Your family's information stays your family's.

When you register, we ask for the minimum needed to verify you are a DC resident and to enroll your household in a program. Concretely: your name, your address, an email, an optional phone, the names and dates of birth of each household member you register, any accommodations you ask us to plan for, and your income tier if you opt into reduced pricing.

When you pay, Stripe handles your card data. DPR never sees the card number; we receive a payment intent identifier and a receipt URL.

When you verify your ID through Stripe Identity, Stripe processes the document and returns a yes-or-no answer. DPR does not store the image of your driver's license or ID.

DC law requires residency verification for resident-rate pricing and for the lottery. Reduced-rate pricing relies on a self-reported income tier that may be verified at registration if a program requires it. Names and dates of birth let us match your child to an age-appropriate program and to a sibling link in the lottery.

Your household record is visible to you, to DPR staff at the centers where you have registered, to your assigned director, and to system administrators for the purposes of supporting your registration and responding to incidents. Every staff or administrator view of your record is recorded in our append-only audit log.

Registration records persist for seven years to satisfy DC retention rules for program rosters. Payment records follow the same window. Anything you ask us to delete that is not subject to a legal hold we remove within 30 days and confirm by email.

You can ask for a copy of everything we hold about your household, ask us to correct anything that is wrong, and ask us to delete your record unless a legal hold applies. Requests usually come back within ten business days.

Email privacy@dpr.dc.gov or visit any rec center and ask the front desk to file a privacy request on your behalf.