We also listed a provision named “Children's Data Collection and Parental Consent” from our summary of this document. None of its quoted text appears in any capture we hold, so it was withheld. A link to that entry now leads here. This page is a separate clause record, CA-P-007944, whose quotation is checked against a stored capture of the document.
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This provision establishes Microsoft's framework for COPPA compliance and analogous international children's privacy requirements, including the EU's age-appropriate design obligations and the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, and determines the operational controls available to parents over child account data.
Interpretive note: The statement does not detail the specific mechanism used to obtain and verify parental consent, which is the central compliance question under COPPA and analogous international law; enforcement adequacy depends on the operational implementation of these mechanisms.
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"When a child is under 13-or a higher age if required in their region-the child will need consent from their parent or guardian to create a Microsoft account. Parents can change or revoke consent at any time. … We will not knowingly ask children under the age of consent to provide more data than is necessary to provide the product. As mentioned in the Advertising section, we do not deliver personalized advertising to children whose birthdate in their Microsoft account identifies them as under 18 years of age.Excerpt from Microsoft Azure's Microsoft Privacy
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This provision establishes Microsoft's framework for COPPA compliance and analogous international children's privacy requirements, including the EU's age-appropriate design obligations and the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, and determines the operational controls available to parents over child account data.
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