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User Verification Procedures and Limits

Last updated 10 Feb 2020

We use multi-level systems and procedures to collect and verify information about you in order to help keep ourselves, other users and our partners safe from fraudulent activity and for record-keeping purposes. In addition, to help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, applicable law requires financial institutions to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person who opens an account.

Your daily or weekly add-funds limits, remove-funds limits, transaction limits, and transfer limits are based on the information you provide to us. Users who wish to use the Uphold platform must establish an account with us by, at a minimum:

  • Providing their legal name
  • Verifying their email address
  • Verifying their date of birth
  • Providing their phone number
  • Providing a government-issued ID – such as a passport or driver’s license (a second form of government-issued ID may be required to surpass certain transaction thresholds), and 
  • Accepting our User Agreement in full

Users who wish to add or remove value using an available fiat transfer must, at minimum:

  • Add and verify a bank account, credit and/or debit card;
  • Provide additional details, including their residential address and government-issued document and/or social security number; and
  • We also may require that you provide or verify additional identifying information or wait some amount of time for a transaction before permitting you to use the Uphold platform at all or at any given level. 

A corporation, partnership, trust, or other legal entity may need to provide other information, such as its principal place of business, local office, employer identification number, certified articles of incorporation, government-issued business license, partnership agreement, or trust agreement.

If you don't provide the information requested or your identity can't be verified, we may not be able to open an account or carry out transactions for you. If we have already opened an account for you, we may have to close it.

You may view applicable volume limits by visiting here.

You can contact us through support to request increased limits. We may require you to submit to enhanced due diligence at your cost and, of course, we cannot guarantee that we can increase your limits.

 



Uphold Europe Limited, Reg No. 09281410, Registered Office: Eastcastle House, 27/28 Eastcastle Street, London, United Kingdom, W1W 8DH

Uphold (FRN: 938277) is registered with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for AML purposes and complies with the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer for Funds (Information on the Payer).

Uphold is also an EMD agent (FRN: 938277) of Optimus Cards UK Limited (FRN: 902034) which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority to issue e-money pursuant to the Electronic Money Regulations 2011.

Cryptoasset services offered by Uphold Europe Limited are unregulated and not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme as well as the FCA’s consumer protection regulations. Cryptoassets are very high risk and speculative. You should be aware and prepared to potentially lose some or all of your money. You should carefully consider whether trading or holding cryptoassets is suitable for you in light of your financial circumstances. Gains may be subject to Capital Gains Tax and there may be extra charges when paying via credit card from your provider. Geographic restrictions may apply.

Fiat money payments and balances (fiat is another name for traditional currencies, such as GBP, USD and EUR) constitute regulated e-money and payment services. In providing fiat balances, you are being issued with e-money by Optimus and Uphold is acting as its agent. See specific e-money terms. E-money is not a deposit or investment account which means that your e-money will not be protected by the FSCS. Your funds will be held in a designated safeguarding account with a regulated financial institution. E-money will not earn any interest.

Uphold is certified for SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS, ensuring rigorous control over our information security management systems, data handling, and payment processing practices. Furthermore, we comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the UK Data Protection Act, underscoring our dedication to protecting the personal data and privacy rights of our global customers.

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