Recorded template baseline: September 18, 2024. Historical bundle release: July 9, 2026. Actual agreement and notice dates depend on execution or adoption. This resource does not establish operational compliance.
Global Children and Youth Safety Policy
Purpose
This policy sets baseline controls for children, teens, students and youth-facing features across countries and app stores.
Required controls
- Determine whether the product is directed to children, likely accessed by children, mixed audience or adult-only.
- Use proportionate age assurance or age-gating where required.
- Obtain verifiable parental consent when required.
- Disable behavioral advertising, sale/share, unnecessary profiling and precise location for children where required.
- Provide parent/guardian rights workflows and account deletion.
- Apply child safety content moderation and reporting.
- Use age-appropriate language and defaults.
- Review school/student data, health data, social features, random chat, anonymous chat, livestreaming, direct messaging and AI companions before launch.
App-store gates
Children/family/kids categories require stricter privacy, content, ads, permissions, policy and parental control review. The product must not include undisclosed data collection, manipulative design or unsafe social/AI features.