This provision prohibits use of Amazon services by children under 13, requires parental involvement for users under 18, and states that Amazon does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental consent.
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This clause engages COPPA compliance obligations by asserting that Amazon does not knowingly collect data from children under 13 without consent, and establishes an age restriction requiring parental involvement for minors under 18.
Expanded to restrict users under 18 to supervised use only and added parental consent requirement for children under 13.
View full change record →Under this provision, users under 13 are not permitted to use Amazon services, and users between 13 and 18 must have parental or guardian involvement. The agreement states Amazon does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental consent.
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The Service is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information without your cons...
Our Services are not directed to children under 13. If you learn that anyone younger than 13 has unlawfully provided us with personal data, please contact us at privacy@medium.com.
To access and use the Services, you must be at least the age of majority in the state, province, or territory where you live or at least 18 years of age. If you are under the age of 13, you may not use the Services and you should not be visiting the Sites or using the Services.
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"Amazon Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13. If you are under 18, you may use Amazon Services only with involvement of a parent or guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental consent.— Excerpt from Amazon's Amazon Conditions of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which requires verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13. The FTC enforces COPPA and has brought enforcement actions against platforms that fail to implement adequate age verification or parental consent mechanisms. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High for platform functions that may be accessed by minors, including Amazon Kids and household account features. The statement that Amazon does not 'knowingly' collect data from children under 13 without consent places compliance burden on detection and verification mechanisms. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and UK GDPR and the UK Age Appropriate Design Code impose additional obligations for services likely to be accessed by minors, including default privacy settings and prohibition of certain data practices; these frameworks may apply to Amazon's UK and EU operations independently of this US-facing provision. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Third-party developers and marketplace sellers whose products are marketed to children or families on Amazon's platform should assess whether their own COPPA compliance obligations are engaged and whether Amazon's parental consent mechanisms are adequate for their use case. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should evaluate the adequacy of Amazon's age verification and parental consent mechanisms for COPPA purposes, particularly in the context of Amazon Kids subscriptions and household account features that enable child profiles.
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This clause engages COPPA compliance obligations by asserting that Amazon does not knowingly collect data from children under 13 without consent, and establishes an age restriction requiring parental involvement for minors under 18.
Under this provision, users under 13 are not permitted to use Amazon services, and users between 13 and 18 must have parental or guardian involvement. The agreement states Amazon does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental consent.
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