Age App’s corporate position is that minors should be protected from content, products, services, transactions, and physical environments that are legally restricted to adults.

Age App does not decide which content should be restricted. Legislatures, courts, regulators, and the responsible business make that determination.

Once a legitimate age threshold has been established—such as 18+ or 21+—Age App provides a mechanism for enforcing it without requiring the relying platform to collect the individual’s identity records.

The challenge: Protect minors without creating a surveillance system for adults.

How Age App addresses it: Verify age eligibility inside the Age App verification layer and send the platform only a pass/fail result.

Parents remain indispensable. Age App does not replace parenting, household rules, device controls, content filters, schools, or responsible platform design.

Those controls are complementary, not mutually exclusive.

A business that offers age-restricted content or products may still have its own statutory, regulatory, licensing, contractual, or policy obligation to enforce an age threshold. Age App gives that business a way to enforce the threshold while minimizing the personal information it receives.

The challenge: Parental controls do not necessarily satisfy the responsibilities imposed directly on a business.

How Age App addresses it: Add a platform-level age gate without turning the platform into an identity repository.

A self-attestation button records what a user claims. It does not establish that the claim is accurate, that the person is the individual connected to the age evidence, or that the same person is present during the access event.

Age App verifies eligibility using authoritative information. Biometrics are used for liveness and matching—to help confirm that the live person completing the check is the appropriate verified user. Age App does not infer age from facial appearance.

The challenge: Self-attestation is easy to misrepresent.

How Age App addresses it: Connect the age decision to authoritative evidence and a live-user check.

No verification system should claim that circumvention is impossible.

Age App is designed to reduce borrowed-ID, account-sharing, impersonation, and proxy-verification attempts by requiring liveness and matching during verification sessions. A static identification image or knowledge of another person’s credentials is not intended to be enough.

The challenge: The document may be valid, but the person presenting it may be someone else.

How Age App addresses it: Use live-presence and matching controls rather than relying solely on a document image or account password.

Age App results are session-bound and time-limited. They expire automatically and are not intended to be cached, replayed, or converted into permanent platform credentials.

Physical and QR-based implementations may also use dynamic, short-lived, session-linked codes together with a live check.

The challenge: A valid result could become useless as a control if it can be copied and reused.

How Age App addresses it: Generate a new result for the current session, bind it to that session, and expire it automatically.

Initial eligibility setup normally occurs once.

That does not mean the user receives a lifetime pass. Every participating website, application, merchant, or venue that requires verification initiates a new session. The user completes a live check, and Age App generates a new time-limited result for that session.

The correct formulation is:

Setup once. A new verification session each time.

Age App returns a pass/fail result together with the information needed to validate that result for the session, including its cryptographic authenticity and validity period.

A business may maintain a legally permitted, non-identity compliance record showing that a verification event occurred. It must not turn the result into a reusable identity credential or use it to identify, profile, or track the individual.

The challenge: Businesses need evidence of control without keeping an identity dossier.

How Age App addresses it: Separate the verification evidence from the individual’s underlying identity artifacts.

No.

Age App is designed to strengthen age gating and reduce common forms of circumvention. It does not make absolute guarantees, and it does not control every element of the customer’s website, device, staff procedures, account security, or final access decision.

The business remains responsible for:

• Setting the correct age threshold;

• Triggering verification at the correct point;

• Validating the result and expiration;

• Preventing caching or replay;

• Maintaining appropriate fallback and escalation procedures; and

• Making the final decision to grant or refuse access.

Age App provides the verification control. The customer operates the gate.

II. Free Speech, Privacy, and Lawful Adult Access

The answer depends on the law, the material regulated, the burden imposed, and the particular implementation.

In Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, decided June 27, 2025, the United States Supreme Court upheld the challenged Texas age-verification requirement under intermediate scrutiny. The Court concluded that Texas could require proof of age to prevent minors from accessing material that is obscene as to minors, while recognizing that adults retain the right to access material protected for adults.

Age App’s role is not to adjudicate constitutional questions. Its role is to reduce the privacy and operational burden of implementing a lawful age requirement.

The challenge: Enforce a legitimate age line without unnecessarily suppressing lawful adult access.

How Age App addresses it: Return a narrow age-eligibility decision rather than requiring the adult to disclose identity information directly to each platform.

No.

The Court upheld the specific Texas statute against the facial First Amendment challenge before it. It did not certify Age App, approve every state law, approve every technical method, or hold that every implementation is constitutional.

The opinion also assumed without deciding a question concerning privately issued digital identification under the Texas statute. Age App should therefore never claim that the Supreme Court approved Age App or that an Age App credential automatically qualifies as statutory “digital identification.”

Not with the Age App architecture.

Age App may process government-issued identification and biometric signals inside its verification process. Those materials are not returned to the relying website.

The website receives only the result required for the access decision:

• Pass or fail;

• The requested age threshold;

• Session validity and expiration; and

• Confirmation that the result is authentic.

The platform, the website being accessed, does not receive the user’s identity payload.

Age App uses the phrase anonymous to platforms.

It means that the relying website, application, merchant, or venue receives the age-eligibility result without receiving the person’s name, date of birth, address, government-ID image, or biometric data.

It does not mean:

• No identity information is ever processed;

• No Age App account exists;

• No security or operational records exist anywhere;

• The website cannot see that someone is accessing its own service; or

• Age App is an anonymous browser or VPN.

Anonymous to platforms (websites, apps, etc) —pass/fail only.

No.

Age App does not estimate, guess, score, or infer a person’s age from facial appearance.

Age eligibility is established using authoritative information. Biometric signals are used for two security purposes:

1. Liveness: helping confirm that a live person is present; and

1. Matching: helping confirm that the live person corresponds to the verified identity evidence.

The relying platform does not receive the biometric image, video, geometry, or template.

Age App is specifically designed to prevent each relying website from becoming an identity-data repository.

A platform that receives only a pass/fail result does not need to take custody of the user’s government-ID image, exact date of birth, facial image, or biometric template. That can materially narrow the sensitive-data inventory entering the platform’s systems.

Age App itself may process information necessary to establish and operate the user’s Age App relationship, conduct verification, maintain security, prevent misuse, support the service, and comply with law. Its Privacy Policy and Biometric Policy—not a blanket “no data stored” claim—must explain those practices.

The challenge: Avoid multiplying sensitive identity databases across hundreds or thousands of unrelated websites.

How Age App addresses it: Centralize the eligibility function within a controlled verification layer while minimizing what crosses each platform boundary.

Data minimization reduces exposure. It does not make any system breach-proof.

Age App does not review or monitor the content published by participating businesses.

The relying website may know which page, product, service, or feature the visitor requested from that website. Age App is not a tool for concealing activity from the website being accessed.

Age App’s role is narrower: determine whether the individual satisfies the requested age threshold and return the result.

Any information Age App itself processes or retains is described in our current Privacy Policy and Biometric Policy.

Poorly designed age verification can create abandonment, particularly when users must repeatedly upload identification to unrelated platforms.

Age App is designed to reduce that friction:

• Initial setup normally occurs once;

• The user does not upload an identification document directly to every participating site;

• Each later access uses a new live session rather than repeating full setup;

• The website receives pass/fail instead of an identity dossier; and

• One Age App relationship can be used across participating websites, applications, merchants, and venues.

Age App cannot guarantee a particular conversion rate. It changes the architecture and reduces unnecessary repetition; the customer’s overall user experience still matters.

Many legacy models charge for every verification, login, or access event. That can convert compliance into a variable cost that rises with traffic.

Age App’s stated standard model is designed around predictable business pricing rather than a per-login or per-verification fee. Commercial terms, integrations, promotions, and any custom-development costs are governed by the applicable written agreement.

Under the Age App 100/10K state-launch model, qualifying Founding 100 websites receive standard setup and the first year at no charge, followed by a stated $499 annual website fee, with no per-access charge.

The challenge: Compliance cost should not become a tax on every lawful adult access event.

How Age App addresses it: Separate website pricing from the number of user sessions.

Age thresholds and legal requirements vary by country, state, province, product, content category, transaction, venue, and licensing regime.

Age App is designed to support configurable thresholds and business rules across supported documents and jurisdictions. The platform requests the applicable rule, and Age App returns the eligibility result for that session.

Age App does not decide which law applies. The customer remains responsible for determining:

• Where it operates;

• Which users it serves;

• Which threshold applies;

• Whether other identity or KYC requirements apply; and

• Whether its complete implementation satisfies local law.

III. Content Neutrality, Illegal Activity, and Accountability

No.

Age App provides age-verification technology. It does not:

• Create customer content;

• Continuously review or monitor customer content;

• Approve, endorse, certify, or rate customer content;

• Determine whether a customer’s content is lawful;

• Determine the customer’s age threshold; or

• Make the customer’s final access, sale, delivery, or admission decision.

A customer’s use of Age App is not an endorsement of that customer or anything it publishes, sells, or offers.

No.

Privacy for lawful users is not the same thing as anonymity for illegal operators.

A business seeking to use Age App must establish an organization account, identify its responsible parties, complete the required organization-verification process, and execute the applicable agreement.

Age App will not knowingly support use of its services to:

• Carry on, host, promote, sell, or facilitate illegal activity;

• Give minors access to age-restricted material or transactions;

• Falsify, manipulate, replay, or bypass verification;

• Identify, re-identify, profile, or track verified users;

• Misrepresent business ownership, licensing, or regulatory status; or

• Claim that Age App has endorsed the business.

Violations may result in suspension or termination.

The answer differs for a participating business and an individual user.

Information about a participating business

Under the applicable customer agreement, a business may authorize Age App to disclose information concerning the business and its ownership in response to an appropriate law-enforcement, regulatory, governmental, or judicial request. That may include the business’s legal identity, domains, responsible parties, beneficial ownership, and contact information.

Information about an individual user

Individual-user information is governed separately by the Privacy Policy, Biometric Policy, applicable law, consent, and valid legal process.

Age App does not treat an informal request as an automatic entitlement to an individual’s identity or biometric information. Where legally permitted, Age App’s policy may provide notice and may seek to narrow or challenge an unlawful or overbroad demand.

No.

Age App is designed to support regulated age-gated use cases. It does not provide legal advice, determine the law for the customer, guarantee compliance, or certify the legality of a customer’s business.

Compliance depends on the complete implementation, including:

• Applicable jurisdiction;

• Content, product, or service;

• Required age threshold;

• Placement of the gate;

• Customer notices and consents;

• Retention and reporting practices;

• Accessibility and fallback methods;

• Licensing requirements; and

• The customer’s final decisions and operations.

Age App’s answer is that both sides identify legitimate risks.

Child-protection advocates are right that a meaningful age gate must do more than accept an unchecked birthday or an “I am 18” button.

Privacy and civil-liberties advocates are right that adults should not have to hand a complete identity file to every website they lawfully visit.

Age App addresses both concerns through one architectural principle:

Verify the age requirement inside the verification layer. Give the platform the decision—not the identity.

Age App does not eliminate every legal, technical, or policy dispute. It removes the false choice between an ineffective age gate and an identity-harvesting one.

Protect minors. Respect privacy. Preserve lawful adult access.