DPS · Digital Trust and Verification Infrastructure
Privacy Policy
How DPS handles personal information on dps.io and DPS experiences that expressly link to this policy.
Effective August 12, 2026dps.io is the corporate website of the DPS digital trust and verification infrastructure brand. Product-specific or supplemental privacy notices may apply to CaseMail, COA Chain, COAScan, developer services, and other separately governed DPS experiences.
1. Scope and Who We Are
This Privacy Policy explains how VerTrius Corp, doing business as DPS (“DPS,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects personal information when you visit www.dps.io, submit information through dps.io, communicate with DPS about its business, or use another DPS-operated website or verification experience that expressly links to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “DPS Site”).
DPS is the digital trust and verification infrastructure brand of VerTrius Corp. dps.io is primarily a corporate, informational, and business-contact website. Separate DPS platforms, networks, applications, developer services, or partner experiences may provide their own or supplemental privacy notices. When a separate notice is provided for a specific service, that notice controls for that service to the extent of any conflict.
Third-party websites and services linked from dps.io, including independently operated partner sites, are governed by their own privacy practices unless expressly stated otherwise.
2. Personal Information We Collect
The information DPS collects depends on how you interact with the DPS Site. We may collect the categories described below.
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Identifiers and contact information | Name, business or organization name, job title, email address, telephone number, mailing address, and similar contact details. |
| Business and inquiry information | The DPS solution, platform, industry, partnership, sponsorship, integration, support, or other topic you ask about; form selections; appointment or follow-up preferences; and related business correspondence. |
| Communications and submitted content | Messages you send to DPS and information you voluntarily include in forms, email, support requests, or other communications. If a DPS feature permits an attachment or record submission, the information contained in that submission may also be processed. |
| Device, network, and website-usage information | IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring URL, pages viewed, timestamps, approximate location inferred from IP address, and similar server-log or usage information. |
| Cookie, analytics, and preference information | Cookie or similar identifiers, consent or preference choices, campaign or referral information, and analytics events used to understand website performance and engagement. |
| Security and fraud-prevention information | Authentication or security events, abuse signals, request metadata, and other information used to protect DPS, its websites, systems, users, and records. |
| Verification and public-record information | If you intentionally use a DPS verification experience that links to this Policy, DPS may process public identifiers, status information, cryptographic fingerprints or hashes, timestamps, transaction references, and other verification evidence associated with the requested record. |
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through a general dps.io contact form unless it is necessary for your request and appropriate for that channel. A separate DPS service may collect additional categories under its own privacy notice.
3. Sources of Personal Information
We may collect personal information directly from you; from your employer or organization; from a person who asks DPS to communicate with or about you; from service providers that support hosting, analytics, security, communications, customer relationship management, scheduling, or similar website operations; from business partners or integrations when you direct or authorize the interaction; from public business sources; and automatically when you use the DPS Site.
4. How We Use Personal Information
DPS may use personal information to operate, maintain, secure, and improve dps.io; respond to sales, enterprise, government, partnership, sponsorship, media, support, and other inquiries; route inquiries to the appropriate DPS team; communicate about requested solutions, platforms, networks, demonstrations, integrations, or services; maintain business records and relationship history; understand website performance and engagement; detect and prevent fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and security incidents; comply with law and enforce applicable agreements; protect the rights, safety, and integrity of DPS, users, partners, and the public; and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
DPS may also send administrative, transactional, or business communications related to an inquiry or existing relationship. Marketing communications will be sent only as permitted by applicable law, and you may use the unsubscribe or preference controls provided with those communications.
6. How We Disclose Personal Information
DPS may disclose personal information to service providers and contractors that support hosting, cloud infrastructure, security, analytics, communications, customer relationship management, scheduling, support, and other business operations; to professional advisers such as attorneys, accountants, auditors, and insurers; to an integration partner, platform, network, or other organization when you ask DPS to coordinate with or connect to that party; to law-enforcement, regulators, courts, or other recipients when required by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, security, or the integrity of DPS systems; and to participants in a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar corporate transaction, subject to applicable protections.
DPS may also disclose information at your direction, with your consent, or as otherwise described at the point of collection.
7. Sale, Sharing, Targeted Advertising, and Preference Signals
DPS does not sell personal information for monetary consideration. Some privacy laws define “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” broadly and may treat certain disclosures involving online analytics or advertising technologies as covered activity even when no money changes hands.
If DPS uses a technology or engages in an activity that is treated as a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising under applicable law, DPS will provide any notice, opt-out mechanism, or preference-signal processing required by that law. DPS does not knowingly sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16 for cross-context behavioral advertising.
8. Public Verification and Blockchain Records
Some DPS verification experiences are designed to make selected identifiers, record status, cryptographic fingerprints, timestamps, transaction references, or other verification evidence publicly accessible. If a feature is identified as public, information submitted to that public field may be viewable by other users and may be copied, indexed, cached, or independently recorded by third parties.
Public blockchain networks may be append-only or practically immutable. DPS may be able to update a DPS-controlled registry, add a corrected or replacement record, or publish a new status, but DPS generally cannot erase a transaction that has already been confirmed on an independent public blockchain. For that reason, DPS is designed to avoid placing unnecessary confidential or personal information directly on a public blockchain. Do not submit confidential, privileged, regulated, or sensitive personal information to a public verification field unless you have authority to do so and intend the information to be public.
9. Data Retention
DPS retains personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including to respond to and document business inquiries, maintain relationships, operate and secure the DPS Site, comply with legal and contractual obligations, resolve disputes, and protect or enforce rights. Retention periods vary according to the type of information, the context in which it was collected, applicable legal requirements, and operational needs.
When personal information is no longer needed, DPS may delete, de-identify, or securely dispose of it, subject to backup cycles, legal holds, contractual requirements, security records, and the technical characteristics of public blockchain records described above.
10. Security
DPS uses administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, acquisition, destruction, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. Security measures are selected based on the nature of the information and the systems involved.
No website, network, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for using reasonable care when transmitting information to DPS and for avoiding unnecessary sensitive information in general website contact forms.
11. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have rights to request access to or information about personal information DPS maintains about you; request deletion; request correction; obtain a portable copy; opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling; limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information; withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; appeal certain privacy-request decisions; and receive non-discriminatory treatment for exercising privacy rights.
To submit a privacy request, email privacy@vertrius.com or write to the mailing address in Section 17. DPS may need to verify your identity and authority before completing a request. An authorized agent may submit a request where permitted by law, but DPS may require evidence of the agent’s authority and may verify the request directly with you. Certain information may be exempt from a privacy request where permitted or required by law.
12. California Privacy Notice
This section provides additional information for California residents to the extent the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (“CCPA”), applies to DPS and the personal information at issue.
The categories of personal information DPS may collect are described in Section 2; sources are described in Section 3; business and commercial purposes are described in Section 4; and categories of recipients are described in Section 6. Depending on applicable law and the circumstances, California residents may have rights to know or access personal information, request deletion, request correction, opt out of sale or sharing, limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information, and receive non-discriminatory treatment for exercising privacy rights.
California privacy requests may be submitted to privacy@vertrius.com or by mail using the address in Section 17. If DPS is required to provide a dedicated sale/sharing opt-out or sensitive-information limitation mechanism, DPS will make the applicable control available on dps.io. Where legally required and technically applicable, DPS will also honor recognized opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control.
13. Children
dps.io is directed to businesses, professionals, organizations, government users, and adults. It is not intended for children under 13, and DPS does not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through dps.io. If you believe a child has provided personal information to DPS inappropriately, contact DPS using the privacy contact information below.
14. International Users and Transfers
DPS is based in the United States. If you access the DPS Site from outside the United States, your personal information may be processed in the United States and in other countries where DPS or its service providers operate. Where required by applicable law, DPS uses appropriate safeguards for international transfers and processes personal information in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
15. Third-Party Links and Separate Services
dps.io may link to CaseMail, COA Chain, COAScan, developer resources, partner sites, social networks, scheduling services, or other third-party or separately governed experiences. This Privacy Policy does not replace the privacy policy of a separate service when that service provides its own notice. Review the applicable privacy notice before submitting personal information to another website or application.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
DPS may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the DPS Site, business practices, technologies, or legal requirements. The effective date at the top of the page indicates when the current version became effective. If a change materially affects how DPS handles personal information, DPS may provide additional notice where required by law.
17. Contact DPS About Privacy
Questions about this Privacy Policy or requests to exercise applicable privacy rights may be sent to privacy@vertrius.com.
Mailing address: VerTrius Corp, 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, DE 19958.
For privacy questions about a DPS platform or service that provides its own privacy notice, please use the privacy contact method identified in that notice.
Last updated: August 12, 2026.