# Protected accounts and AI use

Canonical URL: https://platformofgreatness.com/protected-accounts

> POG does not expose machine-readable account profiles for users under 18. Protected accounts stay out of public Athlete pages, structured profile data, and crawler profile indexes.

POG's machine-readable interfaces do not expose account profiles for users under 18. This page describes that behavior. It does not replace the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.

## Protected accounts

POG accounts for users under 18 are protected accounts. This includes parent-controlled accounts for users ages 13 through 17 and younger child accounts supported by POG's guardian architecture.

## What stays unpublished

Protected accounts are not eligible for machine-readable Athlete profiles. POG does not publish canonical Athlete HTML, Markdown profiles, structured profile data, crawler-oriented profile indexes, or sitemap entries for users under 18.

## No override

A parent, guardian, coach, administrator, public profile setting, public team membership, or public statistics setting does not make a protected account machine-readable.

## Sports records

POG may publish limited contextual sports records when the applicable sports-record policy allows them. These may include facts such as a display name, jersey number, position, team, season, or published competition statistic. A public sports record is not a public account profile.

## What sports records omit

Public sports records do not include account identifiers, usernames, profile links, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, guardian relationships, account avatars, or other protected account information.

## Use of protected account data

POG does not permit automated systems to collect, store, profile, train on, fine-tune on, embed, redistribute, sell, or license protected child account data, or to use contextual sports records to reconstruct a protected child account profile.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Can a parent turn on a public web profile for a user under 18?

No. POG does not permit a parent, guardian, or coach to enable machine-readable Athlete publication for a protected account.

### Are public sports records the same as a user profile?

No. A public sports record is competition context. It is not an account profile and must not be used to reconstruct a protected account.

## Related

- [Safety on POG](https://platformofgreatness.com/safety)
- [POG for parents](https://platformofgreatness.com/for/parents)
- [Privacy Policy](https://platformofgreatness.com/privacy-policy)
- [Terms of Use](https://platformofgreatness.com/terms-of-service)