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Security and compliance

What we do to keep client data safe, which standards we work to, and — stated plainly — which certificates we do and do not hold.

We are not certified, and we will not imply that we are. AKYS holds no ISO certification at the time of writing. Our practices are built around ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27701, and the sections below describe what that means concretely. If you need a certified supplier for a tender, say so early and we will tell you honestly whether we qualify rather than waste your time.

Standards we work to

StandardWhat it coversOur status
ISO/IEC 27001Information security management Practices aligned. Not certified.
ISO/IEC 27701Privacy information management, extends 27001 Practices aligned. Not certified.
ISO 9001Quality management Practices aligned. Not certified.
ISO 19157Geographic information — data quality Used as the vocabulary for how we report deliverable quality.
EU GDPRPersonal data Directly applicable law, not a standard. See privacy policy.
EU AI ActAI systems Directly applicable law. Our position is set out below.

"Practices aligned" means we have taken the control areas of the standard and applied the ones that fit a company of our size and activity. It does not mean an accredited body has audited us, and it is not a substitute for certification. We review these practices internally rather than on a fixed audit cycle.

How client data is handled

When you send us imagery to blur, annotate or process, this is what happens to it.

Transfer and storage

Data is transferred over encrypted channels and stored in EU-region object storage. Credentials for that storage are scoped to the specific task and are rotated. Original client material is kept separate from our own capture archive.

Access

Access to client material is limited to the people working on that job. Processing runs on our own hardware in Lithuania rather than on rented general-purpose cloud GPUs, which keeps the number of parties touching the data small. Where a job requires capacity we do not have in-house, we tell the client before any data moves.

Return and deletion

At the end of a job we return the deliverable and delete the working copies on the schedule agreed in the contract. If you need written confirmation of deletion, ask for it and we will issue it.

Sub-processors

We do not add a sub-processor to a client job without telling the client first. The current list is in the data processing terms.

Anonymisation as a security control

Our blurring pipeline is the control that does most of the work in reducing risk: faces and plates are destroyed in the output before anything leaves our hands. The technical detail, and an honest statement of the limits of what blurring achieves, is on the blurring service page and in section 2 of the privacy policy.

We flag one thing here because it matters for a security assessment: while we retain an original unblurred capture, that material is pseudonymised rather than anonymised and is protected by access control, not by irreversibility.

EU AI Act

We build and run computer-vision models, so the AI Act applies to us and we would rather state our position than leave you to guess it.

Incidents

If we suffer a personal data breach we will notify the supervisory authority within 72 hours where Article 33 GDPR requires it, and affected clients without undue delay. If you are a client, your contract names the contact we will use. To report something to us, including a suspected vulnerability in this site or our services, write to [email protected]. We will not pursue anyone who reports a genuine vulnerability to us in good faith.

What to ask us for

If you are assessing us as a supplier, these are reasonable things to request, and we will provide them: our legitimate interests balancing assessment for street capture; our retention schedule; the sub-processor list; a written deletion confirmation; and a description of the blurring pipeline and its measured limits. If you need something we cannot provide, we will say so rather than improvise.

Last updated: 2026-10-26