Why does JoinTheSwing ask for biometric consent before Veriff ID verification?
JoinTheSwing presents an explicit BIPA-aligned biometric notice and records your affirmative consent receipt before launching Veriff because Veriff compares live facial geometry from your camera against your government ID photo to confirm authenticity and liveness, ensuring transparent legal disclosure before any capture begins.
State privacy laws such as the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act set a clear ethical and legal standard: before an automated system scans facial geometry to verify identity, the person in front of the camera deserves plain-English notice of who performs the check, why it runs, and how data is handled, followed by explicit opt-in consent.
In our verification flow, JoinTheSwing acts as the data controller and Veriff serves as our specialist identity-verification processor. Only after you review the biometric notice and grant affirmative consent does the session open Veriff's encrypted capture flow to check document authenticity, live camera presence, and face match.
From the current Veriff check, JoinTheSwing never receives or stores your raw ID images, live selfie captures, or facial-geometry templates — we retain the verification result, Veriff's session reference, a consent receipt, and non-biometric review metadata. Members who verified through our earlier, retired in-house pass may still have ID, selfie, or couple photos in our private verification_documents storage, deleted when the account is deleted, and nothing writes to that retired store today (see /legal/privacy).
Recording that consent receipt alongside non-biometric session metadata lets our trust system enforce one-person-one-verified-account integrity across Web, iOS (StoreKit 2), and Android (Google Play Billing) memberships without building an internal warehouse of member ID scans. Read /legal/privacy and /guides/member-trust-verification for the full disclosure.