This show is adult-owned and adult-managed

The Sports Coop is operated by an adult. Cooper and Grayson participate with their parents' permission. An adult handles accounts, messages, sponsorships, money, and publishing; the kids do not manage business communication.

To protect Cooper and Grayson, we do not publish or discuss:

• Their school or daycare names or locations
• Their home address or a live/real-time location
• Their personal phone numbers or private email addresses
• Recurring activities, locations, schedules, or routines

This site and our social accounts do not offer private messaging or community features that would let an adult contact Cooper directly. Comments are moderated, and business or guest inquiries are routed through the contact page to an adult — never to Cooper.

Before any other minor appears on the show, we get written permission from that child's parent or guardian, using the same guest-permission process described in our production documentation (docs/GUEST_PERMISSION_WORKFLOW.md).

Cooper's bold takes and predictions are about sports outcomes and opinions — not medical, financial, or gambling advice, and not fighting instruction. We don't present him as an expert on sports betting, medicine, or finance, and any boxing/MMA content is discussion and reaction, not technique instruction.

Any future sponsorship or paid partnership is reviewed and approved by an adult before it's ever recorded or published. See docs/FUTURE_MONETIZATION.md in our production documentation.

We do not run analytics, and our newsletter signup is not yet active — see the homepage for its current status. If and when we add analytics or an email list, this page will be updated first to explain exactly what's collected and why.

Support is optional and goes through Cash App ($TheSportsCoop). Cash App handles the payment; this site never sees or stores payment details. There is no paid membership, no paid Pick'em entry, and no prize tied to support. Supporters are not shown on the Pick'em leaderboard.

Game Day Central's weekly Pick'em lets visitors pick a winner in a few games and see a leaderboard. It works without an account:

• You get a fun, made-up nickname (like “TurboTiger24”) — generated for you from a fixed list of approved words. There is no place to type your own name anywhere on this site.
• A random code is stored in your browser (not readable by any page script) so we can recognize your picks if you come back. We only ever store a scrambled, one-way version of that code — never the code itself.
• Which team you picked, and when, so we can show whether you got it right.
• We never collect your real name, email, phone number, birthday, age, address, location, school, a photo, or a social media handle — and there's no comment box to type any of that into.
• Picks are kept through the current sports season, then cleared out by an adult. Clearing your browser's cookies gives you a brand-new, disconnected identity at any time.

Our hosting and database providers keep their own ordinary technical logs, the way any website does — we don't use those for anything, and we never use your IP address as part of your Pick'em identity.

When you like or watch a highlight, a random code (like Pick'em's, and just as unreadable by page scripts) lets us count one like per browser and one view per day, so counts can't be inflated by replaying. We store only a scrambled version of that code, which clips it liked or watched, and for how long. No name, email, IP address or location is used. Clearing your cookies starts fresh.

Highlights that show a young athlete use a first name only unless a parent or guardian allowed the full name, never show a school, and are hidden from search engines. Every clip is reviewed by an adult before it appears. To ask for a clip to be taken down, use the contact page.

“Around Sports” clips belong to their publishers and play inside YouTube's (privacy-enhanced mode), TikTok's or Facebook's own embedded player. Those players load only when a clip is on screen, and those companies may set their own cookies under their privacy policies. We don't send them anything about you.

For privacy or safety concerns, email thesportscoopmedia@gmail.com. An adult reviews these messages.