Privacy

This notice applies to the DICRI website at www.dicricom.com and to inquiries sent through its Contact page.

The website is operated by Digital Infrastructure Certification & Records Institute, Inc., incorporated in Delaware, United States, referred to in this notice as DICRI. DICRI is the controller of the personal information it handles as described here.

This notice does not cover certification applications, accounts, equipment enrollment, payments or other operational services. None of these is offered through this website today; if they are introduced, they may be covered by additional or updated notices.

The website and its Contact page are intended for professional and institutional audiences and are not directed to children.

The website does not use analytics or advertising technology, has no visitor accounts and loads no third-party content. DICRI's application does not set cookies.

The website is hosted by Vercel Inc. As with any website, delivering a page means the hosting infrastructure processes technical information about the request: the IP address, the date and time, the page requested and the result, and browser and device details such as the user agent. Vercel uses this information to deliver the website and keep it secure and reliable, and may derive an approximate location from the IP address.

DICRI can see limited request logs through its hosting account. It uses them only to diagnose technical faults and investigate misuse, not to build profiles of visitors.

When you send an inquiry through the Contact page, DICRI collects the information you enter:

• your name;
• your email address;
• your organization, if you choose to give it;
• the inquiry type you select; and
• your message.

The time the inquiry was received is recorded with it. The form asks for nothing else. It is for ordinary institutional correspondence, not certification intake: please do not include confidential documents, project records or other sensitive material in a message.

To protect the form from misuse, the IP address a submission comes from is used briefly to limit repeated submissions, and simple automated checks help detect submissions that were not made by a person. These checks use no cookies, and the IP address is not included in the inquiry DICRI receives.

If you write to DICRI by email instead, DICRI receives your email address and whatever your message contains.

DICRI uses inquiry information to receive inquiries, to review and route them by subject, to respond where a reply is appropriate, and to maintain its ordinary correspondence.

Technical information is used to operate the website, to keep the website and the Contact page secure and protected from abuse, and to diagnose technical or delivery failures.

Through this website and its Contact page, DICRI does not sell personal information, does not use it for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, does not use it for marketing, and does not profile individuals in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

DICRI relies on two service providers to operate the website and its Contact page:

• Vercel Inc., for website hosting and the related delivery and security infrastructure; and
• Google LLC (Google Workspace and Google Cloud), for delivering Contact inquiries by email and for DICRI's institutional mailbox, where correspondence is held.

These providers process personal information on DICRI's behalf under their service terms. Vercel also handles certain technical information about visitors, such as IP addresses, under its own privacy notice. Both operate infrastructure in the United States and other countries, so information may be processed outside the country where you live.

DICRI does not otherwise disclose personal information to third parties, except where disclosure is required by law or legal process, or is necessary to protect the rights, safety or security of DICRI, its website or others.

DICRI's retention policy for ordinary Contact correspondence is 24 months. DICRI reviews its correspondence periodically and deletes messages that have passed that period and are no longer required.

If correspondence becomes part of a certification engagement, a formal institutional record or another process with its own retention requirements, the relevant material may instead be kept for as long as that record or process requires.

The request logs available to DICRI through its hosting account are kept only briefly—currently one day. Vercel may keep technical information for its own purposes for the periods described in its privacy notice.

You may ask what personal information DICRI holds about you, or ask for it to be corrected or deleted, by writing to contact@dicricom.com. No account is needed.

Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have rights to access your personal information, to correct it, to delete it, to obtain a copy of it, and to opt out of certain uses such as sale, targeted advertising or certain profiling. As described above, DICRI does not use personal information in those ways through this website.

DICRI may need to confirm your identity before acting on a request and will ask only for what is reasonably needed to do so. DICRI responds within the period required by the law that applies to the request.

If DICRI declines a request, you may ask for the decision to be reconsidered by writing to the same address and identifying your message as an appeal of a privacy request decision. Depending on where you live, you may also be able to raise the matter with your privacy or consumer protection regulator.

Because the website does not sell personal information, track visitors across websites or use targeted advertising, there is no such activity for Do Not Track or opt-out preference signals to switch off, and the website does not respond differently to them.

DICRI may update this notice as the website or its operational pathways change. Material changes are reflected by revising the notice and its effective date, and by additional notice where that is appropriate or required.

Questions about this notice, and privacy requests, may be sent to contact@dicricom.com.