// Trust & Security Report
Aylien (Quantexa)
by Aylien Ltd (a Quantexa company)
News API (aggregated multi-lingual news/content from 80,000+ sources) and Text Analysis / Text API (NLP entity extraction, sentiment, classification); Aylien was acquired by Quantexa (London) in February 2023 and its News API is now also marketed as Quantexa's 'News Intelligence' solution, while aylien.com continues to operate as a distinct product brand/site.
Certifications held
4
Maturity
Growth
Trains on your data
Unknown
Trust center
Yes
// Certification ledger
Each held certification is backed by a verbatim quote from the vendor's own trust or security page. “Not confirmed” means we could not verify it publicly, not that the vendor lacks it.
Verify on trust.quantexa.com“eatured Documents POLICIES AND STANDARDS Information Security Policy COMPLIANCE ISO/IEC 27001:2022 COMPLIANCE ISO/IEC 27001 SoA COMPLIANCE ISO/IEC 27017:2015 REPORTS & ATTESTATIONS SOC 2 Report - Decision Intellig”
Verify on trust.quantexa.com“about this incident, please refer to the F5 Security Advisory. ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 Compliance April 16, 2026 Quantexa has successfully completed our latest surveillance audit for ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO”
Verify on trust.quantexa.com“Compliance CIPS Procurement Excellence Standard Award Cyber Essentials Plus GDPR IRAP ISO 22301 ISO/IEC 27001:2022 ISO/IEC 27001 SoA ISO/IEC 27017:2015 JOSCAR NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 ProcessUnity SOC 2”
Verify on trust.quantexa.com“REPORTS & ATTESTATIONS SOC 2 Report - Decision Intelligence Platform COMPLIANCE Cyber Essentials Plus View all documents Reports & Attestations SOC 2 Report - Decision Intelligence Platform SOC 2 Report - Quantexa Un”
> Show 6 unconfirmed / not-held certifications
source: trust.quantexa.comParent company Quantexa's trust center lists 'SOC 2 Report - Decision Intelligence Platform' and 'SOC 2 Report - Quantexa Unify' as the two audited scopes; no entry for Aylien, News API, or Text Analysis appears anywhere on the page. Cannot confirm this product line is covered by Quantexa's SOC 2 report.
source: trust.quantexa.comNo public evidence. Quantexa's trust center lists only Type 1 reports for 2025/2026 ('SOC 2 Report - Decision Intelligence Platform', 'SOC 2 Report - Quantexa Unify'); no Type 2 report is listed for any product.
source: aylien.comNo public evidence. Aylien's privacy policy and Quantexa's trust center make no mention of HIPAA or a Business Associate Agreement; the product is a news/text-analytics API, not marketed for handling PHI.
source: trust.quantexa.comNo public evidence. Quantexa's trust center certification list (Cyber Essentials Plus, GDPR, IRAP, ISO 22301, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, JOSCAR, NIST 800-53 Rev.5, SOC 2 Type 1, EcoVadis, NHS DSPT) does not include ISO 42001.
source: trust.quantexa.comNo public evidence. Not listed among Quantexa's trust center certifications, and no independent source confirms a CSA STAR registry entry for Quantexa or Aylien.
source: trust.quantexa.comNo public evidence found on Aylien's or Quantexa's own domains.
// Privacy & AI training
Trains on customer data
Not stated
Data processing agreement
Not offered
Data region
Not publicly specified. Aylien's registered address is Dublin, Ireland (per its privacy policy); no explicit data-residency guarantee is published for the News API/Text Analysis product line.
Aylien's News API Terms of Service grant customers a limited internal-use license to the data and restrict customers from sublicensing, selling, or redistributing it, but do not state whether Aylien/Quantexa uses customer-submitted content or usage data to train models. A third-party integration marketplace (Relevance AI, not Aylien's or Quantexa's own domain) claims customer data is 'never utilized for model training,' but this is not verified on a vendor-owned page.
// Security controls
Encryption / security measures (product-level)
Aylien's own privacy policy uses only general language ('we use appropriate security measures to seek to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure'; 'a variety of security technologies and procedures'), with no specifics on encryption in transit/at rest, and no product-level security whitepaper found.
aylien.comCorporate-level certifications (parent company Quantexa)
Quantexa (parent) maintains a SafeBase-hosted trust center listing ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO 22301, Cyber Essentials Plus, SOC 2 Type 1 (Decision Intelligence Platform; Quantexa Unify), NIST 800-53 Rev.5, IRAP, JOSCAR, GDPR, EcoVadis, and NHS DSPT; none of these entries name Aylien, News API, or Text Analysis as being in scope.
trust.quantexa.comData protection contact
Dedicated Data Protection Officer contact for privacy/GDPR requests: dpo@aylien.com.
aylien.com// Products & data scope
Data it handles: Aggregated multi-lingual news and content metadata/text from 80,000+ public sources; customer usage statistics shared back with Aylien per ToS
Original flagship Aylien product; also marketed post-acquisition as part of Quantexa's 'News Intelligence' solution for financial crime/KYC use cases.
Data it handles: Customer-submitted text processed via API calls
Separate Terms of Service from News API (https://aylien.com/legal/text-api-terms-of-service); no distinct security documentation found.
Data it handles: Enterprise customer data (banking, insurance, public sector)
This is the Quantexa flagship product explicitly named in Quantexa's SOC 2 and ISO 27001 scope. It is a different product from the Aylien News API/Text Analysis line, and its certifications are not attributed to Aylien.
// What to watch
- Aylien (Dublin, founded 2012) was acquired by Quantexa (London) in February 2023. The only vendor-domain trust center found (trust.quantexa.com) is Quantexa's corporate trust center, and it lists ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and SOC 2 Type 1 certifications, scoped explicitly to 'Decision Intelligence Platform' and 'Quantexa Unify', with no mention of Aylien, News API, or Text Analysis.
- AI-training posture is unconfirmed on any vendor-owned page; a third-party site's claim that data is 'never used for training' is not corroborated by Aylien or Quantexa.
- No public DPA (Data Processing Agreement) document was found linked from Aylien's own site; enterprise customers likely need to request one directly.
// At a glance
Pricing model
API subscription/usage tiers with a free/trial tier (trial and free-subscriber accounts must display an Aylien logo per ToS); exact enterprise pricing not publicly listed
Self-hostable
No
// How we verified this
Every certification marked HELD is confirmed against a verbatim quote on Aylien Ltd (a Quantexa company)'s own trust, security, or privacy pages. We reject certifications claimed only on third-party aggregators, on a cloud host's behalf, or by a similarly named company.
Last verified 2026-09-30. Compliance changes over time. Always confirm directly with the vendor before relying on any certification for a purchasing or compliance decision.
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