Geoblocking Policy.
Restricted jurisdictions, sanctions screening and the geographic controls that gate access to the platform.
ETHERANOX INC. Last updated: 04.06.2026
1. Introduction
This Geoblocking and Restricted Jurisdictions Policy (the “Policy”) explains where and under what conditions the services of ETHERANOX INC. (“Etheranox”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) may be accessed and used.
Etheranox is a Canadian company registered, or to be registered before commencing regulated activity, as a Money Services Business (“MSB”) with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (“FINTRAC”) under registration number C10001742.
Etheranox provides non-custodial virtual currency exchange services primarily to individual customers, retail users, and natural persons. These services may include, where supported by Etheranox from time to time, customer onboarding and user profile registration, virtual currency exchange, fiat-to-virtual-currency conversion, fiat payment processing for supported exchange transactions, delivery of purchased virtual currency to customer-provided external wallet addresses, transaction monitoring, external wallet address screening, and related compliance controls.
Because Etheranox operates in a regulated environment, its services are not available in all countries, territories, regions, transaction corridors, or blockchain environments. Etheranox may restrict, block, decline, suspend, or terminate access to its services where required by law or where Etheranox determines that a jurisdiction, customer, user, business user, transaction, external wallet address, payment method, counterparty, or activity presents unacceptable legal, regulatory, sanctions, money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, cybersecurity, operational, or reputational risk.
Access to Etheranox’s website, platform, application, or online interface from a particular location does not mean that Etheranox’s services are legally available, supported, or permitted in that location.
2. Restricted Jurisdictions
Etheranox may restrict or prohibit access to its services from countries, territories, regions, transaction corridors, wallet address clusters, blockchain environments, or counterparties that fall into one or more of the categories described below. Without these cookies, certain parts of the Services may not work properly or may not be available.
Etheranox does not provide, or may restrict, access to its services in or in connection with those countries, territories, and regions unless Etheranox determines otherwise in writing, or where limited access is legally permitted, operationally supported, and consistent with Etheranox’s internal risk appetite.
Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Liberia
- Libya
- Libya
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Middle East & North Africa
- Afghanistan
- Bahrain
- Egypt
- Gaza Strip / Palestinian Territories
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Saudi Arabia
- Syria
- United Arab Emirates (specific restrictions apply)
- Yemen
Asia-Pacific
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Cambodia
- China (Mainland)
- Fiji
- India (restricted services apply)
- Indonesia (restricted services apply)
- Kazakhstan (restricted services apply)
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Maldives
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Nepal
- North Korea
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Sri Lanka
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
Europe and Eurasia
- Belarus
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Kosovo
- Russian Federation
- Serbia (restricted services apply)
- Turkey
- Ukraine (occupied territories including Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk)
- United Kingdom
Americas
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- United States of America (all states and territories)
- Venezuela
Other Territories and Regions
- British Virgin Islands (U.S.)
- Guam
- Northern Cyprus
- Puerto Rico
- Vatican City
- Western Sahara
2.1 Sanctioned Jurisdictions, Persons, and Entities
Etheranox does not provide services where doing so would violate applicable sanctions laws, asset-freezing obligations, terrorist property obligations, listed person or entity property obligations, or restrictions imposed by competent authorities.
This includes restrictions under Canadian sanctions laws, United Nations sanctions implemented in Canada, and any other sanctions or restrictive measures applicable to Etheranox, its banking partners, payment processors, liquidity providers, blockchain infrastructure providers, wallet screening providers, compliance technology providers, or other financial or operational partners.
Etheranox may restrict or block access, onboarding, exchange transactions, conversions, refunds, transaction processing, external wallet address activity, or user profile activity involving:
- sanctioned persons or entities;
- entities owned or controlled by sanctioned persons or entities;
- persons or entities acting on behalf of sanctioned persons or entities;
- countries, territories, or regions subject to sanctions or broad financial restrictions;
- external virtual currency wallet addresses associated with sanctioned persons, sanctioned entities, sanctioned jurisdictions, or sanctions evasion;
- transactions that may involve sanctions evasion, prohibited activity, or attempts to conceal a sanctions connection.
2.2 High-Risk Jurisdictions
Etheranox may restrict, prohibit, or apply enhanced checks to jurisdictions identified as high risk by FINTRAC, the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”), the Government of Canada, law enforcement authorities, banking partners, payment processors, liquidity providers, blockchain analytics providers, wallet screening providers, or other competent authorities.
This may include jurisdictions subject to:
- FINTRAC Ministerial Directives;
- FATF high-risk jurisdiction statements;
- FATF increased monitoring;
- Canadian sanctions or restrictive measures;
- elevated corruption, organized crime, money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation financing, sanctions evasion, cybercrime, fraud, or regulatory risk;
- significant virtual currency-related financial crime exposure.
Etheranox may refuse onboarding, request additional information, apply enhanced due diligence, decline transactions, reject or restrict external wallet addresses, delay virtual currency delivery, suspend activity, or terminate services where a high-risk jurisdiction connection is identified.
2.3 Unsupported Jurisdictions
Etheranox may also restrict access from jurisdictions where:
- Etheranox does not offer or support the relevant service;
- local law restricts or prohibits the relevant service;
- Etheranox has not determined that the service can be provided lawfully in that jurisdiction;
- Etheranox's banking partners, payment processors, liquidity providers, blockchain infrastructure providers, wallet screening providers, compliance vendors, or other partners do not support the relevant jurisdiction;
- Etheranox cannot complete required KYC, KYB, beneficial ownership checks, sanctions screening, wallet screening, transaction monitoring, Travel Rule compliance, reporting, or recordkeeping;
- the jurisdiction presents unacceptable legal, compliance, sanctions, fraud, cybersecurity, operational, reputational, or financial crime risk.
Etheranox may update its list of restricted or unsupported jurisdictions at any time.
3. Customer and User Responsibilities
Individual customers, users, visitors, representatives, and other persons accessing or using Etheranox’s services must provide accurate, complete, and up-to-date information regarding their identity, location, residency, nationality, payment method, external wallet address, transaction purpose, source of funds where required as part of enhanced due diligence or risk-based review, and any other information requested by Etheranox.
You must not:
- access or attempt to access Etheranox's services from a restricted jurisdiction;
- provide false, misleading, incomplete, or inconsistent location, residency, identity, external wallet address, payment, or transaction information;
- use Etheranox's services for transactions connected to restricted jurisdictions;
- attempt to bypass Etheranox's geoblocking, wallet screening, sanctions, fraud-prevention, KYC, KYB, Travel Rule, or transaction monitoring controls;
- assist any person or entity in bypassing this Policy.
Failure to comply with this Policy may result in restricted access, transaction rejection, virtual currency delivery delay, external wallet address restriction, user profile suspension, refusal of service, termination, reporting to competent authorities, and refusal of future service.
6. Location, Jurisdiction, and External Wallet Address Checks
To comply with this Policy, Etheranox may verify and monitor location, residency, identity, payment method country, payer location, transaction origin, residential address, external wallet address, blockchain exposure, transaction corridor, and other jurisdictional indicators.
Etheranox may use information including:
- IP address;
- device and browser information;
- geolocation indicators;
- VPN, proxy, Tor, hosting, or anonymisation indicators;
- residential address;
- business address, where applicable;
- nationality, citizenship, or country of residence, where relevant;
- identity documents;
- proof of address;
- payment method information;
- bank account or payment method country;
- external wallet addresses;
- external wallet address ownership or control information;
- transaction hashes;
- blockchain analytics information;
- transaction data;
- fiat payment data;
- user profile activity;
- login and access patterns;
- Travel Rule information, where applicable;
- incorporation and registration information, where applicable;
- beneficial ownership and control information, where applicable;
- information from compliance, verification, fraud-prevention, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, payment service, banking, blockchain infrastructure providers, and wallet screening providers.
If information provided to Etheranox is inconsistent, incomplete, suspicious, or indicates a restricted jurisdiction connection, Etheranox may request additional information, decline onboarding, suspend access, block transactions, delay virtual currency delivery, restrict external wallet address use, reject external wallet addresses, or terminate the relationship.
6. Geoblocking and Access Controls
Etheranox may use technical, operational, automated, and manual controls to identify, restrict, or block access from restricted or unsupported jurisdictions.
These controls may include:
- IP-based geoblocking;
- device and browser checks;
- VPN, proxy, Tor, hosting, or anonymisation detection;
- login location monitoring;
- customer residency and address checks;
- payment method country checks;
- bank account country checks;
- external wallet address screening;
- blockchain exposure analysis;
- Travel Rule data checks, where applicable;
- sanctions screening;
- KYC and identity verification checks;
- transaction monitoring;
- fiat payment monitoring;
- fraud monitoring;
- cybersecurity monitoring;
- manual compliance review;
- restrictions required by banking partners, payment processors, liquidity providers, blockchain infrastructure providers, wallet screening providers, regulators, competent authorities, or other financial partners.
7. Actions We May Take
If Etheranox determines or suspects that this Policy has been breached, or that a user, customer, transaction, payment method, external wallet address, business user, bank account country, payment method country, counterparty, or activity is connected to a restricted jurisdiction, Etheranox may take one or more of the following actions:
- refuse onboarding;
- deny or restrict access to the services;
- block or restrict login access;
- decline, cancel, delay, or reject transactions;
- reject or restrict external wallet addresses;
- suspend user profile activity;
- delay, hold, or suspend transaction processing, virtual currency delivery, refund, or other payment activity where permitted by law or contract;
- request additional information or documentation;
- apply enhanced due diligence;
- require remediation measures;
- terminate the relationship or refuse future access to the services;
- retain records as required or permitted by law;
- report suspicious activity, suspected sanctions evasion, terrorist property, listed person or entity property, or other reportable matters to FINTRAC or other competent authorities where required by law.
Refunds, reversals, transaction processing, virtual currency delivery, or other service actions may be permitted only where legally allowed, operationally possible, and not prohibited by sanctions, law enforcement request, court order, regulatory instruction, partner requirement, or Etheranox’s risk controls.
8. Updates to Restricted Jurisdictions
Legal, regulatory, sanctions, financial crime, blockchain risk, partner, and operational requirements change over time. Etheranox may update its restricted or unsupported jurisdictions, controls, and service availability at any time.
Changes may be based on:
- changes in Canadian law or regulation;
- FINTRAC guidance, directives, advisories, or examination expectations;
- Government of Canada sanctions updates;
- FATF statements;
- changes in local laws;
- sanctions, terrorist property, or listed person or entity property requirements;
- banking partner, payment processor, liquidity provider, blockchain infrastructure provider, wallet screening provider, or other partner requirements;
- blockchain analytics risk intelligence;
- fraud, cybercrime, scam, ransomware, darknet market, mixer, or other financial crime trends;
- Etheranox's internal risk assessment.
Changes may take effect immediately where required by law, sanctions, regulatory expectation, partner requirement, or risk-management necessity.
Last updated · June 2026
