The policy statement states that the Commission will not bring an enforcement action under the COPPA Rule against operators of general audience sites and services and mixed audience sites and services that collect, use, or disclose personal information for the sole purpose of determining a user’s age without first obtaining verifiable parental consent—if they comply with certain conditions, specifically that they: Do not use or disclose information collected for age verification purposes for any purpose except to determine a user’s age; do not retain this information longer than necessary to fulfill the age verification purposes, and delete such information promptly thereafter; disclose information collected for age verification purposes only to those third parties the operator has taken reasonable steps to determine are capable of maintaining the confidentiality, security, and integrity of the information, including by obtaining certain written assurances from those third parties; provide clear notice to parents and children of the information collected for age verification purposes; employ reasonable security safeguards for information collected for age verification purposes; and * take reasonable steps to determine that any product, service, method, or third party utilized for age verification purposes is likely to provide reasonably accurate results as to the user’s age.