For the purposes of this title:
(a)
- (1) “Account holder” means an individual who is at least 18 years of age or a parent or legal guardian of a user who is under 18 years of age in the state.
- (2) “Account holder” does not include a parent of an emancipated minor or a parent or legal guardian who is not associated with a user’s device.
(b) “Age bracket data” means nonpersonally identifiable data derived from a user’s birth date or age for the purpose of sharing with developers of applications that indicates the user’s age range, including, at a minimum, the following:
- (1) Whether a user is under 13 years of age.
- (2) Whether the user is at least 13 years of age and under 16 years of age.
- (3) Whether the user is at least 16 years of age and under 18 years of age.
- (4) Whether the user is at least 18 years of age.
- (c) “Application” means a software application that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device that can access a covered application store or download an application.
- (d) “Child” means a natural person who is under 18 years of age.
(e)
- (1) “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application.
- (2) “Covered application store” does not mean an online service or platform that distributes extensions, plug-ins, add-ons, or other software applications that run exclusively within a separate host application.
- (f) “Developer” means a person that owns, maintains, or controls an application.
- (g) “Operating system provider” means a person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.
- (h) “Signal” means age bracket data sent by a real-time secure application programming interface or operating system to an application.
- (i) “User” means a child that is the primary user of the device.