Your child’s information, in plain language

Prospects by Sports Illustrated (“PSI”, “we”) operates youth ice-hockey showcases and tournaments, including the All-Star Challenge. We are responsible for the information collected through this website and through the nomination form on it.

Questions, corrections and deletion requests go to privacy@sportsillustratedprospects.com and are answered by a person.

The nomination form must be completed by the player’s parent or legal guardian. It asks for information about a minor, and we rely on the submitting adult’s consent to collect and use it. Coaches, scouts, teammates and family friends should not submit on a family’s behalf — ask the parent to submit, and name the coach on the form instead.

We do not knowingly collect information directly from children. The player never signs up, never creates an account, and is never contacted by us independently of their parent or guardian.

Everything below comes from the form, and nothing on it is collected for a purpose other than the one stated.

Parent or guardian: first and last name, email address, mobile number

To confirm who submitted the nomination, tell you the outcome, and send the registration invitation if the player is selected.

Player: first and last name, date of birth, gender, position, current level

To review the nomination and, if selected, place the player in the correct age division and squad.

Team context: current club, current team, head coach name and email, region

To understand the standard a player is playing at, avoid duplicate nominations, and — where relevant — contact the coach about their team.

Optional notes: why the player should be considered, how you heard about us

To help the selection review, and to understand which channels reach families.

Consent choices: privacy acknowledgement, email opt-in, SMS opt-in

To record what you agreed to, and when.

Technical and referral data: the page you arrived on, the site or advert that referred you, campaign tags in the link, general device type

To measure which channels bring families to the event. This is measurement data, not profiling — we do not use it to build advertising profiles of children.

Youth hockey age divisions in both Hockey Canada and USA Hockey run on a January 1 – December 31 birth-year basis. A player’s date of birth is what puts them in the right division, against the right players, on the right squad. Without it we cannot place a player at all.

Internally, access to full dates of birth is restricted to the staff who run selection, divisions and event registration, and it is excluded from routine exports and reports by default.

We share the minimum, with a specific reason each time.

• EventConnect, our registration and payment provider, receives the details needed to register a selected player. Registration and payment are handled on their platform under their own privacy terms.
• Our email and SMS providers receive the contact details needed to deliver the messages you opted into.
• Event partners such as officials, insurers and sanctioning bodies receive only what a specific event genuinely requires, such as a roster and age division.
• Nobody else. We do not sell information, we do not rent lists, and we do not pass a family’s details to a third party for their own marketing.

Email and SMS opt-ins are separate from the nomination itself. You can nominate a player without agreeing to receive marketing, and declining does not affect whether the player is selected. We record which boxes you ticked and when.

• Every marketing email carries a one-click unsubscribe link, which takes effect immediately.
• Reply STOP to any SMS to end text messages.
• Email privacy@sportsillustratedprospects.com to withdraw consent, correct a detail, ask for a copy of what we hold, or ask us to delete the nomination entirely.

Withdrawing marketing consent does not stop the messages a registered family needs — schedules, venue details, safety notices — because those are part of running the event rather than marketing it.

• A nomination that does not lead to selection is kept for up to 24 months, so a family who nominates again is not asked to start over and so we can tell repeat nominations apart.
• A nomination that leads to participation becomes part of the player's event history and is kept for as long as we run the event, because returning All-Star recognition depends on knowing who played and when.
• Records we are required to keep for insurance, sanctioning or accounting are kept for the period those obligations require.
• A deletion request is honoured across all of the above except where a record must be retained by law, and we tell you if that applies.

Information is stored in access-controlled systems, restricted to the staff who need it, and protected in transit. Public pages on this site read from a deliberately narrow, read-only path that cannot reach parent contact details or a player’s date of birth — the public site is built so that it cannot show what it should not show.

If we change how we use nomination information, we update this page and the date at the top. If a change is significant and affects information you have already given us, we contact the parent or guardian who submitted it.