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This document establishes the terms of service for Messenger Kids, a messaging application operated by Meta designed for users under 13 years of age. The terms govern the collection, use, and handling of data from child users, parental consent and authorization requirements, and the operational restrictions and features available within the application. The document specifies the rights and obligations of parents or guardians as account administrators for child users.
The document retrieved is a Facebook/Messenger help center page (facebook.com/help/messenger-app/579047742376485) that appears to reference Messenger Kids terms of service, but the substantive policy text was not successfully transmitted — the content is dominated by CSS styling code and HTML markup with the policy text truncated before any substantive terms, conditions, or legal provisions are presented. Because no readable terms of service language is present in the provided document text, no specific obligations, rights, data practices, or legal provisions can be extracted or quoted with accuracy. Regulatory frameworks potentially applicable to a Messenger Kids product — including COPPA, enforced by the FTC, given the child-directed nature of the service — cannot be assessed without the actual policy text. Compliance teams should obtain and review the full, rendered document text before conducting any regulatory or governance analysis.
The terms establish parental authorization as a prerequisite for child account creation and define the scope of parental access to account controls and activity monitoring. The document specifies what data is collected from child users during account operation and how that data may be used by Meta. The terms also define the conditions under which Meta may modify, suspend, or terminate child accounts and the remedies available to account holders.
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