COPPA & Consent

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) protects the privacy of children under 13 in the United States. The Fieldhouse is built so coaches, parents, and clubs can use it without putting children’s data at risk. This page explains exactly what we do and what we ask of parents.

Children don’t sign up directly

Account creation requires you to be 18 or older. Children under 13 cannot create their own accounts on The Fieldhouse. Their profiles are added and managed entirely by their parent or legal guardian.

What a child’s profile contains

• The name the parent enters.
• The child’s date of birth.
• The teams the parent joins them to.
• RSVPs the parent (or, if the child is 13+ and the parent enables it in the future, the child themselves) marks for events on those teams.
• Optional jersey number and position when set by a coach.

What a child’s profile doesn’t contain

• Email address, phone number, or any direct contact information for the child.
• Photos or videos (avatars are optional and supplied by the parent if used).
• Geolocation, device IDs, or behavioral tracking.
• Any data sourced from a school, school information system, or education provider.
• Health records, immunizations, or medical information.
• Grades, transcripts, or anything academic.

Verifiable parental consent

Each time a parent adds a child or joins a child to a team, we capture an explicit consent record. The record includes:

• The parent’s account ID, email, and name.
• The child’s ID and name.
• The team being joined (for team-join consents).
• The exact policy version shown to the parent (currently 2026.04.22).
• Timestamp, IP address, and browser user-agent.

Adult sign-up requires age confirmation by date of birth, password authentication, and access to a real email address.

Parental rights

You can, at any time:

• Review what we have on your child by visiting your Family page.
• Edityour child’s name or date of birth from the same page.
• Remove your child from a teamfrom the team’s roster page, without deleting their profile.
• Delete your child entirely from the Family page. We delete the profile and all RSVPs immediately. We retain the consent records (with a snapshot of the parent and child name at the time of consent) for legal audit, separate from the live profile.
• Withdraw consent for the service overallby deleting your own account, which cascades to remove all of your children’s profiles and RSVPs.

Sharing

Children’s names and (with their parent’s consent) attendance information are visible to coaches and admins on the teams the child has joined, and to other parents on the same team. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose children’s information to third parties for advertising. We do not allow third-party advertising trackers anywhere in the product.

Data security

We use industry-standard practices to secure children’s data, including TLS for all connections, hashed passwords, and tightly scoped access for engineers. Detailed practices are described in our Privacy Policy.

Schools & the school exception

The Fieldhouse is not designed to be used by a school in lieu of parental consent. Even when a school adopts The Fieldhouse for team management, parents must individually sign consent for each child as described above. If you are a school administrator and need a different consent flow, email us.

Contact

For COPPA-related questions or to make a verifiable parental request:

• Email: privacy@thefieldhouse.app
• Operator: Metahuman Network LLC, Oregon, USA

We respond to verifiable parental requests within 10 business days.