{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-53h-14-505","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 53H-14-505","heading":"Third-party contractors.","body":"(1) A third-party contractor shall use personally identifiable student data received under a contract with an education entity strictly for the purpose of providing the contracted product or service within the negotiated contract terms.\n(2) When contracting with a third-party contractor, an education entity, or a government agency contracting on behalf of an education entity, shall:\n(a) ensure that the contract terms comply with the standards the board establishes under Subsection 53H-14-502(5); and\n(b) require the following provisions in the contract:\n(i) requirements and restrictions related to the collection, use, storage, or sharing of student data by the third-party contractor that are necessary for the education entity to ensure compliance with the provisions of this part and board rule;\n(ii) a description of a person, or type of person, including an affiliate of the third-party contractor, with whom the third-party contractor may share student data;\n(iii) provisions that, at the request of the education entity, govern the deletion of the student data received by the third-party contractor;\n(iv) except as provided in Subsection (4) and if required by the education entity, provisions that prohibit the secondary use of personally identifiable student data by the third-party contractor; and\n(v) an agreement by the third-party contractor that, at the request of the education entity that is a party to the contract, the education entity or the education entity's designee may audit the third-party contractor to verify compliance with the contract.\n(3) As authorized by law or court order, a third-party contractor shall share student data as requested by law enforcement.\n(4) A third-party contractor may:\n(a) use student data for adaptive learning or customized student learning purposes;\n(b) market an educational application or product to a student if the third-party contractor does not use student data, shared by or collected on behalf of an education entity, to market the educational application or product;\n(c) use a recommendation engine to recommend to a student:\n(i) content that relates to learning or employment, within the third-party contractor's application, if the recommendation is not motivated by payment or other consideration from another party; or\n(ii) services that relate to learning or employment, within the third-party contractor's application, if the recommendation is not motivated by payment or other consideration from another party;\n(d) respond to a student request for information or feedback, if the content of the response is not motivated by payment or other consideration from another party;\n(e) use student data to allow or improve operability and functionality of the third-party contractor's application; or\n(f) identify for a student nonprofit institutions of higher education or scholarship providers that are seeking students who meet specific criteria:\n(i) regardless of whether the identified nonprofit institutions of higher education or scholarship providers provide payment or other consideration to the third-party contractor; and\n(ii) only if the third-party contractor obtains authorization in writing from:\n(A) the student's parent, if the student is a minor; or\n(B) the student.\n(5) At the completion of a contract with an education entity, if the contract has not been renewed, a third-party contractor shall return or delete upon the education entity's request all personally identifiable student data under the control of the education entity unless a student or a minor student's parent consents to the maintenance of the personally identifiable student data.\n(6)\n(a) A third-party contractor may not:\n(i) except as provided in Subsection (6)(b), sell student data;\n(ii) collect, use, or share student data, if the collection, use, or sharing of the student data is inconsistent with the third-party contractor's contract with the education entity; or\n(iii) use student data for targeted advertising.\n(b) A person may obtain student data through the purchase of, merger with, or otherwise acquiring a third-party contractor if the third-party contractor remains in compliance with this section.\n(7) The provisions of this section do not:\n(a) apply to the use of a general audience application, including the access of a general audience application with login credentials created by a third-party contractor's application;\n(b) apply if the student data is shared in accordance with the education entity's directory information policy, as described in 34 C.F.R. Sec. 99.37;\n(c) apply to the providing of Internet service; or\n(d) impose a duty on a provider of an interactive computer service, as defined in 47 U.S.C. Sec. 230, to review or enforce compliance with this section.\n(8) A provision of this section that relates to a student's student data does not apply to a third-party contractor if the education entity or third-party contractor obtains authorization from the following individual, in writing, to waive that provision:\n(a) the student's parent, if the student is a minor; or\n(b) the student.","path":["Title 53H Higher Education","Chapter 53H-14 Data, Records, and Privacy","Part 53H-14-5 Higher Education Student Data Protection"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title53H/Chapter14/53H-14-S505.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:33Z","sha256":"b16fb3a258cdec66718d8f43c4dbf04e1220e8a14219aa5b8c01656ecde666c8","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-53h-14-504","next":"us-ut/utah-code-53h-14-506"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}