Registry Overview

Why Enroll in the Minors Protection Registry?

As of today, it's easy for a child to lie about their age in order to sign up for a social media account, game, app or other age restricted experience or service online that can put them in harms way. Enrolling in the Minors Protection Registry helps to ensure that your child will receive the protections that are mandated by privacy and safety laws protecting children.

PRIVO will work on behalf of individual families and parents, operating as your authorized agent to protect your children’s privacy and making the internet more age aware™, with a modern version of a "Do Not Call Registry."

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Age Matters

How the Minors Protection Registry will be able to Safeguard Your Child

By associating your child's true age to their connected devices and/or online identifiers, such as email or phone number, PRIVO can ensure your child only has access to online services for which he/she meets the minimum age requirement.

If the information you provided to PRIVO indicates that your child is too young, they will be blocked.
If your child lied about their age to get an account, upon logging in to a site, app or other online service, the property can check for the true age and adjust the birthday if necessary. Many regulations afford teenagers special privacy and safety protections, but if they are flagged as an adult over 18, they will not be given those protections.
If your child DOES meet the minimum age requirement, you will be notified if privacy laws require your consent for any of the services or features offered in a particular app, game or digital experience.

Making Companies Accountable to Parents

Companies are aware that children often provide false data to access popular activities that they hear about from friends and social media. With the help of the Minors Protection Registry, companies will no longer be able to turn a blind eye that puts children at risk by allowing them into digital spaces that are meant only for adults.

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PRIVO’s patented Minors Protection Registry™(MPR) and Signaling Service helps companies demonstrate commitment to child safety by ensuring an age-appropriate internet experience based on the user’s true age. We call this making the internet age aware™.

The MPR empowers parents to protect their children online and alerts companies immediately when a minor attempts access at their digital front door. The MPR equips companies to make informed, cost-effective decisions on user access, ads, experiences and offerings without added friction.

In less than five minutes, any parent across the globe will be able to enroll their children and authorize PRIVO as their agent to ensure they are not granted access to subscribing age-restricted products and services for which the child is below the minimum age. Parents may add their children and minors-associated devices through PRIVO directly and via employers and partners who support sharing the message to accelerate adoption.

More than 50% of kids and teens admit to lying about their age online creating risk for the company and child. PRIVO created an easy solution to better help companies ensure compliance with child privacy regulations [and thereby avoid regulatory fines] by keeping children who don’t meet the age requirement for an online service out or allowing them in compliantly.

The MPR is free to parents to enroll their children for protection. Subscribing companies will pay a monthly/annual fee. Contact us for more information.

Any legitimate company that has an age restricted online service and subscribes to the registry.

Contact us for a demo and to learn more. All subscribing companies can query the MPR’s API.

From PRIVO verified parents and schools that have opted into the registry.

PRIVO supports many countries and regions of the world. PRIVO’s age aware™ solutions are jurisdictionally aware, and ages of consent are mapped to country and or state globally. Each partner service can configure the relevant jurisdictions and ranges needed to meet requirements.

For questions about specific countries, let’s chat.

Yes. Contact us for a demo and to learn more.

No. The Minors Protection Registry only covers those online services and messages related to products and services that prohibit children or minors from purchasing, viewing, possessing, participating in or receiving under State and Federal law. If the company is not a subscriber to the registry, they may be served a notice they have data related to a minor in their database and will be required to remove that child’s data.

Information in the Registry is securely hashed, which means the data will be transformed into a string of unreadable text using a one-way mathematical function called hashing. PRIVO maintains a comprehensive set of compliance certifications, standards, and attestations to validate our #1 value of Trust. Visit our security page to learn more.

To register your school's domain, contact us directly. Only the principal's office, or the equivalent, can request that a school's domain be registered. The Registry support staff will respond to your inquiry to verify that you have authority over the domain you request registered.

The Minors Protection Registry is jurisdictionally aware, and ages of consent are mapped to country and/or state globally. Each partner service can configure the relevant jurisdictions and ranges needed to meet regulatory requirements.

Yes. We maintain our solutions to stay in alignment with all new and updated regulations.

Yes. We maintain our solutions to stay in alignment with all new and updated regulations.

In most cases the company will receive a pass or fail signal whether a user is above or below their age limit. If required, the actual age of the user can be delivered.

Users can contact PRIVO support.

First off, we agree. There is considerable activity, announcements, and claims - some of it confusing or misleading. While PRIVO is recognized as an age assurance/age verification leader in multiple market research reports, PRIVO views age verification as a commodity service and it is not a profit center for our company. Our service can facilitate verifications using compliant methods available across the market, based on client preferences and PRIVO guidance regarding conversion rates. By facilitating opt-in verification for parents outside of subscriber company UX and leveraging re-use of authorized information, we are also helping to reduce verification transactions as a cost center for participating companies. In our Privacy-as-a-Service platform, PRIVO provides an orchestration layer for age and identity verification and our privacy tech platform is interoperable with most vendors. As a neutral third party we do not provide any paid consumer services for minors, and we do not rely on advertising or commerce revenues in our business model. Our new services extend far beyond age assurance (including age and identity verification) to address multiple pain points felt by consumers and companies.