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Kids with Bounce watches can’t be added to index S2 scale

So we have two kids with Garmin Bounce watches. They have Garmin Jr/Bounce profiles created under my user ID, but there seems to be no way to add them to the scale the same way I can add connections.

This scale sells for two to three times the price of other scales with the same claimed features and I doubt anyone buys it for any reason other than integration with the Garmin ecosystem, so it seems like it should do almost every possible thing one would want for integration, or should sell for half the price.

0 seilogramp 8 months ago

Being a US-based company, Garmin is following the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. For the US, this needs to be a Garmin Account for a user that is at least 13 years old, for other countries the requirement is usually 16 years old.

If you'd like this to function like a Bounce account, suggest contacting Garmin Product Support to voice your concerns.

For reference, there have been several threads over the years - Search COPPA - Garmin Forums

Garmin-AmberD said:
This rule regarding age comes from the COPPA act. It was written specifically for Internet marketers that operate Web sites visited by children under the age of 13 and collect personal information from those kids. Its purpose is to regulate that collection. Here is a link with this information regarding the act. We still do care very much for your feedback regarding your experience as others have asked this as well. The link from the FTC is below:

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/rules/rulemaking-regulatory-reform-proceedings/childrens-online-privacy-protection-rule