Privacy Policy

01Commitment to Privacy

At **Veriq**, we believe that privacy is a fundamental human right. Our logical reasoning fact-checking platform is designed around the principles of **privacy by design** and **local data minimization**.

This Privacy Policy describes how Veriq collects, uses, secures, and discloses information across our web application (located at `/`) and our native Android application (“Mobile Agent”, “App”). **We pledge to never monetize, sell, or rent your personal data, verification history, or telemetry records to any third party.**

02Information We Collect

We only collect the absolute minimum data required to deliver core verification features and maintain subscription checkpoints:

• Account Credentials: Email address, encrypted passwords, and profile name. This data is handled through our secure Better-Auth credential frameworks.
• Social Authentication Metadata: If you select Google OAuth to register, we collect the basic profile attributes (email, name, profile image URL) returned by the Google identity scope.
• Billing Information: Payment identifiers and subscription metadata processed by our payment gateway, **Razorpay**. We do not store raw card numbers, PINs, or UPI credentials on our databases.
• Verification History logs: Saved verification reports (claim text, summary, trust index, dynamic citations list) associated with your account, which you can choose to delete from your console at any time.

03On-Device Local Isolation & Zero Telemetry

Our mobile architecture uses a local isolation strategy that distinguishes Veriq from traditional web scrapers:

Zero-Telemetry Policy: The Mobile Agent does not contain background tracking trackers, analytic engines, or usage telemetry logs. We do not track your location, device ID, clipboard content, or network parameters.

04How We Use Your Data

We utilize your collected account metadata exclusively for the following operational workflows:

• Validating account logins and session status.
• Deducting credits atomically during fact-checks and ensuring quota rules (Free vs Premium vs Pro plans).
• Initiating checkout sessions and verifying subscription payments against our secure Razorpay webhooks.
• Rendering your personal console verification dashboard.
• Sending critical administrative notices (e.g. email verification tokens, ticket updates).

05Third-Party Integrations & Data Sharing

We do not share your information with external companies, except with secure third-party processors required to execute the service:

• Razorpay: Bypasses standard payment inputs and settles credit tokens. Razorpay collects your billing data in accordance with their regulatory compliance terms.
• Google Identity OAuth: Validates registration requests.
• Logical AI Clusters: Lightweight text hashes of assertions are routed securely to our AI reasoning nodes (Gemini Pro clusters) to execute fact-checking logic. No user identifying profiles are sent alongside these claims.

06Data Security & Encryption

We employ rigorous operational and technical security protocols to protect your credentials and metadata:

• Network Security: All communication between the web dashboard, the Mobile Agent, and our backend clusters is encrypted using TLS 1.3 socket tunnels.
• Mobile Keystore Isolation: The Mobile Agent stores local verification logs inside an on-device database encrypted via the device's native hardware-backed security keystore.
• Server Security: Web credentials and billing event ledgers are stored in production databases secured behind firewalls and VPC isolates. Passwords are encrypted using high-entropy hashing algorithms.

07User Rights & Data Deletion

You retain complete ownership and sovereignty over your account data. You have the right to:

• Request a complete export of your account metadata and historical check logs.
• Delete individual verification logs from your dashboard history immediately.
• Delete Your Account: You can request complete account deletion from your profile. Upon processing, all your registration details, Better-Auth metadata, and check logs will be purged from our active databases within 48 hours.

08Contact Privacy Officer

For questions regarding this Privacy Policy, your data sovereignty rights, or to submit a complete data deletion mandate, please contact our Data Protection Officer: