United States Privacy Supplement

UNITED STATES PRIVACY SUPPLEMENT

U.S. privacy disclosures for direct users and institution-related processing

Academic Quality. Verified.

1. Application and entity

This Supplement applies to U.S. processing when the contracting entity is the future Wyoming entity identified in the Entity and Jurisdiction Schedule, or where U.S. law otherwise applies. Until the Wyoming entity is formed and activated, the schedule must not present it as an existing contracting entity.

2. Categories and purposes

The Master Privacy Notice describes the categories of information and purposes. This Supplement adds U.S.-specific disclosures and rights where applicable federal or state law requires them.

3. Children

Veri-AQ’s standard U.S. Junior launch is ages 13–17. Collection from a U.S. child under 13 is disabled unless and until a COPPA-compliant workflow is activated, including the required parental notice, verifiable parental consent, retention/deletion controls and provider safeguards.

4. Education records

Where a school discloses FERPA-protected education records to Veri-AQ under an applicable exception such as the school-official exception, Veri-AQ uses those records only for the authorised institutional purpose and subject to the U.S. Institution/FERPA DPA and the school’s direct-control requirements.

5. Consumer privacy rights

Where a state comprehensive privacy law applies to Veri-AQ based on the user’s residency, the nature of the data and any statutory applicability threshold, Veri-AQ will provide the applicable access, correction, deletion, portability, opt-out, appeal or other rights required by that law. The State Privacy Schedule controls the operational mapping.

6. No sale / targeted advertising position

Veri-AQ does not currently sell student or learner academic content and does not use child academic content for targeted advertising. Any advertising or cross-context behavioural use would require a separate legal and product approval and is disabled for child users by default.

7. No corpus / model training

Veri-AQ does not currently place user submissions into a global cross-customer corpus and does not currently use user content for general model training. Future introduction would require new disclosures and any rights/consent required by applicable U.S. law.

8. Contact and complaints

U.S. privacy requests may be sent to privacy@veri-aq.com. Users may also exercise rights through any additional state-specific mechanism published for the applicable jurisdiction.

Legal review and mandatory-law notice. This policy framework is designed for Veri-AQ operations and must be reviewed by appropriately qualified counsel before a new entity, jurisdiction, school contract, under-13 U.S. workflow or materially new processing purpose is launched. Nothing in this document excludes rights or duties that applicable law does not permit the parties to waive.

Primary legal references

• COPPA: Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, 16 CFR Part 312 — https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/rules/childrens-online-privacy-protection-rule-coppa
• FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99 — https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/ferpa
• FTC Act: Federal Trade Commission Act, Section 5 — https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/statutes/federal-trade-commission-act

Contact details

Website: www.veri-aq.com | Support: support@veri-aq.com | Privacy / PAIA: privacy@veri-aq.com

Principal address: Hofmeyer Rd, Centurion, South Africa, 0157