Parent & Guardian Guide

What Leadly is

Leadly is a free platform where teens, students, and young adults find local jobs — babysitting, dog walking, yard work, tutoring, part-time roles — posted by people and businesses nearby. Leadly is the venue, not the employer: work arrangements, including pay, are made directly between your teen and the person hiring. Payment never flows through Leadly, and applying is always free.

Our age policy — and your role in it

Accounts require a minimum age of 13, and users under 18 need a parent or guardian's permission. We're direct about this: Leadly does not verify ages or parental permission. When your teen applies to a job, they confirm they've told a parent or guardian about it and where they'd be going — but that's their attestation, not a control. The supervision that matters is yours.

What your teen shares

Publicly on a job application or listing: a display name and an approximate neighborhood — never an exact address, email, or phone number. Contact happens in in-app messages, private between the two people. Applications include an age range (like "Under 16") so posters know they're talking to a minor. Profile photos, if uploaded, are publicly accessible images. The Privacy Policy covers everything collected.

The protections — and their limits

Job categories unsafe for minors are blocked for all users (alcohol, cannabis, tobacco and vapes, adult content, weapons, gambling, driving-only work, overnight unsupervised work, and hazardous labor). Posts are screened before publishing, community reports hide a post after 3 reports, messages are checked for scam patterns, and human moderators can remove content and ban accounts.

The limits matter just as much: employers are NOT identity-verified or background-checked, screening is automated and imperfect, and nothing on a platform can supervise an in-person meeting. Treat every new employer as a stranger until you've checked them out yourself.

What we recommend you do

• Ask to see any job before your teen applies, and look at the poster's messages together.

• Meet or speak to the employer before the first job, and go along (or have another trusted adult go) to a first meeting — public place, daytime.

• Know where the job is, when it starts and ends, and agree on check-in times.

• Teach the two scam rules: real jobs never ask you to pay anything, and never share bank details or ID numbers. The Scam Prevention Guide has the full list.

• If anything feels wrong, your teen can decline, leave, and report — and should tell you.

Your rights as a parent or guardian

Email [email protected] to ask what information we hold about your teen, have it corrected or deleted, or close their account. Leadly is not for children under 13 — if you believe a child under 13 has an account, tell us and we'll delete it. For emergencies, call 911 first, then report to us and we'll prioritize it.