Add an age gate without adding an identity trail.
AgeHandoff helps your team select and integrate a provider or EU-compatible wallet flow. Your website receives a signed age result — not a passport, selfie or date of birth.
verifiedSee the handoff in under a minute.
Use fictional personas to preview the states your signup flow needs to handle. No real identity data is requested or processed.
Ready to prove your age?
Choose a fictional identity signal. The provider returns an age band only — the client site never sees your document.
↳ A good integration makes failure states feel like part of the plan. Try the cancelled, expired and provider-error personas to see the recovery paths.
The result is useful.
The identity stays elsewhere.
What your team needs is a decision, not a copy of someone’s identity document. AgeHandoff helps you draw that boundary intentionally.
More data to secure, delete and explain.
Store a non-identifying decision record.
Enough to make and audit a decision — without building an identity database.
{
"age_verified": true,
"threshold": 15,
"provider": "demo_provider",
"verified_at": "timestamp",
"verification_id": "non-identifying reference"
}Four steps. One clean boundary.
The client website calls the connector. The connector handles the provider-specific work and returns a signed proof that the client can act on.
Monitor decisions,
not identities.
Fictional dashboard data shows the operational layer: health, outcomes and recent events without names, birthdays or document fields.
Verification activity
Approved vs. rejected
Access rule
Useful to your developer.
Clear to everyone else.
This example shows the shape of the handoff, not an official provider API. Your final endpoints and payloads depend on the provider you select.
Keep provider-specific logic behind a small connector layer. It keeps future wallet or provider changes manageable.
// Ask the connector for a provider session const session = await fetch('/verification/session', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify({ threshold: 15, return_url: '/signup/age-check/complete' }) }); const { redirect_url } = await session.json(); window.location.href = redirect_url;# Your server decides what to store result = connector.verify("req_7fd2a1") if result["age_verified"]: allow_signup() else: show_age_gate_retry() # Store the signed decision, not the identity audit_log.save(result["verification_id"])
Good architecture starts with careful wording.
There is no single universal EU age threshold. Requirements depend on the service, the country, the legal basis and the product risk.
Educational and technical demo. AgeHandoff is not an official EU service, does not provide legal certification and is not legal advice.
The Commission describes privacy-preserving proof-of-age tools and a feature-ready solution that can be customized by Member States and market players.
GDPR Article 8 sets 16 as the default for consent to information-society services, while Member States can lower it to 13.
French law sets 15 as the age at which a minor can consent alone to certain data processing; that is not a universal age gate for every service.
The 2026 Commission recommendation encourages Member States to make a solution available by the end of 2026; it is not a claim that every wallet is already live everywhere.
Know what your flow needs
before you build it.
I’ll help you review the signup journey, select a provider, configure thresholds, implement all outcomes and leave your team with a working integration plan.
Request a technical readiness audit No legal certification. No compliance guarantee. Just a focused technical review.