Why do I need to be a legally registered and established business to be certified? – Validity Help Center

Legally registered, established businesses are sound, secure companies. Certified sender mailing programs must belong to this type of business.

To prove this, certified sender businesses must:

Be legally registered
Have a physical address
Have been operational and legally registered for a minimum of one year
Be verifiable from a third-party source such as [yourstate].gov

Businesses, brands, and mailing programs inevitably experience many changes in their first few months. In order for Certification analysts to properly audit a sender's application, their business, brand, and mailing programs need to be legally registered and established for these minimum amounts of time.

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