Online Notary Privacy Policy Florida

Trinity Online Notary is committed to protecting your privacy. This Online Notary Privacy Policy Florida explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information while providing Remote Online Notary Florida and Online Notary Services Florida.

Trinity Online Notary values your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, protect, and share information when you visit our website, contact us, request services, or complete a remote online notarization.

1. Information We Collect for Online Notary Privacy Policy Florida

We may collect the following information:

  • Name, phone number, email address, and mailing address
  • Government-issued identification information needed to verify identity
  • Documents submitted for notarization or review
  • Payment information, processed through a secure third-party payment provider
  • Audio-video session recordings required for remote online notarization
  • Electronic notary journal information required by Florida law
  • Messages, emails, forms, or other information you send to us
  • Website usage information such as browser type, device type, IP address, and cookies, if used on our website

2. How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

  • Provide notary and remote online notary services
  • Verify your identity as required by law
  • Complete and maintain notarial records
  • Communicate with you about appointments, documents, payments, and service updates
  • Process payments
  • Maintain legal and business records
  • Improve our website, customer service, and business operations
  • Comply with Florida notary laws, court orders, subpoenas, law enforcement requests, or other legal obligations

3. Remote Online Notarization Records

For remote online notarization, your session may be recorded. The recording may include your appearance, identity verification, document signing, spoken statements, witnesses if applicable, and the actions required to complete the notarization.

Florida law requires remote online notarization records, including the electronic journal and audio-video recording, to be maintained for the required legal retention period. These records may be stored by Trinity Online Notary, our approved remote online notarization service provider, or another secure authorized repository.

4. Sharing of Information

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share information only when necessary, including with:

  • Remote online notarization technology providers used to complete online notarizations
  • Payment processors
  • Secure document storage or recordkeeping providers
  • Government agencies, courts, law enforcement, or regulators when required by law
  • Parties legally entitled to access notarial records
  • Service providers who help us operate our business, website, scheduling, email, or communication systems

We expect service providers to handle information responsibly and only for authorized business purposes.

5. Document Privacy

Documents you provide may contain sensitive personal, financial, legal, or identification information. We use your documents only to provide the requested service, complete the notarization, maintain required records, and comply with legal obligations.

Trinity Online Notary does not provide legal services, legal advice, legal document preparation as an attorney, legal representation, or legal opinions. Our services are limited to notary and remote online notary services. Customers are responsible for consulting an attorney or the appropriate agency, court, embassy, or receiving party if they have legal questions about their document.

6. Secure Online Notary Data Security

We take reasonable steps to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These steps may include secure platforms, password protection, restricted access, encrypted systems when available, and secure record storage.

No internet, email, text message, or electronic storage system is completely secure. Please avoid sending highly sensitive information by unsecured email or text message unless you understand and accept the risk.

7. Data Retention

We keep information only as long as necessary for business, legal, tax, recordkeeping, and notary compliance purposes.

Remote online notarization records must be retained for the period required by Florida law. Some records cannot be deleted upon request if we are legally required to keep them.

8. Your Choices and Rights

You may contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information. We will respond as required by applicable law.

Some information may not be deleted if it is part of a required notary record, legal record, payment record, tax record, fraud prevention record, or other legally required business record.

9. Cookies and Website Tracking

Our website may use cookies or similar technologies to improve website performance, understand visitor activity, and support online marketing.

You can adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Some website features may not work properly if cookies are disabled.

10. Third-Party Links and Platforms

Our website or communications may link to third-party websites, payment processors, scheduling tools, remote online notarization platforms, or social media pages. These third parties have their own privacy policies and security practices. Trinity Online Notary is not responsible for their privacy practices.

11. Text Messages and Email Communications

If you contact us by phone, text, email, or online form, we may respond using the same or another contact method you provided.

Standard message and data rates may apply. You may request that we stop sending non-essential marketing messages at any time.

12. Children’s Privacy

Our services are intended for adults and for individuals who are legally able to sign documents. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children except where legally necessary and with appropriate parent, guardian, or legal representative involvement.

13. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on our website with a new “Last Updated” date.

14. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact us:

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