Some students under the age of 13 may be required to obtain parental or guardian consent before they can create or use a Code.org account that leverages a personal login (username & password) or is connected to Google Classroom, Microsoft, or Facebook.

To avoid classroom participation delays caused by waiting for consent - for classes that have any children under 13, we strongly recommend that you create accounts for students using picture passwords or secret words. 

 

Obtaining Consent for Existing Accounts

If an existing account has been identified as needing parental or guardian consent, students will be prompted to supply Code.org with their parent or guardian email via a warning modal when they first login. If you signed up using your own email address on behalf of your child, and indicated as such during sign-up, you may enter your own email in this field.

 

Once a parent or guardian email address has been supplied, parents or guardians will receive one permission request immediately, a reminder email several days later, and a confirmation email once the consent step is completed. Please note that parent or guardian emails will ONLY be used for consent purposes and will never be marketed-to or sold. 

 

Should students not know their parent or guardian's email address, we will persist a warning banner which can be later clicked on to provide this parent/guardian email address once a student has it ready.

 

 

If a student needs to edit or update their supplied parent or guardian email address, they may also do so from their account settings page.

 

 

Teachers may also see a warning banner, if there are students within their sections that require parental or guardian consent to continue using Code.org. 

 

 

 

Obtaining Consent for New Accounts

Students using a personal login may see the following screens upon logging in for the first time. 

 

The first screen will ask students to provide a parent or guardian email from which to obtain consent. The account deletion date specified in the image will be set for 10 days after the first consent email is sent.

 

 

Parents or guardians will receive one permission request immediately, a reminder email several days later, and a confirmation email once the consent step is completed. Please note that parent or guardian emails will ONLY be used for consent purposes and will never be marketed-to or sold. 

 

The next screen will persist until the contacted parent or guardian is able to provide consent. Here the student may resend the consent email, or update the address should a typo have been made at the previous step.

 

 

Below is an example of the consent request email parents or guardians may receive:

 

 

Clicking the blue button will lead parents to this confirmation screen:

 

 

Obtaining Consent for Linked Accounts

Some students may require parental or guardian permission to add a personal username and login to their account, or connect to a new authentication provider (e.g. Facebook, Microsoft, or Google). For these students, a consent modal will appear on their account settings page.

 

 

 

At Code.org we take student privacy extremely seriously. For a full disclosure on our approach to privacy, please visit our privacy policy here.