Parents

Direct notice to the parent or legal guardian

Before a child under 13 enters account credentials, please review this notice and the full Privacy notice. The operator is:

Collection and use

After signed consent is reviewed, PULSE uses the child’s approved display name, private birth month/year and gender, separate account email/password hash, PULSE ID, game results and derived ratings/history. Guardian contact, signed form, authority review and child linkage support consent and parent controls. Age and gender automatically influence ratings. Render, Cloudflare R2 and Resend provide hosting, encrypted storage/recovery and account notices. No advertising, sale or public child profile is authorized.

Choice and activation

Print or save the blank form, sign the private-account section and, only if wanted, the separate game-participant section. Return a scan through the verified guardian controls. The operator reviews parental authority, signature and information scope; approval creates a single-use child invitation, not an immediate credential account. The child then creates its own login and verifies its email. An unsigned form, unchecked operator review or email verification alone is not sufficient. Refusing the account permission prevents activation. Refusing optional sharing does not prevent private/admin-managed use.

Optional one-time game-participant permission

A guardian may separately sign this optional section during the same account setup. After operator review, the child adds games and the other players verify results like an adult. No parent signature or approval is required for each game. Private-account consent alone does not authorize this disclosure; an existing guardian can provide a one-time update.

Only verified signed-in accounts listed as players in the same reported game may view its display names, teams, played date, format, scores and confirmation/status. This includes pending entries needed for verification. It does not open a public child profile, child roster search, age, gender, email, private account ID or general game/rating history. Every participating minor needs their own current guardian permission. Do not report fabricated games or include unnecessary private details.

Declining this optional sharing leaves the private account and admin-entered results available. A verified guardian can withdraw sharing without closing that private account. Withdrawal blocks future participant access but cannot recall information already viewed/copied. Corrected results require fresh player verification, not another guardian signature. Materially different disclosure needs new notice and applicable consent.

Ongoing parent rights

Through verified guardian controls or the operator, review/export your child’s data, withdraw the account or optional sharing consent, and request deletion. Account withdrawal suspends the child’s access immediately; deletion/redaction can void affected games and recalculate ratings. Another player’s unrelated games are preserved. Guardians do not gain private access to another child from sharing a court.

Retention, removal and recovery

Under-13 account/profile and identifiable game data are removed after 24 calendar months without a successful account login or confirmed recorded play, after a full 30-day notice period. Played dates, not later import dates, count as play. A late warning gives the recipient a full 30 days. Verified guardians may request removal sooner. Uncertain warning delivery never authorizes removal.

Unused consent requests/invitations expire after 14 days. A created child login whose email activation remains uncompleted is removed after 14 days. An under-13-origin account awaiting its adult transition remains subject to inactivity review; after age 18 the notice goes to its verified adult owner, not the former guardian. Signed documents and ended-consent records are removed within 30 days after consent ends or the private account is removed. Verified withdrawal immediately suspends the child account; active-data removal following an ended consent or verified deletion request completes within 30 days. Only minimal non-content security/deletion-status metadata is retained for up to 90 days. These limits are not permission to retain unnecessary personal information.

Encrypted hourly snapshots expire after 30 days under the private snapshots policy; provider deletion is asynchronous. Removal can void/redact affected results and recalculate ratings, while unrelated games remain. A separate encrypted recovery checkpoint prevents an older backup from reopening account access after a protected privacy/security change. A mismatched restore stays closed for operator reconciliation; it is not silently served. Do not call every copy erased while backups remain.