COPPA Privacy Policy

Summary

This template is a COPPA Privacy Policy disclosure notice that operators of online services or mobile applications can provide to their users to address the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This template includes practical guidance, drafting notes, alternate clauses, and optional clauses. For a full listing of data security content that applies to federal government agencies, see Data Security & Privacy for Government Agencies Resource Kit." For a full listing of related data security & privacy content for first-year associates, see First-Year Associate Resource Kit: Data Security and Privacy. For a full listing of related advertising and marketing content, see Advertising and Marketing Resource Kit. The policy uses simple, easy-to-read, casual language to ensure that users, including parents and/or legal guardians of children under age 13, understand the types of personal and Usage Information that the online service or application collects from its users, how such information is used, and whether it is shared with third parties. See COPPA Compliance Checklist to determine whether you must comply with COPPA. If you are not required to comply with COPPA, consider adding the language found in the clause COPPA Disclosure Clause (COPPA Not Applicable) to your existing privacy policy. For a full listing of key content that can be used by in-house counsel to develop, revise, and implement a company's employee and third-party-related policies, see In-House Company Policies Resource Kit. For more information about COPPA, see Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Compliance, COPPA Compliance Checklist, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Video, COPPA’s Parental Consent Exceptions Chart, and Consumer Protection Act Devt II.C.3.b and C.3.c.