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This provision establishes eligibility criteria for service access and defines the legal basis for data processing consent. It allocates responsibility for consent between users and parents/guardians depending on jurisdictional age-of-consent requirements.
Interpretive note: The policy acknowledges country-specific consent age variation but does not specify the age threshold or compliance mechanism for each jurisdiction, creating uncertainty about how the age restriction is enforced in practice.
Users under 13 are contractually ineligible to use the service. Users in jurisdictions with higher age-of-consent thresholds must either meet that threshold independently or obtain parental/guardian authorization to proceed, establishing a gatekeeping mechanism for service access and data processing.
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This provision establishes eligibility criteria for service access and defines the legal basis for data processing consent. It allocates responsibility for consent between users and parents/guardians depending on jurisdictional age-of-consent requirements.
Users under 13 are contractually ineligible to use the service. Users in jurisdictions with higher age-of-consent thresholds must either meet that threshold independently or obtain parental/guardian authorization to proceed, establishing a gatekeeping mechanism for service access and data processing.
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