Privacy policy
Last updated 23 September 2026
Your documents never leave your machine
The JidoSeal Self-Check audit runs locally, in your own browser or on your own machine. The contents of your knowledge base — file names, file text, structure, everything — are read there and never transmitted to us. What travels to JidoSeal when you submit for certification is the result: a score, a tier, and a cryptographic Merkle root that proves a real scan happened without revealing what was scanned.
What we do hold
- Certification records — your organisation name, the submitter’s name and email address, the tier and score awarded, and the date. An approved certification’s organisation name, tier and date are shown publicly on its verification page and in the public registry; that is the point of a certification.
- Payment records — handled by Stripe. JidoSeal never sees or stores your card number. We keep Stripe’s identifiers for a payment so a certification can be tied to the payment that produced it.
- Support correspondence — what you send us when you get in touch.
Site analytics
We use Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights to count visits and measure page speed. They use no cookies and do not identify or follow individual visitors. We also count a few steps in the Self-Check (for example, that a check was run, which tier it reached, and that a certification was purchased) as anonymous totals. These counts never include your file names, folder names, file contents or anything else from your documents, which still never leave your machine.
Framed certificates: your address goes to our print partner
This is the one case where JidoSeal passes your personal information to a third party.
Specifically, when you order a framed certificate we send Prodigi — our print and fulfilment partner — the recipient name and full delivery address you enter at checkout, along with the certificate image to be printed and the shipping method you chose. Prodigi needs these to make and post the item, and its carrier needs the address to deliver it.
- Scope. The transfer happens only when you place an order, and only for that order. We do not send Prodigi your certification history, your score, your audit results, or the details of any other order.
- No card details. Payment stays with Stripe. Prodigi is never sent payment information.
- Not marketing. Your address is used to fulfil the order and for nothing else. We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not share it with anyone else for their own purposes.
- If you never order a frame, none of this applies to you — no address is collected and nothing is sent to any print vendor.
Prodigi processes this information as our service provider, under its own published privacy terms, and its carriers process the delivery address to complete delivery.
Retention
Certification records are kept for as long as the certification is live plus the period we need for the public registry and for our own tax and accounting obligations. Order and shipping records are kept for the same reason. You can ask us to correct anything we hold about you, or to delete what we are not required to keep.
Getting in touch
Questions about any of this, or a request about your own data — contact us. See also the refund and cancellation policy.