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Awesome Golf apps include parental controls to help protect children and adolescents in our digital environment and comply with regulations that require such measures. These controls govern how children can create accounts, what data is stored, and how a parent or guardian can manage or withdraw that permission.

Two regulations currently require Awesome Golf to obtain verifiable parental consent before allowing certain users to create an account:

COPPA (United States) - The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires verifiable parental consent before collecting personal data from children under 13 in the United States.

Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents (Brazil) - Law No. 15,211/2025 extends this protection to all users under 18 in Brazil, requiring parental or guardian consent before any digital service may collect or process their personal data.

The age threshold differs between regions because Brazilian law applies protections to all adolescents, not only young children. Both regulations share the same underlying principle: a parent or guardian must actively confirm that they permit their child to use the service before an account can be created.

When a child enters their date of birth during sign-up, Awesome Golf automatically detects whether consent is required based on their age and declared country. If it is, the sign-up flow pauses and the child is prompted to provide a parent or guardian's email address before proceeding.

The parent receives a consent request and approves it through Awesome Golf Insights. Only once that approval is recorded can the child complete their account creation. This design ensures the parent is in control of the decision before any account data is stored. For step-by-step instructions, see How to Provide Parental Consent.

Granting consent allows the child to create and use a full Awesome Golf account, with their shots, sessions, and leaderboard entries saved under their profile. A parent can review, suspend, or permanently remove this permission at any time from the Parental Settings page in Awesome Golf Insights.

On leaderboards, other users can only see a child's display name, their user-defined country, and their score. A child can opt out of leaderboards entirely, which anonymises their existing scores and stops new entries from being added.

The Declared Age Range API

On devices where the operating system exposes a Declared Age Range API, Awesome Golf uses it as an additional signal alongside the user's self-reported date of birth. If the device is identified as belonging to a child, every user who signs in on that device is treated as a child for that session - even if the person logging in is an adult.

This matters in shared-device households. An adult using a child's device can still play, but their session data will not be saved to their Awesome Golf account or appear on any leaderboards. They are treated as a personalised, local-only guest. This prevents a situation where adult data could bypass child device protections, while still allowing the device to be used freely.

If a parent revokes consent, the child's account is suspended and they will see an Access Denied message on their next login. The account data is held for 30 days, during which access can be restored by the parent. If consent is not reinstated within that window, the account and all associated data are permanently deleted.

The child can still use Awesome Golf as a guest during this period, but no data is recorded for guest play.