EDITED VERSION

Hello Ozzie O (OswaldoOspina C),

The certification page, is designed to not only promote your certification status, but also to advertise your business. The distribution of the certification page link is entirely at the discretion of the account owner. SDL will never divulge any account information/or share this information.

I am aware that some translation professionals/clients may use this page to authenticate a specific application (I think we are all aware of certain false claims made on job boards and the problems these can cause) and this surely goes a little way to make sure the application is genuine.

Additional information

You CAN indeed edit the information provided (shown to others) in your 'Certification page', just to the Education tab and click on

. and then remove any details you dont want- (Name and Country are the only fields that must be completed).

Then- when you distribute the link- the only details seen are as follows

Of course, should you prefer NOT to provide any personal details, you have the option of downloading your certification status and adding this to your signature in the way of a 'badge'. These badges are anonymous and do not link to any personal data..

Maybe you can then just share the actual link on demand?

Kr

Hi, Steve. You replied: "The certification page, is designed to not only promote your certification status, but also to advertise your business." but do you know most freelancers work from home, so their home addresses will be shown there? Besides, it is nobody's business where I live (my home address and my phone number). Nobody needs my home address, or a street address, for that matter, to do business with me. I don't need to have SDL street address to do business with SDL, right? Publishing this information is breaching my privacy rights. You also said: "SDL will never divulge any account information/or share this information" but then, again, you are divulging here (within your reply) my real name. On account of what? It is my prerogative to use whatever name pleases me in the Internet world and that's how I like it. I only use my real name when I make a business transaction. Would you honor that? In general, I insist, a particular page with SDL certification information should not, must not, have personal information other than the name and the country, by default. In addition, there should be other smarter ways of proving the legitimacy of someone's claim about an SDL certification. There are thousands of certifications (from companies, schools, government, etc.) in the world and none of them, that I know of, points to a webpage with personal information of the person claiming to be certified in X or Y. SDL should spend a little money and time creating (and devising) digitally signed certifications. The badge concept is all right, though. Thank you.

Hi  

I'm wondering if you read all of the reply from Steve?  Did you take this part on board?

Clicking it takes you to here:

Doesn't this deal with the issue for you?