Wingo's Persian pages advertise a Rial payment gateway beside cards and crypto. The same Persian homepage says Wingo is registered with the United States Treasury. Clause 1.5 of the Terms then makes you, alone, responsible for whether you are allowed to receive the service where you live.
Why this matters
You put money in through a channel Wingo built and advertised to you, and the contract says the legality of that is your problem. If the channel is frozen or the account closed over it, nothing in these documents promises your money back.
Exhibit 1Every flagged clause gets its own number so you can point at this one. The number does not change, so a link to it keeps working.CriticalHow much this clause can cost you, in our reading. Critical can take your money or your profit. Warning can delay or limit it. Notice is simply worth knowing before you sign.Rarely seenHow ordinary this wording looks next to the contracts we read. This is our reading of the clause, not a count of other brokers.
You may only use our Website and services, if you are not legally prohibited from receiving our services under the laws where you are residing, registered.
Where it sits: section 2 of 31 in the Terms of Service, near the start.We counted the numbered sections in the Terms of Service. This clause sits in section 2 of 31, about 6% of the way through. A fee written on the first page and the same fee written near the end are not the same disclosure.
Our readingOur own comment on the clause, not the broker's words. Anything we quote is marked as a quotation.Brokers normally publish a list of countries they will not accept and refuse registration from them. Wingo publishes no such list in any of its five documents. It instead builds a local currency deposit channel, advertises it in that language, and moves the whole legal question onto the client in one sentence.
- Worse together with Exhibit 11Read these two clauses together. Each one costs more because the other exists.The contract names no governing law and no court, so a client who deposits through the Rial channel and loses access has no forum written into the agreement.