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This provision operationalizes EA's compliance framework with jurisdictional children's privacy regulations by establishing consent acquisition and feature restriction mechanisms. The clause creates distinct data handling pathways based on age verification and parental authorization status.
For accounts identified as child accounts, the terms authorize EA to collect personal information only upon parental consent, and require EA to restrict identifying information sharing features unless consent has been provided. Parents may create child EA Accounts and authorize specific data collection and feature access through consent mechanisms.
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"When players identify themselves as being children under the minimum age of digital consent guidelines set by the law of individual countries or territories, we will: (1) obtain consent from parents for the use of their children's personal information, when required by applicable law. For example, we allow parents to create a child EA Account on certain Services, and with parental consent EA will collect and use certain children's personal information to manage a child EA Account; (2) disable features in certain Services that could allow a child to share information that directly identifies them, unless a parent has provided relevant consent to us or the third-party platform on which their child is playing.— Excerpt from EA's EA Privacy and Cookie Policy
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This provision operationalizes EA's compliance framework with jurisdictional children's privacy regulations by establishing consent acquisition and feature restriction mechanisms. The clause creates distinct data handling pathways based on age verification and parental authorization status.
For accounts identified as child accounts, the terms authorize EA to collect personal information only upon parental consent, and require EA to restrict identifying information sharing features unless consent has been provided. Parents may create child EA Accounts and authorize specific data collection and feature access through consent mechanisms.
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