Age assurance

(a) Responsibilities of application distribution providers An Application Distribution Provider— (1) shall ask account holders to declare their age when creating an account with the Application Distribution Provider; (2) may use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the Age Category of an account holder with a reasonable level of certainty; (3) may provide account holders with a mechanism to obtain their Age Category and the ability to request an update if they believe their Age Category is incorrect; and (4) shall provide Developers of Covered Applications the technical ability to call an Age Signal where the account holder or the account holder’s parent has agreed to such sharing. (b) Rule of construction (1) Nothing in this section shall be construed to preclude an Application Distribution Provider from using multiple commercially reasonable methods to obtain, estimate, or provide the Age Category of an account holder. (2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict an Application Distribution Provider’s ability to satisfy this section by obtaining a Minor account holder’s age from the Minor’s parent.