Protection of minors
This page explains who may use Xpress, from what age, and how we prevent minors from accessing products that are not intended for them.
1. Age required to hold an account
To create an Xpress account, you must have reached the age of majority applicable in your country of residence. That age is not the same everywhere: it is set by national law, and we apply the law of the country from which the service is used.
We do not offer a version intended for children and do not knowingly collect their data.
2. Parental consent
Where the applicable regulation so requires, processing the data of a person below the age of majority is subject to the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
A parent may at any time request access to their child’s data, its correction or its erasure. Such requests are handled as a priority, and we do not require the child to be informed beforehand.
3. Adult-only products: what we hide
Every product listed carries a mandatory declaration stating whether it is intended for an adult audience. A seller cannot publish without answering: omission is refused, and never becomes an implicit “all audiences”.
This covers in particular alcoholic beverages, tobacco and related products, adult items, and any goods whose sale is subject to an age condition.
We then use your date of birth to hide those products everywhere they could appear: catalogue, search, recommendations, shop pages, conversational assistant. The filter is not limited to a single page.
Without a date of birth on file, those products are hidden. We cannot establish that the age condition is met, and the absence of information is not authorisation. This is a display restriction, not a penalty: adding your date of birth to your profile lifts it.
4. What this mechanism does not guarantee
The filter relies on a declaration, not on identity verification. It prevents accidental access and satisfies our display obligations; it does not claim to make fraud impossible.
Where regulation requires enhanced verification, supporting documentation may be requested at the time of the order. A knowingly false age declaration engages the responsibility of its author and may lead to account closure.
5. Reporting a minor’s account or inappropriate content
If you believe that someone below the required age holds an account, or that inappropriate content is accessible, write to us stating what you observed and where.
We handle such reports as a priority and remove without delay any manifestly unlawful content.
6. Thresholds depend on the country
The required age is not the same everywhere and cannot be derived from a single rule. We apply the one in force in the country where the product is offered. An item visible from one country may therefore be hidden from another.
🇨🇲 Cameroon
Age of majority : 21
Applicable framework : Civil Code (age of majority) and Law No. 2010/012 of 21 December 2010 on cybersecurity and cybercrime.
🇰🇪 Kenya
Age of majority : 18
Applicable framework : Data Protection Act 2019 (s. 33, children’s data) and Children Act 2022.
This list changes as we open new countries. The threshold applied is the one configured for the country at the time of display: a regulatory change takes effect without sellers having to edit their product listings.