The Niantic Kids parent portal allows parents to manage their child's feel beyond Niantic games and make sure their child's personal information remains secure. Parents are able to review and approve their children'south admission and permission requests before playing Niantic games.

Why did I receive a request to review my child'southward business relationship?

Since your child is under the age of digital consent, you demand to review and approve your child's game and permission requests earlier they can play Niantic games. In social club to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Niantic is required to obtain verifiable consent from the kid's parent prior to gathering any personal information from a kid.

When your child signed upwardly to play Pokémon Get, we asked them to share your electronic mail address then we could contact you to provide consent. Before they can play Pokémon Get, you need to create a Niantic Kids account so you tin can approve your child'due south game and permission requests.

Your kid will not be able to access Pokémon GO until you approve the asking via the Niantic Kids Parent Portal. You can employ the Niantic Kids Parent Portal to manage the privacy settings of your child's account. You will have options to control what personal data Niantic collects from your child and volition always exist informed of any new requests so y'all tin can review and corroborate them.

If yous do not corroborate the request within a reasonable fourth dimension of your receiving initial permission request email, then the tape of your online contact information will be deleted.

Why exercise you lot need my credit card details to verify my account?

We're required by law to obtain verifiable consent from the child'southward parent before we gather any personal information from the kid. Because of this, we need to verify your identity then nosotros know yous are really you.

One of the most mutual identity verification methods is charging or authorizing a pocket-sized amount to your credit card. The credit carte transaction proves your identity. This procedure is handled by our verification provider SuperAwesome, in accordance with their Privacy Policy, pregnant that your credit menu information will Non be shared with Niantic. Your credit menu volition Not exist used for whatsoever other purpose.

The amount and type of transaction depends on your location:

  • In the US, this is a sometime charge for $1.00. This is a payment and NOT a temporary authorization hold. The full amount of this charge is donated to charity by our identity verification provider SuperAwesome. No further charges will be made to your credit card after this verification payment.
  • Outside the U.s., SuperAwesome places a temporary authorization hold for £0.30. Potency holds are not charges and will be removed past your fiscal institution subsequently approximately 7 days.

How practice I approve or revoke my kid's permissions?

Inside the Niantic Kids Parent Portal, parents can enable and disable what personal data Niantic collects from your child.

  2. On the overview folio, click See Profile to view your child's permissions.

  3. Under the Agile Apps section, click Review to manage each permission for Pokémon GO.

Can I link my Niantic Kids account to some other login method?

No. The account linking functionality is not available to children under the age of 13. Trainers under the historic period of 13 will not run across the option in the Settings bill of fare.

Can I enable Friend Listing, Trading Pokémon, sponsored PokéStops, and other features on my child'southward Niantic Kids account?

If your child logs into Pokémon Get using Niantic Kids, you lot tin opt into enabling social features such as Friends, Gifting, Trading, and sponsored PokéStops for your child in the  Niantic Kids Parent Portal. Y'all tin can also revoke your child's access to these features at any fourth dimension.

If you enable social features on your kid's account, your kid's friends will see your child's Trainer profile and express information almost the location where your child initially collected Pokémon or Gifts. When your child makes new friends, yous will receive a digest email listing the new friendships your child has made that day.

Need to get in affect with us regarding an issue with Niantic Kids?

Please contact us and select "Sign-in upshot".