This website is operated and maintained by MOCCA/Center on Teaching and Learning/University of Oregon (herein referred to as “MOCCA”) for itself and its subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or related entities.
At MOCCA, we consider your privacy to be of the highest priority. It is our policy to respect the privacy of all website visitors to the extent permitted by law. Please read and understand our Privacy Policy so that you understand how we treat your personal information. If you have any questions about this policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact us at the address below or email us at mocca@uoregon.edu.
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This blog site uses cookies for two purposes: 1) to carry forward data about your current session from one webpage to the next and 2) to identify you to the site between visits. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you may turn them off in your browser or may set your browser to ask you before accepting a new cookie. Cookies remain on your computer, and accordingly we neither store cookies on our computers nor forward them to any external parties. Unless otherwise notified, we do not use cookies to track your movement among different web sites and do not exchange cookies with other entities.
Information Voluntarily Provided by You
In the course of using MOCCA websites, you may choose to provide us with information to help us serve your needs. For example, you may send us electronic mail (through a mailer or a web form) to request information, you may sign up for a mailing list, or you may send us your address so we may send you an application or other material. Any personally identifiable information you send us will be used only for the purpose indicated. Requests for information will be directed to the appropriate staff to respond to the request, and may be recorded to help us update our site to better respond to similar requests. We will not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute your personally identifiable information without your consent, except to the extent required by law. We do not retain the information longer than necessary for normal operations. Each web page requesting information discloses the purpose of that information. If you do not wish to have the information used in that manner, you are not required to provide it. Please contact the person listed on the specific page, or listed below, with questions or concerns on the use of personally identifiable information.
MOCCA websites may provide links to other third-party websites or resources. We do not control these sites and resources, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for their availability, content, or delivery of services. In particular, external sites are not bound by MOCCA’s online privacy policy; they may have their own policies or none at all. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any linked site before using that site.
Student Assessment Data
The ownership, maintenance and security of student assessment data is covered in the standard MOCCA Terms of Use and License Agreement that is agreed to by each MOCCA participant/customer. The customer maintains ownership of all student, teacher and assessment data. MOCCA has no rights to share that data except to (1) provide service directly to the school or district; (2) to maintain and improve MOCCA products and services; (3) for research purposes, though only in an aggregated and de-identified manner; or (4) to comply with state or federal laws or to comply with a ruling from a court of law.
MOCCA maintains a secure environment to protect all sensitive data. Data in transit is encrypted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology—one of the most prevalent and secure systems available online—and industry standard security precautions. SSL is a complex form of cryptography that makes it virtually impossible for a third party to decrypt any useful information you provide. Data at rest is housed in physically secure data centers, with tightly controlled and monitored access. Data backups are encrypted and stored off-site to provide timely and secure disaster recovery. You can be confident that your information is protected. All servers are hosted by the University of Oregon. To learn more about their security policy, please review the following website:
https://policies.uoregon.edu/vol-4-finance-administration-infrastructure/ch-6-information-technology/information-security-program
Student Privacy Pledge
MOCCA is honored to be entrusted by educators and families to support their educational needs and school operations. As such, we take responsibility to both support the effective use of student information and safeguard student privacy and information security. We pledge to carry out responsible stewardship and appropriate use of student personal information per the commitments below and in adherence to all laws applicable to MOCCA as school service providers. As such, we commit to:
- Not collect, maintain, use or share student personal information beyond that needed for authorized educational/school purposes, or as authorized by the parent/student.
- Not sell student personal information.
- Not use or disclose student information collected through MOCCA (whether personal information or otherwise) for behavioral targeting of advertisements to students.
- Not build a personal profile of a student other than for supporting authorized educational/school purposes or as authorized by the parent/student.
- Not knowingly retain student personal information beyond the time period required to support the authorized educational/school purposes, or as authorized by the parent/student.
- Collect, use, share, and retain student personal information only for purposes for which we were authorized by the educational institution/agency, teacher or the parent/student.
- Disclose clearly in contracts or privacy policies, including in a manner easy for parents to understand, what types of student personal information we collect, if any, and the purposes for which the information we maintain is used or shared with third parties.
- Support access to and correction of student personally identifiable information by the student or their authorized parent, either by assisting the educational institution in meeting its requirements or directly when the information is collected directly from the student with student/parent consent.
- Maintain a comprehensive security program that is reasonably designed to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality, and integrity of student personal information against risks – such as unauthorized access or use, or unintended or inappropriate disclosure – through the use of administrative, technological, and physical safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
- 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.
- Allow a successor entity to maintain the student personal information, in the case of our merger or acquisition by another entity, provided the successor entity is subject to these same commitments for the previously collected student personal information.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy practices, or if you wish to amend, update or confirm any information in our records or notify us to delete any information from our records, please contact us at:
This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 1, 2018 (updated March 15, 2018). MOCCA reserves the right to revise its Privacy Policy at any time. In the event that this Privacy Policy is modified or amended, a notice shall be sent electronically to you via the account you established with MOCCA or posted on this website. Such notice shall be deemed given on the date sent.