Privacy Policy
Last updated: March 2025. This policy explains how Kids Sports Finder collects, uses, and protects your information.
Information We Collect
Information You Provide
When you submit a league or coach profile through our forms, we collect the information you voluntarily provide, including organization name, location, contact email, sports offered, website URL, and any optional details like age ranges and descriptions. We use this information solely to maintain and update our directory.
Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, certain information is collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, time spent on pages, and general geographic location (country/region level only). This data is collected in aggregate and is not used to personally identify individual visitors.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- Directory maintenance — To add, update, and verify league and coach listings in our directory.
- Communication — To respond to submissions, corrections, or inquiries you send us.
- Site improvement — To understand how visitors use our site and improve the user experience.
- Advertising — To display relevant advertisements through Google AdSense (see below).
Google AdSense & Advertising
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website and other sites on the internet. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can visit aboutads.info to opt out of third-party vendor cookies for personalized advertising.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies — small text files stored on your device — for the following purposes:
- Essential cookies — Required for basic site functionality and navigation.
- Analytics cookies — Help us understand how visitors interact with our site (page views, traffic sources).
- Advertising cookies — Used by Google AdSense to serve relevant advertisements.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect some site functionality.
Third-Party Links
Our directory contains links to external websites operated by youth sports organizations, governing bodies, and other third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these external sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any website you visit through our directory.
Data Security
We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the information we collect. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Children's Privacy
Kids Sports Finder is a directory resource intended for use by parents and guardians. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If you believe we have inadvertently collected information from a child under 13, please contact us immediately so we can take appropriate action.
Data Retention
League and coach submissions are retained as long as the listing remains active in our directory. If you wish to have a listing removed or your submitted information deleted, please contact us with your request.
Your Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of your information
- Opt out of personalized advertising
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will post the updated policy on this page with a revised "last updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this privacy policy or our data practices, please visit our contact page.