Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how VerifyForge collects, uses, and protects your personal information.

Last Updated: October 31, 2025

1. Information We Collect

We collect information that you provide directly to us, including:

  • Account Information: Name, email address, password, and profile information
  • Payment Information: Credit card details and billing information (processed securely through our payment processors)
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our Service, including features accessed and actions taken
  • Device Information: IP address, browser type, operating system, and device identifiers
  • Communications: Records of your communications with us, including customer support requests

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve our Service
  • Process transactions and send related information
  • Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support messages
  • Respond to your comments, questions, and provide customer service
  • Communicate with you about products, services, offers, and events
  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Service
  • Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities
  • Personalize and improve the Service and provide content or features that match user profiles or interests

3. Information Sharing and Disclosure

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

  • Service Providers: With third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf (e.g., payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services)
  • Legal Requirements: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities
  • Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business
  • With Your Consent: With your consent or at your direction

4. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to help protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error-free.

We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving data. Our servers are protected by firewalls and other security measures.

5. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with our Service and as described in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

6. Your Rights and Choices

You have the following rights regarding your personal information:

  • Access: Request access to the personal information we hold about you
  • Correction: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Deletion: Request deletion of your personal information
  • Portability: Request a copy of your information in a portable format
  • Opt-out: Opt out of marketing communications at any time
  • Restriction: Request restriction of processing in certain circumstances

To exercise these rights, please contact us at contact@verifyforge.com.

7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

8. Third-Party Services

Our Service may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by VerifyForge. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services.

9. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

10. International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

11. California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including the right to know what personal information we collect, use, and disclose, and the right to delete your personal information.

12. GDPR Compliance (EU Users)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal information.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

Effective Date: February 26, 2025