RTH POLICIES & PUBLIC USE TERMS
Youth Privacy
Clear public boundaries for privacy, accessibility, youth protection, educational content, responsible innovation, and commerce across the Restarting The Heart ecosystem.
1. Child-facing education, adult-facing data collection
RTH creates Heart Hero stories, activities, educator resources, and other material intended for children and the adults who support them. The public website is designed so children can benefit from content without being required to create an account, submit a health history, upload a photo, disclose a location, or complete a personal wellness profile.
2. Children under 13
RTH does not knowingly request personal information directly from children under 13 through its child-facing public pages. General contact, partnership, purchasing, pilot, and program forms are intended for adults. A parent, legal guardian, educator, or other authorized adult should make inquiries involving a child.
3. No child health or character scoring
RTH public youth programs do not assign a child a 0–100 wellness, mental-health, resilience, readiness, character, or risk score. Participation or completion badges may recognize an activity without rating a child's worth, health, or character.
4. Data we do not ask children to provide
Child-facing pages should not request a child's full name, home address, precise geolocation, phone number, email address, school schedule, medical record, diagnosis, medication list, biometric identifier, photo/video/audio submission, or persistent identifier for behavioral advertising.
5. Parents and guardians
If you believe RTH received personal information directly from a child under 13, contact RTH with enough information to locate the submission. RTH will take reasonable steps to investigate and delete or appropriately isolate information collected inconsistently with this policy, subject to legal preservation requirements.
6. Schools and educators
Schools and educators using public RTH materials remain responsible for their own student-privacy obligations, notices, consents, records, devices, learning-management systems, and local policies. Public RTH resources should not be used to create an unauthorized student health record or behavioral profile.
7. Third parties and advertising
RTH does not intentionally use child-facing RTH content for behaviorally targeted advertising to children. Third-party embeds, trackers, or plug-ins that collect personal information should be disabled or avoided on child-directed experiences unless a documented lawful basis and appropriate parental notice/consent process exists.
8. Retention and security
If information about a child is lawfully collected in a future controlled program, RTH will use data minimization, purpose limitation, reasonable security safeguards, and a defined retention/deletion process appropriate to the program and applicable law.
9. Future interactive youth products
Any future interactive product that knowingly collects personal information from children will require a separate launch review addressing age screening or age assurance, parental notice and verifiable consent where required, service-provider controls, security, retention, deletion, and the current Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA).
Questions about these terms or policies may be sent through the RTH contact page or to superstar@restartingtheheart.com.