Compliance

Last updated 18 July 2026

Our position

Financial privacy is a legitimate right; compliance is how you keep it. 0FACE is non-custodial and screened. Privacy-preserving assets are supported as a privacy stance — not an evasion product. The same screening applies to every route.

1. Non-custodial · not a mixer

The router never holds your funds or keys; there is no pooled or commingled balance. A swap is a discrete exchange of one asset for another — it is not a mixer or tumbler, and balances are never combined to obscure origin.

2. Sanctions screening

Wallet addresses are screened against sanctions lists — including the U.S. OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List, and EU, UN and UK regimes — using blockchain analytics for indirect exposure. Flagged or high-risk addresses are refused.

3. KYC & source of funds

We may request identity verification (KYC) and source-of-funds information as a condition of processing a swap, and may decline until it is provided and satisfactory. Records may be kept and reported as AML law requires.

When a risk trigger fires, you may be asked to verify your identity, the origin of your funds, or ownership of the wallet involved. The specific grounds, thresholds and review timelines are risk-based and are not publicly fixed — they may vary by transaction, venue and jurisdiction, and processing is paused until the check is satisfied.

4. Geographic restrictions

Access is blocked for residents, citizens or persons located in comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions (incl. Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions), the United States, and Singapore, plus anywhere the service cannot lawfully operate. This list may change.

5. Restricted Persons

A “Restricted Person” is anyone who is:

• a politically exposed person (PEP), or an immediate family member or close associate of one;
• a U.S. citizen or resident, any person physically located in the United States, or a U.S. company or organisation;
• a person or entity located in, resident in, organised in or a citizen of a sanctioned or Restricted Jurisdiction;
• on a sanctions list of the U.S. (OFAC), UK, Canada, EU or another relevant authority;
• acting on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any of the above.

Restricted Persons must not use 0FACE. Using VPNs, Tor/onion routing, proxies or any other location-masking tools to evade these geographic restrictions is prohibited and automatically terminates the right to use the service. Individual Liquidity Venues may additionally decline specific users or jurisdictions under their own compliance rules, even where a jurisdiction is not listed here — the executing venue’s decision is final for that transaction.

5a. Partner vetting — what we do and do not promise

Liquidity Venues are vetted before onboarding and re-reviewed at least quarterly: we assess their AML procedures, their handling of law-enforcement requests, and the auditability of their transaction data. We use external compliance advisers and monitor OFAC and other sanctions lists.

This policy does not guarantee: that a partner will never hold funds; that any operation will always be no-KYC; that a false positive will be resolved quickly; a fixed AML-review timeframe; a fixed document list; a mandatory refund; compensation of losses; an independent appeal mechanism; or publication of every executor involved in a given transaction. The statement that AML responsibility sits with partner venues describes a delegation of screening — it does not release you from responsibility for the origin of your own funds.

6. Status & cooperation

We are individuals, not a company. Screening does not make us a custodian, money-services business or regulated institution for your funds; you control your own assets. We cooperate with lawful requests from competent authorities, including reporting suspicious activity and freezing assets where legally required.

7. Contact

General enquiries: . Legal notices, data and compliance requests: . See also Security and Terms.

Language

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