opt-out mechanisms.

Retention Period

We will not retain student personal information for longer than necessary to support authorized school purposes, or as authorized by the parent/student.

Information for California Consumers

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) affords certain rights and protections to California residents. This section is intended to further describe (i) the categories and sources of data that we collect, sell or share; (ii) the purpose for collection; (iii) the types of third parties to whom we disclose that information; and (iv) details about how California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA.

Categories of Data Collected. We may collect the following CCPA categories of data: (i) identifiers, such as a name, email address, telephone number, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address; (ii) protected classification characteristics under California law, such as age, marital status, medical condition, gender, veteran or military status; (iii) geolocation data; (iv) inferences drawn from some of the information above (e.g., email open rates and time).

We collect Technical Data and personal information from users who land on or engage with our sites or other Student Paths owned-properties (e.g., in response to emails from or on behalf of Student Paths).

Partners and Third Parties: Consumers who visit websites owned by our Media Partners may be redirected to our sites. In some cases, we may gather data directly from Media Partner websites, or Media Partners or other third parties may post data to our Sites or otherwise transfer data to us. This may occur via display ads, click listings, or inquiry forms. Our Advertising Partners may also provide us with data.

Authorization: We require all parties from whom we receive data, whether they are Partners, Service Providers or other third parties, to represent and warrant to us that they have appropriately obtained the data provided to us and have the authority to share the data with us. If we share data with third parties, that are not the result of a court order (e.g. sub-processors) we require them to have policies that are consistent with the same Pledge principles that Pledge members adhere to.

Purpose for Data Collection. As described above we primarily use the data we collect to connect consumers with Advertising Partners who can provide information about the products and services those consumers are seeking.

Categories of Third Parties with Whom Student Paths Discloses Personal Data. We only share with Advertising Partners that you have requested.

Categories of Data Sold. We will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to third parties.

CCPA Rights. The CCPA affords certain rights and protections to California residents including: (i) the right to request that we delete any “personal information” that we have collected from you (“Right to Delete:); (ii) the right to request that we disclose the categories and/or specific pieces of personal information collected and sold (“Right to Know”); and (iii) the right to direct us not to sell their personal information (“Right to Opt-Out”). Personal information is defined under the CCPA as “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.”

California residents who would like to submit a Request to Know, Delete, or Opt-Out should call our toll-free number (866) 744-8069. Upon submission, you will be asked to verify your email address. If we are able to verify your Request to Know or Delete, (e.g., that you are a California resident and that we have or have sold, as the case may be, your “personal information”), we will respond within 45 days of your submission (or such additional time period as the law allows us).

Information for European Consumers

Our Site and business are operated in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States any data you provide will be transferred to and processed in the United States. For residents of the European Union (and the United Kingdom), Student Paths, is the data controller for your data collected under this Privacy Notice. We process your data pursuant to your consent, where legally required to do so, or where we have a legitimate interest, such as using your data for fraud prevention, analytics or to improve our Sites and business, and for our marketing purposes.

In addition, you have the following rights with respect to the data collected from and about you on this site: (i) the right to request access to such data; (ii) the right to request the correction, erasure, and restriction of processing of such data; (iii) in some instances, the right to object to the processing of such data; (iv) in some instances, the right to request that Student Paths export, in a structured, commonly used, and machine readable format, and transmit to another controller, such personal data; (v) the right to withdraw, at any time, any consent to the processing of such personal data. To exercise these rights please use the “Contact Us” page which is linked at the bottom of every webpage.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may amend this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we do, we will post an updated version of the Privacy Policy and revise the “LAST UPDATED” date at the top. We will provide appropriate notice to you if we change the Privacy Policy in any material way, and you will be provided choices before data is used in any manner inconsistent with terms you were initially provided. We will not make material changes to other policies or practices governing the use of Student PII that are inconsistent with contractual requirements. Using this site after any changes are made means you accept those changes and the revised Privacy Policy.

Succession

In the case of our merger or acquisition by another entity, we will require the acquiring company to act in accordance with Pledge principles or allow users a choice to send information to the future entity or have their information deleted.

Dispute Resolution

You have the right to submit feedback about this Privacy Policy, or the practices described in it, to the applicable supervisory authority in your jurisdiction of residence. For U.S. residents this includes the Federal Trade Commission and your state Attorney General. For Non-U.S. residents this includes the Data Protection Authority in your country of residence.

How to Access, Update, or Delete Your Personal Data

Send an email to [email protected] if you want to correct or delete your personally identifiable information collected by us. To protect your privacy and security, we may require you to log in with a user ID and password to verify your identity before granting you the right to access, review, or make changes to your personally identifiable information.

We try to answer every email promptly where possible, and provide our response within the time period stated by applicable law. Please also note that certain personally identifiable information may be exempt from such requests in certain circumstances, such as a legal obligation.

How to Contact Us

We have appointed a Data Protection Officer to be responsible for our privacy program. Please contact us with any questions or concerns.

Attn: Data Protection Officer
Student Paths
237 Edgewood Lane
West St. Paul, MN 55118