Unity's services are not for children under 13, and Unity will delete personal information it discovers was collected from children under 13 without parental consent.
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This provision establishes Unity's COPPA compliance posture, but relies on users self-certifying their age rather than active age verification, which is a common limitation in developer-tool contexts.
The updated terms clarify that users in England will have disputes resolved through the London Court of International Arbitration, with disputes governed by New York law rather than English law. Previously, England was not explicitly listed in the dispute resolution table, creating ambiguity about which arbitration rules and governing law would apply. The revised language removes this ambiguity but establishes that England-based users will proceed through arbitration in London under New York substantive law. Users in other regions (Asia-Pacific, China/Hong Kong/Macau, and worldwide locations) see reorganized dispute resolution tables with the same arbitration rules and governing law, but clearer formatting.
View change record →Children under 13 who access Unity's services without parental consent are not protected by active age-gating mechanisms under these terms, and any personal data collected from them may be retained until Unity becomes aware of it and takes deletion steps.
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Our Services are not directed to children under 13. If you learn that anyone younger than 13 has unlawfully provided us with personal data, please contact us at privacy@medium.com.
The Service is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information without your cons...
To access and use the Services, you must be at least the age of majority in the state, province, or territory where you live or at least 18 years of age. If you are under the age of 13, you may not use the Services and you should not be visiting the Sites or using the Services.
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"The Services are not directed to children under 13 and Unity does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the Services at any time or in any manner. If Unity learns that personal information has been collected on the Services from persons under 13 years of age and without verifiable parental consent, then Unity will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.— Excerpt from Unity's Unity Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly implicates the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the United States, enforced by the FTC, which requires verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13. The EU's GDPR sets the age of digital consent at 16 (or lower at member state discretion, with a floor of 13), engaging data protection authorities across the EEA. The UK's Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code) also imposes design-level obligations for services likely to be accessed by minors. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. Unity's policy relies on reactive deletion rather than proactive age verification, which is a common approach for developer tools but may not satisfy the FTC's COPPA enforcement expectations if minors are found to be accessing the service in meaningful numbers. The COPPA safe harbor requires operators to take reasonable measures to ensure they are not collecting data from children under 13. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU member states with a digital consent age below 16 still require parental consent for children below that threshold. The UK Children's Code applies to any service likely to be accessed by children under 18, which could encompass Unity's educational and hobbyist developer community. California's minor privacy protections under CCPA also interact with this provision. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Organizations embedding Unity's SDK in games or applications that are directed at or likely to be accessed by minors should conduct a separate COPPA and GDPR compliance assessment, as the SDK's data collection capabilities may be subject to heightened obligations that extend beyond Unity's own terms to the developer's end-user relationship. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Studios whose games are distributed on platforms frequented by minors should review their data collection practices through Unity's SDK and confirm they have appropriate consent mechanisms in place for end users, independent of Unity's developer-facing age restriction.
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This provision establishes Unity's COPPA compliance posture, but relies on users self-certifying their age rather than active age verification, which is a common limitation in developer-tool contexts.
Children under 13 who access Unity's services without parental consent are not protected by active age-gating mechanisms under these terms, and any personal data collected from them may be retained until Unity becomes aware of it and takes deletion steps.
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