Safety

Built for kids, so the safe setting is the default one.

Sportsaro is used by children, so the question is not whether we have a safety policy — it is what actually runs when a photo gets posted at nine at night and nobody is watching. Here is what runs.

Every photo, video, and message is screened automatically

When anything is uploaded — a post photo, a story, a video, a direct message — it is scanned before it settles. Images and video frames go through an image model; text goes through a tiered wordlist in English and Spanish that folds accents, so the obvious workarounds do not work. Anything the scanner blocks is hidden immediately and raised to a human queue. Anything it is unsure about is flagged rather than allowed through.

Video is checked at several points through the clip — frames sampled from the beginning, middle, and end, not just the opening still, because the first second of a clip tells you very little.

Adults hold the accounts, children do not

A child under 13 cannot hold an account here. A parent or guardian holds the account and creates a managed profile for their athlete underneath it. The adult controls what that profile shows, who can see it, and can remove it at any time. A parent who wants their athlete posting from their own device can hand them a sign-in passcode — created by the parent, revocable by the parent, with no email address or password of the child's own.

Messaging and blocking

Messaging happens between connected members, not strangers, and an unrelated adult cannot start a conversation with a minor — the platform refuses it at the database, not just in the buttons. Every message is screened before it lands. Any member can block any other member, and blocks are enforced across feeds, messages, and profiles.

What a child's page shows a stranger

By default, nothing. Profiles, feeds, rosters, and messages are for signed-in members. A team page can show photos a coach has chosen to share — and when a minor appears in one, they are shown as a first name and an initial, never a full name. A parent can also turn on a public athlete page, and it shows exactly the athletic information that parent chose to put on the profile — sport, team, graduation year, bio, awards — with the name masked the same way. Individual highlight links are viewable by whoever holds the link, and all of it is kept out of search engines entirely.

We do not sell your child

No third party buys behavioral data about your child, and we never collect device location — no GPS, no location tracking, no “people near you”. The only place information on Sportsaro is what a member chooses to type in themselves, like a team's town. The platform is paid for by team plans, sponsorship, the marketplace, and advertising. Adverts are marked as adverts. An advertiser picks a sport and a place, and that is the whole of it — they never learn who saw it, and everybody there sees the same sponsors. We do not profile your child, we do not track what they look at, and no advertising network is given their data, because the adverts come out of our own database rather than somebody else's. Whole lines of business are refused here at any price: alcohol, tobacco and vaping, cannabis, gambling and betting, firearms, dating, nightclubs, weight loss and supplements, payday lending and cryptocurrency.

Reporting

Any post, comment, message, or profile can be reported from the ⋯ menu on it, and reports go into the same queue as the automatic flags. Reports involving a child jump the queue.

You can also write to safety@sportsaro.com at any time — including to ask us to remove something about your child, which we will do without asking you to justify it.

What we ask of coaches

Team staff decide what leaves the team board. That power is deliberately narrow: it is one post at a time, it never applies to a child's own posts, and it can be reversed by the athlete's parent or by us. Read the community guidelines for what we expect on the platform.

Last updated 1 September 2026.