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COPPA compliance for a health app

Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule. This page applies it to one kind of product (health app), so you get the obligations that are actually yours instead of a summary of the whole statute.

Does it apply to you?

Services directed to children under 13, or knowingly collecting their data.

What a health app typically processes

  • health and wellbeing data, which is sensitive in most jurisdictions
  • explicit consent as the usual lawful basis
  • data shared with practitioners or providers

Each of these is processing you have to disclose. Adding an SDK later adds to this list — which is why a policy written once goes stale.

Documents you need

The intersection of what COPPA requires and what a health app actually does:

  • Privacy policy
  • Terms of service

Rights you must honour

COPPA gives people in the United States (federal) the right to:

  • Access a copy of their data
  • Have their data deleted
  • Withdraw consent at any time

Cookies and trackers

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Primary sources

  • §312.4 — Notice to parents
  • §312.5 — Verifiable parental consent before collection
  • §312.8 — Confidentiality and security of children's data

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COPPA for other kinds of product

Other frameworks for a health app

This page is an engineering summary of publicly available regulatory requirements, generated from LexVibe's framework registry — not legal advice. Every framework links to its official text so you can check it yourself. For decisions about your own compliance posture, consult the primary sources and a lawyer qualified in the relevant jurisdiction.