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Protect Your Data

Protect Your Data
eHive has several features in place to ensure the security and preservation of your data.

Get your data out of eHive at any time

You can export all (or a subset) of your data at any time using eHive’s reporting function. Data can be exported in CSV, XLS, XML or PDF formats.

Retain ownership of your data

You are the owner of all information (text and files) that you upload to eHive. We will not give away or sell your content.

Maintain your privacy

We understand how important it is to ensure your privacy. On eHive, you have complete control over which information you share with the public, and what records you publish. We will not disclose any confidential information.

eHive does not store credit card information or personal information.

Keep your information secure

The security of your account and your data is essential. eHive has various methods in place to ensure that security is not compromised.

Sign In passwords have a minimum length and must include letters and numbers. This means that simple passwords that could be easily determined cannot be used. Passwords are  stored in an encrypted format that is not visible even with direct access to the database.

All pages are accessed using encrypted webpages (HTTPS) so that access to private images is secured in the same way as online banking systems. eHive servers are secured so that only standard web access is allowed. This prevents external access to other software and commands on the server.

Protect your data from disasters

All data is is stored on multiple hard disks to allow eHive to continue running in case of a hardware failure.

The data centres which eHive use (Amazon Web Services – Virgina, USA availability zone) have redundant power systems, generator back up, redundant air conditioning and multiple independent connections to the Internet.

Data is backed up to a different city (Auckland, New Zealand) to preserve data during an extreme event, such as a fire at the data centre.

The entire content (text and media files) is backed up daily, weekly and monthly.

Access the software code even if we cease trading

Vernon Systems has a source code escrow agreement in place. The source code of the eHive software is held by an independent agent. The source code will be released by the agent to the eHive community if Vernon Systems is no longer trading.

Testimonials

New England Regional Art Museum

I’ve worked with the Team at eHive to deliver three online collection projects – across archives, library and art museum collections, both in New Zealand and Australia. The technical support is exemplary and the eHive Team have offered guidance and advice that makes solving any problems easy and maximising project potential possible. I’ve used eHive as both a host website for online collections, and for a fully integrated museum website search experience that has helped diversify our audiences and allow people to respond to collections in a tangible way.

Tanya Robinson - New Zealand & Australia

Mataura Museum

Thanks to eHive we are now a museum without walls. After putting our collection online, web visitors exceed physical visitors by a factor of ten, all without having to set up and maintain our own website. This wider reach has brought a raft of new connections to our small community museum.

David Luoni - New Zealand

Tweed Regional Museum

eHive has allowed the Tweed Regional Museum to easily publish our collection online, making it more accessible than ever before, revolutionising how we work and how far our collection can go. The back end of the system is incredibly easy to use, making it simple for staff with non technical backgrounds to publish the collection online. The team at Vernon have an excellent customer service ethos and help is never far away. We can’t recommend eHive to other small or medium museums enough.

Erika Taylor - Australia

Ashley Parker

Personally I consider eHive to be an absolute triumph. It is easy to use, logical, comprehensive, economic, safe (as in backed up), it has an open data/migration path to get data out and the support is superb. I will absolutely encourage other institutions I come across to change over to it. I did a pretty thorough analysis of the competition out there before selecting eHive and it seemed the best approach of all the choices.

Ashley Parker - Australia

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