Data Responsibility & Local-Storage Statement

This is one of the most important statements in our legal pack and is displayed prominently in the App.

6.1 Two Categories of Data We distinguish between (a) **Account Data** — your name, email, phone, billing and licence information, which lives on our backend; and (b) **User Client Data** — anything you type into the App about your employees, witnesses, evidence, hearing minutes, charge sheets and outcomes, which lives only on your device.

6.2 Why Local-Only Storage We designed the App this way deliberately, so that sensitive employee information stays under your control, in the workplace where it belongs, and does not become a security liability on our servers.

6.3 What This Means for You If your device is lost, stolen, reset, or the App is uninstalled, all User Client Data on that device is permanently and irretrievably lost. We cannot recover it. You must therefore maintain your own backups (for example by exporting completed cases to PDF/Word and filing them in your own records system).

6.4 No VERDIQT Access VERDIQT, its staff, and its service providers have no technical means of accessing, viewing, or retrieving User Client Data stored on your device. We cannot assist with recovery of this data, and we cannot be compelled to produce it (for example, in litigation or a CCMA matter) because it does not exist anywhere in our systems.

6.5 Recommended Practice After every hearing, export the charge sheet, hearing minutes and outcome letter from the App to PDF or Word and save them to your organisation's secure document store. Treat the App as a workflow tool, not as a long-term archive.