COPPA

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

Dear parent/guardian of school-aged children under the age of 13, 
 
For schools within the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) System to provide your child with engaging web-based tools and applications for learning, the District must abide by federal regulations that require your consent. (See links above.) 
 
Our district uses several software applications and web-based services that include software functions operated by third parties*.  
 
For our students to use these programs and services, certain personal identifying information (gen­er­ally the student’s name and email address) must be provided to the website operator.  Your child will receive a Google login to participate in the Google Workspace for Education used by Atlanta Public Schools. Under fed­eral law entitled the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Atlanta Public Schools must pro­vide noti­fi­ca­tion and obtain con­sent before chil­dren under the age of 13 can participate in educational activities facilitated through various digital programs. 
 
For more information on COPPA, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions page at the FTC.

FTC - Frequently Asked Questions.

*Third-party applications are programs written to work within software applications and web-based services, but are written by individuals or companies other than the provider of the application or service.  For example, Google Apps for Education comes packed with several software applications. Of these, any program authored by Google is a first-party application. The second party is the user (your child).  Any program authored by a different company or an individual is a third-party application (e.g. MagicSchool or Book Creator).