Protecting Student Privacy Is Critical to Our Work
We take our responsibility to safeguard student information seriously.
Panorama Education is a proud signatory of the Student Privacy Pledge by the Future of Privacy Forum and The Software & Information Industry Association.
Our Work with Schools and Districts
We believe that schools are at their best when families, students, and educators have a voice in education. School districts use Panorama’s products to survey students, educators, and families. Panorama's surveys were developed rigorously to produce information that schools and districts can trust.
The surveys cover topics such as whether students feel safe at school, whether families feel welcome, and whether teachers find school to be a supportive place to work. View examples of the survey topics here.
Each school district that uses Panorama’s products decides which tools, offerings, and survey questions are right for that school district's community.
While most school districts select topics and questions to use from Panorama’s survey content, some districts choose to add additional, custom survey questions that help provide additional insight into community-specific interests or needs.
School districts use Panorama’s products to improve how they support students. Each school district decides on the goals that matter for their students and community.
That could look like building students’ relationships with peers and adults, or helping students feel a sense of belonging at school. That could also look like increasing graduation rates and providing academic support to help students learn specific concepts or skills.
See the online survey-taking experience.
Each survey run on Panorama is selected and customized by the local school or district that is administering the survey.
Our Commitment to Student Privacy
Educators collect and access student information using Panorama's products to provide the support their students need. This is why safeguarding student data is critical to the work we do at Panorama.
Keeping student data safe.
Panorama Education follows best practices for data privacy and security. For example, employees are required to use computers that are provided and centrally managed by Panorama with strict security settings enabled, such as Full Disk Encryption, automatic lockout, and strong passwords.
We implement administrative, technical, and physical security controls that protect the information stored on our servers, which are located in the United States.
Panorama does not use student data for purposes other than serving schools and districts. We cannot and do not share any education or student information unless authorized by the school or district or under applicable law.
When schools work with Panorama, schools own all data and control all data use—not Panorama.
Student data only for educational purposes.
We believe that student data must be strongly protected, and must not be used outside of education. We want to be clear that Panorama only uses student data for the purpose of serving schools and districts.
Panorama does not share student data with or sell student data to any social media companies, such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok.
Panorama does not market, sell, or rent any student's personal information. Panorama does not engage in, inform, influence, or enable advertising to students.
Panorama does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18 unless we are performing services for a client and we believe we have appropriate permission to do so, as described in our Client Information Policy.
Student data commitments.
In our handling and usage of student data, Panorama upholds and affirm several core commitments, which are in alignment with our status as a signatory to the Student Privacy Pledge.
- We will collect, use, share, and retain student personal information only for purposes for which we are authorized by an educational institution/agency.
- We will develop our privacy policies in a manner that is easy for parents/guardians and teachers to understand.
- We will implement technical, physical and administrative safeguards which are designed to reasonably protect the security, privacy, confidentiality, and integrity of student personal information against risks.
- We will 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.
- We will never sell student information.
- We will not use or disclose student information collected through an educational/school service (whether personal information or otherwise) for targeting advertisements to students.
- We will not knowingly retain student personal information beyond the time period required to support authorized educational/school purposes, or as authorized by a parent/student.
