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Scope of Services

What Bright Presence Digital builds, hosts, and is responsible for — and what your school owns.

Last updated: April 2026.

What Bright Presence Digital does

  • Designs and builds your school's public website on our platform
  • Hosts and maintains the site (uptime, security patching, backups)
  • Provides a content-management system for school staff to edit pages, news, calendar, menus, and more
  • Delivers an accessibility-ready platform & default templates (WCAG 2.1 AA-supportive baseline)
  • Provides first-party, privacy-respecting analytics
  • Offers a single inquiry / tour / contact form routed to the admissions office

What we deliberately don't do

  • We do not store, process, or access student records (grades, attendance, transcripts, disciplinary records)
  • We do not handle tuition payments or credit card data — we link out to FACTS / TADS / Nelnet
  • We do not process financial aid applications — we link out to SSS / FAST / Clarity
  • We do not run admissions applications — we link out to Ravenna / Finalsite Admissions / Blackbaud Enrollment
  • We do not host parent portals or student portals — we link out to Blackbaud / Veracross / Finalsite
  • We do not make educational or Title IX determinations — those remain with the school

Why we design it this way

Each of the functions we don't do is a specialist responsibility with its own regulatory exposure (FERPA, PCI-DSS, state student-privacy statutes). The right tool for each job is a specialist vendor the school chooses. Our job is to make the public website — the "front door" — feel beautiful, perform well, stay compliant with accessibility and baseline privacy law, and link seamlessly to the specialist tools behind it.

What your school owns

  • All content on the site (copy, photos, logos, lists)
  • The relationship with families and students
  • Compliance with FERPA, Title IX, state student-privacy laws, and accreditation requirements
  • The agreements with your admissions / SIS / billing / financial aid vendors

What we both sign

A Services Agreement (platform + hosting + design) and a Data Processing Addendum (DPA) that covers:

  • Our role as a service provider / processor — not a controller of your data
  • The categories of sub-processors we use (commercial cloud hosting, CDN, typography, transactional email) — specific vendors are named in the DPA schedule and may be updated with advance notice
  • Breach-notification commitments and timelines
  • Deletion / return of your data at the end of the engagement

We disclose our sub-processor list in the DPA rather than on this public page — standard practice among platform vendors so that infrastructure choices remain a business matter between you and us.

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