Security, privacy and proof
How ParagonBooks keeps your records safe, and how you can check it.
Audit trail
Northshore Landscaping Ltd. Every change, who made it and when. Nothing here can be edited or deleted.
| When | What | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 10:24 | Invoice 1047 created | Maya |
| Mar 4, 14:17 | Accountant role given to Priya Shah | Maya |
| Mar 5, 09:06 | Adjusting entry posted | Priya Shah |
| Mar 5, 09:30 | Entry 2215 reversed, not edited | Priya Shah |
Production is hosted in Canada
ParagonBooks' production service runs in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, on a North American hosting network. Your books, files and stored records are kept there. Sign-in, Paragon's answers and email go through service providers in the United States; the Subprocessors page names each one.
Access is checked on every request
Everyone in an organization has a role: Owner, Admin, Bookkeeper, Accountant or Read-only. The server checks that role on every request, for reading as well as changing, and the database keeps each organization's records apart as a second wall.
A ledger that can't be quietly rewritten
Posted entries are never edited: a correction is a new entry that reverses the old one, and the audit trail records who did what and when. Each entry is chained to the one before it, and the chain is anchored to a public timestamp, so anyone can check that the books existed by a given time and haven't been altered since. It proves when and unaltered, not that the numbers are right.
Take everything with you
Export everything at any time: the books, every source document and the audit trail, with a fingerprint for every file, so the export checks out without ParagonBooks. You are never locked in.
Run it on your own servers
If your organization needs ParagonBooks on its own servers, in a Canadian cloud region or a private network, it can be arranged with you directly.
Read the details: Privacy Policy · Subprocessors · Security & Responsible Disclosure. To report a security problem, write to hello@altumo.com.