Minor performer protection
Consent-gated. Never public. By construction.
Open casting boards put a minor’s headshot, credits, and often a direct way to reach them in front of anyone with a browser. That is a structural problem, not a wording one — no setting toggled after the fact fixes a page that went public the instant it was made.
On Performer.Network, a minor’s profile is consent-gated at the data layer. Until a parent or guardian gives explicit, recorded consent, the profile is never public, never listed in a discipline directory, and never indexed by a search engine — the record is simply not served to anyone outside the family. No consent, no profile. The system enforces this by construction, not by a policy a staff member has to remember to apply.
The parent or guardian holds the switch — not the platform, not a director, not the school. Consent can be withdrawn at any moment, and the instant it is, the profile leaves every directory view. Ask us to take a young performer’s profile down entirely and we do: the media comes with it, and none of it is sold or used to advertise to a child.
This is why a school theatre program, a youth choir, or a youth orchestra can build real portfolios for students without gambling their safety on a privacy checkbox. Performer.Network was built for K–12 arts programs from the start, and the consent model was the first thing built — not bolted on afterward.