On-device encryption · Canadian-owned and hosted · Built to Law 25 · No account needed for the recipient

The secure way to exchange notarial documents.

Wills, deeds, protection mandates, marriage contracts: you handle the most sensitive documents there are, every day, bound by professional secrecy. Email was never built for that. Privatt encrypts every file on your device before it is sent, so your documents stay confidential and you stay onside with Law 25.

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Free to start. Your recipients never need an account.

Most notarial documents still travel by email. That is the problem.

A will as an attachment. A deed sent to a bank, the land registry, another notary. A protection mandate sitting in an inbox. Standard email is not encrypted end to end, metadata stays exposed even when the body is not, and once a document is sent you cannot recall it, expire it, or see who opened it. For a public officer bound by professional secrecy, that is not a bad habit. It is a liability.

Law 25 redefined what "good enough" means.

Law 25 requires any organization holding personal information to protect it with appropriate security measures, encryption and access controls among them, to record and assess every confidentiality incident, and to notify the Commission d'accès à l'information and the people affected when an incident presents a risk of serious injury. The penalties are not symbolic: administrative monetary penalties reach $10 million or 2% of worldwide turnover, and penal sanctions climb to $25 million or 4% for serious violations. You do not have to become a privacy lawyer. You need documents encrypted end to end, access that is controllable and revocable, and the ability to show where the data lives and which laws govern it. Privatt is built around exactly those measures, with storage on Canadian servers under Canadian law when you choose Privatt hosting.

Privatt is a tool that helps you meet your obligations. It does not make you compliant on its own, and nothing here is legal advice. But encryption by default and Canadian hosting are exactly the kind of "appropriate security measures" the law expects.

Two ways to work. You choose who holds the keys.

Send, for exchanging documents

  1. 1

    Encrypt in your browser.

    Drop in the file and set a passphrase. The document is encrypted on your device before it is sent, so Privatt only ever sees ciphertext.

  2. 2

    Share the link.

    Your client, the bank, or a colleague opens it with the passphrase. No Privatt account, nothing to install on their end.

  3. 3

    Stay in control.

    Set an expiry, cap how many times it can be opened, and revoke access at any time, even after you have sent it.

Vault, for storing documents

Keep your files encrypted on Privatt's Canadian servers or in a Google Drive or OneDrive you already own. You choose who holds the keys: a two-key vault, device-only (zero-knowledge, so not even Privatt can open it), or Privatt-managed with malware scanning.

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Why notaries choose Privatt

Encrypted before it leaves the device.

Send and the vault modes where you hold the keys encrypt on your device, so we store ciphertext, not your clients' documents. The Privatt-managed vault mode is the one exception, and we say so plainly.

The recipient needs no account.

The friction that kills most secure portals is gone. A link, a passphrase, done.

Canadian-owned, Canadian hosting, built to Law 25.

Where your data lives and which laws protect it are not a detail. They are the heart of the product, with Privatt-hosted storage on Canadian servers under Canadian law.

Control that outlives the send.

Expiry, open limits, and revocation: a deed sent in February does not sit in an inbox forever.

Do not take our word for it. Verify.

Real cryptography (Argon2id, XChaCha20-Poly1305 via the independently audited libsodium), no home-rolled crypto, and we are transparent about the one mode where we hold keys and the ones where we do not.

Common questions

My clients are not technical.

That is the whole point of Send. They receive a link, enter a passphrase, and open the document. No account, no app.

I already use a portal.

Most portals encrypt in transit and at rest but can still read your files on the server. With Send and the vault modes where you hold the keys, encryption happens on the device first, so we cannot read your files, and there is nothing for your recipient to log into.

Is this actually more secure, or just marketing?

Fair question: we publish how the encryption works and use standard, audited libraries rather than our own. You, or your IT advisor, can read it.

What happens to documents afterwards?

You set expiries and can revoke access. Sensitive documents do not have to live forever.

Give your clients' documents the channel they deserve.

Send your first document free today. Move your whole workflow over when you are ready.

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