Privacy & Security

Online safety & compliance for children

FC Yearbook does not ask school for emails, phone numbers or other personal data on students under 13. FC Yearbook creates a mobile version of the PDF of the yearbook and no other student data is required from schools. FC Yearbook does not build profiles on students, but requests their name during registration to determine eligibility to download their school’s yearbook and manage their personal messages to and from classmates.

We won’t share any information about users for commercial purposes, or advertise to our users, except related to their yearbook. We ask students or their parents to register as a security measure and to protect their personal messages. FC Yearbooks are only available to students & staff in the school during that school year. See our official Privacy Policy for details.

FC Yearbook is designed to be compliant with US school data protection policies & legislation. See our Privacy Policy for important details.

FC Yearbook is a proud signatory of the Student Privacy Pledge that ensures student data is safeguarded online with legal and regulatory standards including COPPA and specific state requirements. In Canada we comply with Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Note we may store, process and access your personal information in the United States for the purposes of creating and publishing your yearbook, undertaking quality assurance, and providing technical support.

We do not request personal identifying information (PII) from schools, we won’t share any information about users for commercial purposes, or advertise to our users, except related to their yearbook. FC Yearbooks are only available to students & staff in the school during that school year and we validate registration names against the names in yearbook.

How we protect against bullying

FC Yearbook is all about preserving enjoyable, personal memories. To that end the following design & security steps have been made to protect against bullying:

Bullying is often a shaming attack—unlike social media, FC Yearbook’s messages are private and not viewable to a group. If I sign your yearbook, no one can see it but you.
Just like in real life, no one can write in your yearbook without your permission. You must accept requests from others before their message appears in your book.
Individual student blocking and individual message blocking by parents (for children under 13) and by 13 and older students is active. In fact, parents need to consent to and enable any messaging at all for their under 13 child.
Text & video content is screened by either human data screeners and/or technology to block offensive, aggressive or hurtful messaging.

The FC Yearbook edition is only available to those that have a portrait photo in it—no outsiders.

Private Interactions

EACH SIGNATURE-MESSAGE IS SENT PRIVATELY FROM ONE CLASSMATE TO ANOTHER, JUST LIKE WITH A PRINTED YEARBOOK.

When your child signs a classmate's printed yearbook, only that student can see that message. It's the same with a FC Yearbook — you must allow someone to write in your yearbook and their message can only be seen by you.

The yearbook is copy-protected. You cannot copy or share the yearbook images on social media.

Parents can monitor and all interactions by sharing the login on their own device.

Your Data is Not Indexed by Search Engines

The yearbook, your child's photos, videos and messages are not indexed by Google and they are not available on the web. They are exclusively available to students and staff pictured in your child's yearbook through a FC Yearbook private code that only you have.