I'm Monica, a Las Vegas mom and the founder of PlayPivot. This page explains where our information comes from, how we keep it current, how we decide the order of a list and how to tell us when something is wrong. If any of this stops being true, this page changes with it.
Where the information comes from
- Program websites. Descriptions, ages, prices, schedules and activities come from each program's own website. Where we can, we save the sentence from the program's site that backs up an activity tag, so the tag can be rechecked later.
- Public business listings. Names, addresses, phone numbers, hours and photos come from Google's public business listings.
- Official calendars. Events come from public calendars run by the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, Henderson Libraries, the City of Las Vegas, the City of North Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada State Parks, local museums and a few others. School break dates come from the published Clark County School District (CCSD) calendar.
- Business owners. Any business can claim its listing for free and update its own hours, prices, photos and programs. Hours an owner gives us are marked "Provided by the business".
- Parents. Parents send corrections and write reviews. A person reads every review before it appears.
Some descriptions and guide drafts are written with help from AI writing tools, using only the facts from the sources above. The database will not publish copy that claims PlayPivot checked or approved a program.
How a write-up goes from draft to live
Since October 2026, new listing write-ups go through these steps before anyone sees them:
- Sources and dates. Each fact in the draft is saved with where it came from (usually the program's own website) and the date it was last checked.
- Automatic source check. A script goes back to each source and looks for every fact in it. Any fact it can't find there, and any price, date, age or count it can't trace to a source, is flagged.
- Second review. A separate review pass reads the draft against its sources and flags any sentence the sources don't support.
- Monica's edit. I read the draft with those flags in front of me and fix or cut what isn't supported.
- Final review. A last pass checks the edited draft for compliance (no claims we can't back up, disclosures in place), search basics, how clearly it answers questions for search engines and AI search tools, and whether it is relevant to the page it is on.
- Monica signs off. Nothing goes live until I sign off on it.
New guides and blog posts get the same final review and my sign-off before they publish. Some of the automated steps were added in October 2026, so listings, guides and posts written before then did not all go through every step. We are taking that older copy through the same process a batch at a time, and until then the hours and dates on each page still say when they were last checked.
How listings stay current
- Hours. When hours come from a program's own website or from Google, the hours box on the listing says where they came from and the month they were last checked, for example "From their website, checked Oct 2026." When we recheck hours, we read them from the program's own website, starting with the listings parents open most, and a person reviews each change before it goes live. After 90 days without a new check, that note goes away and the box asks you to call before you go.
- Your reports. If a parent tells us a listing's hours are wrong or that it has closed, the hours box switches to "These hours may be out of date" right away, until a person looks at it.
- Closures. Once a month we ask Google whether every public listing is still open. Anything Google shows as closed goes on a list for a person to look at. Nothing is removed automatically.
- Weekly sweep. Every Monday a sweep looks for dead or parked business websites, possible duplicate listings, and listings missing hours, a photo or a way to reach the business. It never edits a listing. It makes a to-do list for a person.
- Activity tags. Once a month we reread the program websites behind activity tags that are due for a second look. Tags that still match get a new date. Tags that no longer match go to a person.
How the numbers on a page are computed
Counts on guide and town pages, like how many programs there are, how many are free and the most common ages, are computed every night from the listings themselves. Nobody types them in. We round counts down, so "120+" always means at least 120, and we leave out any number smaller than 5.
The "Updated" date on a guide is the later of two dates: the last night its numbers actually changed, and the last time the written guide was edited. A nightly run that changes nothing does not move the date. Blog posts show an updated date only when the post itself was edited.
How Google ratings are shown
We don't store Google star ratings or reviews. On a listing page, Google shows them itself: the Google Maps box draws the place card with its rating, and Google's own reviews panel loads below it as you scroll down. They are always credited to Google, they are not part of how we order lists, and we never put them in page descriptions, written copy or the structured data search engines read from our pages. The stars on our cards come only from PlayPivot parent reviews.
How lists are ordered
Our default order comes from a listing quality score. Half of it is how complete and current the information is: a real address, working contact details, an activity that matches what the program offers, real ages, hours checked in the last six months, prices from the last year, a schedule, a description and a photo. 30 percent comes from PlayPivot parent reviews, how often parents use the listing, and whether the owner has claimed it and answers questions. 20 percent comes from how recently the listing was updated. Closed listings and duplicates sink to the bottom. Google ratings and payments are not part of the score.
Premium listings. A business can pay for Premium. In search results and activity pages, a Premium listing can show above free listings. Whenever it does, its card carries a "Premium listing" label, so you can tell it is a paid placement. Premium never changes the quality score, and it is not a recommendation from me. More on this in how PlayPivot makes money.
Affiliate links
Some guides and posts end with a short list of supplies for that activity. Those links open an Amazon search, and they are affiliate links: if you buy something through one, PlayPivot may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Every list says so, we never show Amazon prices, and the links are marked as sponsored for search engines. The full picture is in how PlayPivot makes money.
What PlayPivot does not do
PlayPivot is a directory, not a safety service. We don't visit programs, look at staff records or licenses, or grade how safe a program is. Please ask each program about credentials, staff screening and safety before you enroll. Our safety page has the questions I would ask.
How to report a correction
Every listing has a "Suggest an edit" button, and the hours box has a "Wrong hours? Tell us" link. Both go straight to a person. You can also use the contact form or email help@playpivot.org. If you own the business, you can claim your listing for free and fix the details yourself from List Your Business.
For special-needs families
I started PlayPivot looking for a dance class where my daughter would be welcome, so this part matters to me. Special-needs support shows on a listing only when the program's own published information says it offers it. If a program says nothing, we say nothing, so a blank never means "no". When a program lists its accommodations, you see them on the listing, next to a button that sends the program your questions about staffing, the sensory environment and pacing.
You can filter search to special-needs friendly programs, and the Las Vegas special-needs guide keeps them in one place. The site itself is built to work with a keyboard, a screen reader and zoom. Our accessibility statement says what works today and what doesn't yet.