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The provision operationalizes Epic's compliance framework for child accounts by creating a technical and procedural structure that limits data collection scope and disables certain service features pending parental authorization. This mechanism establishes the conditions under which child accounts function within the Epic Services ecosystem and defines the data categories necessary for age verification and account administration.
Users identified as children operate under account restrictions that disable voice chat and real money purchase functionality until a parent or guardian provides additional permissions and enables parental controls. The terms authorize Epic to retain persistent identifiers and limited personal data necessary to maintain these restricted accounts and apply age-appropriate service settings.
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"When a user indicates they are a child, they are placed in a 'Cabined Account' until they are no longer a child as defined above or until their parent/guardian provides additional privacy permissions and enables parental controls. Cabined Accounts can play Epic's games (e.g., Fortnite, Rocket League, or Fall Guys), but features like voice chat and real money purchases are disabled. Epic collects limited personal information from Cabined Accounts to operate them, in each case according to applicable youth privacy and protection laws: child's date of birth and country to determine age and apply appropriate settings; child's email address for sign-in (which is only stored in an unreadable hashed and salted form); parent/guardian's email address to provide notice and seek their consent for additional features; and persistent identifiers of the child like IP address, Epic account ID, gaming platform account IDs, device IDs, and similar data collected with website tracking technologies to provide and maintain the Epic Services.— Excerpt from Unreal Engine's Epic Games Privacy Policy
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The provision operationalizes Epic's compliance framework for child accounts by creating a technical and procedural structure that limits data collection scope and disables certain service features pending parental authorization. This mechanism establishes the conditions under which child accounts function within the Epic Services ecosystem and defines the data categories necessary for age verification and account administration.
Users identified as children operate under account restrictions that disable voice chat and real money purchase functionality until a parent or guardian provides additional permissions and enables parental controls. The terms authorize Epic to retain persistent identifiers and limited personal data necessary to maintain these restricted accounts and apply age-appropriate service settings.
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