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minFraud Service Addendum

Last updated: September 22, 2026

This minFraud Service Addendum is referenced by and integrated into the MaxMind End User License Agreement (the “Agreement”) entered into by and between MaxMind, Inc. (“MaxMind”) and the customer defined therein as “you.” The terms and conditions of the Agreement (including the MaxMind Privacy Policy and the MaxMind Data Processing Addendum incorporated therein) apply in full to your use of the minFraud Service. In the event of a direct conflict between this minFraud Service Addendum and the Agreement, the Agreement shall control.

Unless otherwise noted, all capitalized terms used in this minFraud Service Addendum are defined in the Agreement.

Appropriate uses of the minFraud Service

  1. The minFraud Service may only be used for detecting security incidents and/or protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity. For example, you could use the minFraud Service to validate online credit card transactions, validate other transactions for online and e-commerce payments, applications and user and account registrations for online forums and services, risk modeling, etc., so long as your reason for using the minFraud Service is to detect security incidents and/or protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity.
  2. You may not use the minFraud Service in any way that violates federal, state, local, or international law, the rights of others, or the Agreement.
  3. Unacceptable uses of the minFraud Service include, but are not limited to, the following:
    1. submitting false or fictitious input fields, including but not limited to, IP address, BIN number, and billing location (except for the limited purpose of testing the minFraud Service);
    2. building derivative databases based on the information provided by the minFraud Service; or
    3. taking any action designed to compromise security or tamper with system resources and/or accounts.
  4. If MaxMind, in its sole discretion, finds or suspects that you are using the minFraud Service in an unacceptable manner, MaxMind may immediately restrict, suspend, or terminate your use of the minFraud Service. Activities that may trigger such a response by MaxMind include, but are not limited to, repeated discrepancies between credit card data (e.g., billing address, bank identification numbers (BINs), names or phone numbers) entered by you and the applicable information of record for the associated cardholders.

Your use of minFraud data

The minFraud Service helps reduce the incidence of online fraud by scoring the likelihood of fraud associated with particular online transactions and events. The minFraud Service allows you to choose which data elements to share.

ShopID

If you are sublicensing the minFraud Service to a customer, you must include a ShopID as an input field, where the ShopID is your internal identification code or name for the shop, affiliate, merchant, or customer that is the source of the online transaction for which the minFraud Service is being queried.

Non-disclosure of minFraud Service outputs

Except as explicitly provided in the Agreement (including without limitation the DPA), you may not, nor may you permit others to, disclose to any customer or other third party any output returned by the minFraud Service (e.g., such response values as the riskScore, proxyScore or proxy score, IP Risk Score, risk factor scores, high risk flags), recognizing that the confidentiality of such information is vital to the performance of the minFraud Service. Disclosure of such information shall be considered a material breach of the Agreement. For the removal of doubt, you may provide outputs returned by the minFraud Service to businesses to whom you have sublicensed the minFraud Service, but you may not provide any minFraud Service outputs to any individual whose transaction was evaluated by the minFraud Service.