Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 53B > Chapter 28 > Part 5 - Higher Education Student Data Protection

• Advisory group: means the institution of higher education privacy advisory group established by the state privacy officer under Section 53B-28-502. See Utah Code 53B-28-501
• Board: means the Utah Board of Higher Education described in Section 53B-1-402. See Utah Code 53B-1-101.5
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of higher education appointed in accordance with Section 53B-1-408. See Utah Code 53B-1-101.5
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Data breach: means an unauthorized release of or unauthorized access to personally identifiable student data that an education entity maintains. See Utah Code 53B-28-501
• Data governance plan: means an education entity's comprehensive plan for managing education data that:

  (a)	incorporates reasonable data industry best practices to maintain and protect student data and other education-related data;

  (b)	describes the role, responsibility, and authority of the board or an institution privacy officer;

  (c)	provides for necessary technical assistance, training, support, and auditing;

  (d)	describes the process for sharing student data between the education entity and another person;

  (e)	describes the education entity's data expungement process, including how to respond to requests for expungement;

  (f)	describes the data breach response process; and

  (g)

  is published annually and available on the institution's website or the Utah System of Higher Education's website. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Education entity: means the Utah Board of Higher Education or an institution. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Higher education privacy officer: means a privacy officer that the board designates under Section 53B-28-503. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Institution: means an institution of higher education described in Section 53B-1-102. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. Minor: means a person younger than 18 years old. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Personally identifiable student data: includes : (i)  a student's first and last name; (ii)  the first and last name of a student's family member; (iii)  a student's or a student's family's home or physical address; (iv)  a student's email address or other online contact information; (v)  a student's telephone number; (vi)  a student's social security number; (vii)  a student's biometric identifier; (viii)  a student's health or disability data; (ix)  a student's education entity student identification number; (x)  a student's social media user name and password or alias; (xi)  if associated with personally identifiable student data, the student's persistent identifier, including: (A)  a customer number held in a cookie; or (B)  a processor serial number; (xii)  a combination of a student's last name or photograph with other information that together permits a person to contact the student online; (xiii)  information about a student or a student's family that a person collects online and combines with other personally identifiable student data to identify the student; and (xiv)  information that, alone or in combination, is linked or linkable to a specific student that would allow a reasonable person in the school community, who does not have personal knowledge of the relevant circumstances, to identify the student with reasonable certainty. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State privacy officer: means the state privacy officer described in Section 67-3-13. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Student: means an individual enrolled in an institution. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Student data: means information about a student at the individual student level. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Third-party contractor: means a person who: (a)  is not an institution or an employee of an institution; and (b)  pursuant to a contract with an education entity, collects or receives student data in order to provide a product or service, as described in the contract, if the product or service is not related to school photography, yearbooks, graduation announcements, or a similar product or service. See Utah Code 53B-28-501 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5