AgeGO

What the vendor is

AgeGO is an online age verification service that a website embeds as a widget to confirm that a visitor is 18 or older before any content appears. Its privacy policy names Age Verification Technology, S.L. as the company that provides it, and its about page says AgeGO was founded in 2018, is based in Barcelona, Spain, and is part of EXOGROUP, a set of companies offering services within the digital business landscape. For a site operator it works as a third-party age gate: the site hands the visitor to AgeGO, and the site receives a verification result rather than the visitor's identity. The products page gives adult content platforms their own +18 section, saying they have a strict responsibility to keep content away from users under 18, and lists them alongside streaming and VoD services, social media, dating, gaming, gambling, AI chatbots and online sales of alcohol, cannabis and tobacco.

What it sells an operator

The product an adult platform buys is the gate itself. The about page says websites integrate the AgeGO widget, and the explainer page describes the flow: when a user arrives at an age-restricted site, before any content is visible, a widget appears asking the user to verify their age and offering a choice of methods. The explainer notes that Ofcom mentions 4 types of gate in common use, the front gate, blur gate, image gate and in-video gate, and that Ofcom recommends the front gate for adult sites.

The explainer lists 4 trusted methods. The first is a selfie taken with a phone, laptop or webcam, using age estimation. The second matches a selfie to a scan of an official government photo ID. The third is a credit card, which the page says implies a user over 18 in some countries. The fourth is Yoti Digital ID, a downloadable third-party app. The privacy policy also names a mobile phone number among the possible methods. AgeGO calls its sequencing a waterfall approach: a visitor who cannot pass one method can move to another, and the page says the approach guarantees double anonymity.

The privacy policy names the providers behind each method. Yoti LTD runs the digital ID method, Klippa App B.V the ID document method, Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL the selfie scan and face matching, and Shift4 Payments LLC, described as a PCI-compliant payment gateway, the credit card method. The policy says these checks run directly between the visitor and the provider, so the provider cannot tell which website the visitor is trying to reach, and AgeGO runs its own liveness detection to confirm that a face comes from a live person. AgeGO's core infrastructure is hosted within the European Union.

Repeat visitors are the second part of the offer. Once a visitor passes, the explainer says they can create an AgeGO account and enter any website or app that uses AgeGO without verifying again. The account holds an encrypted email address, the account creation date, the method used and the verification result. Visitors pay nothing: the end-user terms say the service is provided free of charge to end users. Business pricing is not published on the public pages; the site's Businesses menu points to registration, documentation and a separate set of business terms.

The terms that decide the choice

AgeGO's adult acceptance is explicit: adult content platforms are a named vertical with their own section, and the about page lists among its values that adults should be free to access the content they want within the law. The pages set no content rules of their own for the adult sites that use the gate.

The privacy policy fixes who decides what. The business customer, meaning the site that integrates AgeGO, is the data controller for verification data and sets the purpose of the check, while AgeGO acts primarily as a data processor working on that customer's instructions. Only the verification result, such as verified as 18+, not verified or verification failed, goes to the site, and the policy says that result contains no personal data. The decision to grant or deny access "is made exclusively by the Business Customer, not AgeGO", and final responsibility for access restrictions lies with the site. The end-user terms add that the service does not guarantee a result will grant access to a third-party service and that AgeGO cannot verify the truthfulness of the information a user supplies.

Retention is short. The policy says AgeGO keeps no identity documents, facial images or card details collected during a check; providers delete them once the check completes, and internal liveness images are deleted too. When a visitor fails, AgeGO keeps only a non-identifiable outcome for as long as it takes to inform the site and stop repeated attempts. Explicit consent is requested before biometric data is processed, and a visitor who thinks an automated decision was wrong can ask for a human review. The cookies policy lists the cookies the gate sets on the publisher's domain, depending on the visitor's location, including a session cookie and a cookie that lasts 365 days to remember a verification.

As a verification service with no revenue share or payout, AgeGO has no reserve or payout terms for an operator to weigh.

Getting started and support

A site starts through the Businesses section, which links registration, documentation and the business terms of service. On the visitor side, the help center hosts FAQs and an AI assistant that answers questions about verification, and the privacy policy says assistant queries may be processed by OpenAI. AgeGO has appointed a Data Protection Officer who handles data requests by email or by post at its Barcelona office.

Company and track record

Age Verification Technology, S.L. gives its registered office as C/ Marina, 16-18, 08005 Barcelona in the cookies policy. The about page lists the company's values as protection, trust, safety, transparency, liberty and compliance. The homepage and help center say AgeGO is ISO and ACCS certified for age verification and GDPR compliant, and the homepage carries data protection, registration and age verification certification marks. The explainer page walks through age verification rules in the US states, France, the UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Brazil and the EU, in the vendor's own words, and notes France's requirement that adult sites verify through an independent third party so the site never sees the user's identity.

Who it suits

AgeGO is filed under age verification only. For an adult platform the fit is a front gate with a choice of methods, named providers behind each one and a reusable account that lets returning visitors skip the check, while the site keeps the access decision and the data controller role. A site serving visitors in several countries can use the credit card method only where the vendor says a card implies adulthood, and relies on the other methods elsewhere. The caveats are that business pricing sits behind registration and that the end-user terms disclaim both the accuracy of what users submit and any guarantee of access. AgeGO's strength is a privacy design in which the site receives only a yes or no and the verifying provider never learns which site was visited.