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Privacypolicy.
How the academy would handle personal information — including children’s.
Draft · 26 August 2026
Unapproved draft — not in force.
The academy has never published its own privacy policy. Teachable publishes one for the course school, but that covers the platform’s processing, not the academy’s handling of enquiries, waivers, gym attendance or photography.
This matters more than usual here: the academy’s primary participants are children aged 4 to 12. This draft must be completed and approved before any data is collected.
1. Who would be responsible
Howard Elite Basketball Academy, Industry Hoops, 2288 East Main Street, Snellville, Georgia 30078, United States. Legal entity name to be confirmed. Privacy contact to be set — no email address has ever been published.
2. This website
This site has no forms, no accounts, no logins, no analytics scripts and no advertising or tracking pixels. It sets no cookies of its own.
It loads web fonts from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to Google’s servers and Google may log your IP address as part of that request. No other third party receives anything.
3. What would be collected off-site
- Enquiries: name, phone number, and what you asked about — when you contact the gym.
- Participants: a player’s name, age or date of birth, and a guardian’s contact details, in order to place them in the right age block.
- Medical: relevant conditions, allergies and emergency contacts scope to be set.
- Payments: handled by the relevant payment provider. The academy would not store full card numbers.
- Course purchases: collected and processed by Teachable under its own privacy policy.
4. Children’s information
Because the academy trains children from age four, a parent or legal guardian provides all information about a minor and is the point of contact for it.
- Only the minimum needed to coach a child safely would be collected.
- Children’s information would never be sold, rented, or used for advertising.
- Retention period after a child stops attending: to be set.
- Compliance with COPPA and Georgia state requirements: to be reviewed by counsel.
5. Photography and video
The academy’s public reach is built on video, so this needs an explicit rule rather than an assumption.
- A child’s image would only be published with a guardian’s prior written consent.
- Consent would be recorded per participant and withdrawable at any time.
- How the consent is captured and how withdrawal is handled: process to be set.
- Treatment of footage already published: to be set.
6. Who else sees it
Information would be shared only with coaching staff who need it, the payment provider, Teachable for course purchases, and anyone the law requires. It would not be sold or traded.
7. Social platforms
Messaging the academy on Instagram, X, Threads or YouTube means that platform processes your message under its own policy. The academy has no control over that, and cannot make those platforms private.
8. Security
Storage locations, access controls and retention schedules are to be set.
⚠ A live security matter you should know about
The academy’s former domain, hebasketball.org, lapsed and was re-registered by a third
party on 30 July 2026. It now redirects to an overseas gambling site.
Never enter personal details, a child’s details, or payment information on that address, or on
anything it leads to. The academy does not control it and receives nothing submitted there. Its
current domain, hebasketball.net, also serves over plain HTTP with no valid certificate —
so it should not be used to transmit anything sensitive either, until that is fixed.
9. Your choices
You would be able to ask what is held about you or your child, ask for corrections, ask for deletion where there is no legal reason to keep it, and withdraw photography consent at any time.
Request channel and response time: to be set.
10. Retention
Enquiries, participant records, medical forms and consent records would each have a defined retention period. Those periods are to be set.
11. Changes
Once in force, material changes would be published here with a revised date.
12. Approval status
Not in force. Given that this policy concerns children’s data, it should be completed and reviewed by a qualified attorney before the academy collects anything under it.