TOA 684 Sports Code of Conduct

Prohibited behavior includes:

• Harassment
• Bullying
• Threats
• Intimidation
• Hate speech
• Discrimination
• Personal attacks
• Sexual harassment
• Stalking
• Repeated unwanted contact
• Abusive or obscene language
• Encouraging violence or harmful behavior
• Retaliation against someone who reports a concern

Athletes must:

• Provide truthful and accurate profile information
• Use their real identity
• Accurately report athletic measurements, statistics and academic information
• Upload only content they own or have permission to use
• Communicate respectfully with coaches, businesses and staff
• Represent themselves, their families, schools and teams professionally
• Follow event, training and facility rules
• Respect teammates, opponents, coaches, officials and other participants
• Avoid misleading claims about offers, rankings, statistics or eligibility

Athletes must not:

• Create false profiles
• Impersonate another athlete
• Falsify grades, statistics, offers or achievements
• Send threatening or inappropriate messages
• Share private coach, athlete or business information
• Attempt to access another user's profile or account
• Use the platform to bully, embarrass or target another person

Parents and guardians must:

• Support athletes in a respectful and constructive manner
• Provide accurate information when assisting with an athlete's profile
• Respect coaches, staff members, businesses and other families
• Follow event and facility rules
• Use only profiles they are authorized to manage
• Protect the athlete's login information and personal information
• Communicate concerns professionally

Parents and guardians must not:

• Contact or harass other athletes
• Access another family's account
• Misrepresent an athlete's identity, age, statistics or academic record
• Pressure coaches or businesses for guarantees
• Create conflict at events, training sessions or online
• Share private information belonging to another person

Coaches, recruiters and scouts must:

• Provide accurate professional and institutional information
• Complete the required verification process
• Use athlete information only for legitimate recruiting or evaluation purposes
• Protect confidential athlete information
• Communicate professionally with athletes and families
• Follow applicable recruiting rules and institutional policies
• Maintain appropriate boundaries when communicating with minors
• Report account misuse or suspicious activity

Coaches, recruiters and scouts must not:

• Impersonate a coach or institution
• Misrepresent employment, authority or recruiting status
• Request inappropriate photos or personal information
• Make false scholarship, roster or recruiting promises
• Share athlete information without authorization
• Use the platform for personal, romantic or sexual communication
• Contact minors in an inappropriate or secretive manner
• Attempt to bypass TOA 684 Sports privacy protections
• Sell or distribute athlete data

Businesses and potential NIL partners must:

• Provide truthful business and contact information
• Clearly identify the company and authorized representative
• Communicate professionally with athletes and families
• Use athlete information only for approved business purposes
• Follow applicable NIL, advertising, consumer-protection and payment rules
• Clearly explain proposed services, compensation and expectations
• Protect private athlete and family information
• Obtain appropriate consent before using an athlete's name, image or likeness

Businesses must not:

• Make false sponsorship promises
• Request money from athletes under misleading circumstances
• Use athlete photos or information without permission
• Contact minors improperly
• Pressure athletes into signing agreements
• Misrepresent the value or terms of a business opportunity
• Sell, share or distribute private user information
• Guarantee scholarships, offers, recruiting exposure or financial outcomes

Users must:

• Maintain one legitimate account unless additional accounts are authorized
• Protect their password and login information
• Notify TOA 684 Sports of suspected unauthorized access
• Use only the profile connected to their account
• Keep contact information reasonably current

Users must not:

• Share login credentials
• Access another person's account
• Attempt to bypass security controls
• Change profile IDs or URLs to view private records
• Scrape, copy or download private user data
• Introduce viruses, malware or harmful code
• Interfere with the operation of the website
• Use automated tools to collect user information
• Attempt to gain administrator access without authorization

Private information may include:

• Email addresses
• Phone numbers
• Addresses
• Birth dates
• Academic records
• Recruiting preferences
• Coach applications
• Business applications
• Payment records
• Administrative notes
• Uploaded documents
• Private photos or videos
• Internal account IDs

Users must not send:

• Threatening messages
• Sexually explicit content
• Repeated unwanted messages
• Fraudulent offers
• Spam
• Hate speech
• Inappropriate requests involving minors
• Requests for passwords or payment credentials
• Misleading recruiting claims
• Harassing or retaliatory messages

Prohibited content includes:

• Nudity or sexually explicit material
• Violent threats
• Hate symbols or discriminatory material
• Copyrighted content used without permission
• False or misleading records
• Private information belonging to another person
• Content intended to embarrass, harass or exploit someone
• Illegal products, services or activities
• Malware or harmful files

• A scholarship
• A roster position
• A college offer
• Admission to a school
• Playing time
• A professional contract
• An NIL agreement
• Financial compensation
• A specific recruiting outcome

Adults must not:

• Request sexually suggestive or inappropriate content
• Arrange secret or unauthorized meetings
• Request that a minor hide communications from a parent or guardian
• Send sexual, romantic or threatening messages
• Request unnecessary private information
• Exploit an athlete financially or emotionally

• Fake athlete profiles
• Fake coach accounts
• Fake institutions
• Fake businesses
• Fraudulent payment activity
• False sponsorship or scholarship offers
• Impersonation
• Falsified documents
• Stolen photos or videos
• Misleading recruiting statistics
• Unauthorized use of another person's identity

Users must not:

• Commit payment fraud
• Abuse chargeback procedures
• Create repeated accounts to avoid payment
• Attempt to access paid content without authorization
• Share paid account access with unauthorized users

Possible actions include:

• Warning
• Content removal
• Temporary account restriction
• Temporary suspension
• Coach-verification suspension
• Business-partnership suspension
• Removal from an event
• Membership-access restriction
• Permanent account removal
• Referral to law enforcement or other appropriate authorities when necessary