Age check 18+ Guaranteed working method:
IJswijnen.nl, version 1.1 dated 23-06-2021
What is the purpose of this document/page?
The purpose of this document/page is to describe the checkpoints that IJswijnen.nl has put in place to ensure that alcohol is only sold to buyers who are 18 years of age or older.
This page/document explains how IJswijnen.nl monitors the age limit and how IJswijnen.nl ensures that the working method is known and clear to employees.
What is the Alcohol Act?
The name of the Alcohol and Catering Act will change to the Alcohol Act from 1 July 2021. The most important changes are: better age verification, a ban on price promotions and strong alcoholic beverages may only be sold online by liquor stores.
What checkpoints has IJswijnen.nl set up?
1) Age verification system
Every visitor to our webshop is required to confirm that the buyer is 18 years or older. The goal is to make it clear before the buyer has been able to view products that alcohol may only be purchased if you are 18 years or older. This age verification system is currently not watertight. After all, everyone can indicate (including minors) that they are older than 18. The government will therefore create an age verification system in the not too distant future that will make it possible to determine the age of the consumer in a reliable and unambiguous manner. As soon as this age verification system becomes available, IJswijnen.nl will switch to it.
2) Notification in the top bar
IJswijnen.nl wants at all times, even after the age verification system has been completed, that it is clear to the buyer that only 18+ buyers are allowed to buy alcohol from IJswijnen.nl and that the delivery person determines via the buyer's ID whether the buyer is 18 years or older. After all, it is possible that an 18+ buyer logs in and then walks away from the computer and a minor completes the purchase.
3) Age verification PostNL
Every package sent by IJswijnen.nl is indicated in the Flespakket system that PostNL performs an age check of 18+. The PostNL delivery person then checks the age of the recipient at the door. The delivery person checks the age based on the ID of the recipient. He only gives the package if the recipient meets the age requirement.
If the 18+ Age Check was not successful because the recipient was not at home, or because the delivery person could not check his age? Then the delivery person will take the package back. The shipment will be taken to a PostNL location nearby, where the recipient can pick it up within 1 week with a valid ID. If no one comes to pick up the package? Then the shipment will be returned. If the addressee turns out to be someone younger than 18, then the package will also be returned in this case.
4) Delivery to neighbours is no longer possible
It is not possible to have the package delivered to the neighbors if an Age Check 18+ must be done. If the Age Check 18+ is not successful because the recipient was not at home, the delivery person will take the package back. The shipment will be taken to a PostNL location nearby, where the recipient can pick it up within 1 week with a valid ID. If no one comes to pick up the package? Then the shipment will be returned.
5) IJswijnen.nl does not sell strong alcoholic beverages
IJswijnen.nl does not sell strong alcoholic beverages now and will not do so in the future.
How does IJswijnen.nl ensure that everyone within the company adheres to the rules?
1) IJswijnen.nl is a one-man business
Since its inception in 2010, it has not used any external staff to date.
2. Required reading for external employees
Should IJswijnen.nl in the future make use of external personnel, it will be required in advance that these employees read the books of the Social Hygiene training. The books of this training are available within IJswijnen.nl.
In addition, the employee is required to take note of this document. The latest version of this document is printed in the books of Social Hygiene added.
3. Age check is set as default for Bottle Package
When creating a shipping label in the Flespakket system, the 18+ age check is automatically added. In the Flespakket back office system, it is indicated that IJswijnen.nl has set the age check as the standard shipping option when creating each PostNL shipping label. When creating a shipping label automatically or manually, it is not possible to forget to turn on the age check.
What happens if the PostNL delivery person has delivered the package to a minor?
Flespakket/PostNL has indicated to IJswijnen.nl that the chance of this happening is very small. Should this happen, IJswijnen.nl will make an incident report and then file a complaint with Flespakket/PostNL.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this document, please contact us at: info@ijswijnen.nl.
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