Trust and security

When you add a Credly, Accredible or Microsoft Learn link, CertScore confirms with the issuer that the certification was issued to you, using the email addresses you have confirmed with CertScore. If it was, the certification is marked Verified and earns its points.

If ownership cannot be confirmed

The certification earns 0 points. No one can earn points from someone else's certification.

Issuers that cannot confirm ownership

EC-Council ASPEN, Fortinet certificates from training.fortinet.com and PentesterLab do not let CertScore confirm who owns a certification, so these are saved as Self-reported with 0 points. For EC-Council and Fortinet, a name that does not match your profile is not added. Fortinet badges issued through Credly are checked like any other Credly badge.

No uploads or typed-in entries

A file or a photo shows what a certificate says, not who earned it, so CertScore does not accept them.

Self-reported and Pending certifications never appear on your public profile or verification link.

CertScore sets the tier of every certification; you cannot choose it. Expired and retired certifications keep their full points: you earned them, and your score never goes down because time passed.

Your score is the total of your Verified and Expired certifications. Members are ranked by score worldwide, in their country and in their region, and members with the same score share a rank. Leaderboard search finds members by alias only.

• Only Verified and Expired certifications count.
• Only CertScore's servers can mark a certification Verified.
• Removing an email removes the points it earned.
• An extra email, or a Microsoft Learn transcript, can belong to one account only.
• Your name cannot change while you hold a Verified or Expired certification.
• Alias and location changes wait 30 days.
• Each certification counts once; a renewal updates the existing entry.
• Badge checks are limited to 15 an hour, and reports to 5 a day.
• Banned accounts are removed from every leaderboard.

An alias is 3 to 12 letters, numbers or underscores. Your name is 2 to 30 characters. New names and aliases are checked for profanity, hate speech, sexual content, threats, impersonation and personal details. Profile pictures are checked too, and nudity, violence, hate symbols and drug imagery are blocked.

• Where your real name shows.Your real name shows on your own public profile and your verification page, with your alias, profile picture, country, points, rank and verified certifications. Everywhere else, including leaderboards, leaderboard search and share images made on the website, shows your alias only. Rank and certification images you share from the CertScore mobile app currently include your real name. Search engines can find your public profile.
• Recruiters can find you.Search engines list your public profile under your real name and alias, with your verified certifications. Your verification link shows the same information and points search engines to your profile.
• What we collect.Your name, alias, sign-in email, the emails you link, your location, your profile picture, the certifications you add, and basic device, usage and log data. We never ask for payment details or government ID.
• Cookies.Only the cookies needed to keep you signed in and the site secure. Page views are counted with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies.

Full details are in the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy.

• Certification changes, check results, profile changes, moderation refusals and reports are logged with the time.
• These events alert the CertScore team as they happen.
• Members cannot read or change these logs.
• Every page is sent with standard security headers.
• See how CertScore is running on our status page.

• CertScore confirms that a certification went to an email you control. It does not check who you are.
• Your profile picture can be any image you choose, such as an avatar. We check it for offensive content, not that it shows you.
• We see only what the issuer shows. We do not check work experience or continuing education.
• Points and ranks compare certifications. They are not a hiring recommendation or proof of identity.

If you suspect a false certification or leaderboard abuse, report it from Help in your account, or in the app from a certification or a member's profile.

If you find a security vulnerability in CertScore, please email [email protected] with what you found and the steps to reproduce it.

The same address is listed in our security.txt file.

CertScore is a project of V2C Inc., a Delaware corporation and 501(c)(3) nonprofit, founded by Rajat Ravinder Varuni. We have no commercial interest in favoring one certification issuer over another.