Youth Safety & Parent Policy
SportCV is designed to help young athletes share their sports journey in a professional, positive, and safer way. For under-18 athletes, parent or legal guardian involvement is central to profile creation, visibility, contact requests, and account control.
Visibility for young athletes. Control for families.
SportCV is built so youth athlete profiles can be represented professionally while keeping parents and legal guardians involved.
Under-18 profiles
Athlete profiles for users under 18 must be created, managed, approved, or supervised by a parent or legal guardian. Parents may help control profile details, visibility, media, and contact preferences.
Children under 13
SportCV does not knowingly allow children under 13 to independently submit personal information. Profiles involving children under 13 must be created and managed by a parent or legal guardian, with any required verifiable parental consent provided where applicable by law.
Parent-managed settings
Parent-managed youth profiles should include controls for public visibility, contact permissions, media display, account updates, profile removal, and safety review requests.
What information can be public?
SportCV profiles are meant to show athletic development, not expose private personal information. Youth profiles should use limited, sports-relevant public information.
- May be public: athlete name, sport, role/position, age or age group, city/region, country, skills, achievements, photos, and highlight video.
- Should not be public: home address, private email, private phone number, school schedule, exact practice location, or other sensitive personal details.
- Location guidance: SportCV should use general location such as city, state/region, and country instead of exact addresses for youth athletes.
- Media guidance: photos and videos should be sports-related, appropriate, and approved by the parent/guardian for under-18 athletes.
Who can request information about under-18 athletes?
SportCV should not make private contact details or exact schedules publicly available for youth athletes. Contact permission and additional information should be requested through SportCV, controlled, reviewable, and appropriate for the athlete’s age.
- Coaches, scouts, clubs, teams, schools, academies, trainers, event organizers, sponsors, and trusted sports connections may request contact when allowed by profile settings.
- Parent/guardian review: contact requests for under-18 athletes should be routed through parent/guardian controls or approval where possible.
- No direct public private details: youth profiles should not publicly display private phone numbers, private emails, home addresses, or exact school/practice schedules.
- Unsafe contact: suspicious, inappropriate, misleading, or abusive contact may be restricted, blocked, reported, or removed.
How contact requests should work
Reporting a profile or message
Users, parents, guardians, coaches, scouts, and visitors should be able to report content or behavior that may be unsafe, false, inappropriate, unauthorized, or harmful.
- Fake or impersonation profile
- Unauthorized youth athlete profile
- Inappropriate photo, video, message, or contact request
- Harassment, bullying, pressure, or unsafe behavior
- False sports claims, misleading identity, or suspicious scouting/recruiting activity
Removing or restricting accounts
SportCV may review reports and take action to protect athletes, parents, and the platform. This may include content removal, contact restrictions, profile hiding, account suspension, or account removal.
- Parent removal requests: parents/legal guardians may request removal or restriction of a youth athlete profile they believe is unauthorized or unsafe.
- Safety review: SportCV may temporarily hide content while reviewing a safety concern.
- Policy violations: accounts that misuse SportCV, misrepresent identity, or contact youth athletes inappropriately may be restricted or removed.