Privacy Policy

1. Information UNALGORA stores

When you create and use an account, UNALGORA stores information necessary to provide the service.

This may include your email address, username, display name, password hash, biography, location, website, profile picture, cover picture, selected interests, interface preferences, language preference, and an optional birth date.

Birth dates are hidden by default unless the account owner explicitly chooses to display them.

UNALGORA stores passwords as password hashes rather than plaintext passwords.

The service also stores information created through normal social-network activity, including posts, comments, photos, likes, friendships, friend requests, notifications, Circle memberships, Circle roles, invitations, join requests, notification preferences, mute relationships, and block relationships.

Some information is necessarily associated with other users. For example, a friendship connects two accounts, a comment belongs to a post, and a Circle membership connects an account with a Circle.

2. Posts and audience settings

Posts are displayed according to their selected audience and the applicable UNALGORA privacy rules.

A Public post may be visible to anyone, including people who are not logged in.

A Friends-only post is intended to be visible only to people who meet the applicable friendship requirements.

Content that is not Public is not intentionally exposed to search engines.

Changing a post's audience changes who may access it going forward according to the current visibility rules.

Likes and comments do not determine the ranking or reach of a post. Eligible posts are presented chronologically rather than being ranked according to engagement.

3. Profiles and search engines

User profiles may contain both public and non-public information.

UNALGORA only exposes profile information according to the applicable visibility settings. Hidden profile fields and non-public posts are not intentionally included in publicly accessible profile output.

Profile pages are eligible for search-engine indexing by default using information that is already public.

Users may disable this through:

Settings → Account and security → Allow search engines to index my profile

When indexing is disabled, UNALGORA instructs supported search engines not to index the profile and excludes it from applicable search-engine discovery mechanisms such as the public sitemap.

This setting does not make the profile itself private. Normal UNALGORA visibility rules continue to apply.

Search engines operate independently from UNALGORA. If information was previously indexed, a search engine may retain cached or historical results for some time after visibility or indexing settings are changed.

4. Circles

UNALGORA Circles are community spaces created and joined by users.

Circles may be Public or Private.

Public Circles and eligible Public Circle posts may be visible without an account and may be indexed by search engines.

Private Circle posts and member-only content are restricted according to Circle membership and access rules and are not intentionally exposed for search-engine indexing.

UNALGORA may store Circle information including the Circle name, description, rules, images, owner, membership records, roles, invitations, membership requests, moderation actions, and administrative audit records.

Circle Owners, Admins, and Moderators may have access to information necessary to operate and moderate their Circle according to their assigned permissions.

Local Circle rules do not override UNALGORA's platform-wide policies or applicable law.

5. Private messages

UNALGORA provides one-to-one text messaging between eligible users according to the service's current friendship and blocking rules.

Message traffic is transmitted using the site's HTTPS/TLS connection.

Message text is encrypted at the application layer before database storage using authenticated encryption. Encryption keys are maintained in server-side secret configuration rather than being stored with the plaintext message.

UNALGORA messages are not end-to-end encrypted.

The UNALGORA server must be able to decrypt message content in order to deliver the service. Message content may therefore technically be accessed when necessary for service operation, troubleshooting, security, abuse investigation, moderation, support, or legal compliance.

UNALGORA does not claim that employees or operators routinely read private messages.

UNALGORA does not currently promise a fixed message-retention period.

Clearing a conversation removes it from the clearing user's own account view. It does not delete the other participant's copy.

Unfriending or blocking another user prevents new messages where required by the applicable messaging rules but does not automatically erase existing conversation history.

If an account is permanently deleted, retained messages visible in another participant's conversation may use a neutral former-user identity rather than exposing the deleted account's profile.

6. Muting and blocking

Muting is a private preference used to reduce or hide another account's content from the muting user's experience. The muted account is not notified that it has been muted.

Blocking creates a stronger interaction restriction between accounts. Blocking may affect friendship, friend requests, messaging, profile access, search results, notifications, and other interactions.

The blocked person is not sent a notification stating that they were blocked.

Historical content is not necessarily deleted simply because an account is muted or blocked.

7. Notifications

UNALGORA stores notifications needed to inform users about account and social activity.

Users may mark notifications as read, clear their notification history, or disable certain post-level notifications using available controls such as Un-notify.

Clearing a notification does not delete the underlying post, comment, friendship, Circle membership, or other event that produced it.

8. Information used to operate and protect the service

UNALGORA processes information necessary to authenticate users, provide requested features, enforce privacy and permissions, prevent abuse, diagnose errors, protect accounts, and operate the service.

Web servers, reverse proxies, security systems, and infrastructure providers may process ordinary technical request information such as IP addresses, browser information, timestamps, requested URLs, and security signals as part of normal web-service operation.

UNALGORA also uses anti-abuse and security mechanisms, including services such as Cloudflare Turnstile where deployed. Those third-party infrastructure services may process technical information according to their own privacy policies.

9. Cookies and local preferences

UNALGORA may use cookies or similar browser storage for functions such as authentication, session management, security, language selection, appearance preferences, and other necessary interface settings.

Logged-in account preferences may additionally be stored with the user's account so that they can apply across devices.

UNALGORA does not need advertising-tracking cookies to rank or personalize the feed.

10. How information is used

UNALGORA uses stored information to provide and maintain accounts, authenticate users, display profiles and posts according to their privacy settings, operate friendships and Circles, deliver messages and notifications, process uploads, enforce blocking and moderation, provide security protections, diagnose technical problems, respond to legitimate support requests, and comply with applicable legal obligations.

UNALGORA does not use likes or comments to algorithmically rank a user's feed.

11. Sharing and disclosure

Information intentionally made Public may be viewed by other users, logged-out visitors, search engines, and other systems capable of accessing public web pages.

Friends-only and Private content is restricted according to the applicable UNALGORA access rules.

UNALGORA may use service providers and infrastructure providers that process information as necessary to operate the platform.

Information may also be preserved or disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to lawful legal process, protect users or the service, investigate abuse or security incidents, or enforce platform rules.

UNALGORA does not sell user conversations or personal data to advertisers.

12. User controls

Users can manage much of their information directly through UNALGORA, including profile information, profile visibility choices where available, post audiences, friendships, Circle memberships, notification preferences, muted accounts, blocked accounts, display language, and search-engine profile indexing.

Users may also delete individual content where the service provides that capability and may use the available account deletion process.

Deleting information from one part of the service does not necessarily remove independently retained copies belonging to other users. For example, clearing your copy of a message conversation does not delete the other participant's copy.

13. Data retention

UNALGORA retains information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain account and content relationships, protect the platform, preserve legitimate audit/security information, comply with applicable obligations, and support the deletion and retention behavior described in this Policy.

Different types of information may have different lifecycles.

UNALGORA does not claim a universal fixed retention period for all data.

14. Security

UNALGORA uses technical and organizational measures intended to protect account and service data, including HTTPS/TLS, password hashing, access controls, server-side authorization, and encryption for stored private-message text as described above.

No internet-connected service can guarantee absolute security.

UNALGORA therefore does not claim that data can never be accessed, intercepted, lost, compromised, or disclosed as the result of an attack, software defect, user action, infrastructure failure, or other event.

Users should protect their passwords and account access.

15. Public Beta

UNALGORA is currently a developing service and may change as features are tested, improved, or replaced.

Privacy-related changes that materially affect how user information is handled should be reflected in this Policy.

Ordinary software changes that do not alter the meaning of this Policy do not require rewriting it.

16. Changes to this Policy

UNALGORA may update this Privacy Policy when the service or its data practices materially change.

The date at the top of this page identifies the current version.