Privacy
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Education Across the States is produced by Professional Development Inc. Producer: Charles Mayfield. This page explains what personal information our forms collect, why, and how we protect it.
Through our internship application form: your name and email, school and program, a résumé and optional writing sample, a copy of your state-issued ID (driver's license or state ID card). A state-issued ID shows your full legal name, photograph, date of birth, home address, ID number, and physical description; uploading a copy gives us all of that information. We use the copy only to verify age and identity (see ID Copies, below). For applicants under 18, we also collect a parent or guardian's name, email, and phone number. Through our call-request form: your name, email, phone number, organization and role (optional), what you'd like to discuss, your best times and time zone, and any extra notes you choose to add.
Google Forms requires you to sign in to a Google account to upload files, and Google records the name, email address, and profile photo of the account you use together with your submission.
Who may apply: The internship program is open to applicants age 16 and older. If you are under 16, please do not submit the application form; we do not knowingly collect information from applicants under 16.
Only to evaluate internship applications, verify an applicant's age and identity, obtain a parent's or guardian's permission for applicants under 18, and schedule and prepare production calls. We use it for nothing else.
Our websites use Google Analytics and GoatCounter to understand, in aggregate, how many people visit our pages and which pages they view. These services collect technical information such as your IP address, browser and device type, pages viewed, and referring pages. We use this information only in aggregate to operate and improve the sites. We do not use it to identify individual visitors, and we do not sell it.
Submissions are stored in the production team's Google account, and uploaded files are stored in that account's Drive storage, which is not shared publicly. Access to the account is limited to members of the production team. We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not share it with advertisers. We share information only where the program requires it — for example, a parent's name and phone number are given to Fo, the calling service operated by Wajo that places production-team calls on our behalf, and our forms and files are processed and stored by Google (Google Forms and Google Drive). Service providers receive only what they need to do that work.
We use the copy of your state-issued ID only to verify your age and identity. When verification is complete, we make a verification record — the type of document (driver's license or state ID card), the state or jurisdiction that issued it, its expiration date, the date of verification, the name of the team member who verified it, and the result — and we delete the copy of the ID, including from trash. The verification record is kept permanently as part of your application record. The ID copy itself is not kept.
For applicants under 18, we call the parent or guardian to confirm permission. At the start of the call, before anything is recorded, we explain that we would like to record the permission part of the call and ask for the parent's or guardian's express consent. Recording begins only if the parent or guardian agrees, and the agreement is captured on the recording itself. If the parent or guardian does not agree to be recorded, we do not record the call, and the application does not proceed. The recording is kept with the application record as our proof of permission.
We keep application records permanently. An application record includes your name and contact information, your school and program information, your answers on the form, your résumé and any cover letter you send, our correspondence with you about your application, and the verification record described under ID Copies, below. We do not keep the copy of your state-issued ID itself. If you are under 18, the recording of the parental permission call is kept permanently with your application record, as our proof of permission. A call request is submitted by you to ask us to schedule a call, and it becomes part of the show's production records; call requests are retained indefinitely as production records. We keep these records permanently unless a law that applies to us requires us to delete a record.
You may ask us at any time to correct your information: write to educationacrossthestates@gmail.com. We keep application records, parental permission recordings, and call requests permanently as program and production records, so we do not delete those records on request. If a law that applies to us gives you a right to have a record deleted, we will honor it. For any other information we hold about you that is not part of those permanent records, you may ask us to delete it, and we will act on the request promptly.
Producer Charles Mayfield · educationacrossthestates@gmail.com · (978) 291-8525