Terms of service: Sanctions Lists Search

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Effective from: June 1, 2020.

The Sanctions Lists Search module contains three services:

  • SLS check service – sanctions lists – manual checking of presence on the sanctions lists,
  • Batch SLS check service – automatic checking of presence on the sanctions lists,
  • Reporting tool – verification log on sanctions lists.

SLS check service

  1. The SLS check service is used to check whether a person, company or organisation has any sanctions imposed.
  2. The service is available in the form of a web application on the HyperFlow platform and via the API (REST JSON web service).
  3. The service is available in three variants: single query, collective query, query from a file.
  4. When the service has the status Active, filling in a non-empty value in the query form and pressing the Search sanctions button or Enter, or sending a correctly formulated request via the API (in accordance with the API documentation), is referred to as sending a request. The answer is presented as text information (in the web application) or as a JSON message (for requests sent via the API).
  5. Sending a request may result in a positive response (the entity is on sanctions lists) or a negative one (the entity is not on the sanctions lists).
  6. If the credit balance is greater than zero:
    1. single query – each time you send a query, the number of available requests decreases by one,
    2. collective or file query – each time you send a query, the balance of requests decreases by the number of rows sent in the query (entities checked).
  7. The exception to point 6 is having an active time licence (fixed-term access). During an active fixed-term access, the balance of available queries does not decrease.

Batch SLS check service – automatic verification – sanctions

  1. The Batch SLS check service enables cyclical daily checking, and checking on demand, of a set of entities against sanctions lists.
  2. This service consists in the daily analysis of a set of entities defined by the user, checking whether any sanctions are imposed.
  3. The service is available in two variants:
  • active automatic analyses – daily checking of a given set of entities,
  • verification on demand – checking a given set of entities on demand.
  1. When the service has the status Active, analyses are run in accordance with the configuration entered by the user. Turning on automatic analysis runs the analysis every day at 5:30 a.m. Analysis on demand is performed immediately. In both cases, the verification of each entity in a given set reduces the balance of queries by 1.
  2. The analysis result is sent as a report to the email address provided for the given analysis. The results of the analysis and statistics are also available on the service page and in the service history tab.
  3. The exception to point 4 is having an active time licence (fixed-term access). During an active fixed-term access, the balance of available queries does not decrease.

Verification log on sanctions lists

  1. The Verification log panel on sanctions lists contains information on historical queries against sanctions lists.
  2. Verification history allows you to download individual reports (from the last 100 queries) in PDF, as well as collective monthly reports in PDF and CSV.
  3. Verification history is available when the Sanctions Lists module has the status Active.

Module information

  1. Verification using the module searches:
  • OFAC SDN and Consolidated,
  • United Nations Consolidated Sanctions List,
  • European Commission Sanctions List.
  1. The Service Provider ensures daily updating of sanctions lists at no additional charge.
  2. If there is no technical possibility to download the current version of a list from the source, the module operates on the basis of the most current (last known) list available.
  3. The service is licensed as query packages and billed according to the number of queries carried out within the available credit balance, or licensed with unlimited access for a specified period*.
  4. The service becomes inactive when the number of requests (credit balance) on a given Customer Account reaches 0 (zero) or when the period of access has expired.
  5. The Service Provider does not provide the entire sanctions lists (copies for download) as part of this service.
  6. The maximum frequency of sending queries is 5 queries per second.
  7. If queries are executed more frequently, the service may respond with the error code “Server busy”.
  8. If you send a request that ends with a Server busy or Server timeout error, the balance of available queries is not reduced.

* – fixed-term access with no query limit: above 20,000 queries per month the service remains active, but to ensure service quality the response waiting time may be extended to 30 seconds.

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