Age verification on UK adult platforms

If you are joining an adult platform in the UK, you will be asked to verify your age. Here is what that means on Galerie Minuit, and why it is required.

The legal backdrop: the Online Safety Act 2023

In the UK and EU, Galerie Minuit complies with the Online Safety Act 2023, which requires highly effective age assurance for adult content platforms. In practice this means an adult platform cannot simply ask you to tick a box saying you are 18 — it has to use a method robust enough to actually establish your age.

Because requirements vary by region, the methods offered to you depend on where you are.

The methods

During onboarding we route you through the age-verification methods available for your region. Those methods include:

• Facial age estimation — an automated estimate of your age from a selfie.
• Photo ID — verifying against a government-issued document.
• Credit card verification — confirming you hold an adult payment instrument.

You are shown the options that apply to your region and complete the one that suits you.

What gets stored

This is the part people worry about most. We store only the verification outcome — not your documents. The point of age assurance is to confirm you are an adult, not to build a file of your identity documents.

Why it protects the community

Every member must verify they are 18 or older during registration, and the platform reserves the right to require additional identity verification. Combined with automated content moderation and human review, robust age assurance keeps the community made up of consenting, age-verified adults — which is exactly the environment the law is designed to protect.

If you want the step-by-step of how the check runs in the app, see our guide on how verification works.