9.0 Who are the AVPA and what do we stand for?

The Age Verification Providers Association is the global trade body for the age assurance industry. Our members provide age checks to platforms, retailers and regulators around the world and commit to a code of conduct built on privacy by design, data minimisation and independent certification. We stand for the position set out across these FAQs: that children deserve the same protection online as offline, that adults’ privacy and anonymity must survive the process intact, that claims made by providers should be independently audited rather than taken on trust and that the alternative to regulated age assurance is not a freer internet but self–declaration, platform profiling and unmanaged ID retention, which serve no one.