Playerscores.com provides a safe, fun, personalized,
and informative online community for connecting players,
coaches and families to the sports they love. To uphold
this community, Playerscores.com is committed to safeguarding
our users' privacy, especially the privacy of our child
users. (For the purposes of this policy a child is a person
12 years of age or younger).
While Playerscores.com uses its own measures to protect
the privacy of its child users, we are also compliant
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, otherwise
known as COPPA. We have posted the Playerscores.com Children's
privacy policy to help both children and parents understand
how a child's personal information will be treated as
that child uses and enjoys the Playerscores.com Web site.
This policy may be modified from time to time to better
address your concerns or to reflect new changes in online
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Whether playing, shopping, studying or just surfing,
today's kids are taking advantage of all that the Web
has to offer. But when it comes to their personal information
online, who's in charge? In an effort to put parents in
the driver's seat, the Federal Trade Commission has established
new rules for Website operators to make sure that kids'
privacy is protected while they're online. These rules,
which went into effect on April 21, 2000, are part of
the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
The law requires that Website operators post comprehensive
privacy policies on their sites, notify parents about
their information practices, and obtain parental consent
before collecting any personal information from children
under the age of 13 or allowing kids under 13 to publicly
post personal information such as on web pages, bulletin
boards or chat rooms without their parent's consent. For
kids, this means that they will not have free reign of
all that the Web has to offer, unless their parent provides
consent.
Basically, the law was enacted not to restrict Web operators
from providing services and capturing useful data, but
to restrict kids from releasing information about themselves
that could allow a stranger to contact them.
For more detailed information on COPPA, please
visit:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/kidsprivacy.htm
Playerscores.com also recommends that you share our brief Information
for Kids! bulletin with your children so they understand how to
be safe on the Internet and why we are asking for parental permission
in certain instances.
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Information FOR KIDS!
We're so happy to have you as a member of our community and we
want you to participate in all of our online activities. We only
ask that you "be smart" while you're having fun. Of course,
we know you're always smart!
Just a reminder, "being smart" on the Internet means
that you should never give out your personal information like your
last name, addresses, phone numbers in a chat room, a bulletin board
or even your own web site. A stranger could use that information
to try to track you down and that's not safe. You know that you
should be careful with strangers in person, and you should be on
the Internet too!
We're trying to "be smart" too. That's why we're now
asking that you get your parent's permission to post anything on
our web site. The process is simple. So go get your parent's permission
and hurry back to play at Playerscores!
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