Child Safety Policy

1. Our commitment

Thurgood Industries, Inc. is committed to providing a safe environment for all users, with particular care for experiences that may be viewed or used by minors.

We design safety practices around prevention, appropriate access, moderation, reporting, investigation, escalation, and cooperation with lawful child-protection processes.

2. Career Discovery and minors

Public Career Discovery can be used to explore careers, capabilities, evidence, training pathways, and participating programs without creating an account.

Public discovery experiences should not require a child to disclose personal contact information simply to explore career content. Where authenticated student experiences are made available through a school, training organization, parent or guardian, or another authorized relationship, additional access controls and privacy requirements apply.

3. Prohibited conduct

The following conduct is prohibited:

• Uploading, requesting, sharing, distributing, or possessing child sexual abuse material through Thurgood.
• Grooming, sexualizing, soliciting, coercing, manipulating, or exploiting a minor.
• Attempting to move a minor into inappropriate private communication or in-person contact.
• Threatening, stalking, harassing, bullying, trafficking, or otherwise endangering a child.
• Using Thurgood to promote, normalize, trivialize, or facilitate child sexual exploitation or abuse.
• Misrepresenting identity, age, affiliation, or authority in order to gain inappropriate access to a minor.

4. Photos, video, evidence, and portfolio content

Thurgood may allow users to submit photos, video, project evidence, and other media. Users must have the right to submit the material and must not upload exploitative, sexual, abusive, or unlawfully obtained content involving minors.

Schools, training organizations, employers, and other authorized users should apply appropriate supervision and consent practices when creating, requesting, or reviewing content involving minors.

5. Communication and professional boundaries

Adults who interact with minors through Thurgood must maintain appropriate professional boundaries. Platform communication may not be used to pursue romantic, sexual, exploitative, coercive, or otherwise inappropriate relationships with minors.

6. Moderation and safety controls

Thurgood may use automated systems, human review, user reports, access controls, account restrictions, media-review processes, and other safeguards to detect and respond to harmful activity.

We may preserve content or account information where reasonably necessary for safety review, legal compliance, or reporting obligations.

7. Report a child-safety concern

If you see content or conduct that may endanger a child, report it immediately. Do not redistribute suspected illegal material in an attempt to document it.

8. How Thurgood may respond

Depending on the circumstances, Thurgood may remove content, limit messaging, suspend access, terminate accounts, preserve records, restrict organizations or users, and report conduct to law enforcement or appropriate child-protection authorities.

Confirmed or apparent child sexual abuse material will be handled in accordance with applicable reporting obligations.

9. Legal compliance

Thurgood seeks to comply with applicable child-protection, privacy, safety, and reporting requirements, including requirements that may apply under COPPA, federal child-protection law, state law, platform child-safety standards, and mandatory reporting regimes.

Where required, reports may be made to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), law enforcement, or other appropriate authorities.