Children’s Privacy Notice

Last updated: May 2026 · Effective: May 1, 2026

This Children’s Privacy Notice describes the specific framework that applies to minors visiting ASK.ME Games. It supplements our Privacy Policy; both should be read together. The notice complies with:

• Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501-6506 — U.S. federal law protecting personal-information collection from children under 13.
• FTC’s COPPA Rule, 16 CFR Part 312.
• GDPR Article 8 — EU framework for children’s consent in information-society services. Member-state implementations vary on the precise age (13-16); we apply 16 by default for EU traffic as the more conservative standard.
• Italian D.Lgs. 196/2003 — the Italian implementation, with consent age 14 for digital services. We apply 16 because the Site reaches multiple EU jurisdictions including those that apply 16.
• UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children’s Code) — ICO guidance for online services likely to be accessed by children.

1. The framework, summarized

• The Site does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (COPPA threshold).
• The Site does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 in EU jurisdictions where the higher GDPR Art. 8 age applies.
• Where ad-unit selection is geographically and audience-appropriate, the Site uses Adsterra’s COPPA-compliant ad inventory that does not perform behavioral targeting on the user.
• We do not require account registration for casual play.
• Parents and legal guardians who become aware that a child has provided personal data through the Site can request prompt deletion.

2. What “personal information” includes for children

Under COPPA, “personal information” from a child includes (without limitation):

• Full name.
• Home or other physical address.
• Email address or other identifier permitting contact.
• Telephone number.
• Social Security Number / national-identifier equivalents.
• Persistent identifier that can be used to recognize the user over time and across services (such as a cookie ID or device identifier) where used for behavioral advertising.
• Photograph, video, or audio file containing the child’s image or voice.
• Geolocation information sufficient to identify a street address.
• Any information about the child or parents that the operator collects from the child and combines with any of the foregoing.

The GDPR’s “personal data” definition is broader and includes any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

3. What we do not knowingly collect from children

We do not knowingly collect any of the categories above from minors under the applicable threshold. Specifically:

• The Site does not require account creation for casual play, so no name / email / etc. is solicited.
• The Site does not include forms, surveys, or in-game prompts directed at children to collect personal information.
• For analytics on traffic identified as potentially under-13 (based on inferred audience signals), we use cookieless or COPPA-compliant analytics configurations that do not create persistent profiles of individual children.
• For advertising on traffic identified as potentially under-13, we use Adsterra’s COPPA-compliant ad inventory that does not perform behavioral targeting.

4. What individual games may collect (operated by developers)

Important scope clarification: ASK.ME hosts games operated by their developers. Some games may have their own data-collection practices — in-game progress saves, high-score systems, optional account features, in-game advertising. These are governed by the developer’s own privacy framework, not by ASK.ME’s notice.

What ASK.ME does:

• We screen games for mandatory data-collection mechanisms during curation (see How We Curate Games); games that require account creation for basic play, social-media login, or invasive data collection are excluded.
• We do not embed games that require children to provide personal information as a condition of play.
• Where individual games have optional data-collection features (e.g., entering a name for the high-score table), the developer’s framework governs.

5. Advertising and children

Display advertising on the Site is delivered by Adsterra. For traffic identified as potentially under-13, we use:

• Adsterra’s COPPA-compliant ad inventory — ad units that do not perform behavioral targeting on the user. The ads shown are contextually selected based on the page content, not based on a profile of the user’s online behavior.
• Reduced cookie placement — the consent management platform applies stricter defaults for traffic in jurisdictions and contexts where children-protection rules apply.

We do not run advertising that targets children directly with behavioral profiles. We do not allow advertisers to target children with profiles based on their online behavior.

6. If a child has provided personal information

If you are a parent or legal guardian and you become aware that your child under 13 (or under 16 in jurisdictions with the higher age) has provided personal information through the Site:

1. Email privacy [at] askme [punto] rest with subject line “COPPA / GDPR Art. 8 deletion request”.
2. Identify the relevant correspondence or interaction (typically: “my child sent an email from [address] on [date]” or similar).
3. We respond within 7 days for COPPA requests; up to 30 days for general GDPR requests (extendable to 60 days for complex requests under GDPR Art. 12(3), with notification).
4. The data is deleted from our records.

We do not require parental verification beyond reasonable assurance that you are the parent / legal guardian and the request relates to your child’s data.

7. Parental rights under COPPA

Under COPPA, parents and legal guardians of children under 13 have the right to:

• Review the personal information ASK.ME has collected from their child (in our case, typically none beyond an email if the child happened to email us).
• Request deletion of personal information collected from their child.
• Refuse to permit further collection or use of personal information.

To exercise these rights: privacy [at] askme [punto] rest.

8. Parental rights under GDPR Art. 8

For children under the applicable age in EU jurisdictions:

• Parental consent is required for processing of personal data based on consent (subject to member-state implementations of the 13-16 range; we apply 16 as conservative).
• Parents have the same data-subject rights as adult subjects (access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection).
• Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority — the Italian Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, the UK ICO, or your national authority.

9. Reporting concerns about children’s content or interactions

If you observe content on the Site that you believe is inappropriate for a children’s audience, or if you become aware of any interaction on the Site that suggests inappropriate contact with minors:

• Email abuse [at] askme [punto] rest with details.
• For urgent concerns about possible exploitation of a minor, also contact appropriate authorities in your jurisdiction (in the U.S., the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s CyberTipline at missingkids.org; in Italy, Polizia Postale at commissariatodips.it).

10. Operator information for COPPA compliance

For COPPA-compliance correspondence:

• Operator: Giovanni Picaro, Publisher of askme.rest
• Email: privacy [at] askme [punto] rest
• Postal address: provided through email on request from counsel or for formal-service purposes

11. Updates

This Children’s Privacy Notice is reviewed at least annually and updated as regulation, industry guidance, or operations evolve.

12. The bottom line for parents

The Site is structured to be safe for children to visit casually: no account required, no data collection beyond what is technically necessary, COPPA-compliant ad inventory where applicable, family-friendly content curation. If you have any concerns — about a specific game, an advertisement that appeared, your child’s interaction with the Site — the contact channels above are direct and responsive.

Parental supervision of a child’s Internet use, including casual gaming sites, is part of the framework. We provide infrastructure that respects children; supervision provides judgment about specific situations. Both matter.

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