(a) This section applies only to a website that is a component used to address Texas essential knowledge and skills as part of a state-adopted product.
(b) A publisher shall monitor, update, and maintain any in-house and third party electronic, web-based, or online products furnished as part of the instructional materials specified in the contract for the period determined by the State Board of Education (SBOE).
(c) If, at any time during the contract period, the commissioner of education determines in a hearing that electronic, web-based, or online instructional materials furnished and supplied under the terms of a contract have faulty manufacturing characteristics or display dated or inferior information that is not in alignment with the Texas essential knowledge and skills that were in place at the time of the materials' original adoption, the instructional materials or information shall be replaced with complying materials or information by the publishers without cost to the state.
(d) Electronic, web-based, or online instructional materials may not be altered in any way that would remove or change content that was used to qualify the product for adoption in the curriculum without prior SBOE approval.
(e) The publisher may not allow advertising of any type to be placed in or associated with the materials.
(f) The publisher may not add any Internet links to the materials without the approval of the commissioner of education, will not redirect any user accessing the web-based or online instructional materials to other Internet or electronic sites that are not directly related to the content, and may not collect any information about the user or computer accessing the materials that would allow determination of personal information, including email addresses, without a fully executed data-sharing agreement between the publisher and the local school district that protects user data and limits its use to permitted educational purposes only.

Source Note: The provisions of this §66.29 adopted to be effective May 5, 2016, 41 TexReg 3137