Privacy Policy
Last Updated: November 26, 2025
At a Glance (TL;DR)
What We Collect: Business info, license documents, insurance certificates, and phone response times.
Public Visibility: Your verification status and metrics are public. This transparency is the core service we provide.
How We Use It: To verify your credentials against state records and inject verified data into AI search engines.
Your Rights: You can access, update, or delete your account information at any time.
Verified Node ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share your personal information when you use our services.
1. Information We Collect
Account Information: When you sign up, we collect your name, business name, email address, phone number, and payment information.
Verification Data: We collect and store copies of your business license, insurance certificates, and other credential documents you provide.
Performance Data: We collect data related to your responsiveness, including call answer times during our verification tests ("3-Ring Test").
2. How We Use Your Information
- To provide and maintain the Service.
- To verify your identity and credentials against official records.
- To generate your public verification profile and status.
- To process payments and manage your subscription.
- To communicate with you about your account, expiration alerts, and updates.
3. Data Sharing & Public Visibility
Public Profile: Your business name, verification status, license number, insurance status, and response metrics are made public on your Verified Node certificate page and via our API. This allows customers and AI systems to verify your legitimacy.
Service Providers: We share data with trusted third-party vendors who help us operate our business (e.g., payment processors like Stripe, cloud hosting).
Legal Requirements: We may disclose information if required by law or in response to valid legal requests.
4. Data Security
We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your data. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
5. Analytics & Cookies
We use Vercel Analytics to collect anonymous usage data about how visitors interact with our website. This helps us understand traffic patterns, improve our services, and enhance user experience.
What Vercel Analytics Collects: Page views, referral sources, browser type, device type, geographic region (country/city level), and session duration. This data is aggregated and does not include personally identifiable information.
No Cookies for Tracking: Vercel Analytics is privacy-focused and does not use cookies to track individual users across sessions. It complies with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations without requiring cookie consent banners.
You may opt out of analytics tracking by enabling "Do Not Track" in your browser settings or using a browser extension that blocks analytics scripts.
6. Your Rights
You may access, update, or delete your personal account information at any time via your dashboard. You may also request a copy of the data we hold about you.
7. Third-Party Links
Our Service may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites.
8. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@verifiednode.com.