Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

At Veritype ("we," "our," or "us"), we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our forensic writing platform and services.

Veritype is designed to verify human authorship through the analysis of the creative process. This requires the collection of specific behavioral data, which we handle with the utmost care and strictly for the purpose of verification.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Personal Information

We collect information you provide directly to us when you create an account, such as:

• Name and contact information (email address).
• Account credentials (hashed passwords).
• Payment information (processed securely by our payment providers; we do not store full credit card numbers).

2.2 Forensic Data

To provide our core service—authorship verification—we collect detailed behavioral data during the writing process within our editor. This includes:

• Keystroke Dynamics: Timing, flight time, and dwell time of key presses.
• Edit History: A granular record of insertions, deletions, and modifications.
• Interaction Events: Focus changes, copy/paste actions, and tab switches.

Note: This data is essential for generating the "Authenticity Score" and proving that content was human-written.

2.3 Usage Data

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the service. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our service, and other technical information.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide and Maintain the Service: To authenticate users and enable the forensic editor functionality.
• Verify Authorship: To analyze behavioral patterns and generate forensic reports and authenticity certificates.
• Improve Our Algorithms: To refine our detection models and reduce false positives/negatives (using anonymized, aggregated data).
• Communicate with You: To send you administrative information, updates, and support responses.
• Security: To monitor and prevent fraudulent activity and abuse of the platform.

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell your personal data. We may share information in the following situations:

• Service Providers: We may share data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf (e.g., payment processing, hosting, email delivery).
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

5. Data Retention

We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law.

• Account Data: Retained as long as your account is active.
• Forensic Data: Retained to allow you to access your past documents and verification certificates. You can request deletion of specific documents or your entire account at any time.

6. Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

7. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location (e.g., if you are a resident of the EEA or California), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:

• The right to request access to and obtain a copy of your personal information.
• The right to request rectification or erasure of your personal information.
• The right to restrict the processing of your personal information.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at the email provided below.

8. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at:

support@veritype.io