We respect your privacy. This privacy statement describes what personal data BlackBoard collects through interactions with you and our products and how that data is used. BlackBoard provides a Learning Management System that can be used by schools, colleges, and other institutions.
This privacy statement contains additional information about BlackBoard products. Please review the product-specific details. This statement covers BlackBoard 's interaction with you and any other Blackboard products that include this statement.
BlackBoard uses personal data to provide the best possible user experience and allow us to function efficiently. Some of the data you provide is directly identifiable, such as when creating a BlackBoard Account, managing your enterprise account, processing business data for your organization, collecting your employees, customers and vendors, and uploading supporting files to our software product.
The data is used to communicate with customers, such as informing them about their accounts, security updates, and product information. We do not store any of your messages, including those sent via email, chat, video or voice mail.
You can log into BlackBoard products by creating a user account. You can sign in to your account to
improve personalization, provide seamless and consistent experiences across products, services, and
cloud data. It also allows you to access cloud data and make payments with payment instruments
stored in the account.
We create a record when you sign in to your account to access products or services. You will need to
agree to share account data if you sign in to a third-party service using your user account.
BlackBoard 's online services, websites, interactive apps, emails, and advertisements might use cookies and other technologies like pixel tags or web beacons. These technologies allow us to understand our users better, determine which pages people have visited and help us measure the effectiveness and efficiency of ads and web searches. Cookies and other technologies are not considered personal information. We treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personal information. However, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers can be considered personal information under local law. For purposes of this Privacy policy, we also treat non-personal information that is combined with personal data as personal information.
We all know that the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act is a law designed to protect
children's privacy under 13. The Act was approved by the U.S. Congress in 1998 and became effective
in April 2000. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC ).) manages COPPA.
We recognize the importance of extra safeguards for children who use BlackBoard products or
services. Schools that use BlackBoard's mobile app and web portal have read and agreed to the
Managed User IDs for Students Disclosure. Parents can contact us by phone, email, concern software,
mobile app, or web form if they need to correct, delete, or access data associated with their Family
Sharing accounts or their child's user ID.
We have been trusted for years to provide safe and high-quality educational data processing so that
parents, students, teachers, and school administrators can all benefit. We know how important data
privacy can be to you and your child of any age. That is why we work hard to create a secure and
safe environment where all educational institute members can access their data.
Without parental consent and notice, the list of "personal information," geo-location information,
and photographs is not distributed on any other apps or websites.
All data stored in Mobile Apps or Web portals are confidential and secure.
BlackBoard may share personal information with companies that provide services like information processing, credit extension, storing, managing, and enhancing customer data. These companies can also provide customer services such as assessing your interest in our products or services and conducting satisfaction surveys and customer research. These companies have an obligation to protect your information. They may be located anywhere BlackBoard software is installed.
Links to third-party websites, services, products, and applications may be included on BlackBoard
websites. Products and services offered by BlackBoard may include products or services provided by
third parties, such as a payment gateway.
Privacy practices of third parties govern information collected from them. This could include
contact details or location data. We encourage you to find out about the privacy practices of these
third parties.
BlackBoard can update its Privacy Policy at any time. We will post a notice on our website if we
make any material changes to the policy.
We want to make sure that your personal information remains secure. To do this, we communicate our privacy guidelines to BlackBoard employees. We also enforce privacy safeguards within our company. .
Last updated: June 28, 2021
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
While using Our Application, in order to provide features of Our Application, We may collect, with Your prior permission:
We use this information to provide features of Our Service, to improve and customize Our Service. The information may be uploaded to the Company's servers and/or a Service Provider's server or it may be simply stored on Your device.
You can enable or disable access to this information at any time, through Your Device settings.
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
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Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us: