Why and when account validation is done? | FAQ - Security

Why and when account validation is done?

What is the purpose of validation?

The purpose of validation is to secure your account from unauthorized activity, and to help us assist you in effectively resolving your issue.We collect information related to your Zoho account, such as subscriptions and approval emails from administrators. These details are used to validate your account.

Validation is performed in scenarios related to user account services such as backend operation or administrative changes, activation of services, authentication changes, and so on.

How secure is your information

At Zoho, we take data security very seriously. We have taken steps to implement appropriate administrative, technical, physical safeguards to prevent unauthorized access. If you have any concerns regarding the security of your data, we encourage you to read our Security Policy or write to us at support@zohoaccounts.com/security@zohocorp.com with any questions.


Scenarios when we perform validation

We collect information in the following scenarios to validate your identity.

Any destructive/backend operation or administrative changes

  1. Deleting an account or an organization
  2. Disassociating a user from an organization
  3. Updating any default account/org values such as allowed user count, domain claim/release/ownership, alias count, or session validity
  4. Merging two or more organisation's which involves data loss
  5. Transferring organization ownership to a new admin
  6. Deletion of any unique data from the database, such as mobile number, email address, or a specific product mapped to the user's account
Activation/deactivation of services and associated mapping
  1. Changing the user service status to active or inactive in a Zoho application
  2. users from standalone or org model applications, and updating their roles
  3. Changing portal name
Account security or authentication changes
  1. Removing the IP restriction from a user's Zoho account
  2. Resetting a user's Zoho account password
  3. Modifying a user's MFA mode, or providing backup verification codes when they are unable to sign in

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