Age Verification Explained

vapepie-usa.com provides age verification solutions to ecommerce stores selling age-restricted products.

Age Gate vs Age Verification

• An age gate is the popup that you see when you enter an age-restricted website, such as a gaming website or one that sells tobacco products, alcohol, adult-related products, etc. The vapepie-usa.com age gate is not intended to be a replacement for our full age verification service as it does not does not check the validity of the information, but it does serve to notify users of the minimum age and comply with merchant age restriction policies when used in addition to our comprehensive age verification system.

Why is age verification required?

• Websites selling certain products must comply with federal and state laws. For instance, tobacco and alcohol products are subject to a federal 21+ age requirement across the U.S. Websites, just like retail shops, are required to make sure you are of legal age before you buy.

• Some websites use our service even if they are not required to verify your age by law and each website chooses their own policies.

• vapepie-usa.com may be used to comply with minimum age laws, blocking sales to locations a business is choosing not to ship to, screening applications, general identity confirmation to prevent fraud, and more. Requirements, and why they are in place, are up to each individual website. We offer a variety of settings businesses can choose from to enforce their own policies and/or help them comply with laws and guidelines from governing bodies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Why now? I'm a longtime buyer.

• We understand that some adult customers may have been purchasing tobacco products on a website for years without having to go through age verification. Legal pressure, general growth in ecommerce, new products hitting the market, and more, have spurred the implementation of age verification technology for websites. Proper age verification is not just a best practice, but a law that is being increasingly enforced for online businesses.