# Regional availability

Liquid Inference follows US sanctions and the US rules that protect personal
data. Thus some locations cannot use the exchange. These rules apply to your
current location and to the people and companies that you act for.

## Buyers

You cannot open an account, or use an account, from these locations:

- Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria.
- The Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.
- China and Russia. The exchange cannot meet the data transfer laws of these
  countries.

## Providers

The exchange does not accept a provider that is located in, or controlled from,
these locations:

- Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria.
- The Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.
- China, including Hong Kong and Macau.
- Russia and Venezuela.

Do not connect a provider through a VPN, a proxy or Tor.

When you register a provider, you specify the country where it's
headquartered, its ultimate owner and the ultimate owner's country. See
[Become a provider](https://inference.ai.exchange/docs/provider.md).

## Error types

The exchange refuses a request from a restricted location with HTTP `451` and
the code `jurisdiction_restricted`. In the Anthropic format, the error type is
`permission_error`. See [Errors](https://inference.ai.exchange/docs/errors.md).