2025 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Privacy Notice & Consent Form

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) requires that we gain verifiable consent for your child to participate in the contest. We are asking for your permission to retain your child’s information (first and last name, age, grade level and school; teacher first and last name, phone number, and email address; parent/guardian first and last name, primary phone number, and email address) for the purpose of monitoring the program participation, for allowing contest entries and content submissions, for notifying contest winners, and handing out prizes. If you consent, we may use your child’s name, grade, and location (city, state (if USA) and/or country) to promote the contest.

Dear Parent/Guardian,

Your child is requesting to enter the Science Without Borders® Challenge, a free, international art contest hosted by the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation. This Challenge was created to get students and teachers more involved and interested in ocean conservation through various forms of art.

For the contest, your child will provide information (first and last name, age, grade level and school; teacher first and last name, phone number, and email address; parent/guardian first and last name, primary phone number, and email address) and his/her artwork for the Science Without Borders® Challenge. Since your child is under the age of 13, the information collected will be kept confidential in compliance with COPPA and other similar state and federal laws.

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is the sole owner of all of the information that is collected during the contest.

  • The personal information provided by the child is used for monitoring the program participation, for allowing contest entries and content submissions, for notifying contest winners, and handing out prizes.
  • Only with parent/guardian consent, the child’s name, grade, and location (city, state (if USA) and/or country) may be used to promote the contest. This includes, but is not limited to promotion on social media, websites, etc.
  • The operator will not require a child to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in the contest as a condition of participation.
  • No information will be disclosed to third parties; this means that information will not be shared with any businesses and/or added to any mailing lists.
  • The parent can review the child’s personal information, ask to have it deleted and refuse to allow any further collection or use of the child’s information. Parents/guardians should contact the project coordinator, Amy Heemsoth ([email protected]) with questions and/or concerns.

Additional information about the contest can be found here: www.lof.org/SWBChallenge.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Privacy Consent

In order for your child to participate in the Science Without Borders® Challenge, you must fill out the remainder of this form. Failure to send in this form will disqualify your child from participating in the contest.
Please use the same name that your child registered with. This information can be found on the email that was sent to you.
I also understand that it is important to provide accurate information in this consent form so that the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation may contact me. Parent/Guardian may be contacted regardless of whether their child has won the Science Without Borders® Challenge. The parent/guardian of the winning entries may be contacted about the delivery of the prize.
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