AI governance & transparency

AI Policy

How CERTavia uses artificial intelligence, how users are affected, and how to reach us.

Last updated: October 17, 2026 · CERTavia is a product of Litzki Systems LLC.

01 – Purpose & scope

This AI Policy explains how CERTavia uses artificial intelligence in its product and on this website, and how users may be affected. It is published in the interest of transparency and with reference to Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the EU AI Act). The paragraph-level mapping of the Art. 50 transparency duties is set out in our glossary. This policy complements our Privacy Policy and the machine-readable AI Disclosure.

02 – AI systems in use

CERTavia scan core – rule-based. The CERTavia Checker examines only publicly accessible technical infrastructure signals of a domain against fixed, documented check rules and weights and produces a result (CERTIFIED, FAILED or INCOMPLETE). Paid reports are signed with Ed25519; the public key is published as a DNS TXT record at _sovp.certavia.org. Measured values of external checks, such as the TLS rating, can vary between two requests; a scan documents a dated state. It makes no autonomous decisions about individuals and does not fall under the Annex III high-risk classification of the EU AI Act. The underlying methodology is the Sovereign Validation Protocol (SOVP), a rule-based process with no probabilistic scoring.

Content production. Text on this website is partially researched and drafted with AI assistance (including large language models); the majority of images and graphics are AI-generated. See section 04.

03 – How users are affected & human oversight

Visitors simply browsing this website do not interact directly with an AI system. Automated processing occurs only when a customer actively commissions a CERTavia scan, and it is limited to the target domain — not the person requesting it.

Scan reports are not released manually: they are generated automatically, signed, stored in the Sovereign Vault and delivered directly upon completion. Human oversight applies to the rules: Litzki Systems maintains the check rules and weights; changes are documented in the changelog. Users can request a human review or explanation of a result at any time via the contact point in section 06.

04 – AI-generated content disclosure

We disclose that this website is produced with substantial AI assistance. The disclosure is voluntary: Art. 50(4) does not require it for AI-generated text on matters of public interest where the text undergoes human editorial review and someone holds editorial responsibility — both apply here (see below).

  • Text: Content is partially researched and drafted with AI assistance and then edited.
  • Images: The majority of images and graphics on this website are AI-generated.
  • Site production: The website is built with AI-assisted tooling.

Human oversight remains the final step in every case: all AI-assisted content undergoes editorial review, verification, and approval before publication. Litzki Systems LLC takes full editorial responsibility for the published result.

05 – AI training opt-out

CERTavia objects to the use of the content published on certavia.org (text, images, structured data) as training data for AI or machine-learning models. In accordance with Art. 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 (the DSM Directive), we expressly reserve our content against text-and-data-mining for training purposes. Providers of general-purpose AI models must respect such reservations under Art. 53(1)(c) of the EU AI Act.

This reservation is declared in machine-readable form so that compliant crawlers and AI systems can honor it:

Personal data provided to us (e.g. via the contact form or a scan request) is never used to train AI models under any circumstances.

06 – Contact point for AI governance requests

For questions about our AI systems, to request human review or an explanation of an AI-supported result, to object to the use of content as training data, or for any other AI-governance matter, contact:

AI governance contact
[email protected]
Provider
Litzki Systems LLC, 7901 4th St N, #32272, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, USA
Escalation
certavia.org/en/contact

07 – Machine-readable references

AI Disclosure (EU AI Act)
certavia.org/.well-known/ai-disclosure.json
AI access policy
certavia.org/ai.txt · certavia.org/ai.json
Crawler directives
certavia.org/robots.txt
Privacy Policy
certavia.org/en/privacy

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