Privacy Policy

1. Overview

2. Account Data

• We collect account details such as name, email address, username, profile image, account type, plan, authentication provider information, and account timestamps.
• If you create a business account, we may collect company name, website, description, logo, and verification status.
• If you choose email/password login, Portfolist stores a password hash rather than your raw password.
• We use account data to authenticate you, operate the dashboard, enforce plan limits, personalize the service, and provide support.

3. Portfolio Data

• We collect portfolio titles, slugs, visibility settings, templates, themes, sections, SEO fields, privacy controls, and version snapshot information.
• Public portfolios may be visible to anyone with the link and may be indexed by search engines when indexing is enabled.
• Unlisted and private portfolios are handled according to their visibility settings, but you should avoid storing highly sensitive information in portfolio content.
• You control whether certain optional information, such as location, public email, and public phone, appears on portfolio pages.

4. Uploaded Images

• Portfolist may collect and store uploaded images such as profile photos, project images, company logos, testimonial avatars, and portfolio media.
• Images may be processed, resized, transformed, or hosted through Cloudinary so they can be displayed reliably in your dashboard and public portfolios.
• You are responsible for ensuring uploaded images do not contain private information or content you do not have permission to use.

5. Messages

• When visitors or users send messages through Portfolist, we collect message body, sender name, sender email, optional company details, reason, thread status, and timestamps.
• Messages are used to deliver private outreach to portfolio owners without exposing private contact information publicly.
• Portfolist may apply spam protection, rate limiting, and moderation to protect users and maintain service quality.

6. Analytics and Views

• Portfolist may collect simple portfolio analytics such as page views, rough unique visitor identifiers, referrer, country from request headers when available, device type, CTA clicks, and message button clicks.
• Analytics are used to show portfolio performance in the dashboard and to maintain the reliability and security of the service.
• Portfolist is designed to keep tracking lightweight and privacy-conscious rather than using complicated behavioral tracking.

7. Cookies and Auth Sessions

• Portfolist uses cookies or similar session storage to keep users signed in, protect authenticated routes, and operate security features.
• Authentication providers may set their own cookies or process authentication-related information according to their policies.
• You can control cookies through your browser settings, but disabling them may prevent account login or dashboard features from working.

8. Payment and Billing Data

• Portfolist does not store full card details.
• Payment details are handled by Paddle checkout or Paddle customer portal where available.
• Paddle may collect billing name, email, payment method details, tax or VAT information, billing address, transaction history, and fraud-prevention data.
• Paddle may act as merchant of record or payment processor, depending on the checkout setup.
• Portfolist may store subscription status, plan, customer ID, transaction references, renewal or cancellation status, and billing metadata needed to manage Premium access.

9. Third-Party Services

• MongoDB or database hosting providers may be used to store account data, portfolio data, messages, analytics events, and application records.
• Cloudinary may be used to upload, process, transform, host, and deliver images.
• Paddle may process payments, billing, taxes, invoices, subscription management, payment status, customer portal access, and billing-related webhooks.
• Authentication providers, such as Google or other configured providers, may be used to sign users in and verify account identity.
• Vercel or other hosting providers may process request logs, deployment data, performance data, and infrastructure metadata needed to host Portfolist.
• An email provider may be used if Portfolist sends account, billing, support, notification, or transactional emails.

10. User Privacy Controls

• Portfolio owners can set portfolio visibility to public, unlisted, or private.
• Portfolio owners can control whether messages are allowed, whether location appears, whether email or phone are shown publicly, and whether public pages allow search engine indexing.
• Email and phone are not public by default and should only appear when both account and portfolio settings allow them.

11. Data Deletion Requests

• You may request deletion of your account or certain data by contacting Portfolist support.
• Some records may be retained when required for security, fraud prevention, billing records, legal compliance, dispute handling, or service integrity.
• Deleted public content may take time to disappear from search engine caches or third-party archives outside Portfolist control.

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