Bible quizzing is largely a children's activity, and Cadet is the youngest division in the league. This notice explains, for parents and guardians, exactly what BuzzerReady holds about a child, how long we hold it, and what you can require us to do. It is written to meet the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and it forms part of our Privacy Policy.
Who this notice covers. COPPA protects children under 13. Everything in this notice is what we do for a child under 13. We apply the same practices to every quizzer profile regardless of age, because we would rather not run two systems — so an Intermediate or Experienced quizzer of 14 gets the same protections described here, even where the law does not require them.
1. A child does not sign up. A parent creates the profile.
There is no way for a child to create an account on BuzzerReady. A parent or guardian holds the account and creates a profile for each quizzer. That is deliberate: it means a verifiable adult is behind every child profile from the first moment.
For the same reason we use join codes rather than email invitations. A child needs no email address to be given a seat.
2. How we get your consent, step by step
Before we collect anything about your child, this happens:
- You create the profile from your own account, or a coach invites you by entering your email address. A coach cannot create a profile for your child.
- We show you our direct notice — what we will collect, why, who else sees it, how long we keep it, and that you can review it, delete it, or stop it at any time.
- You give consent by an affirmative action, from the account you hold.
- We email you a confirmation a short time later, to the address on the account, saying that a profile was created for that child and giving you a one-click link to cancel it and delete everything if it was not you.
- We record the consent — the date and time, the version of the notice you were shown, and how you gave it.
Until you have consented, the profile is inactive and collects nothing.
If a coach invited you and you never consent, nothing is ever collected, and the invitation expires.
You can withdraw consent at any time. See section 6.
3. What we hold about a child
- A display name you choose. It does not have to be their real name, and we recommend a first name or a nickname.
- Their division.
- Their practice record — drills run, questions right and wrong, how long answers took, and how far into a question they buzzed.
- Their recording ratings, if they give any — a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on a sung or read-aloud recording. A thumbs-down carries one reason picked from a fixed list of six; there is no box to type in anywhere in this flow, so a rating can never carry your child's words. One rating per recording — a changed mind replaces the old one, and either of you can clear a rating in the app at any time.
- A persistent identifier stored in the browser on the device they practice on, used only to support the internal operations of the service — keeping them signed in, remembering settings, delivering the question bank offline, keeping the app working, and protecting its security. It is never used to build a profile of your child, to track them across other websites, or for advertising, and no one else is permitted to use it.
4. What we never hold about a child
No email address. No login of their own. No date of birth. No age. No home address. No phone number. No photograph. No biometric identifier of any kind — no voiceprint, no faceprint, no fingerprint.
The first two are not a promise we merely keep — our database rejects an email address or a login recorded against a profile marked as a child.
5. What we do not do
- We do not show advertising to children, and we use no advertising or analytics trackers.
- We do not sell, rent, or share a child's information for anyone else's purposes.
- We do not use a child's practice record to build a profile for any purpose beyond showing their progress to the people entitled to see it, and we do not use it to develop, train, or evaluate any artificial intelligence system. The same is true of their recording ratings: a rating is read by a person deciding which recordings to replace, and it never hides, reorders, or changes anything in the app by itself.
- We do not require a child to disclose more than is needed to take part, and we never make extra information the price of a feature.
- There is no chat anywhere in BuzzerReady. Children cannot message each other through this product.
If any of this ever changes, we will tell you and, where the law requires it, ask for your consent again before the change takes effect.
6. Who receives a child's information
Only these providers ever receive it, each under a written agreement to keep it confidential and secure, and none of them may use it for their own purposes:
| Who | What they receive | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | The profile, its practice record, and its recording ratings | It is our database — this is where the information lives |
| Netlify | The IP address of the device, in server logs | It delivers the app, and logs are needed for security and troubleshooting |
| Cloudflare | The IP address of the device, when your child plays verse audio | It stores and delivers the read-aloud and sung Scripture audio |
| Brevo | Your email address — nothing about your child | It delivers the email that confirms you created the profile and gives you a one-click way to undo it. Brevo's servers are in the European Union; your child's name is not in that email, and nothing about your child is stored there |
No one else. Stripe receives payment information from you, not from your child. We will not disclose your child's information to any other third party without asking you first and obtaining your separate consent.
Who can see a child's practice record: the account that owns the profile — you. And, only if you link the profile to a church or team roster and turn the setting on, that team's coach, and separately, that team's quizzers. Both are off unless you turn them on, and you can turn either off at any time. A Household account never shows one family's children to another. There are no public leaderboards for children.
7. How long we keep it
We do not keep a child's information indefinitely, and we delete it on this schedule whether or not you ask us to.
| What | Why we keep it | How long |
|---|---|---|
| An active profile, its practice record, and its recording ratings | To show your child their progress and to produce your reports — the reason it was collected | While your account is open and the profile is in use |
| An inactive profile (revoked seat, or no activity) | So a quizzer who changes church or team does not lose their history | 24 months after the last activity, then deleted. We email you 60 days before, and one click keeps it |
| A profile you ask us to delete | — | Within 30 days |
| Server logs containing a device IP address | Security and troubleshooting | 30 days |
| The record of your consent | The law requires us to be able to show we obtained it | For the life of the profile, then 12 months |
Deletion reaches our backups on their normal expiry cycle, within 90 days.
8. Your rights as a parent, and how to use them
Write to outreach@buzzerready.com or call (770) 483-9454 and we will:
- Show you everything we hold about your child.
- Correct anything that is wrong.
- Delete your child's profile and their practice record. Their recording ratings are deleted with it. You do not have to give a reason, and we will not try to talk you out of it.
- Stop any further collection — you can withdraw consent and close the profile at any time, while keeping your own account if you wish.
- Export your child's practice record so you can keep it.
A single recording rating needs no letter and no waiting. The same control that filed it can clear it — in the app, on the recording — and clearing it removes the rating from our database immediately.
Choosing deletion does not cost you anything else. The rest of your subscription continues, and refusing to allow further collection never means losing access to anything your child can still use.
How we check it is you. Normally we confirm that the request comes from the account holder, using the email address on the account. If you no longer have access to that address, or if a coach's invitation means the account is not in your name, write to us anyway — we will verify you another way rather than refuse you, by telephone or by other means reasonable in the circumstances. We will never disclose a child's information to someone we are not satisfied is that child's parent or guardian.
We respond within 30 days.
9. If we ever find we hold more than this
If we learn we have collected personal information from a child in any way other than through a parent-created profile with your consent, we delete it. If you believe that has happened, tell us at outreach@buzzerready.com and we will act.
10. If you want to complain
You can contact us first — we would rather hear from you. You may also contact the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which enforces COPPA, at ftc.gov/complaint.
Conyers Apostolic Church
1882 Irwin Bridge Rd NE
Conyers, GA 30012
(770) 483-9454
outreach@buzzerready.com