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Verified, never tracked.

How Cylinder proves a fact about someone without becoming a way to follow them — single-use credentials, selective disclosure, and as little data kept as possible. This explains our approach; the legal terms live in the privacy policy.

Privacy guide5 sections~2 min read
Single-use

Cylinder verifies with single-use credential presentations: each time your credential is claimed it produces a fresh, unique signature and is burned on use. There is no reusable identifier to follow, so two checks can never be tied back to the same person — you are verified, and nothing else.

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Selective disclosure

A verification confirms the single claim a flow needs — not the whole credential. The person shares “over 18 = true”, and the date of birth, document number, and everything else stay with them.

You set the clock

Retention is a control you own, not a promise to take on faith. Choose to keep only that a check happened, a short default window, or a custom period that matches your policy. When the window closes, the record is permanently deleted.

Governance

Where third parties are involved they are identified and governed, and there is a clear path to access, correct, or delete data. This page describes our approach; the legal terms live in the privacy policy.

Know the subprocessors

Where third parties are involved, they are identified and governed — named, not hidden.

Access, correct, delete

A clear path for privacy requests — the right to see, fix, or remove data — as required by law.

Organisation-scoped

Every record belongs to one organisation; access is checked on every read and write.

Separate from the legal policy

This explains product behaviour and intent; the formal disclosures live in the privacy policy.

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