Bookji Privacy Policy for Educators

LAST UPDATED: 06/10/2022

Welcome to Bookji. We value the privacy of all of our users and we know you care about your privacy and the privacy of your students, so we created this Privacy Policy. It explains the information we collect from users and how and when we disclose or use it. By accessing or using the Bookji website, services, software, applications, and/or content made available by Bookji, you are consenting to collection and use of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to our collection and use of data collected from schools, teachers, and students.

Please note that our Bookji Privacy Policy for parents gobookji.com/privacyparents applies to our collection and use of data collected from parents under a parent account.

Protecting your privacy is fundamental to our mission and business. The following summarizes our promises to you with regard to student data:

1. Bookji and FERPA

Data collected by Bookji does not include personally identifiable information from education records that are subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, “FERPA”, ("FERPA Records").

2. Bookji and COPPA

We do not collect personal information from children under the age of 13. All information about a student (e.g., name) must be provided by a teacher.

Bookji and Student Privacy

We never display or allow third-party ads, share student data for advertising purposes, or allow data collection by third party advertisers or data brokers from students.

3. Information we collect

In providing our Services, we and our service providers may collect the following:

4. How we disclose information we collect

We do not use or store student's personal information. All the information we collect is used to:

The profile name of each student in a class may be viewable by other students in the same class, as well as classmate avatars and information related to participation in class reading activities.

We may use and disclose information that does not identify or otherwise directly relate to an individual for any purpose, subject to any restrictions imposed by applicable law.

5. Transperency and Controls

We understand and respect your privacy concerns at Bookji. Accordingly, we provide you with the ability to make certain choices related to our collection, use, and sharing of your information. These choices may include:

6. Third party services

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service.

6. Security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe the security of your account has been compromised, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

7. Breach Incident Response Plan

If there is a breach or suspected breach of data, the affected parties will be notified within 72 hours.

8. User Access

You may have the right to access, correct, download for transport to a similar service, or delete any of your personal information collected by Bookji. If you would like to exercise such rights, please contact at support@gobookji.com. If you are a parent and want to correct, edit, download, or update information about a student, please contact your school.

9. Retention period

We will retain your information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Bookji will delete an account and all content associated with the account if the account has not been accessed for more than 7 years.

10. Decommissioning Procedure

When no longer working with a school or school district, Bookji will delete all associated information and data from students and educators.

11. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy. We will provide notice to you when there is a major change to this Privacy Policy. The “Last Updated” legend at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

Contact us

If you would like to contact us with questions or feedback, please contact us here at support@gobookji.com.