About Hoops

Children's Online Protection Privacy Act Policy

This site is owned and operated by HOOPS Basketball Academy LLC ("HOOPS"). Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At HOOPS, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

In order to comply with the Children's Online Protection Privacy Act, effective April 21 2000, HOOPS has a policy on how we deal with information relating to minors.

HOOPS has a diverse user base, with many viewers aged under 13. We may ask for your email address without prior consent from your parents under the following circumstances:

  • In order to allow one-time communication with a person, after which time the email address will be deleted.
  • To protect your safety while participating in the site.
  • To protect the security of and/or limit the liability of the site or in response to law enforcement request.

Before asking for any other information, or asking for your email address for any other reason, we ask that you have confirmed permission with your parents. If we are in any doubt over the validity of this permission, it may be confirmed by asking for a:

  • Signed form sent to us via US mail or toll-free fax
  • Telephone confirmation
  • Digital signature

Giving your email address may be essential to contact you for some contests or to communicate between staff and users. However, generally, an email address or any other form of contact information is not needed to access the site. We highly recommend that you do not give away your identity: this may include:

  • Not giving out your name (by using a "screen name", dissimilar to your actual name), email address, address, phone number or any identifiable information in HOOPS Chat or in the comments form. These areas are open to the public and we have no way of verifying the identification of users.
  • Never agreeing to meet anyone you meet via HOOPS or any website suggested by HOOPS without seeking permission from your parents/guardians and being accompanied by a responsible adult.

HOOPS does not gather any information from you via cookies, except a non-identifiable cookie in order to determine your preferences or to greet you by name.

If you are a parent or guardian and wish for any information about your child to be disclosed to you or removed from HOOPS, please contact any member of staff via the Feedback Form.

This policy is intended to protect children while using HOOPS, while still allowing them to participate as much as possible. Any information collected from any person will not be more than is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity as a condition of participation. No information collected will be disclosed to third parties, unless approved by us: if so, this will be clearly mentioned (e.g. partners in competitions, etc.).

This policy applies if you are 13 or under. Any user found to be falsely claiming to be an age that they are not (either older or younger than their real age), if disclosed, may be banned from further participation and your activity may be reported to your ISP or a relevant law authority, who may take further action at their discretion, if they deem it appropriate.