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  "title": "Empire, balance units and payment counterparties — added AML record",
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      "publisher": "CSGOEmpire",
      "title": "Terms of Service — 6 October 2026",
      "url": "https://csgoempire.com/tos",
      "scope": "Deposits & Withdrawals §§11–12; KYC; trading; payment-provider authority. Published rules, not verification of implementation.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
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      "id": "K37",
      "publisher": "CSGOEmpire Help Centre",
      "title": "KYC checks — 13 February 2025",
      "url": "https://help.csgoempire.com/en/articles/5349729-kyc-checks",
      "scope": "Older crypto-withdrawal threshold, identity/address evidence and Checkin processing.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
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      "id": "K38",
      "publisher": "CSGOEmpire Help Centre",
      "title": "Account under manual review — 13 February 2025",
      "url": "https://help.csgoempire.com/en/articles/5911936-account-under-manual-review",
      "scope": "Withdrawal restrictions for verification and unwagered cash/crypto funding, including gift codes.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
    {
      "id": "K39",
      "publisher": "CSGOEmpire",
      "title": "Main FAQ / About",
      "url": "https://csgoempire.com/faq",
      "scope": "KYC-refusal exit wording, named providers, operator backups and manual document review. Undated live page.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
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      "id": "K40",
      "publisher": "CSGOEmpire",
      "title": "Privacy policy — 12 February 2025",
      "url": "https://csgoempire.com/privacy-policy",
      "scope": "Checkin.com recipient, retention and transfer wording including Privacy Shield.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
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      "id": "K41",
      "publisher": "CSGOEmpire",
      "title": "Kinguin gift-card purchase and redemption page",
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      "scope": "Operator-endorsed purchase route and footer entity disclosures. No code entered or checkout attempted.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
    {
      "id": "K42",
      "publisher": "Kinguin",
      "title": "CSGOEmpire 100 Coin Gift Card — listing 90693",
      "url": "https://www.kinguin.net/category/90693/csgoempire-100-coin-gift-card",
      "scope": "Seller label, official-publisher claim and territory restrictions; listing excludes US residents. No transaction.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
    {
      "id": "K43",
      "publisher": "CSGOFast",
      "title": "FAQ — balance funding",
      "url": "https://csgofast.com/faq",
      "scope": "Partner vouchers, skin deposits, crypto/card routes and account-linked USDT deposit addresses; does not identify key custody.",
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      "id": "K44",
      "publisher": "CSGOFast",
      "title": "How to make a withdrawal?",
      "url": "https://csgofast.gg/faq/general_info/1",
      "scope": "Operator description of user-to-user skin delivery. Its older trade-ban wording is not relied on here.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
    {
      "id": "K45",
      "publisher": "Kinguin Support",
      "title": "Which payment methods does Kinguin accept?",
      "url": "https://support.kinguin.net/hc/en-us/articles/37698235193245-Which-payment-methods-does-Kinguin-accept",
      "scope": "PayPal listed; availability depends on billing country, currency and cart contents.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
    {
      "id": "K46",
      "publisher": "Kinguin",
      "title": "Terms and Conditions v1.3 — September 2026",
      "url": "https://static.kinguin.net/cms/2026_9_25_Kinguin_net_T_and_C_ver_1_3_ENG_3cf9318e46/2026_9_25_Kinguin_net_T_and_C_ver_1_3_ENG_3cf9318e46.pdf",
      "scope": "§§1.10, 2.2–2.3.3 and 5.2.1–5.2.4: operator, seller, external service and payment collection; mandatory consumer rights retained.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "http_response": {
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        "url": "https://static.kinguin.net/cms/2026_9_25_Kinguin_net_T_and_C_ver_1_3_ENG_3cf9318e46/2026_9_25_Kinguin_net_T_and_C_ver_1_3_ENG_3cf9318e46.pdf",
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      }
    },
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      "id": "K47",
      "publisher": "PayPal US",
      "title": "User Agreement — 14 September 2026",
      "url": "https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/useragreement-full",
      "scope": "US account terms; Liability for Unauthorized Transactions and Other Errors. Separate from Purchase Protection.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
    {
      "id": "K48",
      "publisher": "PayPal US",
      "title": "Acceptable Use Policy",
      "url": "https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/acceptableuse-full",
      "scope": "Activities Requiring Approval: stored-value services, gambling facilitation and marketplaces. No merchant-specific approval was obtained.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
    {
      "id": "K49",
      "publisher": "CSGOEmpire Help Centre",
      "title": "How do I sell my crypto? — 20 July 2023",
      "url": "https://help.csgoempire.com/en/articles/5366952-how-do-i-sell-my-crypto",
      "scope": "Published example of payout to a customer’s exchange deposit address; not evidence of an exchange partnership or present transaction.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    },
    {
      "id": "K50",
      "publisher": "CSGOEmpire Help Centre",
      "title": "Do I need to wager to withdraw? (Crypto) — 27 November 2023",
      "url": "https://help.csgoempire.com/en/articles/5366986-do-i-need-to-wager-to-withdraw-crypto",
      "scope": "Different payout conditions for skin-funded and cash/crypto-funded balances; compared with current Trading terms.",
      "review_date": "2026-10-11",
      "acquisition": "Reviewed through primary-source web retrieval, including indexed official pages; no successful local-response hash retained for this record."
    }
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    "K05",
    "K07",
    "K10",
    "K11",
    "K12",
    "K13",
    "K14",
    "K20"
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    "Published KYC triggers do not establish actual implementation for every user.",
    "A published payment method does not verify checkout availability for a specific product and jurisdiction.",
    "US PayPal rules are not universal rules for every account country.",
    "Internal ledger control is not an attribution of blockchain private-key custody.",
    "Marketplace intermediation is not itself proof of concealed processing or intent to avoid enforcement."
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}