"Parents: Managing Your Child's Profile and Events"
The whole journey for a parent or guardian in order, from adding a child without an email to registering, consenting, paying, check-in day, privacy, delegates, handover and the day your child comes of age.
Applies to: Parents and legal guardians with an adult Hajime account
Your child can compete without an email address or a login of their own. You run everything from your account, and each step below links to the article that goes deeper.
1. Add Your Child
Open My athletes, choose Add my child, enter the child's name, birth date and your relationship, and choose Add child. The child gets a profile under your account and you land on their page. The birth date can't be edited afterwards, so check it first. Full steps, limits and the pages you get for each child are in The Family Area and Adding Your Child.
2. Register Your Child for an Event
On the child's page choose Find a competition, open the event and use the Register button that carries your child's name. Make the registration for the child, not for your own athlete profile, so that the registration, the payment and the badge all sit under the child. The event must accept minors. The child's birth date is already on file, so the form only asks for the speciality and its category. The registration then waits for the organizer to confirm it, and from then on it shows under Registrations on the child's page.
3. Give or Confirm Guardian Consent
A minor can't be checked in until a guardian's consent is confirmed. How you give it depends on who registered the child.
- You registered the child: open the child's page and find the pending consent under Guardian consents. The consent text is next to the I consent button. Tap it and the consent is confirmed.
- A coach or organizer registered the child: you get an email with a confirmation link. Open it, read what you are agreeing to and choose Confirm consent. You don't need an account for this.
Some events ask for more than a tap. If the organizer wants to verify you in person, the app tells you so instead of showing the button, and you show up at the check-in desk. Registering an Underage Athlete explains the three verification levels.
4. Pay
Once the organizer confirms the registration and the event charges a fee, the Payments due card on the child's page shows how many are waiting and takes you to the child's registrations. There, choose Pay now on the event to go to the checkout. The receipt and any later messages about the payment come to you, since the child has no email.
5. Check-in Day
At the desk, the staff check that the registration is confirmed, that guardian consent is confirmed and meets the event's level, that any documents the event requires are on file, that the athlete has an accompanying adult recorded if the event asks for one and, if the event requires payment, that the fee is paid. If something is missing, the desk tells them what, and you can usually fix it on the spot: consent in person, or a document the desk accepts. The child's QR badge is on their page. Designate a Delegate for Your Child's Event covers the case where you can't come yourself.
6. Who Sees Your Child's Name
Results, brackets and live screens show a minor as initials and club. You, the child, the academy's coaches, the event staff and administrators see the full name. As a linked guardian you can widen the audience from the child's profile, under Name in results. Who Can See Your Child's Name in Results lists the options.
7. Designate a Delegate
If a coach or a relative will bring your child, open the child's Registrations, choose Designate a delegate on the event and fill in who it is. The delegate is only for the check-in desk: your consent stays yours. Steps and what the staff can see are in Designate a Delegate for Your Child's Event.
8. Withdraw Consent
You can take your consent back for one event. In the app, open the child's registration and choose Withdraw consent, then confirm. From the email, open the link and choose Withdraw consent there. Either way the child can't be checked in until a guardian consents again, and that new consent has to be given afresh.
If your child is already checked in, the withdrawal doesn't undo the check-in by itself. The organizer sees a banner saying consent was withdrawn and decides what happens next. Call the organizer if you want your child taken off the mat.
9. Give Your Child Their Own Login
When your child is old enough to hold an account, you can hand the profile over without losing registrations or history. You send an invitation, and the child takes over with a six-digit code you give them in person. You stay linked as guardian until they come of age. See Giving Your Child Their Own Login, and Why Hajime Asks for Your Birth Date and a Guardian for the minimum ages.
10. When Your Child Comes of Age
The age of majority depends on the country: 18 in most. On the birthday, your authority ends automatically. Hajime checks once a day, so it can take up to about 30 hours. You and the athlete both get a notice, and your access to the child's registrations, documents and settings stops. The child's page shows only the card to hand over the account, and guardian consent is no longer required on their registrations. Consent records from events held while your child was a minor are kept on file. What Happens to Your Data When You Delete Your Account explains how long data is kept.
Your Data Rights
You can ask for the data Hajime holds about your child and about you as their guardian. See Request Your Data as a Guardian. For a list of everything you can and can't do for a child, see What a Guardian Can and Cannot Do for a Child.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to give consent again for every event? Yes. Consent is recorded per registration.
Can my child's coach give consent for me? No. Only a guardian can, in the app, from the emailed link or in person at the desk.
I can't see my child's page. Your account has to be linked to the child as their guardian. Adding the child yourself links you automatically. If an academy or organizer added the child, confirm from the email they sent you.