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12 years and under...
My question is about the rule of underage users on the Advicenators website. No need to say that it's for insurance purposes or what-not because I have researched the site for that. What I would like to know, that since you have to be 13, is it allowed to get someone who IS of age to ask the question for you. Everybody has problems, at any age, so I don't get why this would be faulty. Any aditional information is welcomed.
(In case you're all wondering, I am 16.)
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hey, its actually not about the insurance. its actually illegal for kids under the age of thirteen to be posting information and giving out there information to the public on the internet.
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The reason for that rule is that the US Federal Trade Commission has a law called the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act(COPPA). This law requires that sites not collect any personal information from children under 13 without their parent's permission. This includes name, email address, phone number, and any other contact information. This website would probobly have to get an actual mail(not email) signiture from the child's parents. That would take a lot of time the people that run this site probobly don't have. It should be fine for an older person to ask the question for the person under 13, but you can't include any personally identifying information.
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It's actually NOT for insurance purposes. It's because there is a federal law (that they really crack down on) that limits the amount of information that an underage (under 13) user can give.
Yes, it is okay for someone to do that, as numerous other people on the site ask questions for friends and such.
Unless DN knows something that I don't.
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I suppose they could have a friend who is old enough ask for them. We have no way of telling they are asking for someone else unless they tell us so.
You would have to get with DN on why we can't have under 13 users. It is probably a federal regulation of some sort.
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