emailvalidation.io's Real Data Flow
Data handling is straightforward: an email address goes to the API, a structured JSON verdict comes back, and it's up to your own system to store, act on, or discard that result -- there's no internal "approval workflow" or data-governance layer built into the validation service itself.
Practical Details
Because the service doesn't retain a persistent database of your checked addresses in a way you'd manage permissions around, the practical data-handling decisions (retention, access, deletion) live entirely in your own systems that call the API.
Actionable Considerations
- Decide your own retention policy for validation results, since that's managed in your system, not emailvalidation.io's
- Limit which internal systems can call the API with your key, since that's the real access boundary
- Document how validation results feed into your CRM/ESP so the data flow is clear to your own compliance review