Privacy Policy

Personal Information You Provide:

• Account Information: Name, email address, username, and optional profile information such as bio and profile picture.
• Authentication Data: We use Firebase Authentication to securely manage user accounts and login information.
• Social Links: Optional links to your professional profiles (GitHub, LinkedIn, etc.).
• Educational Information: Optional details about your education, including university, degree, field of study, and graduation year.
• Project Information: Details about your projects, including titles, descriptions, and technologies used.
• Images: Project images and profile pictures are stored securely in Firebase Storage.
• Files: PDF and other project-related files, with a maximum limit of 5 files per project.
• External Links: Links to your project demos, repositories, and other related content.

Internet Activity Information:

When you visit, use, and interact with the Service, we may receive certain information about your visit, use, or interactions. For example, we may monitor the number of people that visit the Service, peak hours of visits, which page(s) are visited, the domains our visitors come from (e.g., google.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to access the Service (e.g., Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.), broad geographical information, and navigation pattern.

To provide the Services to our users:

• To provide, maintain, and administer the Services and our relationship with you
• To allow you to create and customize your Portfolio.dev profile and showcase your work
• To help you connect with potential employers, collaborators, and other professionals on the platform
• To respond to your inquiries, comments, feedback, or questions
• To send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Service and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies

For legitimate business purposes:

• To analyze how you interact with our Service
• To monitor, promote, and improve the Service
• To develop new products, features, and services
• To prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Service, and to ensure the security of our IT systems, architecture, and networks
• To comply with legal obligations and legal processes and to protect our and others' legal rights, privacy, safety, and property

Aggregated Information:

We may aggregate Personal Information and use the aggregated information to analyze the effectiveness of our Service, to improve and add features to our Service, and for other similar purposes. In addition, we may analyze the general behavior and characteristics of users of our Service and share information like general user statistics with our partners. We may collect aggregated information through the Service, through other means described in this Privacy Policy.

Vendors and Service Providers:

To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may share Personal Information with vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, cloud services, and other information technology services providers, email communication software and email newsletter services, advertising and marketing services, payment processors, customer relationship management and customer support services, professional advisors, and analytics services. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Information in the course of performing their duties to us.

Business Transfers:

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, dissolution, sale of all or a portion of our assets, or transition of service to another provider (collectively a "Transaction"), your Personal Information and other information may be shared in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of or following that Transaction along with other assets.

Legal Requirements:

If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, (ii) protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) prevent fraud, (iv) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Service, or the public, or (v) protect against legal liability.

Affiliates:

We may share Personal Information with our current and future affiliates, meaning an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with Portfolio.dev. Our affiliates may use the Personal Information we share in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Other Users:

Certain actions you take may be visible to other users of the Service. For example, sharing a project or your profile with another user will make your name, profile information, and shared content accessible to that user. By performing such actions or adding information to your profile, you make the information shared available to other users. Portfolio.dev cannot control, and is not responsible for, any use other users make of the information you share with them through the Service.