A sandbox video game that allows players to build, explore, and survive in procedurally generated worlds made of blocks, playable across multiple platforms including mobile devices, computers, and gaming consoles. The platform enables user-generated content, multiplayer servers, and in-game purchases, making privacy and content moderation policies significant for protecting players, particularly minors who comprise a substantial portion of the user base. Policy changes affect how player data is collected and shared, what content is permitted in user-created worlds and servers, and the terms governing digital purchases and account access.
High — provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium — provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low — standard terms with minimal consumer impact.
This provision establishes a compliance obligation for server operators to adhere to child protection laws, but does not specify a verification, age-gating, or parental consent mechanism. Under this …
This clause places the legal responsibility for minors' account terms on parents, but does not specify how Mojang or Microsoft verifies parental consent, which is critical under COPPA for children un…
A permanent ban means losing access to all purchased Minecraft games and Realms subscriptions, as account access is required to use the Services on Microsoft platforms.
This provision creates compliance obligations under COPPA (enforced by the FTC), GDPR provisions applicable to children's data, and national implementations of child data protection requirements acro…
Provisions affecting minors carry heightened regulatory significance under COPPA and GDPR-K, and determine what protections apply to younger players interacting with platform content, community featu…
This is Minecraft's Usage Guidelines document, published by Mojang AB, which sets out the conditions under which players, creators, and developers may use Minecraft's brand, game assets, characters, and code …
This End User License Agreement establishes the terms governing use of Minecraft across all platforms except the Minecraft Shop and Minecraft Education, including gameplay, mods, Realms subscriptions, and user-created content. …
This is Minecraft's privacy policy, published by Mojang Studios (a Microsoft company), covering how personal data is collected and used across Minecraft games and the minecraft.net website. The policy discloses …
ConductAtlas tracks 3 Minecraft documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Minecraft has made 17 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 69 provisions across Minecraft's tracked documents. 14 are rated high severity, 45 medium, and 10 low.
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