A team dedicated to European electronic signature
Certyneo is a French electronic signature platform compliant with eIDAS, designed to offer European businesses a simple, fast and sovereign alternative to historic American solutions. Our mission: to enable any organisation, from freelancer to large account, to sign its documents online with complete legal peace of mind.
Our mission
The eIDAS regulation, which came into force in 2016, established the foundations of a uniform legal framework for electronic signature in the European Union. Yet the majority of French and European businesses still use American solutions today, subject to extraterritorial laws (Cloud Act, FISA) that may conflict with the GDPR and data sovereignty.
Certyneo was born from the observation that there was a missing truly competitive European platform: as simple to use as American leaders, but built on principles of transparency, native compliance and local hosting. We want to make eIDAS-compliant electronic signature a standard that is accessible, not a premium service reserved for large enterprises.
Our team
Certyneo is carried forward by a multidisciplinary French team: software engineering, security, legal compliance and user experience. We work in short cycles, publish our public changelog with each release and our roadmap to make our priorities visible.
We communicate directly with our users: every feature request or bug report is read and reviewed. To reach us, write to support@certyneo.com or use our contact form.
Engineering & Product
Platform development, REST API, sovereign cloud infrastructure.
Compliance & Legal
eIDAS regulation, GDPR, and qualified trust service provider (QTSP) requirements.
Growth & Partnerships
Business development, partner integrations, European markets.
Support & Customer Success
Onboarding, technical assistance, 24 h SLA for paying customers.
Leadership
We are committed to making visible who operates the platform on a daily basis, in accordance with our principle of radical transparency.
Any question addressed to our leadership can be sent to direction@certyneo.com — a named response is guaranteed within 48 working hours.
Our principles
Four commitments that structure all our product decisions.
Compliance by default
eIDAS and GDPR compliance designed from inception, not as an option. We provide a standard DPA, an audit trail integrated into the PDF and 10-year archiving included in all plans.
European digital sovereignty
100% infrastructure hosted in Germany (IONOS), no data transfer outside the EU, no dependency on a vendor subject to the US Cloud Act or any extraterritorial law.
A dedicated team
A French team that combines product expertise, security and digital law. We communicate directly with our users and publish our roadmap publicly.
Radical transparency
No hidden prices, no surprise quotas, no lock-in. Our application code is client-side inspectable and our terms of use fit into just a few pages.
Security and compliance
Our compliance is based on four reference texts. Each covers a specific aspect of our platform.
eIDAS Regulation (EU) No 910/2014
Our implementation of simple (SES) and advanced (AES) signatures follows the technical requirements of Articles 25 and 26 of the regulation.
Learn moreArticle 1367 of the French Civil Code
Recognition of electronic signature as equivalent to handwritten signature.
Learn moreDecree No 2017-1416
French framework for the presumption of reliability of electronic signature.
Learn moreRegulation (EU) 2016/679 — GDPR
Native compliance: standard DPA available, processing register maintained, access and deletion rights implemented.
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