Age verification
Credit card
An age verification method using credit card authorisation to confirm age.
Territory: Global
Type: Age verification
Age groups: 18+
Data captured: Credit card information
Speed: Results in seconds
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How it works
The user is asked to enter their credit card number, expiration date, CVC/CVV number, and address.
These details are submitted via our payment service provider, and a £1 charge is placed and immediately refunded to confirm the card’s active status.
No card details are stored or captured by Verifymy during this process.
Data required
Credit card information
Anti-fraud checks
Active card check
Accuracy checks
Active card and name check
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Benefits
Regulatory compliance
Credit card verification can help businesses comply with age-restriction laws and regulations, reducing the risk of fines and legal challenges while demonstrating a commitment to responsible practices by ensuring only eligible users gain access.
Global coverage
Credit card payment systems are supported globally, making the method ideal for businesses with a global user base.
Protection of minors
Verifying users through credit card authorisation significantly mitigates the risk of fraud and underage access. This strengthens the platform's security, allowing businesses to maintain their integrity, protect their reputation and safeguard their users.
Speed
Streamlines the onboarding and verification process, reducing the need for manual checks and minimising user drop-off. This efficiency leads to lower operational costs, quicker customer acquisition, and improved user experience.
Use cases
Verifymy’s range of age assurance solutions cater to the diverse requirements of online platforms, products, and services. Whether complying with ever-evolving regulations or ensuring age-appropriate experiences, we deliver frictionless, privacy-preserving, and trustworthy age assurance solutions, ensuring the highest pass rates possible with minimal business disruption.
Regulatory compliance
We ensure business comply with local and global legislative requirements.
Age-gating
Restricting access to content, products, or services based on a user’s age. This is commonly seen in various industries, such as alcohol, tobacco, and adult entertainment.​
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. This is often seen on social media, video sharing, and online video gaming platforms.
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.
Sector-specific examples
Adult entertainment
Preventing minors from accessing adult content and adhering to evolving regulations to prevent children from encountering inappropriate websites and services.
Social media
Ensuring age-appropriate experiences and preventing minors from encountering inappropriate and harmful material on social media platforms.
Online video gaming
Ensuring users meet minimum age requirements for mature-rated video games and user-to-user functionality.
Online marketplaces
Verifying the age of users purchasing age-restricted items, such as alcohol, tobacco & vaping and bladed items.
Online dating
Verifying the age of users to prevent access to inappropriate content, catfishing and fraud.
Streaming services
Manage access to your platform’s age-restricted content and maintain age-appropriate viewing habits across your content library.
Our principles around data
Data retention
All captured data is encrypted, and Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is deleted or anonymised.
Data minimisation
We collect the minimum data needed to fulfil the requirements of our safety tech solutions.
We routinely evaluate our data collection policy to ensure we adhere to data minimisation principles.
Data integrity
256-bit encryption is the highest level of encryption possible, maximising the security of all captured data. Anonymisation via Hashing and salting data adds an extra layer of security and confirms the integrity of your data.
GDPR
Our safety tech solutions fully comply with all fundamental principles and requirements of GDPR. GDPR is the European Union’s legal framework for protecting personal information.
Verifymy
Our frictionless integration
Verifymy enables platforms to efficiently embed age assurance solutions within the account creation process. This ensures that age checks are completed quickly and accurately to avoid drop-offs and keeps the user experience smooth and engaging.
Age assurance methods
Verifymy’s age assurance solution for any online product, service or business, features the widest range of age verification and age estimation methods to ensure the highest pass rates possible with minimal business disruption.
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Government-issued ID
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Name & address
An age verification method that uses customer order details to verify age during account creation or order processing.
Mobile phone number
An age verification method confirming the phone is in the possession of and authorised for use by a person aged 18+.
Government-issued ID scan and face match
An age verification method that uses government-issued IDs to determine a user's age and employs face match technology to verify ID ownership.
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