Junior Prospect

Junior Prospect — Community Guidelines

DRAFT / not legal advice — placeholder only. Review with counsel and your trust-and-safety team before publishing.

Last updated: 2026-06-13

Junior Prospect is a place for students, parents, and organizations to build academic, college-readiness, and student-athlete profiles. Because our community includes minors, safety comes first. These Community Guidelines explain what we expect from everyone and how we enforce it. They are incorporated into our Terms of Service.

1. What we expect from everyone

  • Be honest. Use your real identity and accurate information. Don't misrepresent your age, role, school, organization, or affiliation.
  • Be respectful. Treat others with courtesy. No harassment, bullying, threats, hate speech, or demeaning behavior.
  • Protect privacy. Don't share another person's private information, documents, or images without permission. Remember that profiles are private by default and the Service shows city/state only, never exact addresses — don't try to expose or solicit more.
  • Stay in your lane. Organizations are here to inform and discover, not to make unsolicited personal contact with minors.

2. Protecting minors (the most important rules)

  • No unrestricted adult-to-minor contact. Adults and organizations may not freely message minors. A conversation involving a minor must be approved by the minor's connected, approved parent/guardian before any message is delivered.
  • No circumventing safety controls. Do not attempt to bypass messaging gates, parental approval, visibility settings, or verification — including by moving a minor to an off-platform channel.
  • No solicitation or grooming. Any attempt to privately solicit, lure, isolate, manipulate, or obtain personal contact details from a minor is strictly prohibited and will be reported to authorities where appropriate.
  • No collecting kids' data. Do not scrape, harvest, or compile information about students.
  • No pressure tactics. Do not pressure a student to disclose grades/GPA, make a profile public, share location beyond city/state, or share documents. GPA is optional and hidden by default — respect that.

If you are a minor and someone makes you uncomfortable, tell a parent or trusted adult and use Report/Block immediately.

3. Prohibited content

Do not post, upload, or transmit content that:

  • sexualizes, exploits, or endangers a minor in any way (zero tolerance);
  • is sexually explicit, graphically violent, or gratuitously disturbing;
  • harasses, bullies, threatens, defames, or targets a person or group;
  • promotes hate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristics;
  • reveals private/personal information (yours or others'), including exact addresses, contact details, or another person's documents without consent;
  • is deceptive, fraudulent, or spam, or promotes illegal goods/activities (e.g., drugs, weapons), or self-harm;
  • infringes intellectual-property or privacy rights; or
  • falsely guarantees admission, scholarships, recruiting, or athletic eligibility.

Uploaded academic documents and athlete media are subject to review and may be held or removed. Profiles, posts, and media that violate these Guidelines may be removed without notice.

4. Messaging etiquette

  • Get consent first. If a conversation involves a minor, it stays inactive until a connected parent approves it. Don't try to force or rush approval.
  • Keep it relevant and appropriate. Messages should relate to academics, programs, opportunities, or guidance — never personal/romantic interest in a minor, and never a request to communicate off-platform.
  • No spam or mass outreach that ignores users' privacy settings.
  • Respect blocks. If someone blocks you or a conversation, do not attempt to re-establish contact through another account.

5. For organizations

  • Use the Service to share legitimate, accurate information about your programs.
  • "Saving" a student is for your own shortlist — it does not grant you the right to contact that student. Contact with a minor still requires parental approval.
  • Verification is earned and may be revoked. Never imply that a verified badge is an endorsement, a guarantee, or a promise of any outcome.

6. Reporting & enforcement

How to report

Use the in-app Report and Block tools on a profile, conversation, or piece of content. Reports go to human moderators for review; blocking a conversation stops further messages in that thread. Reporting is confidential — we record the reporter for accountability but act on the substance of the report.

What we may do

Depending on severity and context, we may:

  • review, hold/quarantine, or remove content;
  • issue a warning;
  • limit features (e.g., messaging or visibility);
  • suspend or permanently terminate an account; and/or
  • report serious harms (especially those involving the safety of a minor) to law enforcement or relevant authorities.

Our principles

  • Minor safety overrides everything. When in doubt, we err on the side of protecting children.
  • Defense in depth. Safety is enforced in the app, in our security rules, and in our backend systems — not in any single place.
  • Proportional + consistent. We aim to enforce fairly based on severity, intent, and history, with special weight on harm to minors.
  • Appeals. Where appropriate, you may request review of an enforcement decision. // TODO(product): define the appeals path and SLA.

7. Changes

We may update these Guidelines as the community and risks evolve. Material changes will be communicated through the Service.

This is a DRAFT placeholder and is not legal advice. Review with counsel and your trust-and-safety team before publishing.