Google Pay requires users to be at least 16 years old, with parental or guardian consent required for users aged 16 to 17 (or the applicable legal age of the user's country). Use of the Google Pay app specifically requires users to be 18 or older.
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This provision establishes a tiered age requirement: 16 as the minimum with parental consent, and 18 for the Google Pay app. The clause acknowledges that the minimum legal age may be higher in certain countries, introducing jurisdiction-specific variability.
Interpretive note: The required legal age varies by country and the document defers to local law, creating jurisdiction-specific variability in how this provision applies in practice.
Under this clause, users must be at least 16 years old to use Google Pay (with parental consent for those under 18), and at least 18 to use the Google Pay app. The agreement acknowledges that the applicable legal age may be higher in certain countries.
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"To use Google Pay you must be 16 years of age or older. If you are 16 or older but under 18 years of age (or the legal age of your country, if greater), you must have your parent or legal guardian's permission to use Google Pay and to accept the Terms. In order to use the Google Pay app, you must be 18+.Excerpt from Google Ads's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages age-related data protection requirements under GDPR Article 8, which sets 16 as the default age for digital service consent (with member states permitted to lower it to 13).
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This provision establishes a tiered age requirement: 16 as the minimum with parental consent, and 18 for the Google Pay app. The clause acknowledges that the minimum legal age may be higher in certain countries, introducing jurisdiction-specific variability.
Under this clause, users must be at least 16 years old to use Google Pay (with parental consent for those under 18), and at least 18 to use the Google Pay app. The agreement acknowledges that the applicable legal age may be higher in certain countries.
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