The Zendit System and web site has been designed to give you the ability to take control of your digital data when communicating on the Internet.  You are given the opportunity to become encryption-enabled and encryption-enable others so you can send, receive and store encrypted data with one click. You are also given the opportunity to create, personalize and manage access rights to your digital data and digital identity.  We have absolute respect for your digital rights and your privacy—we will not access any email you send using the Zendit System as it is not accessible or stored by Zendit because it is encrypted by YOU.  You control who has access to any personal information that is encrypted. You control the encryption process.

Authora Inc. operates a Web site located at www.authora.com from which users can register for electronic confidentiality, encryption, and authentication services.  This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect when you access our Site or when you use the Zendit Services. 

Information this site gathers

We collect some general, non-personally identifiable information. Domain names and IP addresses may be logged for statistical and administrative purposes only. Your IP address is not linked to your email address or your Zendit login.  In other words, some general, non-personally identifiable information is automatically collected when this site is accessed (e.g. number of users at any given hour or web pages that get hit hard). This information provides us the ability to adjust the Zendit services to better suit your needs. This information is collected in aggregate form and cannot be used to identify you personally. This aggregate information may be shared with our partners.  WE DO NOT DATA MINE.

We will not disclose your Zendit registration information.  The registration process for our free products and services asks registrants to provide us with a first name, last name, username, email address and password as appropriate.  The registration process for our online notary services and paying subscription services may ask for name, credit card information (such as credit card number and expiration date) and mailing addresses (including street, city, state, zip code and country) as appropriate.  We support SSL technology when you submit information to this site.  Any personal information that you provide will be kept confidential and only made accessible to Authora employees on a need-to-know basis. Authora also employs the use of firewalls as well as other technologies to keep data private.  These security procedures are regularly reviewed and refined in order to provide a better, more secure environment for your information.

Use of this information

Zendit System
The information we collect from our registration process is used to verify ownership of an email address and to confirm a published certificate for a newly encryption-enabled email address.  Email addresses may be logged for services, support, statistical and administrative purposes only. Please see below about our policy on sharing information with third parties.

·          Public Locks: When your email address is verified, you will create a Lock and Key.  If you choose to publish your Lock with the Zendit Lock Directory, your Lock will be listed with our Auto Lock find service.  In other words: your email address will be associated to a public Lock to allow others to easily send you encrypted data.  If another Zendit user does not have your encryption Lock, then the Zendit client software will access the Zendit Lock Directory for the purpose of retrieving your Lock.

·          Private Keys:  You control your Private Key.  Zendit offers a Private key backup at your option.  Your private key can be stored in your Web Vault and is encrypted with your password of choice.  You are in control of this—you can delete your stored keys from your Web Vault at any time. In the future, Zendit will offer a key recovery package at your option. 

·          Passwords:  Zendit relies on passwords for user authentication. To guard against password theft or interception, Zendit uses respected methodologies for the secure storage and exchange of passwords. Even Zendit server administrators do not know your password, because passwords are stored in an unreadable form (a one-way hash using the MD5 hash algorithm). When you log in, your password is sent through an encrypted connection. The Zendit servers process the received password (using the MD5 hash algorithm and an arbitrary salt value) and compare the result with the stored form. Only if the two match, are you admitted.

·          Email Addresses:  Users of the Zendit System will receive, by email, occasional updates on newly released versions of the System. To opt-out of receiving promotional notices, click the link at the bottom of any promotional notice sent via email or send an email to:  support@zendit.com with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line.

Use of your email address

Authora uses your email address for the following purposes.

• To help facilitate seamless public lock exchange for confidential communications.

• To contact you about the Zendit Services or the Site.

• To notify you when multiple attempts to enter your Zendit Pass Phrase has failed at the Authora Web Site.

• To communicate with you concerning problems or malfunctions you report. Authora also requires that you provide your email address on the technical support area of the Site so that we are able to respond to your questions by email. 

Sharing of this information

Information about our users is never traded or sold with any third party.   When necessary, customer information may be shared "temporarily" with third parties for credit card authorizations and fulfillment. Zendit may at sometime share the Public Locks stored in our Public Lock Directory with similar Public Key Infrastructures or Public Key Servers for interoperability and standardization only.

We will not disclose the contents of your Zendit profile or any part of your account unless acting under a good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

1. Comply with court order or other legal process
2. Protect the rights or property of Authora Inc.
3. Enforce the terms of use and standards of conduct,
4. Protect the interests of Zendit members or the public.

Accessing your personal information

You have a right to access your personal information and rectify it, which may be done in the normal course of maintaining and updating your account.

Authora will use best efforts to comply with this privacy policy and will take prompt corrective action when it learns of any failure to comply with our privacy policy. We plan to customarily release beta versions of our products, which will be further refined before the release of the final version. Because these products and services are still in a test phase, we may not always catch unintended privacy issues despite our efforts to do so. As such, we welcome user feedback on any privacy concerns you may have, and on how to improve our products generally, in all stages of release. This Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of the United States.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect and how we use it.  If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email.  Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.  We will only use your information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.