Vendors
Why digital safety matters
EdTech today sits under real scrutiny. Parents expect transparency, educators need reliability, and regulators are paying closer attention to how children’s data is collected and used.
In this environment, vendors who take privacy, safety and responsible design seriously stand out. Those who don’t face reputational risks, regulatory exposure and erosion of trust.
Safer Footprint helps vendors build products that families feel confident using and that centres and schools can adopt without hesitation.
We offer training and advisory services to EdTech vendors. We collaborate to raise the standards of digital safety, privacy, and UX across the EdTech ecosystem.
We provide procurement advice, risk assessments, staff training, and safety reviews to ensure providers meet legal obligations and build trust.
What you can expect from us
Privacy and risk assessments
We assess how your platform stores, processes and shares data, including architecture, access controls, image handling, storage practices, and API behaviours. You receive a clear, actionable roadmap for improvement; not just a list of issues.
Consent, transparency and trust
We review your consent flows, onboarding materials, explanations, and communication touchpoints to ensure parents genuinely understand what they’re opting into and feel confident doing so.
Responsible design and features
We help you design features that support child safety, minimise unnecessary collection, and align with parental expectations. We draw on insights from real families and educators to guide practical, ethical design decisions.
Vendor due diligence support
We prepare vendors for procurement processes by early learning providers and schools, ensuring your platform can withstand privacy questions, technical reviews and policy scrutiny.
Check out our latest resources for vendors
👣 FAQs
Not quite sure what we do, or where to start?
Check out the questions and answers below.
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Children cannot consent, cannot understand risks, and cannot undo data exposures later. Their records are long-lived, sensitive and uniquely impactful. This means systems handling children’s data must meet a higher standard than those built for adults.
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Here in Australia, centres and vendors must comply with the Privacy Act 1988, including the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). It requires that information must only be collected for reasonably necessary purposes, it must only be used and disclosed for that purpose, and reasonable steps must be taken to protect personal information.
For many centres, the vendor is a third-party “processor”, but legal responsibility is shared. Educators must handle data appropriately, and vendors must secure it appropriately. Neither can contract out of these obligations.
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Parents worry about:
where photos and documents are stored
who has access
how long data is kept
whether data is truly deleted
whether their child appears in other children’s portfolios
how breaches are handled.
These concerns are not suspicion. They’re basic, responsible questions about their child’s safety.
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Yes, for operational and legal purposes such as incident reports, attendance, and health alerts. But parents can decline or refine:
photos
visibility settings
sharing with other families
marketing or promotional use
internal training use.
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Immediate, honest communication. Parents expect to know what happened, what data was accessed, who is affected, how risk is being reduced, what steps will prevent recurrence.
Under the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme, families must be notified when there’s a likely risk of serious harm. Images of children almost always meet that threshold.
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Safer Footprint is only just getting started. For now, head to the contact page to get in touch, and we’ll respond to your query within 2 days.