Falconer Central School

FALCONER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT PARENTS’ BILL OF RIGHTS FOR DATA PRIVACY AND SECURITY

The Falconer Central School District seeks to use current technology, including electronic storage, retrieval, and analysis of information about students’ educational experience in the District, to enhance learning opportunities and to increase the efficiency of our District and school operations.

The Falconer Central School District seeks to ensure that parents have information about how the District stores, retrieves, and uses information about students and to meet all legal requirements for maintaining the privacy and security of protected student data and protected principal and teacher data, including Section 2-d of the New York State Education Law.

To further these goals, the Falconer Central School District has posted this Parents’ Bill of Rights for Data Privacy and Security:

1. A student’s personally identifiable information cannot be sold or released for any commercial purposes.
   
   
2. Parents have the right to inspect and review the complete contents of their child’s education record. The procedures for exercising this right can be found in Board Policy 7240, Student Records: Access and Challenge. You may access this policy from the District’s website.
   
   
3. State and federal laws protect the confidentiality of personally identifiable information, and safeguards associated with industry standards and best practices, including but not limited to, encryption, firewalls, and password protection must be in place when data is stored or transferred.
   
   
4. A complete list of all student data elements collected by the State is available at http://www.p12.nysed.gov/irs/sirs/documentation/NYSEDstudentData.xlsx and a copy may be obtained by writing to the Office of Information & Reporting Services, New York State Education Department, Room 863 EBA, 89 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12234.
   
   
5. Parents have the right to file complaints about possible breaches of student data. Complaints may be submitted to NYSED at www.nysed.gov/data-privacy-security; by mail to: Chief Privacy Officer, New York State Education Department, 89 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12234; by email to privacy@nysed.gov; or by telephone at 518-474-0937. Instructions for filing a complaint can be found here. 
   
   

Supplemental Information about Third-Party Contracts

To meet 21st-century expectations for effective education and efficient operation, the District utilizes several products and services that involve third-party contractors receiving access to student data, or principal or teacher data, protected by Section 2-d of the Education Law. The District recognizes that students, parents, and the school community have a legitimate interest in understanding which of the District’s vendors receive that data, for what purpose, and under what conditions.  The District has undertaken the task of compiling that information, and of ensuring that each new contract adequately describes (1) the exclusive purposes for which the data will be used, (2) how the contractor will ensure that any subcontractors it uses will abide by data protection and security requirements, (3) when the contract expires and what happens to the data at that time, (4) if and how an affected party can challenge the accuracy of the data collected, (5) where the data will be stored, and (6) the security protections taken to ensure the data will be protected, including whether the data will be encrypted.