A video streaming platform designed specifically for children under 13, offering curated content including educational videos, music, and entertainment from YouTube's broader library. The service provides parental controls for viewing time limits, content blocking, and search restrictions to create a safer viewing environment for young users. Privacy policies are particularly significant given the platform's collection of data from minors and compliance requirements under children's privacy protection laws.
Data collected in YouTube Kids, including sensitive voice recordings, may be associated with and retained in a child's Google account when they are signed in, expanding where that data is stored.
Users are governed by the YouTube Kids Privacy Notice rather than the broader Google Privacy Policy in any area where the two documents diverge, meaning the YouTube Kids-specific terms are the operat…
External sharing of individual user information is conditioned on parental consent, making parental agreement the operative requirement for this category of data sharing.
Individual user information is protected from external disclosure by a defined set of exceptions, meaning disclosure outside Google is not at YouTube Kids' general discretion but is limited to enumer…
The app is designed to prevent children from directly exposing their personal information to outside parties or the public, limiting a potential vector for data disclosure.
YouTube Kids is designed to protect children's data: it does not collect names, addresses, or contact details from children, does not allow interest-based advertising, and will not share your child's …
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ConductAtlas tracks 1 YouTube Kids documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
YouTube Kids has made 0 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 5 provisions across YouTube Kids's tracked documents.
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