Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement applies to personal information collected by Authentific (℅ Australian Cyber Corporation Pty Ltd) in its capacity as a controller. The aim of this Privacy Statement is to inform you on how we collect, use, disclose, and store information or data that may identify you as an individual (“Personal Information”) when you interact or use our website, including downloading materials from our resources page or uploading your documents and entering personal information for the same purpose.  

 

It is important to note that this website is not intended for children under the age of 16 (Areas of Operation) years and we do not knowingly collect data relating to minors.

This Statement explains our policies around:
1. Collection
2. Use
3. Third Party Disclosure
4. Safeguarding Information
5. International Data Transfer
6. Information for Visitor based on Jurisdiction
7. Use of Services by Minors
8. Updates to Privacy Statement
9. Redressal & Contact Information

Authentific (“Authentific”, “we” or “us”) provides services related to design, store (localy and/or on blockchain), manage and issue documents. Authentific collects and processes data for providing efficient services to its customers. We at Authentific understand the importance of your (“visitors” or “You” or “data subject”) privacy and are dedicated to securing your personal data. 

Effective Date: 25th August 2022.

Collection of Information you provide to us:

We may collect data you choose to send to us or provide to use through the website. There are two modes of interaction with our website which are described as follows: 

  1. Organization Sign-Up: The representative of different organizations can sign-up on our website and provide to us the personal information related to their students/employees/customers for the purpose of issuing documents using our services.  
  2. Individual User: Any individual user can enter their personal information for the purpose of storing their documents in our database.  

The Categories of personal data that we may process about you are as follows: 

  1. Name 
  2. Email ID 
  3. Mobile Number 
  4. Address 
  5. Age 
  6. Gender 
  7. Date of Birth 
  8. Credit/Debit Card details 
  9. National ID 
  10. IP Address 
  11. Photograph 

USE

We will use the information we collect through our website for creating the institution of the users through which they can store their documents on our servers or on blockchain and verify themselves for the purpose of storing and retrieving their documents.  

Safeguarding Information

For how long do we store your personal information? 

Authentific will process and store your personal data only as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes that the data was collected for. 

 

How do we secure your data? 

We use appropriate technical, organisational and administrative security measures to protect any information we hold in our records from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We encrypt our files and use strong passwords for limiting the access of our personal information to the relevant users.

International Data Transfers

Personal information shared by you with us on the website or social media may be processed by us in other countries, on our service provider’s cloud servers (AWS). We will always take appropriate safeguards and protect your information in accordance with this Privacy Statement wherever it is processed. The organization will inform third parties with whom personal data has been shared of any modification, withdrawal or objections pertaining to the personal data, and implement

Information for Visitor based on Jurisdiction

For EEA (“European Economic Area”) Users: 

Your Rights under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are: 
✓ Right to obtain information 

✓ Right to request personal data transfer 

✓ Right to correction and erasure 

✓ Right to restriction of processing 

✓ Right to stop processing 

✓ The right not to be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling

For the USA (“United States of America”) Users: 

Your Rights under Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) are:
✓ Inspect and review the student’s education records maintained

✓ Request that a school correct records they believe to be inaccurate or misleading.

✓ Stop the release of personally identifiable information.

✓ Get a copy of the institution’s policy concerning access to educational records.

 

If you are a consumer from the State of California, your rights under CCPA are:

✓ The right to know about the personal information a business collects about them and how it is used and shared
✓ The right to delete personal information collected from them (with some exceptions)
✓ The right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information
✓ The right to non-discrimination for exercising their CCPA rights

 

If you are a consumer from the State of Colorado, your rights under CPA are:

✓ The right to opt-out of data processing for targeted advertising, sale or profiling using their personal data

✓ The right to access any data that a company has collected about them

✓ The right to have any data corrected that has been collected about them and is incorrect or outdated

✓ The right to have any data collected about them deleted

✓ The right to data portability (being able to have your data transferred to another entity)

For U.A.E (“United Arab Emirates”) Users: 

Your Rights under Protection of Personal Data Protection (PDPL) are:

✓ Right to access to information
✓ Right to request personal data portability.
✓ Right to rectification or erasure
✓ Right to restriction of processing
✓ Right to stop processing
✓ The right not to be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling

For Saudi Arabia Users:

Your Rights under Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) and Personal Data Protection Interim Regulations (“PDPIR”) are:

✓ Right to Know/Information
✓ Right to Access or Copy
✓ Right to Request Correction
✓ Right to Request Destruction
✓ Right to Limit/Restriction of Processing

For Malaysia Users:

Your Rights under Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) are:

✓ Right to access
✓ Right to correct personal data
✓ Right to Withdrawal of consent to process personal data
✓ Right to prevent processing likely to cause damage or distress
✓ Right to prevent processing for purposes of direct marketing

For Nigeria Users:

Your Rights under Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) are: 

✓ Right to provide any information relating to the processing
✓ Right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards for data protection in case of international data transfer
✓ Right to request to delete
✓ Right to request restriction of processing
✓ Right to request rectification
✓ Right to Data Portability

For South Africa Users: 

Your Rights under The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) are:

✓ Right to be notified about the collection and processing of personal information
✓ Right to access personal information
✓ Right to request correction of personal information
✓ Right to request deletion of personal information
✓ Right to object to the processing of personal information
✓ Right not to have personal information processed for the purpose of direct marketing by means of unsolicited electronic communications
✓ Right to not be subject to a decision which results in legal circumstances based solely on the basis of the automated processing
✓ Right to complain to the Information Regulator
Right to an effective judicial remedy

For Uganda Users:

Your Rights under Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019 (DPPA) are:

✓ Right to access personal information
✓ Right to prevent processing of personal data
✓ Right to prevent processing of personal data for direct marketing
✓ Rights in relation to automated decision-making
✓ Right to Rectification, blocking, erasure and destruction of personal data

For Kenya Users: 

Your Rights under Data Protection (General) Regulations, 2021 are:

✓ Right to Restriction to processing
✓ Right to Object to processing
✓ Right to Data Access request
✓ Right to Data portability request.
✓ Right of erasure

For Canada Users: 

Your Rights under Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) are:

✓ Privacy notices
✓ Rights to access information

For Singapore Users:  

Your rights under the Personal Data Protection Act, 2012 are:

✓ Right to withdraw consent for the collection, use, or disclosure of personal data
✓ Right to know the purpose for which personal data is collected and processed
✓ Right to be informed of any other purpose for which the data collected will be used or disclosed.
✓ Right of access to personal data.
✓ Right to correction of personal data.
✓ Right to request corrections of omissions or errors in the personal data

For China Users:  

Your rights under the Personal Information Protection Law are:

✓ Right to be informed of the purpose and method of processing personal data.
✓ Right to be informed of the categories of personal data being processed.
✓ Right to be informed of the impact of processing of sensitive personal data over individual’s rights and interests.
✓ Right to access personal data.
✓ Right to rectification of personal data.
✓ Right to erasure of personal data.
✓ Right to object to personal data processing
✓ Right to request personal data portability.
✓ Right not to be subject to automated decision-making.
✓ Right to request to restrict processing of personal data.

For Philippines Users:

Your rights under the Data Privacy Act of 2012 are:

✓ Right to be informed regarding processing of personal data.
✓ Right to be informed with respect to the following in the course of processing of personal data:
○ Description of personal data being collected.
○ Purpose for which personal data is being processed.
○ Scope and method of personal information processing.
○ The recipients to whom personal data may be disclosed.
○ Whether there is any automated process for collection of personal data.
○ The period for which information will be stored.
✓ Right to access personal data.
✓ Right to correction of personal data.
✓ Right to dispute the inaccuracy or error in the personal information.
✓ Right to suspend, withdraw or order the blocking, removal, or destruction of his or her personal information.
✓ Right to be indemnified for any damage sustained due to such inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, false, unlawfully obtained, or unauthorized use of personal information.
✓ Right to data portability.

For Australian Users:

Your Rights under The Privacy Act 1988 are:

✓ Right to be informed
✓ Right to access
✓ Right to object to direct marketing

Use of Services by Minors

As mentioned above, we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are under 16, please do not attempt to register for the Services or send any Personal Information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 16, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under the age of 16 may have provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at [email protected]

Updates to Privacy Statement

We’re constantly trying to improve our Websites and Services, so we may need to change this Privacy Statement from time to time as well. We will inform you regarding material changes, for example, placing a notice on our websites when we are required to do so by applicable law. You can see when this Privacy Statement was last updated by checking the date at the top of this page. You are responsible for periodically reviewing this Privacy Statement. 

Redressal and Contact Information

If you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is processed by Authentific, email us at [email protected]. We at Authentific respect the personal data and privacy of every user equally, irrespective of their jurisdiction. We promise to abide by this Privacy Statement and secure your privacy. For us, you all are equally valuable, and your trust is our asset. If you are unhappy about how a complaint has been handled by Authentific, you have a right to lodge a complaint directly with your local supervisory authority.