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PII

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about anyone under the age of 18 is strictly prohibited on this website.

Any User who violates this policy will be banned — period. Additionally, we may report such actions to the appropriate local and/or National council.

What is Personally Identifiable Information?

While there are varying definitions of what officially constitutes Personally Identifiable Information (PII), our definition is pretty straight-forward:

“ Personally Identifiable Information is any information that can be used to identify, contact, or locate you. ”

Factors

The combination of any two (or more) of the following constitutes Personally Identifiable Information on this website:

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Home or work address
  • Information revealing some "other" place where you can be found at a given time
— such as: The fact that you're a member of Troop 1234 could be used with other seemingly unrelated information to find you.
  • Age, birthday, date of birth
  • School or grade
  • Hometown or place of birth
  • Gender
  • Mother's maiden name
  • Zip Code
  • Photographs or images (of course)
  • ....you get the idea.

Combining any of these seemingly harmless facts constitutes Personally Identifiable Information — information that can be used to identify, contact, or locate you.

Example

"Hi! My name is James. I'm 13, a Life Scout, and am the PL of the Goth patrol in Troop 123 at ABC Church, Anytown... WE ROCK!"

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