Precise ID data sanitization

Automatic data sanitization

Before a Precise ID payload is sent to the credit bureau, every field is automatically sanitized to meet the bureau's formatting rules: disallowed characters are removed, values are upper-cased or reformatted where required, and anything longer than a field's maximum length is truncated. Values that cannot be made valid — for example a phone number that is not exactly 10 digits, or an enum value the bureau does not recognise — are dropped from the bureau request.

Your original, unaltered values are always stored on the applicant record; only the copy forwarded to the bureau is sanitized. To avoid surprises, submit data that already conforms to the rules below.

Field sanitization rules

Field	Allowed characters	Max length	If invalid
first_name	letters, hyphen, space, apostrophe	32	other characters removed
last_name	letters, hyphen, space, apostrophe	32	an apostrophe is kept only after D, L or O (e.g. O'Brien); other characters removed
middle_name	letters only	32	spaces & punctuation removed
suffix	JR, SR, II–IX	—	dropped if not a listed value
ssn	digits, hyphen, space	11	letters & other characters removed; reduced to 9 digits
dob	YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY	—	request rejected if malformed
dob_year	digits	4	—
age	integer 14–120	—	—
phone_mobile, phone_home, phone_work	digits only	10	leading 1 removed; dropped unless exactly 10 digits
emails[]	letters, digits, @ _ - .	90	other characters removed; max 3 emails
address.street1, address.street2	letters, digits, / . - #, space	60	other characters removed
address.city	letters, apostrophe, period, hyphen, space	38	other characters removed
address.state_code	letters (upper-cased)	2	digits & symbols removed
address.zip	digits, hyphen	10	letters & symbols removed
employment.employer_name	letters, digits, # & -, space	23	other characters removed
employment.employer_address.street1	letters, digits, / . - #, space	25	other characters removed
employment.employer_address.city	letters, apostrophe, period, hyphen, space	18	other characters removed
employment.income.type_of_income	OTHER, NET, GROSS	—	dropped if not a listed value
employment.income.income_frequency	H W B M T Q S Y	—	dropped if not a listed value
mothers_maiden_name	letters, hyphen, space, apostrophe	60	other characters removed
spouse_name	letters, hyphen, space, apostrophe	96	other characters removed
driver_license.number	letters, digits, space, *, -	21	other characters removed
driver_license.state	letters (upper-cased)	2	digits & symbols removed

address_previous and employment_previous follow the same rules as address and employment respectively.