All the currently valid certificate policies and certification practice statements (CP/CPS) outlining the services, procedures, liability and processes of the different SwissSign products are published. These documents form the legal basis for the relationsship between SwissSign and the certificate holders.

To identify the correct CP/CPS under which a certificate was issued, the certificate itself contains an extension named "certificate policy". The certificate policy contains the OID of the CP/CPS document and an URL pointing to the download location of the digitally signed pdf version of the CP/CPS.

These documents are the laws and regulataions for qualified digital signatures in Switzerland