Compliance Center

Built for Compliance

Sightline meets and exceeds all major educational privacy and security standards. Your compliance is our foundation, not an afterthought.

FERPACompliant
COPPACompliant
SOC2Ready
NISTFramework
GDPRCompliant

FERPA Compliance

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protects student education records. Sightline is designed from the ground up to never create identifiable student records.

No student identity tracking or storage
No creation of education records from video
Anonymized behavioral analytics only
Complete audit trails for compliance verification
Parent access controls respected

FERPA Requirements Met

Prior consent for disclosure
Record access limitations
Parent notification rights
Data minimization
Secure data handling

Children's Privacy Protected

No personal information collection from children
No behavioral profiling of individuals
Parental consent not required (no data collected)
Privacy by design architecture
Third-party sharing prohibited

COPPA Compliance

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires parental consent for collecting personal information from children under 13. Sightline's architecture ensures no personal information is ever collected.

No Personal Information Collected

Because Sightline never collects, stores, or processes personal information from children, COPPA consent requirements do not apply.

Security Frameworks

Enterprise security standards for educational technology

SOC2 Type II

Service Organization Control 2 certification for security, availability, and confidentiality.

Security controls
Availability SLAs
Processing integrity
Confidentiality
Privacy

NIST Framework

National Institute of Standards and Technology cybersecurity framework implementation.

Identify
Protect
Detect
Respond
Recover

GDPR Compliance

For international deployments, Sightline meets General Data Protection Regulation requirements.

Data minimization by design
Purpose limitation enforced
Storage limitation (no video retained)
Right to erasure supported
Data portability available
Privacy by design certified

What Sightline Never Does

Our privacy commitments are absolute. These are the things we will never do, under any circumstances.

No Facial Recognition
We never identify individuals by their faces
No Biometric Data
No fingerprints, voiceprints, or body measurements
No Identity Tracking
No tracking individuals across time or space
No Cloud Video Storage
Raw video never leaves your campus
No Student Profiling
No behavioral profiles tied to individuals
No Data Sales
We never sell or share data with third parties

Audit & Governance

Complete, tamper-proof audit logs for every system action. Compliance officers can verify adherence at any time.

Immutable audit trail for all events
Role-based access logging
Compliance report generation
Third-party audit support
Audit Log Preview
14:32:15.003DETECTION_EVENTtype=object zone=B1
14:32:15.412ALERT_GENERATEDseverity=medium
14:32:15.523NOTIFICATION_SENTrole=security
14:32:18.891RESPONSE_CONFIRMEDuser=officer_j
14:35:02.114INCIDENT_RESOLVEDduration=167s
All logs are cryptographically signed and tamper-evident

Need compliance documentation?

Download our compliance packages or speak with our compliance team directly.