Is MIDAS FERPA compliant?

FERPA (or the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) is a 1974 U.S. federal law protecting the privacy of student education records at schools receiving U.S. Department of Education funds.

It grants parents rights to inspect, review, and amend records, with rights transferring to students at age 18 or upon postsecondary enrollment.

Whilst our MIDAS booking software has found numerous scheduling applications within educational settings, it is neither designed nor intended for the storage of actual student education records.

FERPA compliance is therefore not applicable to the designed intended usage of our MIDAS software.

For this reason, you should not enter student education records into your MIDAS system. If a user chooses to input such records into user-editable fields within MIDAS (for instance, a custom booking field, a client notes field, and so on), this falls outside the intended use of the software and is done at the user's own responsibility and risk.

As MIDAS is not intended to hold student education records, we do not act as a "school official" with legitimate educational interests for the purposes of FERPA, and we do not undertake the contractual obligations that role would entail.