Paramount+ provides parental control settings that allow parents to restrict content access for child users, accessible via a PIN-protected system, but these controls must be actively set up by the parent.
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Parental controls are opt-in rather than default, meaning children may access unrestricted content and their data may be collected under standard adult data practices unless a parent actively configures these settings.
Interpretive note: The specific COPPA compliance mechanisms and default configuration of parental controls are not fully described in the available document fragments; the adequacy of those mechanisms requires review of the complete policy and platform configuration.
Parents who do not actively configure parental control settings for child users on Paramount+ may inadvertently allow children to access age-inappropriate content and have their data collected and processed under the same practices as adult users.
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YOU MUST BE AND HEREBY AFFIRM THAT YOU ARE AN ADULT OF THE LEGAL AGE OF MAJORITY IN YOUR COUNTRY OR STATE OF RESIDENCE. If you are under the legal age of majority, your parent or legal guardian must consent to this agreement.
The Service is not directed to children under the age of 13. If you are under 13 years of age, please do not use or access the Service at any time or in any manner. If we learn that personally identifiable information has been collected on the Service from persons under 13 years of age and without v...
The Services are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us at priv...
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""To manage your parental control settings, please visit {url}"— Excerpt from Paramount+'s Paramount Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: COPPA requires that services which are directed to children under 13, or that knowingly collect data from children under 13, obtain verifiable parental consent before data collection. The FTC's COPPA Rule specifies verifiable consent mechanisms and data minimization requirements. Where parental controls are opt-in rather than default, the platform must ensure that data collected through child-accessible content pathways prior to parental control activation complies with COPPA. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High. The presence of children-directed content (Nickelodeon, Nick Jr.) within a general-audience subscription service creates COPPA exposure if the age verification and parental consent mechanisms are not implemented as default-on for child users. The FTC has increased COPPA enforcement focus in recent years, with particular attention to platforms that include mixed child/adult content. JURISDICTION FLAGS: COPPA applies federally in the US. The UK's Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code) imposes 'privacy by default' requirements for services likely to be accessed by minors, effectively requiring that privacy-protective settings be active by default rather than opt-in. EU GDPR Article 8 imposes member state age thresholds for digital service consent. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Any advertising or analytics SDK that collects data through child-profile pathways must be contractually restricted from using that data for behavioral advertising or any purpose inconsistent with COPPA. Third-party analytics vendors must certify COPPA compliance where child data may be involved. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should review whether the parental control system is compliant with COPPA's verifiable consent requirements, whether child profiles are automatically data-minimized and excluded from behavioral advertising SDKs, and whether the platform's age gate at registration is effective in identifying users under 13.
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Parental controls are opt-in rather than default, meaning children may access unrestricted content and their data may be collected under standard adult data practices unless a parent actively configures these settings.
Parents who do not actively configure parental control settings for child users on Paramount+ may inadvertently allow children to access age-inappropriate content and have their data collected and processed under the same practices as adult users.
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