Veridas Digital Authentication Solutions, S.L. (hereinafter, “VERIDAS”) provides you (hereinafter, the “User”) with a voice recognition demonstration service (hereinafter, the “Service”) through the bot functionality of Telegram application.

The use of the Service through Telegram application is voluntary and will only be executed if the User expressly consents to it. The acceptance of these terms and conditions shall be deemed to have occurred when the User clicks the “Start/Iniciar” option at time of start.

For any incident, doubt or request regarding the Service, the User can contact VERIDAS in the following email address: support@veridas.com.

In order to use the Service, it is necessary for the User to have Telegram application installed. VERIDAS hereby informs the User that the use of Telegram application is governed by the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions  of Telegram application, and that its use may involve the transfer of your personal data to countries located outside the European Economic Area. 

VERIDAS would like to inform the User below of the privacy practices applied by VERIDAS to the processing of the User’s personal data for the purpose of providing its voice recognition demonstration service through a Telegram bot.

FIRST.- PRIVACY POLICY

In accordance with the current regulation on personal data protection, VERIDAS hereby informs you:

Controller of your personal data: Veridas Digital Authentication Solutions, S.L. (“VERIDAS”), with registered business address at Polígono Industrial Talluntxe II, M-10, 31192 Tajonar (Navarra – Spain), is the controller of the personal data you provide through the App. Email address: gdpr@veridas.com.

Data Protection Officer: VERIDAS has designated a Data Protection Officer (DPO), as the person in charge of the protection of your fundamental right to personal data protection in VERIDAS and of the supervision of the company’s regulation compliance. You can contact our DPO at dpo@veridas.com.

Purpose of the processing: Through the Telegram bot, VERIDAS will capture audio records of the User and will process this audios with the following purposes:

• Registration of the voice credential of the User extracted from the registration audio, using voice biometric techniques, merely for demonstration purposes.
• Comparison of the registered voice credential of the User with each new voice credential generated from an audio of the User, using voice biometric techniques for identity coincidence measure, merely for demonstration purposes.
• Research and functional verification of the document validation and biometric (facial and voice) systems developed by VERIDAS in the context of digital authentication technologies, for which the data may be integrated in a database under the responsibility of VERIDAS. 

In the achieving of these purposes, VERIDAS guaranties that the processing of your personal data is exclusively done in the research and development activities pursued by the company, and that your personal data will never be subject to commercialization nor will be accessible to clients and end users of our products.

Legitimation: The legal basis that allows VERIDAS to process your personal data is the explicit consent you give by agreeing to these Terms and Conditions before you start using the Service.

Storage period: The data collected with the Service will be kept by VERIDAS throughout a period of 5 years. Once this period is finalized, your data will be destroyed.

Recipients: VERIDAS will not transfer your personal data to third parties, unless it is bound to do so by law or you have previously agreed to do so with VERIDAS.

In order to be able to provide you with an adequate service and manage the relationship that VERIDAS maintains with you, you can find below a list of categories of companies that process your data on behalf of VERIDAS as part of the provision of services we have contracted.

VERIDAS informs you that, for the same purpose as indicated in the previous paragraph, certain companies that provide services to VERIDAS could access your personal data (international data transfer). These transfers are made to countries with a level of protection comparable to that of the European Union (European Commission adaptation decisions, standard contractual clauses as well as certification mechanisms). For further information, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@veridas.com.

Information about the recipients of personal data

• IT services:
  • Cloud processing services.
  • Electronic custody services.
  • Backup services.
  • Other services related to communications technology and computing.

Place of supply of related services: Spain and, in some cases, the European Union.

Rights: You can exercise your rights to access, rectification, erasure, object, restriction of processing and data portability, in accordance with current personal data regulations. You should address us at Polígono Industrial Talluntxe II, M-10, 31192 Tajonar (Navarra – Spain) or write an email to gdpr@veridas.com, accompanying your request with a sufficient proof of your identity. This right is free of costs.

You can withdraw your consent at any time, although that will not produce effects on the lawfulness of the previous processings, by sending an email to gdpr@veridas.com.

If you consider that VERIDAS has not processed your personal data in accordance with the regulations, you can contact VERIDAS’ Data Protection Officer at dpo@veridas.com. You can also lodge a claim with the competent Supervisory authority (Spanish Supervisory authority: www.agpd.es). 

SECOND.- OUR SERVICE

2.1.- VERIDAS would like to thank the User for their participation in the demonstration Service. The purpose of the Service is to test the solution designed by VERIDAS for the User authentication, securely, through different systems and information of or in the possession of the User.

2.2.- As previously mentioned, the Service is a demo, and therefore it may be subject to interruptions, or some options or functionalities may be changed (even be removed).

THIRD.- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

All Intellectual Property Rights over and in respect of the software included in the Service are owned by VERIDAS. The User does not acquire any rights of ownerships in the software of the Service, and the User must use the Intellectual Property Rights exclusively as required for reasonable and customary use within the purposes of the Service.

Any modification made on the software or on the Service in order to adapt it for the provision of the Service to the User, shall be included in the Intellectual Property Rights of VERIDAS.

FOURTH.- INFRINGEMENT OF THE TERMS OF USE

The use of the demonstration Service is conditioned on the compliance with the present terms of use. VERIDAS reserves the right to suspend or terminate the Service and the present agreement if any of the following situations occurs:

• The Service is used for other purposes than its private testing and, specially, for any production system of identification/authentication, commercial or of third-parties.
• The incorporation of third-party data by the User without their consent. In this sense, it is the sole responsibility of the User to guarantee that the data they are providing to the Service through the Telegram bot are its own or, if applicable, that the data subject knows and consents, in accordance with the privacy policy herein contained, their personal data processing.
• Identity fraud attempts by other user or any person outside the Service.
• Modification of the Service.
• Decompilation attempts, of all or part of the Service, or any kind of reverse engineering efforts.

Violation of the present terms of use by the User may lead to the suspension or revocation of the User’s account, without this situation generating any right to compensation, and without prejudice of VERIDAS right to demand compensation for damage arising from such breach.

FIFTH.- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The Service has mere demonstrative purposes, and therefore VERIDAS does not offer any warranty regarding the liability, performance or maintenance of the Service, or of the information provided by the Users. The Service is provided “AS IS”, and VERIDAS does not warrant that it will be free from error of any kind and that it might serve a purpose beyond the specifications and features contained herein. VERIDAS’ servers and the system that serves as the basis of the Service may experiment operation errors or be temporarily suspended, affecting therefore to the authentication service. Ultimately, VERIDAS does not warrant the liability and maintenance of the offered Service or the correct operation of the computer program, including Telegram services.

For the Service operation through Telegram it is essential that the device in which it is installed is connected via the Internet, which could lead to extra costs to the User. In no event will VERIDAS assume any kind of cost or responsibility for the operation or charges of the Internet connection and geolocation services that may arise from the use of the Service in the User’s device where it is executed, which shall be assumed by the User.

SIXTH.- APPLICATION WITHDRAWAL, SUSPENSION OR FINALIZATION OF THE SERVICE

VERIDAS reserves the right to suspend or finalize the demonstration Service unilaterally, without notice being required or generating a right of compensation for the User.

The maintenance of the ability to use the Service is in any case subject to the compliance with these terms and conditions, being VERIDAS entitled to revoke the access if the User breaks them, without requiring a prior notification from VERIDAS to the User and without this situation implying any right to compensation for the User.

SEVENTH.- MODIFICATION OF THE CONDITIONS

VERIDAS reserves the right to modify at any time these terms and conditions, which shall be accepted by the User to be effective. In any case, VERIDAS could condition the access to the Service to the acceptance of the new terms and conditions.

EIGHTH.- LANGUAGE

These terms and conditions have been written in English. Notwithstanding the prevalence of this language in the present relationship, in case of dispute or doubt, the parties shall attend, if any, the Spanish version of these terms and conditions.

NINTH.- GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

12.1.- These Terms and Conditions will be construed by and governed in accordance with the laws of Spain.

12.2.- All disputes over these Terms and Conditions shall be definitely resolved by means of arbitration administered by the Spanish Court of Arbitration in accordance with its Regulations and Statutes, entrusted with the administration of the arbitration and the nomination of the arbitrator or arbitrators.