Google Workspace for Education Notice to Parents and Guardians

The notice below provides answers to common questions about what Google can and can’t do with your child’s personal information, including:

  • What personal information does Google collect?

  • How does Google use this information?

  • Will Google disclose my child’s personal information?

  • Does Google use student personal information for users in K-12 schools to target advertising?

  • Can my child share information with others using the Google Workspace for Education account?

This notice describes the personal information we provide to Google for these accounts and how Google collects, uses, and discloses personal information from students in connection with these accounts. 

Using their Google Workspace for Education accounts, students may access and use the following “Core Services” offered by Google (described at https://workspace.google.com/terms/user_features.html): 

  • Calendar

  • Cloud Search

  • Drive and Docs

  • Gmail (Grades 5-12)

  • Google Chat

  • Google Chrome Sync

  • Google Meet

  • Google Vault

  • Groups for Business

  • Keep

  • Migrate

  • Sites

  • Tasks
     

In addition, we also allow students to access certain other Google services with their Google Workspace for Education accounts. Specifically, your child may have access to the following “Additional Services”: 

  • AI Studio  

  • Applied Digital Skills  

  • Chrome Canvas

  • Chrome Enterprise  

  • Colab

  • CS First

  • Arts & Culture

  • Bookmarks

  • Books

  • Earth

  • Maps

  • My Maps

  • News

  • Looker Studio

  • Trips

  • Notebook LM

  • Pinpoint

  • Scholar Profiles

  • Socratic

  • Tables

  • Timeline

  • Translate

Further, we allow students to access additional third-party services with their Google Workspace for Education accounts. Our school administrator enables access to these third-party services with your student’s Google Workspace for Education account, and authorizes the disclosure of data, as requested by the third-party services. Additional information about these third-party services is available at [include link to additional resources about permitted third-party services.]

Google provides information about the information it collects, as well as how it uses and discloses the information it collects from Google Workspace for Education accounts in its Google Workspace for Education Privacy Notice. You can read that notice online at https://workspace.google.com/terms/education_privacy.html You should review this information in its entirety, but below are answers to some common questions: