Compliance & Certifications

1. Global Compliance Framework

Squinal designs, engineers, and operates digital solutions under stringent regulatory and architectural standards. Our compliance programs ensure that custom software platforms developed for our clients satisfy all relevant regional laws, privacy mandates, and industry-specific data handling regulations.

We continuously monitor regulatory shifts across key markets including the Indian Information Technology Act / DPDP Act, European Union GDPR, United States HIPAA/HITECH, and global cloud standards.

2. ISO/IEC 27001 & SOC 2 Alignment

Our internal operational controls, code repository governance, and cloud infrastructure pipelines adhere to the following international benchmarks:

• ISO/IEC 27001:2022: Information security management system governing confidentiality, integrity, and availability across engineering teams and digital assets.
• SOC 2 Type II Principles: Rigorous operational audits evaluating Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, and Confidentiality controls over time.
• Continuous Monitoring: Real-time automated auditing of infrastructure configurations, access anomalies, and compliance posture.

3. Healthcare & Clinical Compliance (HIPAA / HL7 / FHIR)

For our diagnostic, pathology, hospital, and clinical LIMS products, compliance with Protected Health Information (PHI) regulations is built into the architecture:

• HIPAA / HITECH Compliance: Administrative, physical, and technical safeguards including PHI field-level encryption, automated audit logs for all patient record access, and secure Business Associate Agreements (BAAs).
• HL7 & FHIR Interoperability: Standardized diagnostic instrument messaging interfaces compliant with health informatics standards.
• Audit Trails: Immutable, tamper-evident logs capturing every creation, viewing, modification, and export of diagnostic report data.

4. Financial & Payment Compliance (PCI-DSS & Tokenization)

When architecting payment checkouts, billing software, and transaction portals for retail and fintech clients:

• PCI-DSS Level 1 Gateway Delegation: Squinal architectures utilize hosted tokenization and secure payment iFrames (Stripe, Razorpay, PayU, PayPal). Raw cardholder primary account numbers (PAN) or CVVs never touch or get stored on application servers.
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) & KYC APIs: Secure integrations with verified identity verification and sanction screening providers.

5. Data Privacy & Sovereign Regulations

Our platforms support localized data residency and compliance with:

• India Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act & IT Act 2000: Lawful grounds of processing, consent managers, and grievance redressal mechanisms.
• EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): Privacy by Design, automated data erasure handlers, and Cross-Border Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).
• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA): Opt-out mechanisms and data subject disclosure portals.

6. Audits, Inquiries & Compliance Inquiries

Qualified enterprise clients may request security whitepapers, architecture compliance dossiers, and third-party penetration test executive summaries under NDA.