Certora holds real people: a recipient has a name, a course and often an email, and the name is printed on a certificate anyone can look up.
What "erase" does here, and why it is split. The email is erased whenever you ask — it is pure contact data, it is on no certificate and the public verify page never shows it. The name on issued certificates is only erased once every certificate for that person is expired or revoked. While one is still valid, erasing it would leave a genuine credential that no longer verifies: the holder could not prove their qualification, and an employer checking it would be told something false. Revoke the certificates, or wait for them to expire, then anonymize.
Anonymizing replaces the name and email on the recipient and on their certificates, the name inside each certificate's title and printed text, and the error text of a failed delivery, and removes their own links. The certificates stay on the register: they are the record that the training happened.
Kept: the audit trail's line that this recipient was added, which carries their name, because the audit trail cannot be edited.
| Recipient | Course | Certificates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aiko Tanaka | Leadership Essentials | — | 1 has valid | Export |
| Chen Wei | Advanced Public Speaking | — | 1 has valid | Export |
| Diego Santos | Project Management Fundamentals | — | 1 has valid | Export |
| Fatima Al-Sayed | Customer Service Excellence | — | 1 has valid | Export |
| Grace Okoro | Advanced Public Speaking | — | 1 has valid | Export |
| Hannah Schmidt | Cybersecurity Awareness | — | 2 has valid | Export |
| Kwame Mensah | Workplace Safety & First Aid | — | 2 has valid | Export |
| Lena Moreau | Data Analysis with Spreadsheets | — | 1 has valid | Export |
| Maya Rivera | Project Management Fundamentals | — | 1 has valid | Export |
| Noah Bergström | Leadership Essentials | — | 1 has valid | Export |
| Oliver Bennett | Customer Service Excellence | — | 2 has valid | Export |
| Priya Kapoor | Data Analysis with Spreadsheets | — | 2 has valid | Export |
| Sofia Rossi | Workplace Safety & First Aid | — | 2 has valid | Export |
| Tomás Herrera | Cybersecurity Awareness | — | 1 has valid | Export |