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No Personal Identifiable Information
The QR code on your child’s sticker does not contain their name, age, grade, or photo. It acts only as a digital bridge to their chosen public institution.
A letter to parents, from parents. Before we ever printed a single sticker or launched a single page, we asked the same questions you would ask for your own child: Is this safe? What happens when someone scans it? Who gets my child’s data?
SmartSlaps was built to teach civic ownership, but engineered to protect student privacy, physical safety, and family peace of mind at every step.
As a foundation shaped by our family and guided by our own two children, Ava and Ricky, we do not treat safety as a policy page. We treat it as a promise.
As a foundation built by a family, and advised by our own two children, Ava and Ricky, we understand that your child’s safety is your absolute highest priority. Before we ever printed a single sticker or wrote a single line of code, we asked ourselves the same questions you are asking right now.
We built SmartSlaps to teach kids civic ownership, but we engineered it to ensure total anonymity and physical safety. Below is our ironclad pledge to you.
You have a right to know exactly what happens when a community member points their phone at a SmartSlaps Guardian sticker.
The QR code on your child’s sticker does not contain their name, age, grade, or photo. It acts only as a digital bridge to their chosen public institution.
When a sticker is scanned, the donor is taken to a secure SmartSlaps page that identifies the supported institution, not the child. The student’s identity is fully decoupled from the transaction.
SmartSlaps stickers are high-quality vinyl only. They do not contain RFID chips, GPS trackers, or Bluetooth beacons. The platform does not track a child’s physical location.
We do not collect student email addresses, we do not require student logins, and we will never market third-party products to children.
We want kids to be proud of their communities, but we do not want them acting as salespeople. SmartSlaps is designed for passive, safe engagement.
SmartSlaps eliminates the need for children to knock on strangers’ doors to sell products or ask for support.
Student Ambassadors are taught that they never need to approach anyone. The Guardian sticker is designed to create passive curiosity in safe, supervised environments.
We recommend stickers be placed on laptops, notebooks, or water bottles used in supervised spaces, rather than on the back of a backpack where they could be scanned outside the student’s awareness.
Fundraising should not be a burden on your family’s time or a liability placed on your child.
All transactions happen securely through a donor’s own smartphone. Children do not carry cash, make change, or manage deposit envelopes.
There are no sales quotas, no fundraising punishments, and no pressure if a sticker is never scanned. If the sticker simply reminds a child of their civic duty, it has already done its job.
The traditional fundraising industry often relies on using children as free labor to push products. SmartSlaps relies on empowering students to be anonymous, safe bridges between their schools and their neighbors.
That is our promise.
We know parents do not want vague language when it comes to children, privacy, safety, and money. This page exists to answer the most important questions clearly and directly.
SmartSlaps is built to protect student anonymity, avoid unsafe fundraising practices, and keep kids out of cash handling and active solicitation.
Clear answers. No confusion. No hidden tracking. No pressure on children. That is the standard we built around from the start.
These are the questions we would ask too. So we answered them the same way we would want them answered for our own family.
No. The QR code does not contain your child’s name, grade, age, photo, or personal profile. It functions only as a digital bridge to the institution they selected to support.
No. SmartSlaps stickers are vinyl only. They do not contain GPS, RFID, Bluetooth, or any hidden tracking technology. The platform does not track a child’s physical movements.
No. SmartSlaps is designed for passive engagement, not active solicitation. Students are not expected to knock on doors, approach strangers, or act like salespeople.
No. Transactions happen digitally through a donor’s own smartphone. Children do not carry money, make change, or manage collection envelopes.
No. Participation is voluntary. There are no punishments, quotas, or pressure systems if a sticker is never scanned. The goal is civic connection, not burdening children.
No. We do not collect student email addresses, we do not require student logins, and we do not market third-party products to children.
We recommend placing them on laptops, notebooks, or water bottles used in supervised environments. We discourage placement where a sticker could be scanned outside a student’s awareness.
SmartSlaps exists to help students build civic identity, community connection, and ownership in a way that is safer, more respectful, and more modern than traditional product-based fundraising.
SmartSlaps was built to give families a safer, smarter alternative. We believe students can build civic pride and community ownership without giving up privacy, safety, or dignity.
That is the standard we hold ourselves to.