AML & KYC Policy Statement
1. Our role
GoldStrait sells access to trading software and related services. We do not act as a broker, dealer, custodian, money-services business or money transmitter. Trading capital remains in your brokerage account at all times. The broker is responsible for its own AML, KYC, source-of-funds and suitability obligations under its licence.
2. Customer identification
We collect a verified email address from every customer at sign-up. Where a transaction or pattern of transactions raises elevated risk indicators, we may request additional information including:
- Full legal name, date of birth and country of residence.
- A government-issued identity document (passport, national ID, driver's licence).
- Proof of address dated within the last 90 days.
- Confirmation of the source of the funds used to pay the subscription.
- For affiliates: payout-wallet ownership confirmation.
Refusal to provide the requested information may lead to suspension or closure of the account and the cancellation of pending payouts.
3. Sanctions and prohibited jurisdictions
We screen account registrations and payments against the consolidated EU, UN, OFAC and UK sanctions lists. We do not provide the Service to:
- Persons or entities listed on those sanctions lists.
- Residents of comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions (currently including, without limitation: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea region, the Donetsk and Luhansk regions).
- Residents of the United States of America (regulatory restriction on retail leveraged products).
- Residents of any other jurisdiction we have placed on a restricted list at any time.
The current list of restricted jurisdictions is maintained in the Terms of Service and may be updated as the legal landscape changes.
4. Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
We apply enhanced due diligence to customers identified as politically exposed persons, their family members and known close associates, in line with FATF guidance.
5. Crypto payments
When you pay in cryptocurrency, we record the on-chain transaction ID and the destination wallet of the payment. We may screen wallet addresses against publicly available risk databases (mixers, sanctioned addresses, known fraud rings). Payments from flagged wallets are rejected and refunded back to the source address; the corresponding subscription is not activated.
6. Affiliate-program controls
The affiliate program is a frequent target of abuse. To keep it clean we:
- Block self-referrals and cross-referrals between accounts that share device fingerprints, IPs or payment instruments.
- Hold commissions until the underlying subscription has cleared its refund window.
- Verify payout-wallet ownership for payouts above a threshold.
- Reverse commissions on subscriptions that are refunded, charged back or proven to be the result of misleading promotion.
7. Suspicious activity
Customers and members of the public are encouraged to report suspected fraud, money laundering, sanctions evasion, account takeover or other abuse to compliance@goldstrait.com. Reports can be submitted in confidence. We investigate every credible report and, where required, file a report with the competent authority.
8. Record keeping
We retain payment records, sanction-screening logs, suspicious-activity records and KYC documents for at least 5 years from the closure of the account, or longer where required by applicable law.
9. Training and oversight
Staff with access to onboarding, payments, affiliate payouts or compliance escalations receive annual training on this policy, on sanctions developments and on red-flag indicators. Material changes to this policy are signed off by the management of GoldStrait Technologies, LLC.
10. Cooperation with authorities
We cooperate with lawful, properly issued requests from competent authorities and law-enforcement agencies. We may, where legally permitted, notify affected customers of any such request.
11. Contact
Compliance & reports: compliance@goldstrait.com
Postal: GoldStrait Technologies, LLC, 1021 E Lincolnway, 10245, Cheyenne, WY 82001, Laramie County, USA.