Renaissance Fundamentals (formerly known as PASS), a product of BK Interactive, LLC, a subsidiary of Renaissance Learning, Inc., (hereafter “our” or “we”) is a K-12 research based universal screener with multi-level reports that helps schools proactively identify and address social and emotional barriers to learning (hereafter “Service”).

This Privacy Policy applies to users of the Service located within the United States.  If you are a user outside of the United States, click here for the applicable privacy policy.

This Privacy Policy describes our practices regarding information we collect through the Product, as well as any information we collect offline and combine in our databases. Certain features discussed in this Privacy Policy may not be offered on each Service at any particular time.

Note about Children: We do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under 13 except through an agreement with a local education agency (“LEA”) (typically a school, school district, or education service agency).  If we learn that Personal Information of a child has been collected on our Services without prior parental consent, then we will take appropriate steps to delete this information as we discover it and will not use it or share it with third parties.   If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under the age of 13 (or a higher age if required by applicable law) has a registered account with our Services without your consent, please contact us to request that we delete that child’s personal information from our systems.

Information Shared with Us:

1. 1. Registration and Other Information You Provide.
      The Service may collect “Personal Information” (which is information that can reasonably be used alone or in combination with other reasonably available information, to identify or contact a specific individual). Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, user data, metadata, and user content. This may include a name, email address, password, assessment data or usage information. Any information combined with Personal Information will be treated as Personal Information.
      
   2. Your Account.
      Administrators:
      First name
      Last name
      Email Address
      LEA Information
      Students (Mandatory Fields)*:
      First name
      Last name
      Unique ID
      Birth Date
      Grade
      Gender
      School and District

*Note that students do not create their own accounts.  LEA users have the option, in their discretion, to provide additional information that the LEA determines is appropriate. We do not have any control over what additional, optional information a LEA may choose to provide.   If you have a question about what information your LEA chooses to provide, please contact your LEA. LEAs have the discretion to correct or delete such data as they determine appropriate.

3. Third Party Services and Information Third Parties Provide About You. The Service may permit interactions between the Service and a third-party feature or service. These third parties may provide us with information about you. Similarly, if you publicly post information on a third-party platform, such as a social media site, that references the Service, your post may be published on our sites in accordance with that third party’s terms. These features may collect your IP address or other unique identifier, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the third-party feature to function properly. When you use a third-party feature through the Services, the third party may also have access to information about you and your use of our Services. Your interactions with third-party links and features are governed by the privacy policies of the third parties.

The information we collect is subject to this Privacy Policy. The information collected and stored by the third party remains subject to the third party’s privacy practices, including whether the third party continues to share information with us, the types of information shared, and your choices regarding what is visible to others on that third party website and service. The third party may allow you to remove the application or feature, in which case we will no longer collect information about you through the application or feature, but we may retain the information previously collected in compliance with all applicable laws.

Information We Collect Automatically:

Like other websites and online services, we and our analytics providers, vendors and other third-party service providers may automatically collect certain “Usage Information” whenever you access and use the Services.  For example, we may collect information regarding how often a user accesses certain features.

Usage Information may include the browser and operating system you are using, the URL that referred you to our Services (if applicable), the search terms you entered in a search engine that lead you to our Services (if applicable), all the areas within our Services that you visit, and the time of day you used the Services, among other information. We may use Usage Information for a variety of purposes, including to select appropriate content to display to you and to enhance or otherwise improve the Services and our products.

In addition, we automatically collect your IP address or other unique identifier (“Device Identifier”) for any computer, mobile phone or other device (any, a “Device”) you may use to access the Services. A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device used to access a Service, and our servers identify your Device by its Device Identifier. Some mobile service providers may also provide us or our third-party service providers with information regarding the physical location of the Device used to access a Service, internet service provider (ISP), date and time of your visit, browser language, browser type, referring and exit pages and URLs, amount of time spent on particular pages, which parts of our Services you use, which links you click, search terms, operating system, traffic and related statistics, keywords, and/or other general browsing or usage data. Usage Information is generally non-identifying, but if we associate it with you as a specific and identifiable person, we treat it as Personal Information.

Usage Information is collected via tracking technologies:

Cookies: Like many other websites and apps, we use “cookies” (a small file sent to your computer by a website or device to allow the website or app to store information which uniquely identifies you) or other similar software to collect data in order to assist our users and provide them with a more personal experience visits in our Website or apps. For example, cookies help our systems recognize you if you return to our Services shortly after exiting them.  You can always disable cookies in your browser or device’s settings, but please note that if you do so, some (or all) of the features and functionality of our Services may not be available to you.

How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals: Please note that your browser setting may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” (DNT) signal to websites and online services you visit. DNT is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. However, we do not recognize or respond to browser initiated DNT signals, as the internet industry is still working to determine what DNT means, how to comply with DNT, and how to create a common approach to responding to DNT. To find out more about “Do Not Track”, please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

If you use the Service through a mobile device, you agree the Service may store and use that information for security purposes (for example, for user verification or authentication and to ensure that our APIs are being used appropriately).

We take data security very seriously. We take commercially reasonable technical, physical, and administrative security measures designed to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and upon receipt, and at rest.  Such measures vary depending on the sensitivity of the information at issue.  Measures taken to protect your data include the following:

• We use encryption, secure socket layer, firewall, password protection and other physical security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information including sensitive data.
• We also place internal restrictions on who in the company may access data to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.
• Our precautions consider the risks involved in the processing, the nature of personally identifiable information, and best practices in the industry for security and data protection.

Please note that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially reasonable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

How will you handle a data breach or security incident?

In the event we become aware of a data breach impacting your Personal Information, we will provide notification in compliance with all applicable laws. For example, we may post a notice on our homepage or elsewhere on the Service and may email you at the email address you have provided to us. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.

We have procedures in place that are designed to stop threats that may expose personally identifiable information, restore Services to full functionality, and document and take proactive steps to ensure the incident cannot be repeated. We will also preserve necessary evidence for investigation by security professionals and law enforcement as appropriate. In the unlikely event of an unauthorized disclosure of records, we will follow its internal procedures, which articulates how to report the problem to internal and external stakeholders. The notification process includes any information that can identify which customers and students may have been impacted, the data that may have been accessed, our process to inform affected customers, and steps to prevent the incident from happening again as appropriate.

In the unlikely event of an unauthorized disclosure of Data, we have adopted a process for responding to incidents and notifying affected individuals and, if applicable, law enforcement personnel.

If you have any questions about security on our Services, you can contact us at [email protected].

You may be able to review the information you provided to us on a Service and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for your account on that Service, by logging in to your account for that Service and editing or deleting the information. Note that certain accounts may have limitations regarding the ability to delete information.  Even after information is deleted, we may maintain it in backup or archive form.

If you wish to close your account with one of our Services, please contact us by email at [email protected] and we will remove your Personal Information and profile, if applicable, from the active databases for the Service(s) you request. Please let us know which Service you wish to close and, if applicable, send your request using an email account that you have registered with us under your name. You typically will receive a response to a request sent to this account within thirty (30) business days of our receiving it.

We will notify you of material changes to the Privacy Policy on our website and/or by email and make additional efforts to notify customers of material changes that impact the treatment of data collected through our Services.

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time and any changes will be effective upon posting.  Upon any update, the date at the top of this policy will be updated.  In the event that there are material changes to the way we treat your personal information, you are responsible for regularly reviewing this privacy policy and your account for notice of such modifications. Your continued use of the Services following an update to this privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of the updated privacy policy.

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at [email protected] or by mail at: 240 Kent Ave, Suite B12 Brooklyn NY 11249.