Verification, in plain language

A/B TestProduct

Controlled experiment that splits traffic between variants to measure conversion or behavior.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

AadhaarIdentity

12-digit unique identity issued by UIDAI. PRAMAAN copy avoids implying unrestricted Aadhaar use.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Accessibility StatementCompliance

Public page describing accessibility commitments, known limits, and how users can request support.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Address VerificationVerification

Check that an address is current or source-backed through a document, field signal, database, or user-confirmed flow.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

API KeySecurity

Secret credential used by a server or integration to authenticate API calls.

Used by developer and webhook workflows.

AUAVerification

Authentication User Agency

An Aadhaar ecosystem term for entities that use authentication services under applicable rules and agreements.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Audit LogSecurity

Tamper-aware operational record of who did what, when, from where, and for which verification or administrative purpose.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

Badge RenewalPRAMAAN

Refreshing verification evidence before a badge expires or a requester needs fresher signals.

Used in worker badge, sharing, renewal, or correction workflows.

Badge RevocationPRAMAAN

Changing a badge to inactive or revoked when consent, renewal, fraud, dispute, or DSR conditions require it.

Used in worker badge, sharing, renewal, or correction workflows.

Bearer TokenSecurity

Credential sent in an Authorization header where whoever holds the token can access the scoped resource.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

BGVVerification

Background Verification

Validating identity, address, employment, education, references, and court or risk signals for a stated purpose.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Breach DisclosureCompliance

Public and user-facing process for reporting security incidents that affect personal data.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Consent ArtifactCompliance

Evidence of consent: purpose, timestamp, actor, scope, source, and withdrawal path.

Used in business support workflows.

Consent NoticeCompliance

Plain-language notice that explains purpose, data categories, retention, and user rights before consent is captured.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

Consent WithdrawalCompliance

A user action that revokes permission for a stated processing purpose and should trigger the relevant stop, delete, or retention workflow.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

Correlation IDSecurity

Request identifier used to trace an issue across services without exposing personal data in logs.

Used by developer and webhook workflows.

Court Record CheckVerification

Search for court-linked records or legal signals, with careful interpretation and manual review for ambiguous matches.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Data FiduciaryCompliance

The entity deciding why and how personal data is processed. A business or society using PRAMAAN may be a data fiduciary.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

Data MinimizationCompliance

Collecting and retaining only the data needed for the stated verification purpose.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

Data PrincipalCompliance

The person whose personal data is being processed. In PRAMAAN, this may be a worker, resident, candidate, vendor, driver, or customer.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

Data ProcessorCompliance

A service provider that processes data on behalf of a fiduciary under contract and security obligations.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

Dead-letter QueueProduct

Queue for jobs that exhausted retries and need inspection, replay, or manual resolution.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Delivery QueueProduct

Background job lane that lets webhook, email, or notification work retry without blocking the user request.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

DigiLockerIdentity

Government-backed digital document wallet for issued documents such as Aadhaar, PAN, driving licence, and certificates.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

DPDPCompliance

Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023

India data-protection law. PRAMAAN maps verification to purpose, consent, DSR, retention, breach, and grievance workflows.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

DPOCompliance

Data Protection Officer

Named officer responsible for privacy escalation, public contact, and DPDP operating discipline.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

DSRCompliance

Data Subject Request

User request to access, correct, erase, nominate, or grieve about personal data handled by PRAMAAN.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

e-KYCVerification

Electronic KYC

Digital KYC through approved online rails such as OTP, video, document wallet, or partner APIs.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Education VerificationVerification

Confirming degree, certificate, or school records through source-backed evidence or document wallet rails.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Employment VerificationVerification

Confirming employment history or current role using documents, references, or approved partner sources.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Face MatchVerification

Comparison of a live or submitted face image with a source identity image, usually paired with liveness controls.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Grievance OfficerCompliance

GRO

Statutory escalation owner for user complaints and grievance handling.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

GrowthBookProduct

Open-source experimentation and feature-flag platform scoped for PRAMAAN marketing experiments.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

GST InvoicePayments

Tax invoice generated for business purchases and subscription workflows in India.

Used in billing support workflows.

HMACSecurity

Hash-based Message Authentication Code

Signature method used to prove that a webhook or payload came from a trusted sender and was not changed.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Human HandoffTrust

Escalation from automated support or dashboard copy to a person for legal, enterprise, billing, or uncertain cases.

Used in support support workflows.

Idempotency KeySecurity

Client-provided key that prevents duplicate mutation when a request is retried.

Used by developer and webhook workflows.

India-region StorageSecurity

Keeping operational data in India-region infrastructure where applicable to PRAMAAN commitments and customer requirements.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

KUAVerification

KYC User Agency

An Aadhaar ecosystem term associated with KYC services under applicable rules and agreements.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

KYCVerification

Know Your Customer

Identity verification process used by regulated and risk-sensitive services.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

LighthouseProduct

Automated web audit that checks performance, accessibility, best practices, SEO, and progressive web app signals.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

LivenessVerification

Check that a person is physically present rather than using a static photo, recording, or replay.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Magic LinkSecurity

One-time signed login link that starts or completes a session without a reusable password.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Manual ReviewTrust

A designed workflow state for ambiguous matches, source conflicts, disputes, or risk that should not be auto-decided.

Used in verification support workflows.

OIDCSecurity

OpenID Connect

Identity layer on top of OAuth 2.0 used for modern login and SSO flows.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

OKYCVerification

Offline KYC

Aadhaar-linked offline identity proofing where the user participates in a consented flow.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

OTPSecurity

One Time Password

Short-lived code sent through a channel such as SMS or email to prove control during a login or verification step.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

PANIdentity

Permanent Account Number

Indian tax identifier commonly used as an identity signal in verification workflows.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

PasskeySecurity

User-friendly login credential based on public-key cryptography, often protected by device biometrics or PIN.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Pen TestSecurity

Penetration Test

Security assessment that tries to find exploitable issues before attackers do.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

PIICompliance

Personally Identifiable Information

Data that identifies a person, such as phone, email, Aadhaar, PAN, address, or documents.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

PII RedactionSecurity

Removing or masking sensitive personal data before logs, support tools, analytics, or AI systems process content.

Used in support support workflows.

PKCESecurity

Proof Key for Code Exchange

OAuth security extension that protects authorization-code flows for browser and mobile clients.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Processor AgreementCompliance

Contract that sets processing purpose, security duties, confidentiality, sub-processor rules, and incident handling for a vendor.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Purpose LimitationCompliance

DPDP operating principle that personal data collected for one stated purpose should not be reused for unrelated purposes.

Used in business support workflows.

Rate LimitSecurity

Control that limits request volume to protect users, infrastructure, and partners from abuse.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Refund ClockPayments

PRAMAAN policy path for eligible checks when the published refund window is missed.

Used in billing support workflows.

Result ReceiptPRAMAAN

Record of what was checked, when, for what purpose, and which status was returned.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Retention ScheduleCompliance

Documented timeline for keeping, expiring, anonymizing, or deleting each category of verification data.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

RFC 7807Product

Standard problem-details response shape for API errors, including fields such as type, title, status, detail, and instance.

Used by developer and webhook workflows.

RPOSecurity

Recovery Point Objective

Maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured as time before an outage.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

RTOSecurity

Recovery Time Objective

Maximum target time to restore a service after an outage or disaster.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

SAMLSecurity

Security Assertion Markup Language

Enterprise SSO protocol commonly used by large organizations and identity providers.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Sandbox KeyProduct

Non-production credential used to test API requests, errors, and webhooks without live verification impact.

Used by developer and webhook workflows.

SOC 2Security

Security assurance framework often requested by enterprise buyers to review controls, evidence, and operating discipline.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

Source ConfidenceTrust

How strongly a result is backed by a source, including recency, completeness, and match quality.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

SSOSecurity

Single Sign-On

Enterprise login pattern where a company identity provider authenticates users for an application.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Sub-processorCompliance

A downstream vendor that helps a data processor deliver part of the service, such as email, analytics, hosting, or verification rails.

Used in PRAMAAN trust, consent, DSR, or privacy workflows.

Support TermsProduct

Contract or policy language for response time, support scope, or verification turnaround where applicable.

Used in business support workflows.

Travelling BadgePRAMAAN

PRAMAAN brand term for a worker badge designed to travel with the worker instead of being locked to one employer.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Trust ScoreTrust

Explainable PRAMAAN signal combining verification freshness, badge status, references, and risk context without hiding source categories.

Used in verification support workflows.

UPIPayments

Unified Payments Interface

Indian instant-payment method used by PRAMAAN self-serve checkout flows.

Used in billing support workflows.

VIDIdentity

Virtual ID

A revocable Aadhaar virtual identifier designed to reduce exposure of the actual Aadhaar number.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Warm StandbySecurity

Secondary environment kept ready enough to take over faster than rebuilding from scratch.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Web VitalsProduct

User-experience metrics such as loading, interaction responsiveness, and visual stability.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

WebAuthnSecurity

Web standard for passkey-based authentication using device-backed public-key credentials.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

WebhookSecurity

Server-to-server event sent by PRAMAAN to a configured partner endpoint with signed delivery.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.

Webhook SignatureSecurity

HMAC or similar signature that lets a receiver verify an event came from PRAMAAN and was not altered.

Used by developer and webhook workflows.

Worker BadgePRAMAAN

Portable QR status a verified worker can share across households, societies, SMBs, and platforms.

Used in societies support workflows.

ZAP BaselineSecurity

OWASP ZAP automated baseline scan used as one input in web application security testing.

Useful context for PRAMAAN support, sales, and verification conversations.