For parents and guardians
What a parent needs to know
A student can look around and pick a stage name. Nothing else happens until you say yes, and permission to publish is given one video at a time.
Help them grow. Don't do it for them. Encourage, help with permissions and deadlines, celebrate progress. The creative work stays theirs.
Draft. This page describes the current design and is not a legal document. Nothing here is final until it has been reviewed.
The founder, an attorney and the privacy lead have to approve this page before the pilot opens. Answers marked “not final” may still change.
- Stage names only A stage name and an avatar are what the site shows. Real names, contacts and addresses live in a separate vault the public site cannot reach.
- Parent consent, per video A student starts an account; a parent unlocks it. Permission to publish is given one video at a time, and it can be withdrawn.
- Every video coach-reviewed A human coach watches the whole thing before anything qualifies, and nothing a student makes goes public without a named person approving it.
Who runs this. The people responsible for 0Skips, named, and how to reach a real one. The FAQ below points at that page, and until it exists this page is not finished.
Parent FAQ
Status: DRAFT. Answers marked [not final] describe the current design and may change before the pilot opens. Nothing on this page is a legal document; the terms and the privacy policy are.
Who runs this?
0Skips is a student music video contest running a pilot in Utah for students 13 and older. The named people responsible for it, and how to contact a real person, are listed on our About page. If that page is not up yet, this page is not ready to publish. [not final — the About page must exist before this FAQ goes live.]
What do you collect about my child?
As little as we can run on.
At signup: your child’s email or sign-in identity, a birth-year band, a stage name they choose, and your email so we can ask for your permission.
While they work: their drafts, lyrics, images, notes about their process, and their answers to the reflection questions in the builder.
If they publish: the YouTube link they submit, and the public counts around it.
We do not ask for a home address unless we need to ship a T-shirt, and we do not ask for college savings account details at signup.
Who can see my child’s work?
- Drafts are private. Only your child, their assigned coach, and 0Skips staff who need to look. Drafts are never public and are never on a public URL.
- Their stage name and avatar are what the site shows. Not their real name, not their school, not their face unless they choose to put it in their own video.
- Nothing student-made becomes public without a named human approving it, and that approval is written into a log that cannot be edited afterward.
- The Artist Support Crew sees progress, not drafts. People your child invites can see their contest stage, milestones, and public numbers. They cannot see private drafts, private messages, consent controls, or anything financial.
- There is no messaging between accounts. No adult can send your child a private message through 0Skips. Encouragement from the Support Crew is one-way, from a fixed set of options, visible to you, and logged.
How are coaches vetted?
Coaches are adults who review student work and write feedback. Before a coach is assigned to any student they are identity-checked, background-screened, and trained on our feedback rubric and our safety rules. [not final — the exact screening standard and vendor are being confirmed.]
Three things are true regardless of who the coach is:
- A coach never has a private channel to your child. Feedback goes through 0Skips, is released to your child and to you at the same time, and is stored.
- A coach is never assigned the same student twice across a season.
- You can see every piece of feedback that was released, in Coach’s Notes.
How do I delete everything?
From your Roadie Leader account: Delete my child’s account and work. You can also email us and we will do it.
When you do: we remove the account, the profile, the drafts, the uploads, and the entries from the live systems within a stated number of days, and from backups on the backup rotation. Anything already published on your own YouTube channel is yours to delete — we cannot reach it, because it was never ours.
Two things survive deletion, and we would rather tell you now: records we are legally required to keep, such as payment records if money moved, and entries in the safety and audit logs, which are kept without personal details. [not final — retention periods must be set by counsel.]
How do prizes and the $200 boosts reach a college savings account?
Short version: money goes toward your child’s education savings, not to your child.
Direct support. If your child has an eligible college savings account (a 529 plan) set up, supporters can contribute to it directly. That money never passes through 0Skips.
The $200 boost. For each $200 boost 0Skips adds, your child needs $500 in qualifying contributions from other people, into their own 529, during the contest period. You upload a statement showing those contributions, we verify it, and the $200 is authorized.
It repeats. Each new $200 needs another new $500. The same $500 cannot be counted twice, but anything above a completed threshold carries forward — $600 verified means one $200 boost earned and $100 already counting toward the next one.
If your child does not have a 529 set up, supporters can give to a shared pool that supports students generally. Contributions to that shared pool do not count toward your child’s own $500 threshold, because they did not go into your child’s account.
Statements and account details live in a separate protected vault that the public site cannot reach at all. [not final — the exact contribution route is being confirmed with counsel and with the plan administrator.]
What does “controlled exposure” mean?
It means your child gets an audience on purpose, in a shape you can see, instead of by accident.
Concretely:
- Their work is private while they are making it.
- It becomes public only after it qualifies, after a named human approves it, and after you and your child both consent — per video, not once for everything.
- They publish on your family’s own YouTube channel, so you hold the off switch.
- They can publish unlisted, which works fully for the contest, if you would rather they not be findable.
- No stranger can contact them through 0Skips. There is no inbox.
- They can withdraw. If they change their mind, tell us and we take the contest page down.
What is a Boost Point, and what is it not?
A Boost Point is a contest engagement point. People earn them by doing verified things: students by writing a real thank-you note to a sponsor or recording a testimonial, everyone by sharing 0Skips content with a real person. A verified receipt from a participating sponsor business earns a recognition badge, never points. Businesses that sponsor at $1,000 or more receive Boost Points as a sponsorship perk.
Boost Points are not:
- Not a way to buy an advantage. Individuals cannot buy them.
- Not part of qualifying. They have nothing to do with whether your child’s video meets the standard or becomes a finalist. Judges decide that, on the rubric, alone.
- Not votes. Voting is a separate system with its own rules.
- Not money. They cannot be cashed out, converted, or transferred for value.
- Not a college savings contribution. That is a third, separate system.
At the live Finale, Boost Points allocated by fans do help decide which of the already-chosen finalists wins, with a weight an administrator sets. That is the one place they affect an outcome, and it happens after judges have already picked the finalists.
What if something goes wrong?
There is a report button on every page that reaches a person, not a form queue. If your child writes something that worries us — about their own safety, or anyone’s — a named adult sees it quickly, not on the ordinary three-day coaching clock, and you are contacted.
If something is wrong
Every page has a way to reach a person, not a form queue. If your student writes something that worries us — about their own safety or anyone else's — a named adult sees it quickly and you are contacted.