Privacy, consent, and trust by design.
Trustory is designed as workforce trust infrastructure with privacy, consent, and auditability at its core. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, protect, and govern data across the Trustory platform.
Trustory does not treat employment history like ordinary social data. Access, verification, and visibility are governed through trust, legitimate use, and worker-centered controls.
1. Overview
Trustory (“Trustory”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) operates a digital workforce trust infrastructure that helps workers, institutions, and authorized stakeholders verify employment history and related trust records.
This Privacy Policy applies to our website, applications, dashboards, authentication flows, and related services.
By accessing or using Trustory, you acknowledge that your information may be processed as described in this policy.
2. Information We Collect
We collect only the information necessary to operate a secure, auditable, and permissioned trust registry.
We may collect phone numbers, email addresses, authentication credentials, OTP-related data, and user role information such as worker, institution, or administrator.
Worker authentication may also involve third-party identity services such as Google sign-in where enabled.
Workers may provide profile details, employment history, employer leads, job titles, dates of service, and supporting context necessary for verification.
Institutions may provide their name, registration number, website, domain, county, town, physical address, contact details, and information relevant to field verification.
We may collect IP address, device information, user agent, activity logs, event telemetry, and internal audit metadata in order to secure the platform and preserve system integrity.
3. How We Use Information
We use collected information to:
Trustory does not sell personal information and does not use sensitive employment trust records for unrelated advertising purposes.
4. Record Integrity and Transparency
Trustory operates as an integrity-focused trust registry. Certain records, audit logs, and dispute histories are preserved to maintain transparency and prevent silent manipulation.
In practical terms, this means some data may be retained in an append-only or historically visible form where necessary to:
5. Data Sharing
Trustory only shares information when there is a lawful, necessary, or platform-authorized basis for doing so.
Sensitive employment history and trust signals are disclosed to employers only where the worker has approved access or has initiated a workflow that reasonably requires such access.
We may share limited information with institutions to confirm employment, validate records, respond to disputes, or issue verified stamps.
We may disclose information where required by law, regulation, legal process, or competent authority.
6. Data Security
Trustory uses layered safeguards to protect personal information and trust records.
While no system is completely risk-free, we continuously improve administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards.
7. Data Retention
We retain data only for as long as reasonably necessary to:
Some records may be retained longer where necessary to preserve system accountability or auditability.
8. User Rights
Depending on applicable law, users may have rights to:
These rights may be limited where information must be retained to preserve legal compliance, fraud prevention, or audit integrity.
9. Third-Party Services
Trustory may rely on third-party infrastructure or service providers such as authentication providers, cloud hosting, email delivery tools, storage systems, analytics tools, or security monitoring services.
These providers may process limited technical or operational data necessary for Trustory to function securely and reliably.
10. Children’s Privacy
Trustory is not intended for children under the age of 18.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors for independent use of the platform. If we become aware of such collection, we may take appropriate corrective action.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect legal, technical, operational, or product changes.
Where updates are material, we may provide additional notice through the platform or other appropriate channels.
The “Last Updated” date at the top of this page indicates the most recent revision.
12. Contact
If you have questions, concerns, or lawful requests related to this Privacy Policy or Trustory data handling, you can contact Trustory through the official channels listed on the platform.
This Privacy Policy should be reviewed alongside your Trustory Terms of Service, Data Retention Policy, Data Governance Policy, and Security Incident Response Plan.