The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers ("PARCC") is a non-profit consortium of states that have organized themselves to develop new assessment systems that measure student knowledge and skills against a common set of college- and career-ready standards in mathematics and English language arts in a way that covers the full range of those standards, elicits complex student demonstrations or applications of knowledge and skills, as appropriate, and provides an accurate measure of student achievement across the full performance continuum and an accurate measure of student growth over a full academic year or course. This effort is managed by PARCC, Inc., a non-profit organization created by the consortium. In addition, individual states that are members of the consortium obtain services to develop and implement their assessment systems from contractors that are engaged through the consortium, for example, by "piggy-backing" on or joining contracts awarded by a lead state in the consortium, or by awarding their own contracts to these contractors. Personally Identifiable Information ("PII") on students, including information on their performance on the assessments and limited student demographic information, will be provided to these contractors by states and may also be provided to PARCC, Inc. and PARCC, Inc.'s contractors as necessary to develop and implement the assessment systems. This Policy describes: (1) what steps must be taken to protect PII that is accessed by or provided to PARCC Contractors or PARCC, Inc.; (2) how that information is used; (3) with whom PARCC Contractors or PARCC, Inc. shares that information, and (4) the steps PARCC Contractors or PARCC, Inc. take to protect the security of that information. This Policy also describes briefly the responsibility that member state educational agencies have for controlling access to the information maintained by PARCC Contractors or PARCC Inc.