Posted by Jason B. on Dec 17th 2020
How Underage Sales Are Prevented
We at Vapor Empire take pride in providing a quality shopping experience. Our goal is to ensure everyone of legal age can purchase vaping products with a simple and smooth experience.
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Understanding Underage Sale Prevention
Posted by Jason B, 17th December 2020
Our Policies are Firm
We at Vapor Empire take pride in providing a quality shopping experience. Our goal is to ensure everyone of legal age can purchase vaping products with a simple and smooth experience. To accomplish this we work closely with AgeChecker.net. to ensure the data that is processed (which only agechecker.net can only see), privately and as secure as possible.
Recently, the online vape retail space has been under growing scrutiny due to a small number of stores selling to minors, leading to fines or even shutdowns carried out various cities like Chicago, and states like California. Federally, the minimum age to purchase tobacco products was raised from 18 years old, to 21, with the FDA releasing guidelines including marketing orders providing a proper blueprint for retailers like us to set up our shop to be compliant and sustainable into the foreseeable future.
What is AgeChecker?
AgeChecker.net is a technology to verify the age of anyone looking to checkout vape products on our store. It is required for Vapor Empire to operate as an online vape shop under federal and state laws across the US. For most customers, we only need to get your legal name, date of birth, and physical address. In most cases, AgeChecker will be able to verify your information instantly, but there are a few case where customers will be required to submit an image of their government-issued photo ID. It's almost the same concept as if you were walking into a physical vape shop to buy.
If you're hesitant about providing a photo of your ID, rest assured your information is never shared, nor sold to any third-parties. Only AgeChecker.net will have this information, the Vapor Empire team won't even see it!
Photo IDs are not stored; they are deleted as soon as you are verified.
- AgeChecker.net
Not Flawless, But Working Towards Perfection
Every day we work on perfecting the balance between effectively verifying the age of our customers without hurting the overall experience of our website.
As we are all apart of the vaping community, we must work together to ensure people are aware that we as a vape retailer take underage sales seriously. The operations we carry in conjunction with AgeChecker.net allow us to confidently sell to the wonderful people of this world.
It is important to understand the following:
The products available on Vapor Empire are age-restricted, and intended for adults of legal smoking age only. Any and all orders which are processed through our website will be verified by AgeChecker.net before we begin any processing procedures.
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