Age protect the site?

[bjraines]

I have a client who needs to age protect his content. It is for novelty items (nonsexual) but doesn' t want to sell to minors.

Is this setup for this or maybe a module?

[kobra]

This is a problem with the internet....How does one validate age?

The not selling to minors is addressable like with UPS and a requirement to provide age verification & signature for the reciepient at a cost.

But the locking of the site can only be accomplished by using the account authorization prior to being allowed to see the content. Then it is up to the site manager to approve accounts before activation and they can request any validation that they want.

Not very automated I know.

[bjraines]

but is it possible to not accept the payment unless the credit card age verification happens. I have seen it on sites before.

[kobra]

unless the credit card age verification happens.

I have not seen this??? Do you have a link?
I do not see where any credit card info would have age associated with it.

Where and who would be performing the age verification and from what type of data?

[mlindi]

I think that the general (albeit faulty) assumption is that no one under age 18 would have a credit card - that is ... no rule-abiding person under the age of 18. ;)

[virtualahmad]

the only method i can think of for this is to create an intro page to the site, which asks the question, then passes a variable based on the selection to the ZC site. Now in your ZC site, you would have to check for that variable and either allow to continue, or redirect to a page indicating under age. To enhance the safety you would also store a cookie so that they can't just click back and change their option.

That all said, there is no fool proof method of this and that is understood. As long as you show you did due diligence, you should be fine.