What is the Age 18+ France claim type?
Age 18+ France supports ARCOM “double anonymat” expectations by separating identity verification from service context. It evaluates whether a user meets the required age threshold using methods covered in the technical guidelines on age verification published by ARCOM.
Use it when you are gating an experience for users in France.
Where you might use it
The use cases below are examples of where this claim type may be a fit:
- Mature content
How the claim is evaluated
This claim type supports two methods:
- Facial age estimation. Checks whether a user meets your age threshold by capturing a selfie and estimating their age.
- Document with selfie. Confirms a user’s age from their government ID, matched to a live-bound selfie to make sure it’s really them.
Relay runs the verification flow and determines which supported method to use for a given session. You do not select the method yourself, because the choice is part of what the claim type encodes. Persona tunes how each method is applied for France rather than using one generic configuration everywhere. The underlying thresholds and model configuration are part of Persona’s implementation and are not published.
The method is not disclosed in the result
This claim type behaves differently from most others in one specific way. To preserve privacy, the method used is not shared in the redeemed result, so the claim payload does not include a methodology field.
That is deliberate. Withholding which method was used removes one more signal that could be tied back to an individual user, which is part of the separation this claim type is built around. Everything else about the result is unchanged: you still receive a pass or fail, and you should still store it as your record.
methodology field, make sure it handles the field being absent. Age 18+ France and Age 18+ Italy are the two claim types that omit it.Where do you find it in the Dashboard?
Navigate to the Dashboard and click on Relay > Claim Types. Age 18+ France is listed under Age, and you can copy its ID directly from the table.
Relay runs inside your own product, so there is nothing to configure on this page and no verification records to review. Pass the ID from your integration when you create a Relay session, then store the claim result you get back. See Integrating Relay.
You can also see Relay running in the public demo at explore.withpersona.com/relay.
A note on age assurance and compliance
Relay’s architecture separates identity verification from service context by default: your platform receives only an eligibility result, never the underlying identity data. It does not by itself guarantee that every aspect of a double anonymity requirement is satisfied, because some of those requirements cover things that happen outside Relay, in your own product.
Age assurance requirements vary by jurisdiction and use case. While Persona’s claim types are informed by regulatory guidance, standards, and industry best practices, your organization is responsible for determining how to implement age verification in a way that meets applicable laws and requirements. You should evaluate your use of Relay as part of your broader compliance strategy. Relay is built to be a useful part of that larger process rather than the whole of it. It gives you an assurance signal at the point of access, while the surrounding policy, record keeping, and enforcement decisions stay with you.
Persona Atlas tracks age assurance regulations across markets if you are working out what applies where.
Plans Explained
Age 18+ France Claim Type by plan
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