École en réseau is designed and intended to be used in classrooms. École en réseau requires the consent of parents or guardians as a condition for using our site, services, or participating in activities organized for certain users when applicable law requires it (if the student is under the legal age of consent, which is less than 14 years old). Most educational institutions (including schools and school service centers) have policies governing the use of third-party educational services and products like École en réseau, addressing parental consent in accordance with applicable legislation (including the Education Act and the Act respecting access to documents held by public bodies and the protection of personal information). Consequently, educational institutions, administrators, and teachers are best positioned to obtain the required parental consent as a condition of using our site, services, and participating in activities in accordance with the law and the institution’s policies. When parental or guardian consent is required, École en réseau requires that educational institutions or teachers obtain written consent from the parents or guardians of students when opening accounts for their students, enrolling classes in our activities, inviting students to use our site, services, or participate in our activities. Parental consent can be revoked, in which case any data collected by École en réseau will be deleted.

If you are an educational institution administrator or a teacher, by inviting students to use our site, services, or participate in our activities, or by creating accounts on behalf of students at your educational institution or in your class, you confirm that you or the educational institution employing you have obtained the necessary consent from the parents or guardians of the students you have invited (or will invite) to use our site or services. You further declare that the parents or guardians of each student consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information as outlined below.

We provide educational institutions, school administrators, and teachers with the required notices under applicable law. Additionally, upon request from an educational institution, school administrator, or teacher who has created an account with École en réseau for classroom use, we provide the institution with a description of the types of personal information we collect, which provides an opportunity to review the student’s personal information and/or request the deletion of this information, and to prevent further use or collection of a student's personal information online, as required by applicable law.

During network activities offered by École en réseau, information is collected. Here is a list of the items that may be collected:

• In videoconferencing, some of the sessions are recorded to allow absent classes to listen later. In this context, it is announced that the activity is being recorded, and if the devices of the classes are open, the voice and image of those who speak into the microphone during a live session are kept in an unlisted mode and shared only with the registered classes. These interventions may consist of providing an answer, feedback, evaluation, explanation, or asking a question to the resource person present who is leading the activity. These interventions help to build a common and collective understanding related to the theme being discussed in the context of the online activity.
• During asynchronous work, classes are invited to post in collaborative digital tools such as Padlet, KF, Office Suite, Google, etc. These tools are unlisted, and the workspaces are shared only with the registered classes. Classes are encouraged to contribute so that other participating classes can benefit. Depending on the nature of the online activity, contributions may take the form of texts, images, photos, videos, audio, school location, etc. The digital tools used are named in the detailed plan for each activity. These tools have received an "approved for use" status from the "COMSI" service of the fiduciary CSS of ÉER (CSSFL).
• Recordings placed in École en réseau's Google Drive or on École en réseau's YouTube channel are kept in an unlisted mode for the duration of the school year, after which their status is changed to private. Recordings are scheduled for deletion after 5 years. This retention period is intended to improve subsequent pedagogical planning and enhance the offering of online activities. For data in collaborative tools, the collaborative spaces are archived at the end of the school year and deleted after 5 years.