Children’s Privacy Compliance

Introduction

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is a law created to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13. The Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998 and took effect in April 2000. COPPA is managed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

To reflect other regional law requirements and App Stores' policies regarding data processing for children, InMobi treats children's privacy compliance holistically in the Publisher Dashboard.

When a publisher adds their app or mobile website to the InMobi Publisher Dashboard, or at any time when using the platform, the publisher is responsible for indicating to InMobi when their inventory is directed to children and ensuring they comply with the applicable law and App Stores developer policies.

Complying with COPPA & Children's Privacy

Children's privacy compliance is handled at the app level in the InMobi Publisher Dashboard. By turning the toggle on, you are confirming that your app is directed at children under the age of 16 or to a general audience which may include children under the age of 16. In addition, you are confirming that it complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and other applicable regulations, which include terms on children's privacy.

Children Privacy Compliance Settings under Inventory Tab

Declare the App’s Audience

With InMobi, you can now define your app's audience accurately. If your app is directed to both children and adults, you can declare the app as a Mixed Audience App in two simple steps:

1. Define Your App Audience: Select the desired setting on the InMobi Publisher Dashboard. To find this prompt and declare an accurate audience for your app, navigate to Inventory Settings >> Add Inventory for new apps and App Details >> Edit App Settings for existing apps.

   Note

   • Apps declared as Mixed Audience are expected to know the user's age or have an age-gating mechanism within the app.
   • If you are declaring an app as a child-directed or a mixed audience app, you need to enable the settings on both your iOS and Android apps separately for parity. Our system has been developed to treat apps with the most conservative settings across Play Stores. Hence, if you are declaring an app as child-directed on iOS, the app will be treated as child-directed on Android too.
2. Pass the Age Restriction signals to InMobi: If you have integrated via SDK and API, pass the age restriction information of users to InMobi and determine the definition of age restriction depending on the user’s geographic data location.

SDK

If you have integrated via InMobi SDK, you should call the InMobiSdk.setIsAgeRestricted API. If you pass the value as True, your request will be treated as child-directed. The default value is False.

Android:

InMobiSdk.setIsAgeRestricted(false) // possible value are true, false

InMobiSdk.setIsAgeRestricted(false) // possible value are true, false;

iOS:

[IMSdk setIsAgeRestricted: false]; // possible value are true, false

IMSdk. setIsAgeRestricted(false) // possible value are true, false

API

If you have integrated via API, you should pass the OBJECT: Regs to InMobi.

You can read more about InMobi’s COPPA compliance here. For any queries or concerns, you can contact your InMobi Account Manager or write us at privacy@inmobi.com.