You must be at least 13 years old to create an Adobe account; children under 13 can only use Adobe services through schools that have agreed to special education-specific terms.
Parents whose children use Adobe through school should know that the K-12 Additional Terms govern data protection for minors under 13, but children who independently create Adobe accounts must be at least 13, aligning with COPPA's minimum age threshold.
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Compare across platforms →This provision creates compliance obligations for educational institutions deploying Adobe to young students and may not fully protect children's personal data beyond the school deployment context.
1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision directly implicates COPPA (15 U.S.C. §6501 et seq.) and FTC COPPA Rule (16 CFR Part 312), which require verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13. FERPA (20 U.S.C. §1232g) applies to student records for K-12 and higher education deployments. GDPR Art. 8 sets age of digital consent at 13-16 depending on member state. UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code) imposes additional obligations for services likely to be accessed by minors under 18. Enforcement: FTC (COPPA), DOE (FERPA), ICO (UK Children's Code). 2)
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