Law / United States /
Vermont
Educational Technology: registration of providers of educational technology products
9 V.S.A. sec. 2444a; 2026 Vt. Acts & Resolves Act 138, Sec. 4
A sensitive categories rule binding private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Reporting, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
As of .
What it requires
- If you do business in Vermont as a provider of an educational technology product (software, an application or a platform that may collect, process or transmit student data and is used for teaching and learning in a Vermont public school or approved independent school), then at each filing with the Secretary of State give your name and your primary physical, email and internet addresses, a link to the most recent privacy policy and terms and conditions of each product in use in any school, the name of each school where you operate under a paid contract, the name and a brief description of each product, which products may be in use in any school, and an attestation that each product meets the student privacy subchapter, the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code Act and all relevant federal and State privacy laws, including the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What this law does
A person doing business in Vermont as a provider of an educational technology product must, at the time of a filing with the Secretary of State, provide its contact details, a link to the most recent privacy policy and terms and conditions of each product in use in any school, the schools where it operates under a paid contract, a description of each product, and an attestation that each product meets the student privacy subchapter, the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code Act and all relevant federal and State privacy laws, including the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
An educational technology product is any software, application or platform that may collect, process or transmit student data and that is used for teaching and learning purposes in a school in Vermont. Section 2444a takes effect on .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s.