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Age Verification

Protect your business from underage custom

Online retailers have a regulatory requirement to protect children from accessing age restricted products and services. Failure to do so not only breaks the law, leading to sanctions, heavy fines and loss of trade, it can also result in significant reputational damage. It is vital to trade responsibly. Callcredit provides a complete online solution for age verification by checking the age and identity of your customers swiftly and with confidence.

What is Age Verification?

Age Verification, part of Callcredit’s suite of ID solutions, enables online retailers to instantly verify a name, address and date of birth by accessing a wide range of independent positive and negative data sources.

Why use Age Verification

• The selling of age restricted goods requires compliance with the law and regulations
• Online Retailers who illegally sell to children can expect fines, prosecution and reputational risk

Key business applications

• Gaming
• Knives
• Betting
• Tobacco
• Alcohol sales
• DVDs/Games
• Downloadable content
• Solvents
• Fireworks

Age Verification from Callcredit will confirm an individual's age once registered during an online transaction. The verification process automatically checks the databases above and returns and instant decision.

Not only will the customer's age be confirmed, the same process provides an accurate anti-fraud check protecting the business further.

Why Callcredit?

Callcredit has an unrivalled understanding of the financial services sector in relation to the prevention of financial crime and has developed a range of innovative solutions. These solutions are enabling major lenders and a host of other blue chip companies to make better decisions, more effectively and manage existing customers more profitably.

Please note: Callcredit provide credit reports for consumers only. We can not provide credit reports for businesses.

To contact the Verification Services team call 0113 244 1555 or email verificationservices@callcreditgroup.com

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If you are already a Callcredit client and need help or advice on any of our products please call our Helpdesk on 0845 120 1222.