Relay is Persona’s privacy-preserving verification product. Instead of collecting and returning identity data, Relay confirms a specific claim — is this person over 18? is this a real human? — and returns only the result. The platform gets the answer it needs to enforce its policy without directly handling PII.
Once a claim result is produced, Persona deletes the underlying verification data.
Built on Privacy Pass (an open IETF standard), Relay cryptographically separates the verification step from the result redemption step — so no single party ever sees both who a user is and what they’re doing.
When a user hits a gated experience, Relay evaluates the configured requirement and runs a verification flow. Once complete, the platform receives a pass/fail claim result, without the underlying identity data.