Epic Games updated their privacy policy on April 23, 2026, primarily changing how they refer to and handle data for young players. The policy now uses 'child' instead of 'child user,' clarifies what data is collected from children's accounts, and adds a note that persistent identifiers from children's accounts won't be used for other purposes. These changes appear to strengthen protections for minors by being more precise about data use limitations.
Epic Games has clarified and strengthened how it handles data for children's accounts, explicitly stating that persistent identifiers like IP addresses and device IDs collected from children's accounts cannot be used for other purposes beyond operating those accounts. The policy also removed a previous statement about deleting information after inquiry resolution and replaced it with a technical safeguard commitment, which is a shift in the nature of the protection offered. Parents should review the updated parental controls section and ensure their child's account settings reflect the level of access they want their child to have.
Epic has promised to put technical controls in place so that tracking identifiers collected from children's accounts can't be repurposed for advertising or other uses.
Epic can now use children's account identifiers to protect the platform itself, not just individual users.
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Unlock — $9.99/mo →Parents relying on Epic's explicit promises about how long their contact data and their child's support inquiry data would be retained may find those specific commitments are no longer in the policy. The new restriction on secondary use of children's tracking data is a positive step, but the removal of concrete deletion timelines reduces the specificity of child data protections.
New commitment added that technical and organizational means will be used to prevent persistent identifiers from children's accounts being used for purposes beyond operating those accounts.
Prior explicit promise to delete a child's personal information after a support inquiry is resolved has been removed, creating a retention gap.
Prior statement that a parent's email address is deleted if they don't respond to a consent notice within 14 days has been removed from the policy.
ConductAtlas Policy Archive Entity: Epic Games | Document: Epic Games Privacy Policy | Record: CA-C-000625 Captured: 2026-04-23 06:08:14 UTC URL: https://conductatlas.com/change/2026-04-23-epic-games-epic-games-privacy-policy-625/ Accessed: May 2, 2026
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Epic Games revised its children's privacy practices on April 23, 2026, adding an explicit restriction on the use of persistent identifiers collected from Cabined (children's) Accounts and clarifying the scope of data collected. This touches COPPA (children's data), GDPR Art. 8 (children's consent), and UK GDPR / Age Appropriate Design Code obligations. The removal of the sentence about deleting inquiry-related data and its replacement with a technical safeguard commitment requires attention — the prior explicit deletion obligation no longer appears. Compliance teams with Epic in their vendor stack should verify whether their own children's data disclosures remain consistent with these updated practices.
1. COPPA (15 U.S.C. §§ 6501-6506; 16 C.F.R. Part 312): The addition of an explicit restriction on use of persistent identifiers from children's accounts directly addresses COPPA's prohibition on secondary use of children's data (16 C.F.R. § 31
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