The Niantic Kids parent portal allows parents to manage their child's experience across Niantic games and make sure their child's personal information remains secure. Parents are able to review and corroborate their children's access and permission requests before playing Niantic games.

Why did I receive a request to review my kid's business relationship?

Since your child is under the age of digital consent, you need to review and approve your kid's game and permission requests earlier they can play Niantic games. In gild 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 child'southward parent prior to gathering any personal information from a child.

When your child signed up to play Pokémon GO, we asked them to share your email accost so we could contact you to provide consent. Before they can play Pokémon Go, you need to create a Niantic Kids business relationship so you can approve your child's game and permission requests.

Your child volition non exist able to access Pokémon Go until you approve the request via the Niantic Kids Parent Portal. You tin use the Niantic Kids Parent Portal to manage the privacy settings of your kid's account. You volition have options to command what personal information Niantic collects from your child and will always be informed of any new requests so you tin can review and approve them.

If you do not corroborate the request inside a reasonable time of your receiving initial permission request email, then the tape of your online contact information will be deleted.

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

We're required past police to obtain verifiable consent from the kid'south parent before we gather whatsoever personal information from the child. Considering of this, we need to verify your identity and then we know yous are actually you.

One of the most common identity verification methods is charging or authorizing a pocket-sized amount to your credit card. The credit carte du jour transaction proves your identity. This process is handled by our verification provider SuperAwesome, in accordance with their Privacy Policy, meaning that your credit card information volition Not exist shared with Niantic. Your credit bill of fare will NOT be used for any other purpose.

The amount and type of transaction depends on your location:

  • In the US, this is a one-time accuse for $one.00. This is a payment and NOT a temporary authorisation hold. The full amount of this charge is donated to clemency by our identity verification provider SuperAwesome. No further charges will be made to your credit card after this verification payment.
  • Outside the The states, SuperAwesome places a temporary dominance hold for £0.30. Authorization holds are not charges and will be removed by your financial institution after approximately 7 days.

How do I corroborate or revoke my child's permissions?

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

  2. On the overview page, click See Profile to view your kid's permissions.

  3. Under the Active Apps department, click Review to manage each permission for Pokémon GO.

Tin can I link my Niantic Kids business relationship to another login method?

No. The account linking functionality is not available to children under the historic period of 13. Trainers under the historic period of 13 will not see the option in the Settings menu.

Tin I enable Friend List, Trading Pokémon, sponsored PokéStops, and other features on my kid's Niantic Kids business relationship?

If your kid logs into Pokémon GO using Niantic Kids, yous can opt into enabling social features such as Friends, Gifting, Trading, and sponsored PokéStops for your child in the  Niantic Kids Parent Portal. You can also revoke your child's access to these features at any time.

If you enable social features on your kid'due south business relationship, your child's friends volition see your child'southward Trainer profile and express information well-nigh the location where your child initially collected Pokémon or Gifts. When your child makes new friends, you will receive a digest email listing the new friendships your child has made that day.

Need to go far touch on with us regarding an issue with Niantic Kids?

Please contact united states and select "Sign-in outcome".