Play It Safe!

PrepChamps works hard to create a strong community of individuals interested in issues related to athletic achievement and recruiting.  We count on your involvement to keep the site clean and positive, with videos and comments suitable for all users – not just the locker room. Please do your part to make this a site you can be proud of.

Here are a few important guidelines for using PrepChamps in a safe and useful way:

• PrepChamps has been designed to let your teammates, friends and fans learn more about you, along with the teams and sports you are most interested in. Thus, it's expected that you'll share information about yourself like your favorite teams, athletes, movies, or photos.
• However, you should avoid posting any personal information that will put you in jeopardy. Some pieces of information are obvious - for instance you should never post your email, social security number, credit card, or your mother's maiden name! You should also avoid posting any information that would allow someone you don't know from locating you like your home phone number or address.
• Some pieces of information are more subtle. We don't recommend posting any personal information like your IM screenname in public places like comments or discussion boards, even if you have posted that info in your profile, because your profile is more secure and you can control who sees it.
• We recommend posting enough information that allows your friends, teammates, and fans to know who you are and be able to search for you, but not so much that would ever put you in a bad situation. Use common sense, and always ask your parents or people you trust for their advice!

Your Password

With the exception of your parents, never give your password to anyone. If you believe someone might have discovered your password, use the "Forgot your Name or Password?" feature to change your password to something new. And remember, always try to create a password that is easy for you to remember, but very difficult for others to figure out.

Online Friends

Although it can be fun and interesting to communicate with people from other high schools who you encounter on PrepChamps, be cautious of "online" friends that you've never met in person. Unfortunately, they may not be who they say they are. When in doubt, don't become friends with people that you don't know in real life. Doing so could give them additional information about you that you don't want them to have, including access to your profile page, team page, and statistics. As on any site, you should avoid meeting in person people with whom you chat online. Regardless of how much or how well you think you know them, the person may not be who they say they are.

Report and Blocking Members

To become a member of PrepChamps, students, athletes, and coaches must choose that they go to a high school, and validate that they are above thirteen (13) years of age. Although these measures provide a layer of security that most Internet services don't have, it's still not 100% secure. If you come across a member profile that looks suspicious in any way, you should notify us. Never be afraid to report a user for any reason; reporting is anonymous and they will never know who alerted the PrepChamps Team.

PrepChamps works hard to prevent cyberbullying and unwanted content associated with you or your profile. If someone harasses you or others, or does anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, use the "Report Abuse" link to notify the PrepChamps Team.

If you ever feel you're in real danger, you should immediately report the matter to your parents, school officials, or local law enforcement. In addition, you should report the member to the PrepChamps Team.

PrepChamps Reviews Videos Flagged As Inapproiate

When a video (or other content) gets flagged as inappropriate, we review the video to determine whether it violates our Terms of Service—flagged videos are not automatically taken down by the system. If we remove your video after reviewing it, we urge you to take our warning notification seriously. Take a moment to reread our Terms of Service and hopefully you can keep your videos from being removed in the future. If you find other videos on PrepChamps with violations, please flag them so we can review them as well!

Play Clean and Keep It Above the Belt

PrepChamps is a venue for posting videos of legitimate athletic activities, accomplishments and related content. We will cooperate with law enforcement to eliminate child exploitation and other illegal activities. Use common sense. Do not post any content that you wouldn’t show to your coach, teacher or recruiter. PrepChamps is not a general interest site. There are plenty of websites for you to post your parties, pranks, graduation, vacations, musical talents, and other videos. Do not use PrepChamps to post: pornography or sexually explicit content, videos showing dangerous or illegal acts, or graphic or gratuitous violence and injuries.

Respect Copyright

Only upload videos that you made or that you have obtained the rights to use. In other words, don't upload videos you didn't make, or use content in your videos that someone else owns the rights to, such as music, television broadcasts, or videos made by other users, without their permission. Read our Copyright Tips for more information.

Repect other Users

We encourage free dialog on PrepChamps and support your right to express yourself. But PrepChamps is not a forum for any kind of political, social or related subject matter. Any content that demeans individuals or groups because of their gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation or the like will not be tolerated. PrepChamps has a zero tolerance policy for predatory behavior, stalking, threats, harassment, invading privacy, or the revealing of other members' personal information. Anyone caught doing these things may be permanently banned from PrepChamps, and may be subject to further punitive consequences by the police or other proper authorities.

Blow the Whistle!

If you find that any content on the PrepChamps Website violates our Terms of Service, then click "Report Content" under the video you're watching to submit it for review by PrepChamps staff.

Please Take These Rules Seriously

User violations of the Terms of Service or any other PrepChamps policies may result in a warning notification or may result in immediate termination of a violator’s account.  We may also delete all of all your videos – without warning. We are the referee, coach, general manager, and commissioner when it comes to our Terms of Service – so please play clean and keep it in-bounds. If you have an account terminated you will be permanently prohibited from obtaining another account!

Virus Protection

Occasionally people may misuse PrepChamps to promote their business, or to try to get information about you for fraudulent purposes. Don't respond to such messages and be careful about the external links you click on. You should also make sure you have adequate virus and spyware protection installed on your computer so that if you accidentally click on a harmful link, your computer will alert you.

If you see commercial postings on a personal message board or receive any such personal messages, you should also make sure to report these instances to the PrepChamps staff so that we can remove the content and prevent the person who posted it from repeating his action.

In Conclusion

It's important to us that PrepChamps stays an entertaining, fun, inviting, and safe place for all our members. If you have any concerns, questions, or comments, always feel free to contact us. Finally, here are a few well-regarded and popular websites that have additional information about how to stay safe online:

Thanks for reading, and enjoy PrepChamps!