Age Verification
Highly effective age verification, so you know your users are the right age, and nothing else.
A privacy-first approach to age verification
Yoti’s age verification service gives users the tools to prove their age, using methods such as a selfie, mobile number or Digital ID.
Designed to only share the result of the age check with a business, it’s a simple, secure and private way to deliver age-appropriate products and services without collecting user data.
Offer your customers over ten ways to prove their age
We use a combination of proprietary technology, liveness detection, anti-spoofing measures and document authenticity checks so you can offer highly effective age assurance to your customers.
Yoti’s age check services include our patent-protected technology, that relates to a process of authorisation by combining age estimation (e.g. facial age estimation) and liveness, failing which there is a verification of an age-related identity attribute such as Digital ID or an ID document.
Receive estimated
age or over/under
age threshold
results
Low-friction
age checks
1 second check time
for facial age
estimation, scalable
to 25m+ checks
daily
Pair with Yoti’s
proprietary
technology to
combat presentation and
injection attacks
All data deleted
for complete
privacy
Low-effort
integration with
a single API
Facial age estimation
Users capture a selfie using their device camera and Yoti’s algorithm estimates their age via facial analysis. Our technology is independently tested and its accuracy is continuously improved. As of September 2024, the True Positive Rate (proportion of cases correctly classified) for 13 to 17 year olds being correctly estimated as under 21 is 99.3%.
Digital ID wallet
Users with a Digital ID wallet can quickly verify their age on-device without going through the age verification process again. They verify their age in their Digital ID once and can then reuse it privately and securely.
Identity document
Users scan their identity document and capture a selfie. Yoti matches the selfie to the document and verifies authenticity. The business only receives an over/under age result or a date of birth.
Yoti Keys
Yoti Keys are an on-device method of age verification, giving users continued access to your site without having to prove their age again. Yoti Keys don’t contain any personal details – just the result of an age check and information about when and how it was performed. Works with incognito and private browsers.
Credit card
Credit card details are verified with a temporary charge (no money leaves the user’s account) to check if the user is 18+.
Mobile
The user’s 18+ status is checked using the billing payer data linked to the phone number, alongside secondary data sources, such as utility and transaction history.
Electronic ID
The user’s age is checked using national eID schemes.
Social Security Number
The user’s name, date of birth, zip code and SSN are verified with a data intelligence provider to confirm if the user is 18+.
Database
The user’s name, address and date of birth are verified against a database to determine if the user is 18+.
Email age estimation
If you have a verified email address for a user, you can ask us to check whether it is likely to be associated with someone aged 18+ based on usage. We check the email address’ source, whether it is linked to an employer and any financial transactions tied to it, such as mortgages, credit cards, educational history or consumer behaviour.
Verify users’ ages globally
Set your age requirements by country and customise the user journey with different methods depending where your users are in the world. Keep your users and regulators happy whilst delivering the best pass rates for age verification.
Deliver age-appropriate experiences across industries
Meet regulatory requirements with ease
ICO Children’s Code
If you deliver an online service, you’re obliged to recognise and protect users aged under 18 in a privacy-preserving way.
Ofcom
Our age assurance methods are recognised by Ofcom as highly effective for protecting under 18s from viewing age-restricted content on adult platforms.
UK Online Safety Act
Websites and apps in the UK that allow user-generated content must protect under-18s from viewing harmful material or face fines of up to 10% of their global annual turnover.
EU Digital Services Act
The EU’s Digital Services Act will place additional duties on service and content providers to protect vulnerable users and under-18s from harmful and age-restricted material.
Seamlessly add age verification to your website
No-code portal
Offer multiple age verification options using a single API via Yoti’s customisable hosted UI.
APIs and SDKs
Embed our proprietary age assurance methods directly into your interface via standalone APIs and SDKs.
Integrations
We offer 70+ integrations with the largest SaaS platforms to help streamline your age verification process into your existing workflows.
Why Yoti
The way we build our solutions is different to other tech companies. Yoti was founded on a strong set of principles that we uphold to ensure we continue to only build tech for good.
Proprietary tech
Yoti is a world leader in the provision of age assurance technology. We build our own technology and have many patents in the AI space to ensure higher success rates with customisable UX.
Build trust
We help businesses and people build trust with privacy-focused identity and age verification solutions. Over the past 10+ years, Yoti’s market-leading technology has transformed how people verify their details, empowering people with more control over their data.
Regulatory assurance
Our compliance team is across the latest global compliance frameworks and regulations to support you.
Privacy first
By working with Yoti, you can be confident all age checks are anonymous, protecting your users right to privacy.
Scale globally
We have the capacity to scale to millions of checks per second across 200+ countries and territories, with over 800m age checks completed to date.
Integrity
Yoti’s use of data, whether for our own products or your customers, is world class. You can be sure your customers, their data, and the data we use is compliant.
Continuous improvement
We’re at the forefront of developing our solutions to new threats of deepfakes, generative AI and fraud, so you can be sure our solution can protect your business.
Complete protection against fraud
Yoti serves as your vigilant guardian, offering more than age verification. Our suite of best-in-class age and identity verification tools protect your business from threats of deepfake and generative AI fraud.
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