What does JusProg Consent?
JusProg Consent is a system that allows children to easily and quickly ask their parents or other guardians for consent to use a website or app when required by law or website ownership.
The parental consent process is completely digital. The child can use the smartphone, tablet, notebook or a stationary computer at home or on the road and the parents can be at work, for example, and give or refuse consent there.
The whole process is done in a few minutes. Parents can also give (or withhold) consent later, when they have the opportunity.
Why JusProg is committed to Consent?
Part of good youth protection for children and young people on the internet is also to allow minors to participate as fully and safely as possible in the digital world. The non-profit JusProg e.V. supports this as the first German Parental Consent Provider.
Not much is gained when large portals such as Instagam and Tiktok, under pressure from the law, simply state that their services may only be used from the age of 16. Result: Either the younger children are tempted to lie about their age or they are left out. Neither makes sense. Parents constantly sitting next to their children while they are on the internet may be desirable (not always, children also need a sense of freedom of discovery), but is at least not the real life reality.
With JusProg Consent, “digitally immature” children should be able to legally use the internet offers they want. Parents should be able to set the conditions for use in a simple way. Example: My child may use portal X, but only in safe mode and without personalised data collection for advertising purposes.
JusProg Consent enables children to participate digitally in a safe environment.
Why is parental consent needed?
The legal basis for parental consent is an EU regulation (GDPR), implemented in Germany in the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO).
If websites and other digital services want to process personal data of their users, they need the consent of the users to do so. As a rule, this is done by confirming the terms and conditions and data protection provisions. But what do children do who are legally too young to give this consent?
In Germany, the age of digital consent is 16, in many other EU countries it is lower.
JusProg Consent, the first German parental consent provider, organises the consent (or non-consent) of parents for children who have not yet reached this age, so that these children can also participate in the digital world within the framework set by their parents.
But it is not only about laws and data protection regulations. Parents should also be able to decide together with their children about content, functions and safe modes that their children use on portals. JusProg Consent is also available for this.