Youth Racer & Guardian Policy

1. Written for Racing Parents

Grassroots motorsports is a family sport. Quarter midgets, karts, junior dragsters — some of the most sponsorable racers in the country are nine years old, and their racing careers are run entirely by their parents. RaceAlly is built around that reality. This policy explains, in plain English, exactly how a young racer can have a presence on RaceAlly, who controls it (you do), what data we collect (as little as possible, and only from you), and how to erase it (one email).

2. Racers Under 13: Guardian-Managed, Always

A child under 13 never creates a RaceAlly account, never logs in, and never posts, messages, or submits anything to us — ever. There is no “kids’ mode.” Instead, the parent or legal guardian is the sole account holder. You create the profile, you are our only source of information about your racer, and the profile displays only what you elect to publish. Nothing about your child appears on RaceAlly except by your hand.

All communication runs through you. Sponsors, fans, and other users cannot message a young racer, because there is no young racer on the other end — there is a guardian-managed profile that you operate.

3. Verifiable Parental Consent

Before a guardian-managed profile for a racer under 13 goes live, we collect verifiable parental consent at setup, and we record how and when it was given. Your consent at setup covers operating the profile on the Platform. If we ever want to disclose your racer’s information to a third party beyond the service providers that run the Platform, we will ask for your separate consent first — disclosure is never bundled into the setup consent. You may review the information we hold, withdraw consent, and end collection at any time.

4. Racers 13 to 17

A teen racer may use a RaceAlly account only after a parent or legal guardian accepts our Terms of Service on the teen’s behalf, co-signs the agreement, and agrees to be responsible for the teen’s use of the Platform. We record the guardian’s consent with a timestamp and the method used, and we keep that record for the life of the account. The guardian may withdraw consent and close the account at any time.

5. Data Minimization

For any racer under 18, we collect only what is needed to operate the racing profile: the racer’s name or handle, class and series, car or kart number, results, schedule, and the photos and media the guardian chooses to publish — plus the guardian’s own contact and account information. We do not collect a young racer’s precise location, contact details, school, or anything else not needed for the profile, and we never condition participation on providing more data than the activity requires.

6. Retention and One-Email Deletion

Youth profile data is retained only while the guardian-managed profile or guardian-consented account is active. Consent records are kept for the life of the account so we can prove consent existed. When a guardian requests deletion, we delete the racer’s data promptly, with residual copies cleared from routine backups on a rolling basis, targeting 90 days.

Deletion takes one email. Send it to Chase@FarrisFactory.com from the guardian’s address, name the racer, and say “delete.” That is the entire process. No forms, no retention pitch, no friction.

7. No Targeted Advertising on Youth Profiles

We never serve behavioral or targeted advertising on youth profiles, never build advertising profiles of young racers, and never share youth data with ad networks. Sponsorship on RaceAlly is a brand supporting a racer the guardian chose to present — it is not ad tech, and we will not let it become ad tech for kids.

8. Sponsorship Deals Involving Minors

When a sponsor and a young racer’s family connect through RaceAlly, the parent or legal guardian negotiates and executes every agreement on the racer’s behalf. RaceAlly is a venue, not a party to the deal — we are not an agent, manager, or broker for any racer, and we make no representation about any sponsor. Families should review minor-contract and earnings rules in their own state; those obligations rest with the contracting parties.

9. Our COPPA Commitment

This policy is designed to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC’s COPPA Rule, including the amended rule effective April 2026 — covering its strengthened requirements for separate consent before third-party disclosure, written data-retention limits, and information-security safeguards. Where this policy and the law differ, the stricter standard wins. Questions, concerns, or reports of a profile that should not exist: Chase@FarrisFactory.com — we treat these as priority one.