Roblox states it requires parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13, and does not serve behavioral advertising to this age group. Parents can contact Roblox to request deletion of their child's data.
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This provision governs how Roblox handles data for its youngest users and establishes the parental consent and deletion rights that apply under US federal law for children under 13.
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Parents of children under 13 who use Roblox have the right to review, correct, or request deletion of their child's personal information by contacting privacy@roblox.com; the policy also states that behavioral advertising is not served to this age group.
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"We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without first obtaining verifiable parental consent. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at privacy@roblox.com. We will take steps to remove such information from our systems. For children under 13, we do not allow behavioral advertising and we limit the types of data we collect.— Excerpt from Roblox's Roblox Privacy and Cookie Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages COPPA (15 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.), enforced by the FTC, which requires verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13 in the US. The FTC has historically taken enforcement action against gaming and entertainment platforms for COPPA violations; the adequacy of Roblox's age-verification and parental consent mechanisms would be subject to FTC scrutiny. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High. Roblox's platform is widely used by under-13 users; any failure in age-gating or consent verification creates significant COPPA liability. The policy asserts a compliant framework but does not detail the specific technical mechanisms used to verify parental consent, which may be a gap in documentation for compliance purposes. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: COPPA applies to US users under 13. EU and UK GDPR impose similar or stricter protections for minors, including in some cases extending heightened protections to users under 16. California's CCPA and the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AB 2273) impose additional obligations for platforms likely to be accessed by minors. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Any third-party advertising or analytics vendors receiving data from the platform must have contractual restrictions preventing them from receiving or processing data from under-13 users; compliance teams should audit data processing agreements with advertising and analytics partners for COPPA-compliant restrictions. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should verify that parental consent mechanisms meet the FTC's verifiable parental consent standard; review data flows to confirm under-13 user data is segregated from advertising and analytics pipelines; and assess applicability of California's Age-Appropriate Design Code, which imposes design-level obligations for platforms accessed by minors.
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This provision governs how Roblox handles data for its youngest users and establishes the parental consent and deletion rights that apply under US federal law for children under 13.
Parents of children under 13 who use Roblox have the right to review, correct, or request deletion of their child's personal information by contacting privacy@roblox.com; the policy also states that behavioral advertising is not served to this age group.
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