Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA)

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is a federal law that aims to protect the privacy and personally identifiable information of children. The law imposes requirements on operators of websites or online services directed at children under the age of 13, including:

• the provision of notice on the website or online service of what information is collected from children, how that information is used, and disclosure practices;
• the need to obtain verifiable parental consent before any collection, use, and/or disclosure of personal information from children;
• the provision of a reasonable means for a parent to review the personal information collected from a child and to refuse to permit its further use or maintenance;
• a requirement not to condition a child’s participation in a game, the offering of a prize, or another activity on the child disclosing more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in such activity; and
• the establishment and maintenance of reasonable procedures to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of personal information collected from children.