Protecting children is an important priority for all Apple employees. We advocate transparency and will provide parents with the information they need so that they can decide how to make the most favorable choice for their children. We are committed to providing parents with intuitive and customizable control functions. By creating an Apple ID for your child, you can let your child use Family Sharing with you and other family members. Your children will be able to share music, movies, TV shows, books, apps, photos, calendars, locations, and more with you and your family. Your child can also use all the services and content available to the Apple ID account holder to get a personalized Apple ID experience.

Please note that this disclosure does not apply to the data collection practices of any third-party APP. Before your children purchase or download, you should read the terms, policies and practices of such third-party apps in detail to understand what data may be collected from your children by the third party and how the third party may use these data.

Your child's Apple ID

Through the Apple ID you created for them, your children will be able to take advantage of all Apple functions and services that use Apple ID. For example, your child will be able to:

• Make and receive FaceTime video and voice calls.
• Create and share photos, videos, voice messages, and text with Camera, Photos, Messages, Mail, and other Apple apps.
• Create documents and data, and share them with others through iCloud public and private sharing functions. Depending on the settings selected, these may include your child's name and contact information (if provided).
• Use Find, Info, and other apps that use location services to share their location with family members, and use Find to locate supported devices and accessories. If you share your child's location with your family when you create their Apple ID or use Family Sharing to set up their Apple Watch, your child's location information will be shared with all family members (including new members added later). Your child can customize their location sharing settings, unless "screen usage time" limits this.
• Access the shared calendar so that you and your children can share past and future schedules with other family members.
• Access, play online and download content and subscriptions purchased by other family members, including music, movies, TV programs, podcasts, apps and in app purchases, books, Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple News+and Apple TV+.
• Purchase content and download free content in Apple Music, App Store, Books Store and Apple TV app; Purchase in app; And subscribe to Apple Arcade, Apple News+, Apple TV+and Apple Music, and fully follow the "ask before purchase" setting you set.
• Receive recommendations in Apple Music and Apple TV apps.
• Use Game Center to play games and interact with other users, and share information with other users, including your child's Game Center nickname, avatar, and friend information.
• After you set up an account for them, use various Apple Pay services (such as "Traffic Card" and Apple Cash) to make payments and collect money, and save and use vouchers such as tickets and boarding passes in the wallet app.
• Track and share health information, such as heart rate, blood pressure, or nutrient intake, as well as physical training and activity data. If your child uses the Apple Watch, your child can choose to share his/her physical training and activity data with other Apple Watch users by sharing fitness records, including details such as the number of steps and distance taken in a day. If your child uses the health app, your child can also share some health information with other health app users in the "address book" through the health sharing function, including some historical health data and subsequent updates related to the data shared. Even after deleting a health app user from your child's "address book", your child can still maintain a sharing relationship with the user.
• Store photos, videos, documents, memos, contacts, calendars, emails, backups, and other app data (including Apple Arcade game activities) in iCloud.

Your children can also access some functions and services that do not require Apple ID, such as accessing and searching the Internet and Internet resources through Safari browser and Siri search, and using Siri to ask questions and complete tasks.

In addition to the above examples, we may add other functions when releasing software updates. We recommend that you read the instructions and terms related to such released versions before your children download the updates to their devices.

Parental control

Family Sharing allows you to seamlessly share your choices with your family. However, sometimes you may want to restrict your child's access to certain content or resources that other family members can access. To help you manage your children's access to Apple ID services and functions, we provide some different parental control functions, including "screen usage time", "access restrictions" and "ask before purchase" of "family sharing". The control function for spending and receiving funds using Apple Pay services such as Apple Cash can be found in "Wallet".

Screen usage time

If you and your child use iOS 12 or higher, iPadOS or macOS, you can use the "screen usage time" function to limit the child's use of any iOS, iPadOS or macOS device that has logged in. This includes setting the specific time period when the screen is not allowed to be used; Restrict access to specific functions, apps or app categories; And set age based content access restrictions for movies, music, books, and other content.

If you use Family Sharing Settings and enable Class Hours, you can determine when to restrict family members from using some features of the Apple Watch. If a family member unlocks the Apple Watch during class time, you can see the unlocking in the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. This information will be sent to Apple after end-to-end encryption, but it will only be associated with your Apple ID so that Apple can provide information about unlocking.

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If you or your child uses an iOS version lower than iOS 12, you can set access restrictions for your child on any iOS or iPadOS device your child uses by going to Settings>General>Access Restrictions; Or on a Mac, go to System Settings>Parental Controls to make relevant settings. With these settings, you can limit certain functions, such as FaceTime calls, cameras, Safari browsers, multiplayer games, certain social media apps, and you can also specify content suitable for children. This is an important step in managing children's activities on Apple devices. The above access restrictions and parental controls should be set on every device used by children.

Ask your family before sharing and buying

With the "Family Sharing" feature, you can specify up to five other family members through Apple ID to share purchases, subscriptions and more with these family members. "Ask before purchase" is a function of "Family Sharing", which enables you to view and approve the downloads and purchases requested by your children, including purchases in the App Store or in the app using iTunes. The system will enable "Ask Before Purchase" by default for all users added to the family who are less than 13 years old (or the corresponding minimum age specified by the jurisdiction where they live). If you choose to turn off "pre purchase inquiry" for your child, you will receive information about the purchase in the form of an email receipt (sent within 24-72 hours after purchase) or a credit card bill, including in app purchases through the App Store or iTunes.

Please note that apps purchased through the "bulk purchase plan" and those downloaded again or using the redemption code may not be subject to the restriction of "ask before purchase".

Create a child's Apple ID

If you want to create an Apple ID for your child, we must first confirm that you agree to the disclosure of family privacy information about the child (hereinafter referred to as "disclosure") and the Apple Privacy Policy 。 If Apple Privacy Policy In case of conflict with this disclosure, the terms of this disclosure shall prevail.

In order to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and similar applicable laws governing children's online data collection in other jurisdictions, Apple has the right to take other measures to verify whether the user authorized to create a child's Apple ID is the child's parent or legal guardian. Therefore, in these jurisdictions, you may be asked to verify your current iTunes, iCloud or Apple Store payment method. Depending on the specific payment method, the credit card security code or similar verification method may be used to complete the verification. In addition, you can also choose to use the ID in the wallet to verify your age, or use your Apple ID account to verify.

The purpose that we require you to complete this verification is to ensure that we can verify your identity as a family organizer or parent/guardian, and confirm that you agree that we collect your children's personal information.

If there is no verifiable parental consent, we will not intentionally collect, use or disclose any personal information of your child, unless COPPA exceptions apply. Read this disclosure and Apple Privacy Policy After providing a verifiable parental consent form, you can create a Apple ID 。 Your child will be able to use their Apple ID to access Apple features and services that use Apple ID, except those features and services that you block in "screen usage time" or "access restrictions". However, you cannot remove a child's account from the family unless the child's Apple ID is deleted, the child is 13 years old (or the corresponding minimum age specified by the jurisdiction), or you transfer the child to another family. When your child has reached the age of 13 (or the corresponding minimum age specified by the jurisdiction where he/she lives), he/she can have his/her own account independently without participating in family sharing.

Information collection

In the process of creating an Apple ID for your child, we will ask you to provide the information needed to create an account, which may include: the child's full name, date of birth, e-mail address, password, answers to three security tips, phone numbers, and country/region of residence. Your child's date of birth will be used to determine eligible services and recommend parental controls.

We may collect other information from your children, which in some cases is defined as personal information in COPPA. For example, when your child logs in with his or her Apple ID, we may collect information such as device identifier, cookie, IP address, and his or her geographical location and time zone when using Apple devices. We may also collect information about your children's activities and interactions through our websites, apps, products and services, including content provided by third-party developers.

Use of information

as Apple Privacy Policy As described in, Apple may use your child's information to convey important notifications, send information, product and service information and notifications, provide services and content, and improve our products, content and services. We may also use their information for internal purposes, such as auditing, data analysis and research.

We may use, transfer and disclose non personal information for any purpose (data that will not directly relate to your child's identity). For example, we may classify and summarize and use information about customers' activities in our website, iCloud service, iTunes Store and other products and services to help us provide more practical information for customers and understand which parts of our website, products and services customers are most interested in. The data summarized by category is considered as non personal information.

The "Personalized Advertising" setting will be turned off. You cannot enable this feature for your child's Apple ID. Your children will not receive advertisements, including targeted advertisements related to their interests from Apple's advertising platform on devices associated with their Apple IDs, and non targeted (i.e. situational) advertisements on these devices. In addition, the "Allow App Request Tracking" setting will be turned off and cannot be enabled. Apps and advertisers will not be able to access the advertising identifiers provided by the operating system, and will be responsible for complying with Apple's relevant guidelines, which do not allow them to place targeted ads, measure advertising effects, or share information with data brokers.

information sharing

According to the access restrictions you set, your children can use their Apple ID to share information with others, depending on the Apple functions and services they use (such as the functions described above).

Family sharing

As part of "family sharing", your children's information (including the items they bought through the App Store or iTunes in the past and in the future) can be shared with your family members. According to the access restrictions you set, your children can also choose to share their information with family members through "iCloud Photo Sharing", sharing calendars and reminders, "Find" and "Location Sharing".

In addition, if your child uses his or her Apple ID to log in on a device owned by a third party (such as a friend's or school's iPad), your child's information (including shared information of other family members) may be downloaded to this device, and other people using this device can also see this information, unless/until you log out of your child's Apple ID on the corresponding device.

cooperative partner

Apple may sometimes cooperate with third parties to provide services or other products. For example, if you choose to enable an Apple Cash account for your child, your child's information will be provided to Apple's partner bank, Green Dot Bank, in order to provide you with the service you requested. Apple will only share personal information from your children for the purpose of providing or improving our products and services; They will not share personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.

Service Provider

Apple will share personal information with companies that provide the following services: information processing, fulfilling customer orders, delivering products to you or your children, managing and enhancing customer data, providing customer services, evaluating your or your children's interest in our products and services, and conducting customer research or satisfaction surveys. These companies have an obligation to protect your children's information and may be located anywhere Apple engages in business activities.

other

In some cases, Apple may need to disclose your or your children's personal information, for example, according to the laws, legal procedures, lawsuits and/or requirements of public institutions and government departments inside and outside the country where you live. If we determine that disclosure is necessary or appropriate for national security, law enforcement or other matters involving major public interests, we may also disclose personal information about you or your children.

If we decide that it is reasonably necessary to disclose information in order to implement our terms and conditions or to protect our business or users, we may also disclose personal information about you or your children. In addition, in case of reorganization, merger or sale, we may transfer any and all personal information we have collected to relevant third parties.

Access, correction and deletion

If you want to access, correct or delete the data associated with "Family Sharing" or your child's Apple ID, please contact us through the following link:

apple.com.cn/privacy/contact

You can also use the following contact information:

Apple

One Apple Park Way

Cupertino, CA 95014

+1 408 996 1010

Consent to Apple's collection, use and disclosure of your child's information

Clicking "Agree" means that you agree with Apple's Apple Privacy Policy And the provisions in this disclosure to collect, use and disclose information about your child.

Please note that this consent does not apply to any third party's practice of collecting data. Third parties who may collect, use or disclose your children's information, including the developers of apps downloaded by any family members and apps that your children can access through "family sharing", are responsible for obtaining additional verifiable parental consent. We encourage you to ask your children to discuss and communicate with you before providing any personal information to these third parties.

Please note that Apple will regularly release software updates for our devices. At that time, users can download these updates on relevant devices, including the devices where your children use their Apple ID. We recommend that you update on any such device and review and agree to accept the applicable terms, such as iOS and macOS terms.

If you're right Apple Privacy Policy Or if you have any questions or concerns about this disclosure, please go to apple.com.cn/privacy/contact contact us.