The provision establishes minimum age thresholds consistent with COPPA (US) and GDPR Article 8 (EU), but relies on user self-representation rather than active age verification, which may be insufficient to satisfy regulatory requirements in some jurisdictions.
The clause creates a tiered access framework based on jurisdiction and age, limiting direct consumer access for minors while permitting institutional access through specified sponsorship arrangements. This establishes the operational boundary for who may use the service under standard terms.
The age restriction operates as a condition precedent to service access, establishing minimum eligibility criteria that the service provider enforces through user attestation. This requirement structures the user population the service operates with and defines the scope of permitted account holders.
The age restriction establishes a contractual eligibility threshold and allocates parental consent responsibility for minor users. This mechanism creates a documented representation regarding user age and guardian authorization status.
The age restriction functions as a gatekeeping eligibility requirement that determines whether an account can be created and maintained. This provision establishes Stability AI's compliance framework with age-of-majority and child protection regulations across different jurisdictions.
The age and individual-capacity requirement functions as a service access control that establishes baseline legal and contractual eligibility for account creation and use of the platform.
Ancestry
· Ancestry Terms and Conditions
This age restriction establishes a contractual eligibility requirement for service access and defines the minimum age threshold for data collection and account creation. The provision creates an operational boundary for who may be bound by the service terms.
The clause functions as a contractual eligibility gate and establishes user age representation as a condition of service acceptance. It creates a baseline requirement that the service provider may enforce through account verification or suspension procedures.
This provision establishes a hard age gate at 18 years, which is operationally significant given the platform's capacity to generate content including mature or explicit imagery in designated areas. The enforcement mechanism for this restriction is not described in detail within the ToS.
The 18+ requirement and age verification process directly affect the type of personal data collected during onboarding, including biometric-adjacent selfie data, and create legal obligations around age assurance under UK and EU regulations.
Lime
· Lime Terms of Service
Minors who use the service in violation of this age restriction do so outside the contract's terms, which may affect their legal protections and the enforceability of parental liability under applicable law.
The clause establishes baseline eligibility criteria that DoorDash enforces through account registration and verification mechanisms. The alcohol-specific language creates a contractual acknowledgment requirement tied to jurisdiction-specific legal compliance, making the user's representation of legal drinking age a condition of the alcohol delivery service.
This provision establishes a contractual prerequisite by requiring users to affirm legal capacity at the time of service access. The representation serves as a foundational condition for the enforceability of the entire service agreement between the user and Instacart.
The clause establishes gatekeeping requirements for service access and sample processing. It allocates responsibility for legal authorization to the account holder and creates a contractual condition that sample submission constitutes representation of authority to provide that particular genetic material to 23andMe.
This provision establishes Nintendo's COPPA compliance posture for the main websites and places responsibility on parents to monitor and report unauthorized child data collection.
Children's data is subject to heightened legal protections under COPPA in the US, and the policy's reliance on a self-declaration model means the enforcement of this restriction depends primarily on users accurately reporting their age.
This provision establishes Walmart's stated COPPA compliance posture but does not describe a verified age-gating mechanism; the agreement relies on users self-certifying their age rather than a technical enforcement mechanism.
Figma
· Figma Privacy Policy
If a minor under the applicable age threshold uses Figma, any personal data collected may be improperly processed, and parents or guardians should be aware of the age restrictions and Figma's deletion commitments.
The prohibition on under-13 use and the stated data deletion commitment engage COPPA compliance obligations, but the terms rely primarily on users self-certifying their age rather than implementing active age verification, which is an area of increasing regulatory scrutiny.
Suno
· Suno Privacy Policy
If minors under 13 access the platform, COPPA requires parental consent for data collection; parents of teen users aged 13-17 should be aware that their children's creative prompts and activity data may be collected and used for AI model training.
This provision establishes the minimum age requirement for platform access and conditions adolescent use on parental consent, creating compliance obligations under COPPA for users under thirteen and operational considerations for platform access controls.
The provision operationalizes Squarespace's compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and establishes age-based access controls that define the permissible user population for the service.
Yelp
· Yelp Terms of Service
The age restriction reflects Yelp's compliance posture under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which restricts data collection from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent.
Parents and guardians should be aware that children below the applicable age threshold, typically 13 in the US under COPPA, should not be creating or using Microsoft accounts without proper parental consent mechanisms.
Medium
· Medium Privacy Policy
Parents and guardians should be aware that Medium does not have mechanisms to verify user age at sign-up, which means the platform relies on users to self-report compliance with the age restriction.
This provision documents StockX's compliance framework with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which imposes obligations on online services regarding collection of data from children under 13. The clause establishes the company's stated policy regarding age-gating and data retention procedures for younger users.
This provision implements compliance requirements under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which restricts collection of personal information from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent. The deletion obligation establishes a procedural mechanism for remedying non-compliant data collection.
This provision establishes a two-tiered age restriction: a hard prohibition on use by children under 13, consistent with COPPA requirements, and a general requirement of majority age or 18 years, whichever is applicable in the user's jurisdiction. The terms do not describe a technical age verification mechanism.
The provision implements age-gating requirements aligned with COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) and general contract law principles regarding legal capacity. It establishes the entity's baseline age eligibility criteria and allocates responsibility for age verification and parental authorization to the user at account creation.
This provision establishes DoorDash's compliance framework with federal child privacy law and defines the operational restrictions on who may use the platform. It creates explicit requirements for parental involvement in account usage by minors and establishes a data deletion mechanism for non-compliant collections.