Veratad
Veratad Technologies LLC, headquartered in US. Website: veratad.com. Methods offered: photo id, facial age estimation (face scan), reusable digital id, other method.
verified 18 October 2026
Retention, as published by Veratad
Scope not independently classified; check the source before applying this statement to a service.
“Upon completion of a verification transaction, Veratad does not retain full underlying identity data as part of a persistent consumer profile. Veratad may retain limited information (such as transaction logs, security records, document images where applicable, and fraud or abuse prevention signals) where necessary to operate, secure, and support the Client Services, including certain Veratad-operated verification components, and in accordance with contractual, legal, and regulatory requirements.”
Quoted from veratad.com, dated 3 March 2026; checked 18 October 2026. Period as stated: No fixed period; document images may be kept “where applicable”; biometric identifiers destroyed “once the purposes for which collecting or maintaining such information has been satisfied” (state-specific periods for Illinois, Texas and Washington residents).
Retention statements by service
Statements may cover different services, data types, dates or exceptions. Different periods are not necessarily contradictory. A statement for one service is not a default for another.
No service in the index currently names Veratad as its vendor.
Reported customers
- Discord September 2026 discord.com
Certifications
- ACCS 1:2025 / ISO/IEC 27566-1:2025, VX platform v2.4, issued 14 Apr 2026, valid to 14 Apr 2029 accscheme.com
The UK Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) registry lists certificates with their expiry dates; a certificate that has lapsed is recorded as such once the registry shows it.
Regulator actions and published incidents
No regulator action or published incident recorded as of 18 October 2026.
Questions people ask about Veratad
What does Veratad say it keeps?
Scope not independently classified; check the source before applying this statement to a service. "Upon completion of a verification transaction, Veratad does not retain full underlying identity data as part of a persistent consumer profile. Veratad may retain limited information (such as transaction logs, security records, document images where applicable, and fraud or abuse prevention signals) where necessary to operate, secure, and support the Client Services, including certain Veratad-operated verification components, and in accordance with contractual, legal, and regulatory requirements." (veratad.com, dated 3 March 2026; checked 18 October 2026). Period as stated: No fixed period; document images may be kept “where applicable”; biometric identifiers destroyed “once the purposes for which collecting or maintaining such information has been satisfied” (state-specific periods for Illinois, Texas and Washington residents). See each service’s own statement; scope, data type and exceptions may differ.
Is Veratad certified?
Recorded certifications: ACCS 1:2025 / ISO/IEC 27566-1:2025, VX platform v2.4, issued 14 Apr 2026, valid to 14 Apr 2029. Each links to its source on the page; expiry dates are as stated there.
Has Veratad been fined or had a data incident?
No regulator action or published incident is recorded as of 18 October 2026. This site does not rate vendors; it records what regulators and the vendor have published.
Which UK services use Veratad?
No UK consumer-service deployment is recorded as of 18 October 2026.
Sources for this profile
Changes to this profile
- — retention, known_customers, sources, open_questions: Veratad’s privacy policy (last update 3 March 2026) read 18 October 2026 and quoted; the product page still carries no retention statement. Discord’s own vendors page (September 2026) confirms Veratad checks ID documents for Discord through k-ID, answering the press-only question. ACCS entry re-read (VX platform v2.4, valid to 14 Apr 2029). (was: No retention statement found on the age-verification product page (checked 6 Sep 2026).) manual
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