COPPA Compliance

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule imposes certain requirements on operators of websites or online services directed to children under 13 years of age, and on operators of other websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age.

CompSciComp does not collect or store personally identifiable information (PII) about students that participate in CompSciComp competitions, including children under 13 years of age.

Students access CompSciComp through team-based access codes provided by their teacher. No student names, email addresses, or other identifying information are collected. When a teacher creates an Event, they assign a number of Teams to participate and indicate how many students are on each team, but teams are identified only by pseudonyms (e.g., "Team A", "Team B").

The information we do collect from student activity includes:

• Source code submitted as solutions to Competition Problems
• Submission metadata such as the time a solution was submitted and whether it was correct
• Standard session cookies required for authentication (see our Cookie Policy)

Student source code submissions are deleted within 3 months of the Competition's conclusion. None of this information is personally identifiable.

CompSciComp operates as a "School Official" with a "legitimate educational interest" under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 34 CFR § 99.31(a)(1). Teachers and schools engage CompSciComp to provide a computer science competition service on behalf of the school. CompSciComp uses student data solely for the purpose of providing the Service to the school and does not use student data for any other commercial purpose.

Under the FTC's COPPA guidance, schools may consent to the collection of student information on behalf of parents when the information is used solely for school-authorized educational purposes. Because CompSciComp acts as a School Official and does not collect PII from students, the service operates in compliance with COPPA.

Although CompSciComp does not collect personally identifiable information from students, we respect the rights of parents under COPPA. Parents may contact us at any time at support@compscicomp.com to:

• Review any data associated with their child's team
• Request deletion of their child's source code submissions
• Request that no further data be collected from their child's participation