Age verification with Aithne never collects who you are — it proves a single claim about you ("18+") from your own wallet.
The short version
You hold it. Your Aithne Wallet holds your identity as a Public Identity Credential (PIC), plus an age attestation issued by an Age Attestation Provider (AAP).
You approve it. When a site asks whether you're over a threshold, you approve releasing just that claim. That claim is the only thing the site receives.
They verify it. The merchant's PPIL client asks the AVP endpoint (https://aithne.online/avp) to verify the attestation and returns an auditable, merchant-signed result.
What the merchant never sees
Your name, date of birth, address, email, phone, payment details, or any document image. None of it is part of the request, response, or logs.
What about repeat visits?
Verified users short-circuit the age gate: a merchant-signed verification in the session means no repeat dialog. The user isn't asked to prove themselves again on every page load.
Is it the same on every site?
Yes, by design. The PPIL client surface and the AVP contract are shared across Node.js, TypeScript, PHP, Python, and Java clients, so the flow feels consistent wherever a merchant uses it.