Uphold
Uphold is a financial platform offering crypto trading, staking, and USD interest accounts with transparency features for individuals and enterprises.
Subprocessors (16)
Processed Jul 30, 2026 · source disclosure ↗
| vendor | purpose | evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Securities brokerage services (account opening, trading, clearing, settlement, regulatory compliance) | “We may share your Personal Data with Uphold Securities Inc. and Apex Fintech Solutions LLC to provide securities brokerage services, including account opening, trading, clearing, settlement, and regulatory compliance.” source | |
| Marketing communications | “We use Customer.io for all marketing and transactional communications.” source | |
| Address verification | “We use Ekata to validate your physical address.” source | |
| Affiliate attribution tracking | “we use Impact, an affiliate-attribution platform that tracks when users visit or register with Uphold through an affiliate link or advertisement.” source | |
| Fraud prevention | “We share this information with Unit 21, Sift and Oscilar, all third party service providers, to assist us with this effort.” source | |
| Payment processing | “third party payment providers and financial institutions to facilitate payments and related transactions including providers such as PayPal and Venmo.” source | |
| Document verification | “As part of our identity verification and onboarding process, we use Persona’s OCR and AI-powered Document AI to extract relevant data from submitted documents.” source | |
| Financial account linking | “When linking your existing bank account to the Uphold platform, users in certain jurisdictions may use Plaid, a third-party service, to seamlessly link accounts” source | |
| Identity verification | “We may also use Prove to pre-fill your name, address, and phone number during onboarding using information retrieved from your mobile network operator.” source | |
| Fraud prevention | “We share this information with Unit 21, Sift and Oscilar, all third party service providers, to assist us with this effort.” source | |
| Address verification | “We additionally may require further address verification and validation through our partner, SumSub by requesting that you provide us with documentation verifying your physical address” source | |
| Address verification | “In lieu of Ekata, we may use Trulioo to validate your physical address.” source | |
| Fraud prevention | “We share this information with Unit 21, Sift and Oscilar, all third party service providers, to assist us with this effort.” source | |
| Securities brokerage services (account opening, trading, clearing, settlement, regulatory compliance) | “We may share your Personal Data with Uphold Securities Inc. and Apex Fintech Solutions LLC to provide securities brokerage services, including account opening, trading, clearing, settlement, and regulatory compliance.” source | |
| Payment processing | “third party payment providers and financial institutions to facilitate payments and related transactions including providers such as PayPal and Venmo.” source | |
| Identity verification | “Uphold uses Veriff to verify your identity by determining whether a selfie you take matches the photo in your government-issued identification.” source |
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Securities brokerage services (account opening, trading, clearing, settlement, regulatory compliance)
“We may share your Personal Data with Uphold Securities Inc. and Apex Fintech Solutions LLC to provide securities brokerage services, including account opening, trading, clearing, settlement, and regulatory compliance.” source
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Marketing communications
“We use Customer.io for all marketing and transactional communications.” source
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Address verification
“We use Ekata to validate your physical address.” source
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Affiliate attribution tracking
“we use Impact, an affiliate-attribution platform that tracks when users visit or register with Uphold through an affiliate link or advertisement.” source
-
Fraud prevention
“We share this information with Unit 21, Sift and Oscilar, all third party service providers, to assist us with this effort.” source
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Payment processing
“third party payment providers and financial institutions to facilitate payments and related transactions including providers such as PayPal and Venmo.” source
-
Document verification
“As part of our identity verification and onboarding process, we use Persona’s OCR and AI-powered Document AI to extract relevant data from submitted documents.” source
-
Financial account linking
“When linking your existing bank account to the Uphold platform, users in certain jurisdictions may use Plaid, a third-party service, to seamlessly link accounts” source
-
Identity verification
“We may also use Prove to pre-fill your name, address, and phone number during onboarding using information retrieved from your mobile network operator.” source
-
Fraud prevention
“We share this information with Unit 21, Sift and Oscilar, all third party service providers, to assist us with this effort.” source
-
Address verification
“We additionally may require further address verification and validation through our partner, SumSub by requesting that you provide us with documentation verifying your physical address” source
-
Address verification
“In lieu of Ekata, we may use Trulioo to validate your physical address.” source
-
Fraud prevention
“We share this information with Unit 21, Sift and Oscilar, all third party service providers, to assist us with this effort.” source
-
Securities brokerage services (account opening, trading, clearing, settlement, regulatory compliance)
“We may share your Personal Data with Uphold Securities Inc. and Apex Fintech Solutions LLC to provide securities brokerage services, including account opening, trading, clearing, settlement, and regulatory compliance.” source
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Payment processing
“third party payment providers and financial institutions to facilitate payments and related transactions including providers such as PayPal and Venmo.” source
-
Identity verification
“Uphold uses Veriff to verify your identity by determining whether a selfie you take matches the photo in your government-issued identification.” source