COPPA Disclosure & Consent Form

Last Updated: October 30, 2026

Introduction

Because your School is utilizing one or more of our Offerings, Liminex, Inc. dba GoGuardian and Pear Deck Learning, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates (together, “Liminex”, “we”, “us”, “our”), is providing you with information about how we collect and use the personally identifiable information of students under thirteen (13) years of age, as set forth in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”, and such information the “Disclosure”). We are providing this Disclosure to you as an official authorized to act on behalf of your School.

Liminex will not knowingly collect, use, or disclose any Personal Student Information without a School’s verifiable consent or contrary to applicable school policy. Our Privacy Policy for Product Users (“Product Privacy Policy”) provides more details about our data practices. If there is a conflict between the Product Privacy Policy and this Disclosure, the terms of this Disclosure shall take precedence. Capitalized terms not defined herein shall be ascribed the same meaning as in our Product Privacy Policy.

1. Collection of Personal Student Information

In providing our Offerings to Schools, we may collect the following Personal Student Information on behalf of a School. 

1.1 GoGuardian Offerings

This section applies to the GoGuardian Offerings. We only collect Personal Student Information on school-managed devices and/or Accounts where a School has already registered with GoGuardian and chosen to use GoGuardian Offerings and where such Schools have consented as set forth herein and in the Product Privacy Policy. The Personal Student Information collected by our GoGuardian Offerings on behalf of a School depends on the particular GoGuardian Offering(s) and feature(s) selected by a School and the particular settings enabled or disabled by the School. Pursuant to such selections, the Personal Student Information that we collect may include:

• Student’s School-Managed Account Information and Association Information: We may collect a student’s Google or Microsoft School-managed account information, including the student’s name, email address, Google Profile ID and Google Image URL (for school-managed Google accounts), Microsoft Profile ID (for school-managed Microsoft accounts), organizational unit, and device identifiers necessary to associate a student with a certain device and settings. Additionally, GoGuardian Offerings may also need to associate a student with a particular teacher’s classroom by using a Google classroom identifier or other identifier as well as one or more individuals (e.g., parents or guardians).
• Activity Information: We may collect additional information from or about school-managed Accounts, devices, applications, and online activity. This may include chats (e.g., within GoGuardian Teacher), video conferencing recordings (including audio and video of participating students and chats from within a video conference), a student’s browsing history, IP address, online content, email content, screenshots, and key percentage variance (but not the actual inputs or sequence of inputs; e.g., to identify patterns like gaming). Students may use chat and video conferencing features only to communicate with Authorized School Personnel. Our Offerings do not permit interactions with individuals outside of those designated as Authorized School Personnel.
• Grade, Attendance, and Assignment Information: We may collect grade, attendance, and assignment information.
• General Location Information: For the purpose of allowing a school to locate and recover its devices (e.g., via GoGuardian Admin), we may collect the general geographic location of devices. While GoGuardian Offerings can collect IP addresses while active, no precise location data of mobile phones is collected by GoGuardian.
• Integration Information: If your School chooses to integrate GoGuardian Offerings with other Integration Offerings (e.g., integrate with other School software with GoGuardian Offerings), then we may collect the information necessary to integrate and provide our Offerings, including unique identifiers (e.g., Google classroom identifier to connect a student to his/her classroom if your School integrates Google Classroom with GoGuardian Teacher) and other information (e.g., Parent/Guardian Information if your School integrates GoGuardian Offerings with the Parent/Guardian Information from Classlink or Clever).

1.2 Pear Deck Learning Offerings

This section applies to the Pear Deck Learning Offerings. The Personal Student Information collected by our Pear Deck Learning Offerings on behalf of a School depends on the particular Pear Deck Learning Offering(s) and feature(s) selected by a School and the particular settings enabled or disabled by the School. Pursuant to such selections, the Personal Student Information that we collect may include:

• School-Managed Account and Association Information: We may collect a student’s name, email address, and account identifiers (e.g., Google ID or Microsoft ID), as well as information needed to associate the student with a device, account, class, teacher, or school. In Pear Deck and Pear Practice, students may join sessions in anonymous mode, in which case we do not collect their name or email address. Pear Assessment may additionally collect a student ID and Pear Assessment username. 
• Activity Information: We may collect information about student activity within the Offerings, including responses to interactive features, assessment scores, and session URLs. If School uses Pear Assessment, we may collect audio recordings and images during assessments. 
• Device and Usage Information: We may collect device and usage details such as IP address, device identifier, operating system, browser type, non-precise geographic location (e.g., city or zip code), technical information about system and app software, peripherals, and timestamps associated with logins and usage. If School uses Pear Assessment, we may also collect time on task (the length of time a student spends on a question), browser lock events, and user interaction data.
• Integration Information: Where your School chooses to integrate our Offerings with Integration Offerings (e.g., other School-selected software), we may collect the information necessary to support those integrations, including identifiers such as Google Classroom IDs or student information system data.
• Demographic Information (Pear Assessment only): If School uses Pear Assessment, we may collect student demographic details, such as gender, date of birth, English language learner status, individualized education plan status, and free or reduced lunch status.

2. Use of Personal Student Information

Liminex may:

• use Personal Student Information to provide our Offerings (including, but not limited to, allowing students to access our Offerings; restricting access to certain websites, alerting schools to online content viewed by students, and enabling teachers to distribute educational material, view student activity, and exchange messages with their students);
• use Personal Student Information (including but not limited to browsing information, device identifiers, cookies, or IP addresses) to improve and analyze our Offerings; 
• use Personal Student Information for other legitimate educational purposes, including to follow further instructions of a School; 
• use Personal Student Information to enforce the legal terms that govern our Offerings;
• use Personal Student Information to comply with Applicable Law and protect our and others’ rights, safety, and property; and
• use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information (information that does not, on its own, permit direct association with students’ identities) for any lawful purpose (e.g., we may aggregate and use information regarding usage of our Offerings to help us understand which parts of our Offerings that are of most interest to schools). Aggregated data is considered non-personal information.

Liminex may not:

• sell Personal Student Information;
• use Personal Student Information to target advertisements or market to students or anyone else, to amass a profile about a K-12 educational student for a non-educational purpose;
• share Personal Student Information with third-party service providers for training their artificial intelligence models for their own purposes; or 
• use Personal Student Information for any purposes prohibited by Applicable Law, including the Family Educational and Privacy Rights Act (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99.3) (“FERPA”) and applicable state law, including California Business & Professions Code section 22584 (“KOPIPA”), California Education Code section 49073.1, and Connecticut's "Act Concerning Student Privacy" (Connecticut General Statutes § 10-234aa et seq.).

3. Disclosure of Personal Student Information to Third Parties

Depending on your School’s selection of Offerings and associated settings and policies within our Offerings, your School’s students may share information with teachers, administrators, and other school personnel. In addition, our Offerings may provide Personal Student Information to certain service providers that act on our behalf to support our Offerings and customers, such as information processing and customer support technologies. We may also disclose Personal Student Information about your students if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users; to comply in good faith with any law enforcement, legal, or regulatory process; in connection with a health and safety exception; with your School’s consent and/or at your School’s direction; or with parent/guardian/eligible student consent and/or at parent/guardian/eligible student’s direction. Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale, we may transfer any and all Personal Student Information your School provides to the relevant party subject to the terms of this Disclosure and our Product Privacy Policy.

4. Access, Correction, and Deletion of Personal Student Information

If your School has any questions or concerns regarding this Disclosure or if your School would like to access, correct, or delete Personal Student Information on behalf of your School or pursuant to parent/guardian requests in accordance with COPPA, FERPA, or other Applicable Law, please contact us at privacy@goguardian.com.

5. Consent to Liminex’s Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Student Information

By your School submitting payment (regardless of whether the payment is provided by you, your School’s billing/accounting office, or other School department) to Liminex and/or by you signing up for one or more of our Offerings as an authorized teacher or administrator: (a) your School is consenting (or you are consenting on your School’s behalf) to Liminex’s collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Student Information as set forth in this Disclosure and (b) you represent and warrant that you have legal authority to provide this consent on behalf of each student. You understand that your School will be able to use the Offerings made available to them in connection with your students, subject to your School’s selected Offerings and settings.