MyGooru Compliance & Privacy

At MyGooru, compliance is not just about meeting legal requirements—it’s about upholding our mission to provide equitable, personalized education while ensuring data privacy, security, and accessibility.

Privacy

Security

Accessibility

Data Ownership

Overview

Gooru’s mission is to support the human right to education. With that mission, MyGooru is designed to support life-long learning for all types of learners including users with various accessibility needs. Our goal is to develop a tool that anyone, no matter their ability, to be able to locate themselves and find a path to any learning destination. While we don’t have control of the content being used, we do track the accessibility of content so that if a learner does require it we are able to provide the most suitable content that is available.

The Bar We Have Set

Provide a WCAG2.1 level AA / Section 508 compliant Navigator tool
Assess content for accessibility and always promote the most suitable content
To create incentive mechanisms for content creators to generate accessible content.

Detailed Information

MyGooru, as a platform currently is WCAG Level A and Level AA compliant. Here are the specific compliance measures we meet:

1.1.1 – Non-text Content	Level A
1.3.1 – Info and Relationships	Level A
1.3.2 – Meaningful Sequence	Level A
1.3.3 – Sensory Characteristics	Level A
1.4.1 – Use of Colour	Level A
2.1.1 – Keyboard	Level A
2.1.2 – No Keyboard Trap	Level A
2.1.4 – Character Key Shortcuts	Level A
2.2.1 – Timing Adjustable	Level A
2.2.2 – Pause, Stop, Hide	Level A
2.3.1 – Three Flashes or Below Threshold	Level A
2.4.1 – Bypass Blocks	Level A
2.4.2 – Page Titled	Level A
2.4.3 – Focus Order	Level A
2.4.4 – Link Purpose (In Context)	Level A
2.4.7 – Focus Visible	Level A
3.1.1 – Language of Page	Level A
3.2.1 – On Focus	Level A
3.2.2 – On Input	Level A
3.3.1 – Error Identification	Level A
3.3.2 – Labels or Instructions	Level A
4.1.1 – Parsing	Level A
4.1.2 – Name, Role, Value	Level A
1.3.4 – Orientation	Level AA
1.3.5 – Identify Input Purpose	Level AA
1.4.3 – Contrast (Minimum)	Level AA
1.4.4 – Resize Text	Level AA
1.4.5 – Images of Text	Level AA
1.4.10 – Reflow	Level AA
1.4.11 – Non-Text Contrast	Level AA
1.4.12 – Text Spacing	Level AA
1.4.13 – Content on Hover or Focus	Level AA
2.4.5 – Multiple Ways	Level AA
2.4.6 – Headings and Labels	Level AA
3.1.2 – Language of Parts	Level AA
3.2.3 – Consistent Navigation	Level AA
3.2.4 – Consistent Identification	Level AA
3.3.3 – Error Suggestion	Level AA
3.3.4- Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data)	Level AA
1.4.6 – Contrast (Enhanced)	Level AAA

Content Accessibility

Gooru does not create content itself, but MyGooru includes tools to support any content that addresses accessibility needs

Privacy

Security

Accessibility

Data Ownership

Overview

Learning is highly personal, and adaptive learning applications require an ever-deeper understanding of the learner to provide the required personalization. These same tools and data that can personalize learning can be nefariously used in other applications too, most easily within advertising, where a knowledge of the best way to introduce new ideas to an individual is highly sought after. At Gooru we recognize these risks and have chosen to address them by setting an incredibly high bar when it comes to data privacy and ownership. In short, you, as a learner, own and have full control of your data.

The Bar We Have Set

You own your data
You have full control over what data you choose to share, for how long, and with whom.
You have the right to be forgotten

Detailed Compliance Information

Learners and Institutions own their data. All data that is generated in the tenancy of an institution is owned by the institution. Learners’ proficiency, portfolio, preferences, and their metrics such as grit, perseverance, motivation, etc. are owned by the learners
Users and Institutions grant permission to Gooru to use the data generated by the users in their tenancy to curate content and to personalize pathways and make reroute recommendations for the learners
Gooru adheres to GDPR compliance requirements.
MyGooru provides the users the ability to determine how their data is managed within Navigator, determine who has access to their data, and request deletion of data (“right to be forgotten”).
Gooru adheres to privacy requirements defined under FERPA and COPPA. As per FERPA School Official exception, school districts are authorized to share student data with Gooru
MyGooru requires minimal data about learners that are deemed Personally Identifiable Information. MyGooru requires only First Name, Last Name, Email id, and Year of birth at the time of sign-in, and only First Name, Last Name and a reference id for the user via roster sync with institutions’ SIS
We do not use or disclose learner data collected through MyGooru for behavioral targeting of advertisements to learners.
We require that our vendors and service providers are bound through a written contract to maintain the same level of privacy protections as we do in our agreements
Gooru is IMS Global’s TrustEd certified.

Read Gooru’s privacy policy here: https://goorulearning.com//privacy-policy/

Privacy

Security

Accessibility

Data Ownership

Overview

The Bar We Have Set

You own your data
You have full control over what data you choose to share, for how long, and with whom.
You have the right to be forgotten

Detailed Compliance Information

Learners and Institutions own their data. All data that is generated in the tenancy of an institution is owned by the institution. Learners’ proficiency, portfolio, preferences, and their metrics such as grit, perseverance, motivation, etc. are owned by the learners
Users and Institutions grant permission to Gooru to use the data generated by the users in their tenancy to curate content and to personalize pathways and make reroute recommendations for the learners
Gooru adheres to GDPR compliance requirements.
MyGooru provides the users the ability to determine how their data is managed within Navigator, determine who has access to their data, and request deletion of data (“right to be forgotten”).
Gooru adheres to privacy requirements defined under FERPA and COPPA. As per FERPA School Official exception, school districts are authorized to share student data with Gooru
MyGooru requires minimal data about learners that are deemed Personally Identifiable Information. MyGooru requires only First Name, Last Name, Email id, and Year of birth at the time of sign-in, and only First Name, Last Name and a reference id for the user via roster sync with institutions’ SIS
We do not use or disclose learner data collected through MyGooru for behavioral targeting of advertisements to learners.
We require that our vendors and service providers are bound through a written contract to maintain the same level of privacy protections as we do in our agreements
Gooru is IMS Global’s TrustEd certified.

Read Gooru’s privacy policy here: https://goorulearning.com//privacy-policy/