Kids' Safety & COPPA

How JCIL.AI protects children under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, written for parents in plain language, no legalese.

Default posture

JCIL.AI is not directed at children under 13. Our signup form requires a checked confirmation that the person creating the account is 13 or older, and records the date and time of that confirmation with the account. We do not advertise to children, build behavioral profiles on children, or use child content to train AI.

What we never do

  • Market to children or their parents based on conversation content
  • Show ads, run advertising pixels, or do any cross-site tracking, for anyone, at any age
  • Use conversation content to train AI models, ours or anyone else's
  • Transfer account data outside the United States for storage
  • Share data with any third party outside the services listed on the subprocessors page
  • Produce or serve any content sexualizing minors (our moderation pipeline blocks this at the platform level and escalates to immediate account termination plus an NCMEC report)

What we recommend for families

  • JCIL.AI is built for adults and teens 13 and up. For younger children, we recommend a parent drive the conversation from their own account.
  • Teens' accounts are their own: memory, conversations, and settings live under their login. Talk with your teen about what they share with any AI, ours included.
  • Our moderation pipeline flags crisis signals and points users to real human help. It is a safety net, not a substitute for a parent, pastor, or counselor.

Parents' rights

Under COPPA, parents have the right to review, request deletion of, and refuse further collection of their child's personal information. If you believe your child under 13 has created an account, contact us via the compliance form with topic COPPA / kids' safety. We'll verify the parental relationship, delete the account and its associated data, and confirm within 30 days.

Age-gating

Signup requires a checked box confirming the person is 13 or older and agrees to our Terms and Privacy Policy; the account cannot be created without it, and the confirmation is stored with a timestamp. This is an attestation, not identity verification. If we learn that a child under 13 has created an account, we delete the account and its associated data on learning about it.

Last updated: September 1, 2026. This page reflects current FTC guidance under COPPA. If pending FTC rulemaking alters this posture, we will update this page.