Privacy Policy

1. Introduction and operator information

ShareWisdom operates a community platform where contributors can publish public profile pages and share links to their work.

To contact ShareWisdom Team about this Policy, see section 20.

2. Eligibility and minimum age

You must be at least 18 years old to register for an account. During signup you must confirm that you are 18 or older and agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18.

3. Account information we collect

When you create an account, we collect and store information you provide, including:

• Email address (used for authentication and transactional communications).
• Username (public handle for your profile URL).
• Password (stored only as a cryptographic hash; we do not store your plain-text password).
• The date and time you give registration consent, when you confirm that you are 18 or older and agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms at signup.

4. Contributor profile information

If you complete or update your contributor profile, we may store additional information you choose to submit, such as:

• Display name, profile photo (hosted via ImageKit when you upload one), biography, categories, external links and labels, optional country information, and dashboard theme preferences.
• An ImageKit file identifier when associated with an uploaded profile photo (used for secure lifecycle management of that image).
• Publication-related timestamps maintained by the Platform (for example, when you first publish or update public visibility).

5. Public profile visibility

ShareWisdom is built around public contributor profiles. When your account is active and your content is published in accordance with Platform rules, information you place on your profile—such as your username, display name, photo, bio, categories, and links—may be visible to anyone on the internet, including search engines, unless the Platform applies a specific technical restriction (for example, moderation status or certain showcase environments).

There is no general setting that makes an entire contributor profile private while keeping it published as a public ShareWisdom page. You may choose whether your country name is shown on your public profile through the country visibility control in your dashboard.

You are responsible for not posting sensitive personal information on your public profile that you do not wish to disclose publicly.

ShareWisdom may also display illustrative or demonstration profiles that do not represent actual registered contributors. These examples are separate from personal information submitted by registered users.

6. Authentication and security information

We use session-based authentication (NextAuth) to keep you signed in. Essential cookies or similar browser storage may be used for login sessions, security, and basic Platform functionality.

Passwords are stored as salted, one-way hashes. We support Argon2id alongside bcrypt and older scrypt hashes while we gradually upgrade password security. We turn on Argon2id for new passwords only after confirming that it works reliably across our systems; once it is on, eligible older hashes may be upgraded when you sign in successfully. We may invalidate active sessions when you change your password or when administrative security actions require it.

We maintain rate-limit and security-related event records (for example, signup and sensitive account settings attempts) to protect the Platform from abuse. These records are operational in nature and are not used for marketing.

7. Reports and moderation records

Users may submit reports about content or conduct. Reports and related moderation workflows may include identifiers, descriptions, timestamps, and administrative actions.

When an account is permanently deleted, direct user identifiers on some report relationships may be removed or anonymized in the database, but moderation records, audit logs, and certain snapshot fields (such as copied username or email text captured at the time of a report) may be retained for safety, compliance, and operational integrity.

For privacy-related complaints, contact admin@sharewisdom.link. We will acknowledge and address complaints as appropriate under applicable law.

8. Purposes of processing

We use information we collect to:

• Provide, operate, secure, and improve the Platform.
• Authenticate users and manage accounts.
• Display public contributor profiles and Platform editorial features.
• Send transactional emails (such as password reset and email-change verification).
• Enforce our Terms, investigate abuse, and respond to reports.
• Comply with law and protect the rights, safety, and integrity of users and the Platform.

9. Cookies and functional browser storage

We use cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for authentication, session management, and core site functionality. The Platform’s own code does not set advertising or analytics cookies.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling essential cookies may prevent you from signing in or using account features.

10. Third-party infrastructure providers

We rely on service providers to host and operate the Platform. These currently include:

• Vercel — application hosting and delivery.
• Neon — PostgreSQL database hosting for application data.
• ImageKit — image upload, storage, transformation, and delivery (including profile photos uploaded to our designated upload folder).
• Zoho (SMTP) — outbound transactional email delivery.

Each provider processes information according to its own terms and privacy documentation. We configure these services for Platform operations only and do not currently use them for a marketing newsletter.

11. International data processing

Because the Platform is available worldwide and we use cloud providers, your information may be processed in countries other than your own, including jurisdictions where our providers operate data centers.

If you require details about provider processing locations or transfer mechanisms relevant to your jurisdiction, contact admin@sharewisdom.link and we will respond as appropriate.

12. Data retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Platform, maintain security, resolve disputes, enforce our policies, and comply with legal obligations.

We have not fixed universal retention periods for every category of data in this Policy. Retention may depend on account status (active, suspended, soft-deleted, or permanently deleted), operational logs, moderation needs, and backup systems.

Backups, CDN caches, provider logs, and email delivery logs may retain copies for periods outside our direct control even after data is deleted from primary application databases.

13. Account correction and deletion

You may update much of your profile information through the dashboard. You may change your password and request email change verification through account settings.

You may permanently delete your account from Settings by confirming with your password. Permanent deletion removes your user record and associated profile data from our primary database through our deletion workflow.

We do not currently offer a self-service download or export of all personal data in a portable file format.

14. ImageKit image deletion and limitations

When you upload a profile photo, we store the image URL and, for uploads after our lifecycle update, an ImageKit file identifier. When you replace or remove a photo, or when your account is permanently deleted, we attempt to delete the corresponding ImageKit asset using server-side processes tied to stored file identifiers—not untrusted client input.

If deletion fails (for example, due to API errors or missing credentials), jobs may be queued for retry with exponential backoff. After repeated failures, jobs may be marked for manual review.

Legacy profiles that have an image URL but no stored ImageKit file identifier cannot be safely deleted automatically from the URL alone; those assets may remain on ImageKit until you replace or remove the photo, an operator completes a verified backfill, or another supported lifecycle event occurs.

Deleting a file in ImageKit does not guarantee immediate removal from all CDN caches or third-party copies. We do not represent that every image, backup, log entry, or provider copy is erased immediately or completely.

15. User privacy rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict certain processing of your personal information, or to object to processing.

To exercise rights or ask questions, contact admin@sharewisdom.link. We will respond as required by applicable law. This Policy does not by itself assert full compliance with any specific regulation (such as the GDPR or India’s DPDP Act); applicability depends on your circumstances and our role.

16. Security safeguards

We use administrative, technical, and organizational measures appropriate to the nature of the Platform, including password hashing, access controls for administrative tools, HTTPS delivery in production, and rate limiting on sensitive flows.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

17. External links

Contributor profiles and Platform pages may contain links to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third parties. Review their policies before providing personal information.

18. Children’s privacy

The Platform is not directed to children under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a minor has provided us information, contact admin@sharewisdom.link and we will take appropriate steps.

19. Policy updates

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the effective date at the top of this page and post the updated Policy on the Platform.

If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice where appropriate. Continued use after the effective date of an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy, subject to applicable law.

To register, you must confirm your agreement to this Policy and the Terms, and we record the date and time of that consent. We do not currently record which version of the Policy or Terms you accepted. If we start doing so, existing accounts will not be assigned a version without a separate re-consent process.

20. Contact information

For privacy-related questions, requests, notices, or complaints, email ShareWisdom Team at admin@sharewisdom.link, our official contact address.

Official website: https://sharewisdom.link