FERPA Addendum (US school districts)
This page is for school districts in the United States. FERPA does not apply to Ontario school boards. In Ontario, the board holds custody and control of student personal information under MFIPPA, and VoiceBloom acts as the board's service provider. Ontario boards, please see how we handle student information for Ontario school boards.
VoiceBloom works with United States K-12 districts, charter schools, independent schools, and educational organizations that subscribe on the Education plan, or that otherwise have VoiceBloom process records covered by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. § 1232g, 34 CFR Part 99).
We do not have a standard addendum on file today. We will prepare one with your district, or work from your district's or your state's own template (for example New York Education Law § 2-d, California SOPIPA and AB 1584, Illinois SOPPA, or Connecticut PA 16-189), at no extra charge. What we will put in writing: your district owns its Education Records and the student information in them, we do not use that data for advertising, model training or sale, and we follow FERPA's use-and-redisclosure limits. Whether your district treats VoiceBloom as a "school official" with a legitimate educational interest under 34 CFR § 99.31(a)(1)(i)(B) is the district's own determination, and it depends on the terms we agree and the control your district keeps over the records.
Where the data sits: student information is stored in a Supabase database hosted on Amazon Web Services in the United States (us-east-1), and our serverless functions run on Vercel in Washington, D.C. (iad1). It is encrypted in transit and at rest. Full detail is on our security page.
To Start the Paperwork
Email info@voicebloom.ca with the subject line "FERPA Addendum Request" from the District's billing email. Include:
- The District's legal name
- The District contact's full name and title
- Estimated seat count
- Any state template or state-specific addendum your district requires, attached if you have it
We will reply to you directly and work through the terms with you. If your district needs its own form signed, send it and we will review it.
Once signed, an addendum becomes part of the District's subscription agreement and supplements our DPA, Privacy Policy, and Security page. Amendments and replacements go through the same email. Our sub-processors that handle Education Records are listed at /subprocessors.