Draft principles

Privacy should be simple enough for a child to understand.

This page is a plain-language design draft for the project. A formal privacy policy should be completed after the final hosting, submission, analytics and moderation systems are chosen.

We ask for less.

Only collect information that is necessary to review, publish and manage a contribution.

Adults manage youth submissions.

Youth do not need their own public account or email address to participate.

We do not sell personal data.

Participation should not depend on behavioral advertising or commercial profiling.

Public details stay broad.

For minors, use a display name, age band and country/region rather than identifying details.

People can ask for removal.

Parents/guardians and adult contributors should be able to request deletion or correction.

Third parties are limited.

Embeds, analytics, forms and video tools should be reviewed for child privacy before use.