Privacy FAQs

What are the benefits of having an Administrative Dashboard?

With all of the media features available on PebbleGo Create and Buncee, administrators can easily capture and share the full story of their students’ learning with parents and the community, and communicate the innovative educational practices taking place in their classrooms in engaging and creative ways!

Beyond the ability to create, users with school administrator accounts will also be able to manage user permissions and privacies and monitor student work within their school. Their capabilities are summarized below:

  • Track users and manage user privacies across a school (or district)
  • Customize and personalize a school’s multimedia library
  • Seamlessly synchronize organization rosters
  • Set user permissions for sharing and media access
  • Access and monitor user work across a district
Is Capstone COPPA Compliant?

All Capstone Products comply with the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), and prior to its acquisition by Capstone, Buncee LLC was a signatory of the Student Privacy Pledge and participated in the iKeepSafe Safe Harbor program, which ensures that practices surrounding the collection, use, maintenance, and disclosure of personal information from children under the age of 13 are consistent with principles and requirements of COPPA. COPPA requires us to inform parents and legal guardians (“parents”) and teachers, administrators, schools, districts and other educators (“educators”) about our practices for collecting, using and disclosing personal information from children under the age of 13. It also requires us to obtain verifiable consent from a child’s parent for certain collection, use and disclosure of the child’s personal information. Please review Capstone’s Children’s Privacy Policy for more details regarding Capstone’s rights and responsibilities with respect to COPPA.

How will Capstone allow my school or district to remain compliant with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA)?

Capstone takes its responsibility to support educators with their obligations under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”) seriously. The collection, usage, access, and transparency practices described in our Privacy Policies reflect Capstone’s commitment to support its customers’ FERPA compliance efforts. Please review the Capstone Product End User License Agreement and Capstone’s Children’s Privacy Policy for more details regarding Capstone’s rights and responsibilities with respect to its customers’ FERPA obligations.

Is Capstone’s search engine age-appropriate? Does it help protect classrooms from using copyrighted content?

Our creation platforms, PebbleGo Create and Buncee, have implemented its own safe search parameters for all users that are performing web searches from within the PebbleGo Create and Buncee websites or mobile applications. All searches performed from within the PebbleGo Create and Buncee websites are internally filtered in order to protect children from harmful online content. Our internal image search is powered by Pixabay, and allows users to search for and utilize only those images which are Creative Commons licensed. This protects classrooms from using copyrighted content.

How long will Capstone retain my data?

Capstone will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in Capstone’s Products Privacy Notice. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include (i) the length of our ongoing relationship with a particular customer or visitor to the Sites, (ii) the period of time necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws), and (iii) the length necessary to resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies. Please review the Capstone Product End User License Agreement for more details regarding Capstone’s data retention policies.

Who owns the content created by users on Capstone’s creation platforms?

Capstone and its licensors are the owners of all Intellectual Property rights within Capstone’s Digital Products, and the entire contents and design of Capstone’s Digital Products are protected by U.S. and international copyright law. This includes all Buncee or PebbleGo Create with Buncee templates, images, and text that are provided and available to you via the Capstone Digital Products. Capstone assumes no ownership of any User Content. Do not upload or submit information to Capstone’s Digital Products that you do not have permission or the right to use. Please review the Capstone Product End User License Agreement for more details regarding ownership and User Content.

What data do I need to provide for Student Accounts? Will you be communicating with Student Accounts?

In order to create student accounts under a Buncee Classroom subscription, educators will need to provide the student’s first name, last name, unique username, and password. They are not asked to submit student email or birth data. Under a PebbleGo Create with Buncee subscription or a Buncee for Schools & Districts subscription, classes, educator accounts, and student accounts are created by syncing the School/District’s roster data through Google Classroom or Microsoft Office 365 with the Buncee application, or by manually uploading the applicable roster data in .csv format, and do not require the submission of student email or birth data. Accounts that are known to be student accounts will not receive email communications from Capstone. Furthermore, we do not advertise or market to accounts known to be student accounts.

How do I exercise my Individual Rights?

Individual Rights are the rights that individuals (otherwise known as data subjects) have to access, correct, export, and delete personal data that companies hold about them. Capstone has built mechanisms into our products and services so you can have more visibility into what personal data we have collected and make choices about that data. To find out more about how Capstone processes and protects your personal data, you can access our Privacy Policies here.

You can view and clear your browsing and search history within your browser dashboard. You can view and update your profile information by either signing into your individual account or reaching out to the administrator of your school or district account. If you utilize one of Capstone’s creation platforms and have personal content that you want to view or download, you can sign into your account and utilize the tools to do so within those products. To opt-out or unsubscribe from marketing emails, click the “Unsubscribe” button directly within the email you received.

In addition, you have the following options available to exercise your Individual Rights:

  • For Customers in any jurisdiction, please use this form
  • For Cooperative Educational Services in any jurisdiction, please use this form
  • For Employees, Former Employees, Job Applicants, or Contractors in California, the European Economic Area (EEA), European Union (EU), United Kingdom, or Switzerland please use this form
  • Email us at privacy@capstonepub.com

Please Note: If you are a student or a teacher within a school or district account, please contact your school or district administrator to submit your request