---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Updating restrictions of sales to unsupported regions"
description: "Anthropic's Terms of Service prohibit use of our services in certain regions due to legal, regulatory, and security risks. However, companies from these restricted."
resource: "https://www.anthropic.com/news/updating-restrictions-of-sales-to-unsupported-regions"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "anthropic"]
timestamp: "2025-09-04"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "Anthropic"
cope_score: 42
confidence: 0.88
---

# Updating restrictions of sales to unsupported regions

# Claim

Anthropic's Terms of Service prohibit use of our services in certain regions due to legal, regulatory, and security risks. However, companies from these restricted regions—including adversarial nations like China—continue accessing our services in various ways, such as through subsidiaries incorporated in other countries. Companies subject to control from.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section two: vendor threshold and platform capability evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is a low-signal vendor radar item. Keep it as context only unless a later benchmark, deployment, procurement change, or labour-market datapoint turns it into direct Appendix III evidence.

# Metadata

* Publisher: Anthropic
* Category: vendor
* Sector: Cybersecurity
* Capability: Cyber defence and misuse monitoring
* Cope score: 42
* Confidence: 0.88

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [Updating restrictions of sales to unsupported regions](https://www.anthropic.com/news/updating-restrictions-of-sales-to-unsupported-regions)