PAS 1296:2018 - Page 2

What is this PAS about?

Some businesses have a legal requirement to conduct online age checks: whether because they sell age-restricted merchandise (e.g. dangerous goods); stream adult content; or provide age-sensitive services such as dating or gambling. This PAS helps these businesses comply with regulation, and safeguard their reputation, by providing recommendations that help prove an online user’s age.

Who is this PAS for?

It will be used by:

• Businesses mandated to conduct age checks
• Businesses that want enhanced e-safeguarding – perhaps to differentiate themselves in their market
• Age-checking services
• Organizations with a legal, regulatory, supervisory, advisory or enforcement role around the deployment of age checking services by businesses
• Consumer protection groups and consumers who can use the PAS as a resource

Why should you use this PAS?

Because on the one hand it protects consumers from age sensitive material, and on the other it protects businesses by providing due diligence recommendations which help them make sure they’re meeting specific regulatory compliance needs.