Children's privacy policy drafted for services used by kids, parents and caregivers

This service covers legal drafting of the children's privacy policy document for your New Zealand service. That usually includes reviewing how children, parents or caregivers interact with your platform, identifying the main data collection points, and preparing policy wording that reflects those practices. It can also include advice on issues like parental consent language, direct marketing touchpoints and how privacy rights are explained. It does not include technical implementation, security remediation, ongoing representation or tax advice, and any broader privacy project work would be scoped separately.

A separate policy is often worth considering when your service is directed at children, likely to attract younger users, or asks for information that involves a parent or caregiver relationship. Examples include learning tools, games, health-related platforms, community apps and youth memberships. A general privacy policy can miss the practical questions families ask, such as who can give consent, what happens with profile details, and how access or correction requests are handled. A useful version should be based on your real data practices, not just a generic list of privacy clauses, not just the label on the document.

It commonly explains what information is collected from children, how that information is collected, why it is used, whether it is shared with service providers or other third parties, and how parents or caregivers can contact your business about privacy requests. It may also address account creation, age-related notices, marketing communications, moderation or safety reporting features, and how long information is kept. Where appropriate, the wording can be adjusted so it is easier for both adults and younger users to understand, rather than reading like a generic corporate privacy notice.

The drafting usually depends on your actual user journey. We look at whether children can sign up directly, whether a parent creates the account, what forms or in-app prompts collect information, whether photos, messages or health-related details are involved, and whether analytics, advertising tools or third-party integrations are used. If your service includes community features, educational content, rewards, or direct communications with minors, those points can materially change the wording. Privacy wording works best when it is matched to your real collection, use, storage and disclosure practices.

Generic templates can leave gaps where the commercial model, customer journey or risk profile is more specific than the precedent assumes. However, it often stays too general for a child-facing service with real operational complexity. It may not line up with your sign-up flow, parent communications, marketing settings, support processes or the way information moves between your platform and outside providers. That mismatch creates risk because the written policy can say one thing while the service works another way. A tailored document is usually more useful where your platform has age-specific features, family accounts, moderation tools or any process involving consent and communications with caregivers.

Just submit an enquiry via this page or click the 'get started' button on our website to submit an enquiry. After you've submitted an enquiry, one of our legal consultants will review your enquiry within 1 business day and get in touch to get a better idea of exactly what you are looking for.

Then your legal consultant will send through an email with a bit more information about the services you need, along with a fixed fee quote setting out costs, scope of the service and timing. Have a read through it, and if you're happy with the scope, you can accept and sign our engagement letter online - easy!

Once you've formally accepted, we'll connect you with a specialist lawyer and they will work with you to complete your project. They will contact you by email or phone if they need to get in touch.

Sprintlaw works on fixed-fee pricing wherever possible, so you can review the scope and cost before you decide whether to proceed. For the Children's Privacy Policy service, pricing starts from $900.00.

After you enquire, a legal consultant will confirm what is included, the expected timing and whether any extra work is needed before you engage us.

We operate completely online, which means we can help you wherever you are in New Zealand. We have office spaces in Sydney, and in Melbourne, but our use of technology allows our team members to work remotely from around the world. Our legal team are mostly based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. We also have a London office for Sprintlaw UK.

Our legal team is made up of experienced lawyers, who are specialists in various areas of law and hold an Australian legal practising certificate. None of our Sprintlaw lawyers are New Zealand qualified lawyers and they do not currently hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

They provide legal services working remotely from Australia via our 'legal consultancy' model, through which (under section 6 and section 35 of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006) our Australian legal team are permitted to provide legal services to New Zealand businesses provided they do not provide services in certain 'reserved' areas of law. You can read our FAQ page to learn a bit more about our 'legal consultancy' model.

Given the strong similarities between Australian and New Zealand law, and the areas of law in which we practice (being small business and startup law), we do not view the fact that our lawyers have not qualified in New Zealand as having any substantive impact on the quality of our service. We are committed to ensuring that we provide high quality, affordable legal services to all our New Zealand clients.

Our legal team have all trained at leading firms, but have left the traditional corporate law world to join us on our mission to create a new and better way of delivering legal services. They have specialist expertise in technology law, intellectual property law, contract drafting and review, corporate law and commercial law.