ORCID was founded on the principle that researchers should have control over their information.  To honor this principle we have a strong privacy policy, which was designed to take account of local variations in privacy regulations, and we focus on the perspective of the researcher when developing policies and functionality.
In keeping with our core principle of researcher control, ORCID records can only be created by researchers themselves, on the ORCID website.
As part of your integration workflow your researchers will be able to register for a new ORCID iD or sign in to their existing record enabling you to collect their authenticated ORCID iD. Please see our API tutorials for more information.