Children's Privacy and COPPA Notice

1. Who operates this site

The only operator that collects or maintains personal information through championmvp.com and the "Let's Play Baseball!" game at games.sportsmedia.us is:

Sports Media, Inc.
274 Mount Harvard Ave., Suite 350
Severance, CO 80550
United States
Email: privacy@championmvp.com
Telephone: (970) 394-3339

Parents may contact us with any question about their child's privacy using any of the methods above. Our telephone line is answered by an automated AI assistant; for children's privacy matters we recommend email so that a person handles your request directly.

No other company, including any other company in the dakdan worldwide family of companies, collects or maintains personal information from children through these services.

2. Why this notice exists

COPPA protects the personal information of children under 13. Our books, videos, games, and printables are made for children ages 3 to 8 (videos for ages 3 to 10), and our Site uses child-friendly characters and activities, so we treat our children's content as directed to children.

Our Site is also used by parents, teachers, coaches, librarians, sponsors, and partners. It is a mixed audience site. We comply with COPPA by designing the Site so that:

1. No children's feature collects any personal information, from anyone.
2. Every feature that collects personal information (the contact form, the booking calendar, the parent email list, and checkout) is for adults, and asks the visitor's age before collecting any personal information, in a neutral way that does not suggest the "right" answer.
3. No advertising network, advertising cookie, social media pixel, or third-party analytics tool runs anywhere on the Site.

3. What we collect from children: nothing

On our videos, game, digital books, coloring pages, puzzle pages, and printables:

• No accounts, logins, usernames, passwords, or profiles
• No names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, or screen names
• No photos, videos, or audio recordings of a child. No feature we operate uses a camera or microphone.
• No precise or approximate location requested from anyone
• No leaderboards, score submissions, chat, comments, uploads, messages, or user-generated content of any kind. There is no way for a child to publish anything and no way for anyone to contact a child through our services.
• No advertising, and no third-party tracking

We never condition a child's use of any game, video, or activity on providing any information. There is nothing to provide.

3.1 How we use the information we do process: support for internal operations

Like every website, our hosting provider processes some technical data when any browser, including a child's, loads a page. This includes an IP address, which the COPPA Rule treats as a persistent identifier. We process this data without parental consent only under the "support for the internal operations" exception in 16 C.F.R. § 312.5(c)(7), and only for these specific internal operations:

• Delivering pages, video previews, printables, and game files to the browser
• Maintaining and analyzing the functioning of the Site and game, and diagnosing errors
• Protecting the security and integrity of the Site, the game, and their users, including defending against attacks, abuse, and fraud
• Complying with legal requirements
• If we enable cookieless aggregate site statistics (Vercel Web Analytics), counting page visits in aggregate to keep the Site working well

We do not use this data to contact any individual, to build a profile, for advertising of any kind, for personalization based on past behavior, or for cross-site tracking.

How we make sure persistent identifiers are not used for anything else:

• We do not install any advertising network, ad technology, social media pixel, data broker tag, or third-party analytics cookie anywhere on the Site or in the game, so there is no technical path for an identifier to reach those companies.
• Our hosting provider is bound by its terms of service to process request data to provide hosting services to us.
• Server logs are kept for no more than 30 days and are used only for security, operations, and error diagnosis.
• The only item we store in a browser is a single local storage value recording the visitor's cookie choice. It contains no identifier and is never sent to us or anyone else.
• Before each release of the Site, we review the deployed code to confirm no third-party tracking tag, pixel, or analytics script has been added.

3.2 Embedded YouTube videos

Our animated episodes are hosted on YouTube. On our Site, each episode is shown as a preview image and play button served from our own Site. No connection to YouTube is made until someone presses play. When play is pressed, the video loads from YouTube's privacy-enhanced domain (youtube-nocookie.com), and YouTube's own policies apply to the video player from that point. We do not receive information from YouTube about who watched. Parents who prefer that their child not interact with YouTube's player can simply not press play, or ask us about other ways to view our episodes.

3.3 Our booking calendar and checkout are not children's features

The sponsor booking calendar and Stripe checkout appear only on pages for adults. They are not placed on children's content.

4. If a child sends us information anyway

Children sometimes use a parent's device. If a child under 13 submits personal information through an adult form, emails us, or calls our phone line:

• We will not use it, and we will not add it to any list.
• We will delete it promptly once we learn of it, and in any case within 30 days.
• If the age screen on a form indicates the visitor is under the required age, the form does not submit, and no information is stored.
• If you think your child has sent us information, email privacy@championmvp.com with the subject line "Child Information." We will delete it and confirm to you in writing.

5. Disclosure to third parties

We do not disclose children's personal information to anyone, because we do not collect it.

If we ever introduce a feature that collects personal information from children, we will first give parents direct notice and obtain verifiable parental consent, as 16 C.F.R. §§ 312.4 and 312.5 require. We will obtain a separate verifiable parental consent before disclosing a child's personal information to any third party (unless the disclosure is integral to the feature itself), and we will not require that separate consent as a condition of a child's participation.

6. Parents' rights

Even though we collect nothing from children, parents and guardians have these rights at any time, free of charge:

• Review. Ask whether we hold any personal information relating to your child, and review it.
• Delete. Have us delete any such information.
• Refuse further collection or use. Direct us to stop any further collection or use of your child's information.
• Consent separately to disclosure. If we ever collect a child's information, consent to our collection and use without consenting to disclosure to third parties.

6.1 How to make a request

• Email: privacy@championmvp.com, subject line "Parental Request"
• Mail: Sports Media, Inc., Attn: Privacy, 274 Mount Harvard Ave., Suite 350, Severance, CO 80550
• Phone: (970) 394-3339

Tell us what you would like us to do and give us enough detail to search our records (for example, the email address or phone number that may have been used). Before giving anyone access to information about a child, we take reasonable steps to confirm that the person asking is the child's parent or guardian. We ask only for what we need to verify you, and we delete verification material promptly after verification. A request to delete does not require us to verify more than is reasonable, and we will err toward deletion.

We respond within 30 days. We will never treat you or your child differently for asking.

7. Our data retention policy

We keep personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the specific purpose for which it was collected, and then we delete it. We never keep children's personal information indefinitely. This schedule is published under 16 C.F.R. § 312.10 and matches our written data retention policy.

Category	Purpose	Business need for keeping it	Deletion timeframe
Children's personal information	None; we do not collect it	None	If received by mistake, deleted promptly and within 30 days of discovery
Server request logs (IP address, user agent) processed when any visitor, including a child, loads a page	Internal operations (delivery, security, error diagnosis)	Investigating attacks and failures requires a short recent window	Within 30 days
Cookie choice value in browser local storage	Honoring the cookie choice	Strictly necessary	Remains on the device until browser storage is cleared; never received by us
Cookieless aggregate statistics (if enabled)	Internal operations	Understanding site performance	Aggregate counts only; no individual-level record is kept
Parental request records	Showing we honored the request	Compliance	3 years
Parent identity verification material	Verifying the parent	None after verification	Promptly after verification

When we delete information we use reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of it during deletion. The full retention schedule for adult information is in Section 9 of our Privacy Policy.

8. How we protect information

We maintain a written information security program, as 16 C.F.R. § 312.8 requires, appropriate to our size and the sensitivity of the information involved. Under that program we:

• Designate an employee to coordinate the program
• Identify and assess risks to the confidentiality, security, and integrity of personal information at least once a year
• Design, implement, and maintain safeguards to control those risks
• Regularly test and monitor the safeguards
• Evaluate and update the program at least once a year

Before any service provider handles personal information for us, we take reasonable steps to confirm it can keep that information confidential and secure, and we obtain written assurances that it will.

9. If our practices change

If we ever plan to add a feature that collects personal information from children, such as saved game progress, a leaderboard, or a way to share artwork, we will not launch it until we have updated this notice, given parents direct notice, and obtained verifiable parental consent. We will not apply a material change to information already collected from a child without obtaining new consent.

10. For school and district technology staff

• No student accounts, logins, rosters, or student data are involved in our books, printables, videos, or game.
• We will sign your state's student data privacy agreement, including agreements used under Colorado's Student Data Transparency and Security Act, California SOPIPA, New York Education Law Section 2-d, Connecticut's student data privacy law, and Illinois SOPPA.
• We understand executed agreements may be posted publicly by your district.
• W-9, certificate of insurance, CAGE code (10ZJ4), UEI (EDVWVHRU5RN9), accessibility information, and our privacy documentation are available on request at info@championmvp.com.

11. Concerns

Please contact us first at privacy@championmvp.com with the subject line "COPPA." We want to hear about it and fix it. You may also contact the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint or the Colorado Attorney General at coag.gov.

We review this notice at least once a year and whenever our practices change. Next scheduled review: November 1, 2027.

Champion MVP is a brand of Sports Media, Inc.