Video gaming.
Age assurance solutions for the online video gaming industry.
Video gaming platforms must navigate a complex web of regulations designed to protect young users. By implementing advanced age assurance solutions, these platforms can ensure compliance with the Online Safety Act and Children’s Code in the UK, the Digital Services Act and Audio Visual Media Services Directive in the EU, and COPPA and state regulations in the USA.
Beyond regulatory compliance, enhancing user safety, building parental trust, and gaining a competitive edge in the marketplace are just a few benefits of our age assurance solutions. Investing in this technology isn’t just about regulatory compliance; it’s a vital step towards creating a trusted, safe and responsible online gaming environment.
Verifymy’s frictionless age assurance solution allows online gaming platforms to determine their players’ ages effortlessly. Once integrated, it can work quietly in the background, requiring no user interaction and causing no disruption to the gaming experience - keeping users engaged without impacting user journeys.
What is an age assurance solution?
Age assurance, comprising of age verification or estimation methods, can accurately determine a user’s age to ensure they meet age requirements for video gaming content. Verifymy provides a quick, simple, and seamless process to determine the age of your users online. For video gaming businesses, age assurance solutions should be:
- Quick and unobtrusive, ensuring minimal disruption to the gaming experience.
- Highly-accurate at establishing player ages to comply with local and international age-related regulations.
- Provide age-appropriate experiences to maintain a safe gaming environment.
Our frictionless integration allows gaming platforms to efficiently embed age assurance solutions within the game startup process. This ensures that age checks are completed quickly and accurately to avoid drop-offs, and keep the gaming experience smooth and engaging.
Age assurance methods
Empowering your users through optionality, we offer a range of methods to suit individual preferences, maintain privacy and reduce friction. Our methods can be provided as a complete solution or as individual methods to complement existing solutions.
Email address
Facial age estimation
Name & address
Government issued ID
Government issued ID
+ Facematch
Credit card
Mobile Phone Number
Video gaming use cases
Regulatory
compliance
We ensure video gaming platforms comply with local and international legislative requirements.
Age-gating
Ensure users meet minimum age requirements for mature-rated video games and user-to-user functionality by restricting access based on a user's age. This includes taking age and content ratings into account.
Age-appropriate experiences
Creating online environments with activities, content, or products suitable for specific age groups, as well as restricting communication between certain age brackets.
Database
enrichment
Enhancing existing user base to: - Improve advertising targeting for +/- 18, +/- 13 (or other age thresholds) to increase ROI and enhance personalised, age-appropriate customer experiences. - Ensure compliance with advertising and data privacy legislation.
Why Verifymy?
By restricting access to age-limited games and videos, you can create age-appropriate experiences that prevent minors from accessing unsuitable or harmful content.
We ensure compliance with the Online Safety Act and Children’s Code in the UK, the Digital Services Act and Audio Visual Media Services Directive in the EU, and COPPA and state regulations in the USA - making age assurance compliance straightforward and seamless without disrupting your users' experience.
We collect the minimum data needed to fulfil the requirements of our safety tech solutions and all data is anonymised and encrypted.
We enable businesses to demonstrate a commitment to responsible practices, improving reputation and customer loyalty.
Prevent fraudulent activities by verifying the ages of users, reducing the risk of identity theft and unauthorised transactions.
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