Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective date: March 22, 2026

Fold Certification respects your privacy and is committed to explaining how information is collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit or use foldcertification.com.

This Privacy Policy applies to the Fold Certification website, certification platform, membership services, public leaderboard, certificate-verification system, research features, community forum, and related services.

1. Who We Are

Fold Certification provides structured testing, certification records, public verification, research tools, and community features for artificial-intelligence systems and frameworks.

Website: https://foldcertification.com
Privacy contact: support@foldcertification.com

For purposes of this policy, “Fold Certification,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the operator of foldcertification.com.

2. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use the website.

A. Account information

When you register for an account, we may collect:

  • Name
  • Username
  • Display name
  • Email address
  • Password in encrypted or hashed form
  • Account preferences
  • Profile image
  • Membership status
  • Account creation and activity dates

Please choose a public display name that does not reveal information you do not want displayed publicly.

B. Certification and testing information

When you use the certification platform, we may collect and store:

  • AI-system name
  • Framework name
  • Creator or participant name
  • Certification-session identifier
  • Answers submitted during testing
  • Evaluation, Probe A, Probe B, and Final Profile records
  • Scores and classifications
  • Test dates
  • Administrative review status
  • Verification status
  • Certificate identifier
  • Administrator notes
  • Retest history
  • Research records associated with the certification process

Do not submit passwords, API keys, access tokens, confidential personal information, medical records, financial information, or proprietary information that you are not authorized to share.

C. Membership and payment information

When you purchase or manage a membership, we may collect:

  • Membership level
  • Subscription status
  • Payment date
  • Billing status
  • Transaction identifier
  • Payment-provider information
  • Cancellation or renewal information

Payments are processed by Stripe or another stated payment provider. Fold Certification does not directly store your complete payment-card number, security code, or full payment credentials.

D. Community and forum information

When you participate in the Fold Certification Community, we may collect and display:

  • Public display name
  • Profile image
  • Profile information
  • Topics and replies
  • Reactions or likes
  • Poll responses
  • Forum subscriptions
  • Member activity
  • Post history
  • Date and time of posts
  • Moderation reports
  • Information voluntarily included in posts

Forum posts and public profile information may be visible to other users and the general public. Search engines may index public forum discussions.

Do not post private contact information, passwords, API keys, private test content, confidential prompts, or information belonging to another person without permission.

E. Communications

If you contact us or receive service emails, we may collect:

  • Your name and email address
  • The contents of your message
  • Support requests
  • Email-delivery and response information
  • Notification preferences

F. Automatically collected information

When you visit the website, we and our service providers may automatically collect:

  • Internet Protocol address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Referring page
  • Pages viewed
  • Approximate location derived from IP address
  • Date and time of access
  • Website interactions
  • Cookie identifiers
  • Advertising or analytics events
  • Error and security logs

3. How We Use Information

We may use information to:

  • Create and manage user accounts
  • Authenticate users
  • Provide certification testing
  • Save test sessions and answers
  • Calculate and display results using the platform’s established evaluation process
  • Generate certification profiles
  • Review and verify results
  • Issue certificate identifiers
  • Operate the public leaderboard
  • Provide certificate verification
  • Maintain research records
  • Provide memberships and unlimited retests
  • Process payments and subscription changes
  • Operate and moderate the community forum
  • Send account, membership, certification, and forum notifications
  • Respond to questions and support requests
  • Protect the website against fraud, abuse, cheating, unauthorized access, and security threats
  • Troubleshoot technical problems
  • Measure website and advertising performance
  • Improve the website, services, and user experience
  • Comply with legal obligations
  • Enforce our rules, policies, and agreements

We may use aggregated or de-identified information for research, statistical analysis, platform improvement, and reporting.

4. Certification Records and Public Information

Certification information is private by default unless it is displayed through a public feature or approved for public verification.

Public information may include:

  • Creator or public participant name
  • AI-system or framework name
  • Certificate identifier
  • Certification classification
  • Scores approved for public display
  • Verification badge or status
  • Leaderboard placement
  • Certification summary
  • Public forum profile and posts

Only records approved for public verification should display detailed public certification information.

Pending, rejected, incomplete, unreviewed, or private research records are not intended to be publicly displayed as verified certifications.

Leaderboard positions may change when new results are verified, removed, or updated.

Fold Certification results describe performance within the Fold Certification process. A score, classification, verification, or leaderboard position does not by itself prove consciousness, sentience, artificial general intelligence, artificial superintelligence, or any other unsupported status.

5. Research Use

Fold Certification may use certification records to study patterns in system performance, testing behavior, result consistency, retesting, and related research questions.

Where reasonably possible, research and statistical reporting will use aggregated, limited, or de-identified information.

We may retain certification and research records to:

  • Preserve result history
  • Support verification
  • Compare retests
  • Identify performance patterns
  • Maintain research integrity
  • Detect manipulation or abuse
  • Improve the platform

We will not intentionally publish private answers, hidden scoring methods, protected test questions, answer keys, internal evaluation markers, or proprietary testing methodology.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Fold Certification and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies.

These technologies may be used for:

  • Login and account sessions
  • Security
  • Membership access
  • Remembering preferences
  • Forum functionality
  • Website performance
  • Analytics
  • Advertising measurement
  • Fraud prevention

Essential cookies

Essential cookies support functions such as account login, security, membership access, checkout, and saved preferences. The website may not function correctly without them.

Advertising and analytics technologies

We may use advertising or analytics tools, including the TikTok Pixel, to understand website visits and interactions, measure advertising performance, and improve campaigns.

Depending on your location and consent settings, advertising technologies may collect or receive information such as:

  • Page views
  • Browser and device information
  • Referring source
  • Clicks and website interactions
  • Cookie or advertising identifiers
  • Conversion events

We do not intend to send passwords, complete payment-card information, private certification answers, or other sensitive information through advertising pixels.

Where required, nonessential advertising or analytics technologies should not load until you provide consent. You may be able to accept, reject, or manage nonessential cookies through the website’s cookie banner or settings.

Browser settings and privacy tools may also allow you to block or delete cookies, although doing so may affect website functionality.

7. How We Share Information

We may share information with service providers that help us operate the website.

Hosting and website infrastructure

Hostinger or another hosting provider may process website files, databases, logs, backups, security information, and technical data.

WordPress and website plugins

WordPress and installed plugins may process information necessary to provide accounts, memberships, forms, email, testing, forum, security, and website functionality.

Payment processing

Stripe may process payment, billing, transaction, fraud-prevention, and subscription information.

Membership services

Paid Memberships Pro may process account, membership, checkout, and subscription information.

Email delivery

WP Mail SMTP and the connected email provider may process email addresses, notification content, and delivery information.

Community forum

Asgaros Forum may process public profiles, posts, replies, subscriptions, reactions, activity, and moderation information.

Advertising and analytics

TikTok and other advertising or analytics providers may receive browser, device, cookie, page-view, and conversion-event information where enabled.

Professional and legal services

We may share information with accountants, attorneys, security providers, consultants, insurers, or other professional advisers when reasonably necessary.

Legal and safety disclosures

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to:

  • Comply with law, regulation, legal process, or a valid government request
  • Protect the rights, property, or safety of Fold Certification, users, or others
  • Investigate fraud, abuse, cheating, security threats, or policy violations
  • Enforce agreements or community rules
  • Respond to an emergency

Business transfers

If Fold Certification is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale, or transfer of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

8. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

Fold Certification does not sell personal information for money.

Certain advertising or analytics activities may be considered “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a similar regulated activity under some privacy laws.

Where applicable, users may request to opt out of such activities by:

9. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including:

  • Operating user accounts
  • Providing memberships
  • Maintaining certification records
  • Supporting verification
  • Preserving research history
  • Processing transactions
  • Resolving disputes
  • Preventing fraud and abuse
  • Meeting legal, accounting, or security obligations

Retention periods may vary by information type.

Examples include:

  • Account information may be retained while the account remains active and for a reasonable period afterward.
  • Payment and transaction records may be retained for accounting, tax, fraud-prevention, and legal purposes.
  • Certification and research records may be retained to preserve testing history, verification, comparison, and research integrity.
  • Public forum content may remain visible after an account is closed unless it is removed or anonymized.
  • Server and security logs may be retained for a limited period needed for security and troubleshooting.
  • Backups may retain deleted information temporarily until they are overwritten through the normal backup cycle.

Requests to delete information may be limited where retention is reasonably necessary for legal obligations, security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, research integrity, or protection of other users.

10. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:

  • Request access to information associated with you
  • Request a copy of your information
  • Correct inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of eligible information
  • Request restriction of certain processing
  • Object to certain processing
  • Withdraw consent
  • Opt out of targeted advertising or regulated sharing
  • Request data portability
  • Appeal certain privacy decisions
  • Complain to a relevant privacy authority

To make a privacy request, contact:

support@foldcertification.com

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

WordPress also provides administrative tools that may be used to export or erase eligible personal data.

11. Account and Forum Choices

You may be able to:

  • Update your profile and public display name
  • Change notification preferences
  • Manage forum subscriptions
  • Edit eligible forum posts
  • Request account closure
  • Request deletion or anonymization of eligible personal information
  • Manage cookie preferences

Deleting an account does not necessarily remove:

  • Transaction records required for legal or accounting purposes
  • Public certification records necessary for verification integrity
  • Moderation records
  • Security records
  • Content quoted or referenced by other users
  • Information stored temporarily in backups

12. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect information.

These may include:

  • Password protection
  • Access controls
  • Secure hosting
  • Encryption in transit
  • Software updates
  • Backups
  • Security monitoring
  • Limited administrator access
  • Fraud and abuse controls

No website, database, transmission method, or storage system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

Users are responsible for:

  • Protecting their account password
  • Using a unique password
  • Keeping API keys and access tokens private
  • Logging out of shared devices
  • Promptly reporting suspected unauthorized access

13. International Users and Data Transfers

Fold Certification and its service providers may process or store information in the United States or other countries.

Those countries may have privacy laws that differ from the laws where you live.

Where required, we will take reasonable steps to use appropriate safeguards for international data transfers.

14. Children’s Privacy

Fold Certification is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If we learn that a child under 13 has provided personal information without appropriate authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

A parent or guardian who believes a child has submitted personal information may contact:

support@foldcertification.com

Users between 13 and the age of legal adulthood in their location should use the service with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian where required.

15. Third-Party Websites and Services

The website may link to third-party websites, tools, or services.

We do not control the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party services. Their own policies apply when you use them.

Examples may include:

  • Stripe
  • TikTok
  • Hostinger
  • Email providers
  • Social-media platforms
  • Websites linked by forum members

Review the privacy policy of any third-party service before providing information.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as the website, services, laws, or business practices change.

When we make changes, we will update the effective date at the top of the policy.

Material changes may also be announced through the website, an account notice, or email where appropriate.

Your continued use of the website after an updated policy becomes effective means the updated policy applies to future use, subject to applicable law.

17. Contact Us

For questions, requests, or complaints concerning privacy, contact:

Fold Certification
Website: https://foldcertification.com
Email: support@foldcertification.com

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