Children’s safety is our first priority
At Mini Navigators, protecting children’s identity and safety is priority #1. Every decision we make about photos and profiles starts here.
Who may post a photo showing a child
The rule depends on who is posting, because it depends on who is in a position to ask a family’s permission.
- Parents and visitors: never. If you upload a photo of a place, no child’s face may be recognisable in it. Someone visiting a playground cannot consent on behalf of another family’s child, so we do not accept those photos at all. Every one is checked by a person before it could go live.
- Businesses: only with permission. A venue may show children enjoying its own facilities, but only where a parent or guardian has agreed to it. Each business confirms that permission before uploading.
- Official sources. Some listing photos come from city, county and park authority websites, where the public body has already published them itself.
How photos work
- Parents can suggest photos of a place. Each one is manually reviewed and approved before it goes live.
- When a business claims its listing, community-submitted photos are removed and the business manages its own photos.
- Businesses confirm they hold a parent or guardian’s permission for any child whose face can be recognised.
Ask us to take a photo down
If your child appears in a photo on this site and you would rather they did not, tell us and we will remove it. You do not need to give a reason, and we will not ask you to prove anything first.
We keep as little about your child as possible
In your family profile we store only a single first name or nickname for each child, never last names, middle names, or other identifying details. This is deliberate: it means nothing we store can identify a specific child.
Report a concern
If you ever see a photo or listing that raises a child-safety concern, email us at mininavigators@gmail.com and we will act quickly.