Child-safety policy

Our commitment

Protecting children is non-negotiable. The World Tech Olympiad is built for school students, and child safety shapes every decision we make about product, data, and operations. This policy states our posture plainly.

Parental consent and control

A child never registers alone. Every participant account is created and managed by a verified parent or guardian, or by a participating school acting under its own consent and safeguarding duties. Parents can review, correct, or delete their child's data at any time.

Data minimisation

We collect the least information needed to run the olympiad. We do not show behavioural advertising to children, we do not build advertising profiles, and we never sell children's data.

Regulatory alignment

Our practices are designed to meet the leading child-data regimes, including:

• India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP), including verifiable parental consent for children.
• The GDPR's provisions for children (GDPR-K), including age-appropriate design.
• The US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

A safe environment

The platform has no open chat or public messaging between children. Content is age-appropriate and reviewed. Rankings and any public recognition are opt-in and privacy-safe, showing only what a parent or school has approved.

People and partners

Access to children's data is limited to trained staff on a need-to-know basis. Partners and service providers are bound by contracts that require equivalent safeguards.

Parent and school responsibilities

Safety is a shared responsibility. Account Holders are responsible for supervising the child's participation in a manner appropriate to their age, for keeping account credentials secure, for who uses the account, and for the device, connection, and environment the child uses. Schools and organisations are responsible for obtaining and maintaining verifiable parental or guardian consent for every child they enrol, and for their own safeguarding duties.

The limits of our role

We work hard to provide a safe environment, but the Service is not a substitute for parental supervision, and no online safeguard is perfect. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and without limiting any right that cannot be waived, we are not responsible for a child's own conduct, for the conduct of an Account Holder or any third party, or for misuse of an account or device outside our reasonable control. This policy forms part of, and is subject to, our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Reporting a concern

If you ever have a safety concern about a child on our platform, contact our safety team immediately using the address below. We treat every report seriously and act quickly.