Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to vectors.chat. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our professional identity and networking platform, including portfolios, domain discovery, event rooms, and messaging features.

2. Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information:

• Account Information: Your name and email address used for authentication via one-time password (OTP).
• Profile Information: Verified professional profiles including LinkedIn URLs, GitHub URLs, YouTube channels, work emails (@company.com), personal websites, and any information you add to your profiles.
• Portfolio Content: Custom landing pages you create, including banners, avatars, social media links, custom sections with links and cards, and visibility settings (public/private).
• Verification Data: OAuth tokens for GitHub and YouTube verification, email verification tokens, and verification codes placed on websites or LinkedIn profiles.
• Domain Information: Corporate email domains you verify (e.g., @yourcompany.com) for colleague discovery.
• Event Room Data: Event names, descriptions, schedules, access settings (public/private/email-restricted), participant roles (Admin/Moderator/Attendee), and participant codes.
• Message Content: End-to-end encrypted messages you send in direct chats and event room group chats, including replies, starred messages, and chat metadata.
• Connection Data: Chat requests sent and received, friend connections, blocked users, and domain-based colleague discoveries.
• Usage Data: Login times, feature usage (portfolios, events, chats), and navigation patterns within the platform.
• Device Information: Device type, operating system, browser type, and IP address for security purposes.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide and maintain our professional networking platform, including portfolios, domain discovery, event rooms, and messaging.
• Verify the authenticity of professional profiles through OAuth and email verification.
• Enable domain-based colleague discovery by matching verified corporate email domains.
• Host and manage event rooms with role-based access controls.
• Facilitate end-to-end encrypted real-time messaging between verified professionals.
• Display public portfolios and verification badges to other users when you choose to make them public.
• Improve and personalize your experience with our platform.
• Communicate with you about updates, security alerts, verification status, and support.
• Monitor and analyze usage patterns to improve our services.
• Prevent, detect, and address technical issues, fraud, or violations of our Terms of Service.
• Enforce our policy blocking personal email providers (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) from creating profiles.

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We want to be clear about how your data is shared:

• Employer Data Sharing: We NEVER share your data, messages, connections, or activity with your current or former employers. Your professional network is your personal asset, completely independent of any company.
• Domain Discovery: When you verify a corporate email domain, other users who verify the same domain can discover your profile through domain-based search. This is a core feature of the platform.
• Public Portfolios: If you make your portfolio public, it can be viewed by anyone with the link. You control whether portfolios are public or private.
• Event Rooms: Participants in event rooms you join can see your verified profile information according to the event's privacy settings.
• Service Providers: We may share data with trusted third-party service providers (hosting, analytics, email delivery) who assist in operating our platform. They are bound by confidentiality agreements.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose information if required by law, court order, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of vectors.chat, our users, or others.

5. Data Security

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your personal information:

• End-to-end encryption for all direct messages and event room chats.
• OAuth 2.0 for GitHub and YouTube profile verification.
• Email verification tokens with expiration for email profile authentication.
• Secure data transmission via HTTPS/TLS encryption.
• Regular security audits and monitoring for unauthorized access.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with our services and as described in this Privacy Policy:

• Profile and portfolio data: Retained while your account is active.
• Messages: Retained indefinitely unless deleted by you or when chat is deleted.
• Verification data: Retained while profile remains verified.
• Event room data: Retained for the duration of the event and specified retention period.
• Account deletion: You may request deletion of your account and associated data at any time through your account settings.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the right to:

• Access and receive a copy of your personal data, including profile information, portfolios, and connection data.
• Rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data through your account settings.
• Request deletion of your personal data, including account deletion.
• Object to or restrict the processing of your personal data.
• Data portability (receiving a copy of your data in a commonly used format).
• Withdraw consent for optional features like public portfolios or domain discovery.
• Control visibility of your portfolios (public/private toggle).

To exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information provided below.

8. Third-Party Integrations

Our platform integrates with third-party services for verification purposes:

• GitHub OAuth: Used to verify GitHub profile ownership. We receive basic profile information.
• YouTube OAuth: Used to verify YouTube channel ownership. We receive basic channel information.
• Email Providers: We send verification emails through our email service provider.

These third parties have their own privacy policies. We recommend reviewing them.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. Continued use of the platform after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, concerns about your data, or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us: