We have updated our terms and policies for the 2024-25 academic year to align with the evolution of our program model and make the information easier to understand and simpler to renew.

As such, we will have a number of legal documents that explain our services and apply to schools, districts, and individual users that will need to be read and/or signed.

First, districts will need to read AND sign the Main Services Agreement, formerly known as the Program Agreement, which establishes our partnership with each district and/or school beginning with the 2024-25 academic year.

The MSA contains several exhibits, including:

• • • Master Terms & Conditions
    • User Agreement
    • National Data Privacy Addendum
    • Participant Schools

Given this new structure, districts will only need to sign the MSA ONCE—as opposed to every year or every few years.

Privacy Policy
All schools also will need to read our Privacy Policy, which applies to our procedures regarding the collection of personal information and how we use it.

Order Forms
In addition to these legal documents that must be reviewed and/or signed, schools will also fill out Order Forms, which will be sent from your coach. These are documents completed by schools to specify the exact services—within the bounds of the services the district signed up for—they will receive. Order Forms do not need to be signed and can be updated or changed annually. In moving to this order form model, our hope is to give schools even more flexibility in how they want to meet their students’ and communities’ needs, by allowing schools to decide what services they need each year from Gradient Learning within the bounds of the overarching agreement.

Given the move to a new Customized Learning Platform, as well as a few other programmatic shifts for the 2024-25 academic year, we needed to update our terms and policies. Rather than issue various addendums to current program agreements, we believe the simplest and easiest path forward is for us to issue:

• • A Termination Notice to inform you that the Program Agreement with the current version of the Summit Learning program will end at the end of the 2023-24 academic year.
  • A new set of legal agreements (outlined above) for the 2024-25 academic year and beyond.

We believe it’s important that educators, parents/guardians, and students understand how we use and protect their data in service of providing students with an engaging learning experience. Although our terms and policies are being updated, the seven core commitments in our previous policies remain. We believe that understanding is built through transparency about our practices.

Our policies continue to articulate a set of 7 core commitments:

1. 1. Data is used solely for educational purposes.
      We only use student personal information for educational purposes. There are no exceptions to this.
   2. Data is never for sale.
      We never sell the personal information of any student or any user.
   3. You own and control your own data.
      School staff, parents/guardians, teachers, and/or students own and control their personal information. Gradient Learning does not own the student personal information used in the Summit Learning program.
   4. We go beyond compliance.
      We are committed to the Future of Privacy Forum’s Student Privacy Pledge and we were among the first signatories of Pledge 2020. In addition to compliance with federal privacy laws such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), we are also voluntarily committed to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
   5. We practice privacy by design.
      Everything we do has privacy and security in mind.
   6. We only work with trusted partners.
      We rely on service providers to help develop and support our program, and we require all of the service providers who have access to student personal information to comply with strong privacy and security terms.
   7. We’re committed to continuous improvement.
      Best practices in privacy and security evolve just as technology evolves, and we are committed to working with parents/guardians, schools, vendors, industry leaders, and partners who help us keep learning and evolving in these areas in order to help protect student personal information.