Verification policy
What seller verification means
Seller verification means a seller identity status may be checked through a trusted third-party provider before certain seller privileges are available.
Middle Who Market
Seller Verification
A cleaner marketplace workspace for browsing, selling, messaging, saving, and managing community trust.
Seller trust layer
Seller verification helps protect the marketplace without changing the direct-user model.
Middle Who Market may require seller identity verification as part of marketplace safety, seller trust, and future seller account controls. Verification is designed as a trust layer only. It does not turn Middle Who Market into a payment processor, escrow service, shipping provider, authentication service, or transaction guarantor.
Current platform model
Buyers and sellers arrange payment, pickup, shipping, authentication review, and final terms directly. Seller verification does not change that responsibility structure.
Verification policy
What it does not mean
Seller verification does not mean Middle Who Market authenticates items, verifies listing claims, processes payments, provides buyer protection, guarantees shipping, or guarantees transaction outcomes.
Verification policy
What Middle Who Market stores
Middle Who Market stores non-sensitive verification status information and provider references only. The platform does not manually collect or store government ID images, selfie images, biometric data, full SSNs, or provider client secrets.
Data handling
Sensitive identity materials stay outside Middle Who Market.
When seller verification is used, verification is intended to be completed through a trusted third-party provider. Middle Who Market stores verification status and operational references only. Do not submit identity documents, selfies, SSNs, or sensitive verification materials through public comments, listing descriptions, messages, or support notes unless a specific trusted verification flow requests them.
Middle Who Market does not manually collect or store government ID images, passport images, driver license images, selfie images, biometric data, full SSNs, or provider client secrets in the marketplace app database.
Seller status examples
Verification can have multiple operational states.
- Not started
- Pending or processing
- Verified
- Needs input
- Failed, canceled, or expired
- Manual review or restricted
Marketplace limitations
A verified seller status is not a platform guarantee.
A seller verification status should be understood as an identity trust signal only. Buyers should still review photos, descriptions, condition disclosures, seller messages, included accessories, pickup or shipping expectations, and any authentication materials provided by the seller.
Future purchase-account separation
Seller identity verification is separate from future purchase or payment accounts.
Middle Who Market may later add purchase-account or payment-account features. Those future features would be separate from seller identity verification. A seller may be identity-verified without being enabled for future in-platform checkout, payouts, or purchase-account tools.