Under the SMMA, Australian users under 16 years of age must not hold accounts on certain services.
We will take steps to assess whether you are based in Australia and under the age of 16, based on existing information we have of you. This includes your:
usage information (behavioural information about how you interact with Snapchat - for example, which Lenses you view and apply, your premium subscriptions, Stories you watch and how often you interact with other Snapchatters)
content information (information about content you created or provide your engagement with the camera and creative tools, your interactions with My AI and metadata - for example, information about the content itself, like the date and time it was posted, and who viewed it)
friending information, including the ages of your Snapchat friends.
If you are based in Australia, we may also require you to undertake additional age verification measures with our third-party provider, k-ID, to continue accessing Snapchat. For more information on these measures, please refer to our Help page.
To minimise the collection of personal information, Snap will only receive a binary "yes/no" result on whether you are above 16 and will use this result to provide you continued access to Snapchat if appropriate. If the result indicates that you are below 16, your account will be locked. We will not receive your facial scans, bank account details or any other personal information you provide during the k-ID verification process.
We may update this notice to reflect changes to the applicable laws.
