for Education
“Google has proven that they’re a secure company. I don’t know of any school district
that has passed the same rigor of security testing that Google has.”
Hank Thiele
Assistant Superintendent for Technology & Learning,
Maine Township High School District 207, Illinois
Assistant Superintendent for Technology & Learning,
Maine Township High School District 207, Illinois
Tools schools can trust
More than 40 million students, teachers and administrators rely on Google Apps for
Education to learn, communicate and work together more efficiently. We are committed
to protecting the privacy and security of all of our users, including students.
Family Safety Center
In addition to this page, which provides detail on the security of our services to
schools, you can find guidance and tips for keeping families safe online in our
Family Safety
Center.
No ads in Google Apps for Education services. Period.
There are no ads in Google Apps for Education services
and we have no plans to change this in the future. Additionally, K-12 Google Apps for
Education users do not see ads when they use Google Search and are signed in to their
Apps for Education accounts. Read more about this topic.
More about Privacy
Data ownership and management
Google Apps for Education users own their data, not Google. The data that schools put
into our systems is theirs, and we believe it should stay that way—it says so in our
contracts.
- We provide powerful, easy-to-use management tools, and dashboards help administrators keep track of their organization's services, usage and data.
- We only keep your data as long as schools require us to keep it.
- If an education department, school or university decides to no longer use Google we make it easy for them to take their data with them.
We protect your data
We don’t sell your Google Apps for Education data to third parties and we do not share personal information placed in our systems with third parties, except in the few exceptional circumstances described in your Google Apps agreement and our Privacy Policy, such as when you ask us to share it or when we are required to do so by law.
For full details, please refer to your Google Apps agreement and the "Information Sharing" section of our Privacy Policy.
Proven scale and reliability
Google provides scalable and reliable tools for businesses, governments and
educational institutions. Google has built a proven infrastructure—handling more than
100 billion search queries each month and scaling services such as Gmail to hundreds
of millions of users with 99.978% availability and no scheduled downtime. We have
more than 450 full-time engineers—the world’s foremost experts in security—working to
protect your information.
Raising the bar in security and privacy
Our commitment to the security and privacy of your data is absolute and we do
everything in our power to protect you and your school from attempts to compromise
it. Our systems are amongst the most secure in the world and we vigorously resist any
unlawful attempt to access our customers’ data, whether it be from a hacker or a
government body. Keeping your data safe is at the core of what we do.
A commitment to transparency
Whether it’s real time dashboards to verify systems performance, the ongoing auditing
of our processes, or sharing the location of our datacenters, we’re committed to
providing you utmost transparency. It’s your data, and we want you to know what
happens with it so that you always make informed choices.
Third Party Reviews
We want to provide you comfort about the measures we take to protect the security and
privacy of your data. So we connect with independent auditors to review our data
protection practices. Google Apps and our data centers are also SSAE 16 / ISAE 3402
Type II SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3-audited and have achieved ISO 27001 certification.
