Security You Can Verify
Before you trust someone with money or important information, you should be able to trust the system behind the verification.
Every verification record, identity check, and Verified Credential is supported by security and privacy protections designed to help people establish trust without unnecessarily exposing sensitive personal information.
Why We Built Howdy
Howdy was built from firsthand experience with private transactions, where people often make important decisions, travel long distances, or exchange money with limited information.
Verification should help people establish trust without requiring strangers to exchange unnecessary sensitive personal information. Trust shouldn't require surrendering your privacy.
We created Howdy to provide a practical way to verify who you're dealing with, establish trust, and document important information — without unnecessarily exposing sensitive personal details.
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Howdy Verified uses trusted independent services and publicly verifiable business profiles so you can confirm the companies and systems supporting our platform.
We believe trust should be independently demonstrated—not simply claimed.
How We Protect Your Information
The information behind every verification is protected through multiple layers of security and privacy.
Identity Verification
Identity verification is completed through trusted verification technology without exposing identity documents to other users
Secure Payments
Payments are securely processed through Stripe. Howdy does not store payment card details.
Privacy First
Identity and contact information is protected through Howdy's privacy-first architecture.
Verification Records
Verification results and confirmed transaction information can be documented without exposing sensitive identity or contact information
Protected Infrastructure
Cloudflare helps protect Howdy with Web Application Firewall, Bot Protection, Rate Limiting, and DDoS Protection.
Data Minimization
Howdy limits the personal information displayed to others, sharing verification results without exposing the sensitive information used to verify you.
We Verify You. We Don't Profile You.
Your identity is used to provide verification and trust services — not to build an advertising profile.
Howdy is designed to confirm the information needed for verification while keeping sensitive personal information private. We do not sell personal information or use verification activity to build advertising profiles. We collect and use information to provide, secure, maintain, and improve the Howdy Verified service, subject to our Privacy Policy.
What Stays Private
Sensitive personal information is not displayed on public verification profiles or records.
What Howdy Can Confirm
Verification scope varies by product and transaction. Not every item is verified in every case.
Our Security Principles
Everything we build is guided by these principles.
Maintaining accurate verification records
Protecting personal information
Continuously improving security
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