The agreement requires users to be at least 18 years old or the applicable age of majority in their home country. The document states that Bumble monitors for underage use and may terminate, suspend, or require account verification if underage use is suspected.
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This provision establishes an 18-plus age requirement and asserts active monitoring for underage use, which engages COPPA obligations in the US for users under 13 and may also engage state-level minor protection laws. The document does not specify the technical mechanism used for underage monitoring.
Interpretive note: The document asserts monitoring for underage use without specifying the technical mechanism, creating uncertainty about whether the monitoring satisfies the verification standards required under applicable minor protection frameworks.
The updated terms reframe BeePitched from a collaborative pitch-sharing feature to a standalone content generation and distribution tool under user control. Users are now solely responsible for obtaining permissions, ensuring content legality, and distributing completed pitches themselves. Bumble clarifies it does not host or distribute pitches after generation and retains content only briefly (24 hours post-download, 7 days if not completed) for moderation purposes. Bumble reserves the right to review, refuse to generate, remove, or restrict access to any content that violates the terms or community guidelines, and may suspend access to the feature if misuse is identified.
View change record →The updated terms state that Bumble's license to use your uploaded content is now limited to distribution to other app users when they are using the app, rather than the previously stated right to make content available to the general public. This represents a narrowing of the company's stated rights over user content. Additionally, the terms now explicitly disclose five scenarios in which Bumble may request account verification: to prevent fake accounts and fraud, to confirm age compliance in certain jurisdictions, to detect unusual account access, to prevent payment fraud, and to enforce community guidelines. The terms also clarify that uninstalling the app does not delete your account, and you must manually follow account deletion steps to permanently remove it.
View change record →Provision name was updated from 'Age Restriction and Underage User Monitoring' to 'Age Restriction and Underage Monitoring' but content remains identical.
View full change record →The terms prohibit account creation by users under 18 and state that Bumble monitors for underage use, with account termination, suspension, or verification as stated responses to suspected underage access.
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"Before you can use the App, you will need to register for an account ("Account"). In order to create an Account you must: be at least 18 years old or the age of majority to legally enter into a contract under the laws of your home country if that happens to be greater than 18; and be legally permitted to use the App by the laws of your home country. Please note that we monitor for underage use and we will terminate, suspend or ask you to verify your Account if we have reason to believe that you may be underage.Excerpt from Bumble's Terms and Conditions
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: COPPA applies to online services directed to children under 13 or with actual knowledge of under-13 users in the US, and the FTC enforces COPPA.
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This provision establishes an 18-plus age requirement and asserts active monitoring for underage use, which engages COPPA obligations in the US for users under 13 and may also engage state-level minor protection laws. The document does not specify the technical mechanism used for underage monitoring.
The terms prohibit account creation by users under 18 and state that Bumble monitors for underage use, with account termination, suspension, or verification as stated responses to suspected underage access.
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