Privacy policy

What information we collect

Those who joined through the join form gave: full name, email address, phone, institution, degree and year of study, familiarity with AI, a LinkedIn link (optional), and what they'd like to contribute to the community. Today you join by signing in with Google or LinkedIn, with no phone number.

When you sign in with Google or LinkedIn, we receive only your name, email address and profile picture from the account. After signing in we ask where and what you study and your year, to tailor content to you. We don't receive your contacts or your full profile, and we get no permission to post on your behalf. We recognize you by your email address, so when you sign in again the same way, your details are waiting.

The name and picture from your account are shown in your account area. You can replace the picture there with one you upload, or go back to your account's picture.

When you join the WhatsApp group through the site, we note that you joined and when. When you like an article, we record that you liked it: the article appears in an "Articles I liked" list only you can see, and the site shows only the number of likes, not who gave them.

When you submit a skill, it is published with the name, institution and degree from your details on the site, and your LinkedIn link if you added one. You can edit or delete the skill any time from your account.

Basic technical information is also stored: the time of submission, how you reached the site (for example, which link you came from) if available, when you signed in, and which skills you viewed or copied. Your IP address is kept only briefly, to protect the site from spam and hacking attempts.

Why we use the information

To add you to the community and the WhatsApp group, to tailor content and activities to the audience (for example by degree or institution), and to contact you about the community.

If you submitted a skill: to publish it in the library with the credit you asked for. Contributors' email addresses are not shown on the site.

We do not sell, rent or pass on your information to commercial parties.

The WhatsApp group

Joining the WhatsApp group is your choice. In the group, your phone number and profile name are visible to the other members, in accordance with WhatsApp's terms of use. The community is not responsible for how other members use this information.

Where the information is stored and who can see it

The information is stored in a secure database in a cloud service (Neon, servers in the European Union) and the site is hosted on Vercel. Access to the information is limited to the community's founders only.

Signing in goes through Google and LinkedIn. They pass us only the details described above, under their own privacy policies.

To protect the forms from spam we use Cloudflare Turnstile, and to understand how many people visit the site and where they come from we use Vercel Analytics and Umami. Neither uses cookies or collects identifying information.

A profile picture you upload is stored in Vercel Blob. Content published on the site (articles, skills and their writers' names) is translated into English automatically with Cloudflare Workers AI, so its text passes through Cloudflare's servers.

Cookies and browser storage

We use only essential cookies, without which the site doesn't work. There are no advertising cookies on the site, and we don't track you on other sites.

The sign-in cookie: after you sign in with Google or LinkedIn, an encrypted cookie in your browser keeps you signed in for 30 days from your last visit. "Sign out" in your account deletes it. While you sign in, a few more cookies protect the process from forgery and remember which page to return to; they are deleted after a short time or when you close the browser.

The join cookie: when you join the community you get a signed cookie for one year, which lets the thank-you page show you the link to the WhatsApp group.

In addition, your browser keeps a few small preferences to itself (in localStorage, not a cookie, and never sent to us): light or dark mode, whether you closed the invitation to join or the cookie notice, and whether you're signed in, so the join buttons don't flash while the page loads.

Our measurement tools, Vercel Analytics and Umami, don't use cookies. YouTube videos in articles load in YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), which doesn't store information about visitors until they play the video.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time. Note: without the sign-in cookie you won't be able to sign in to the site.

How long we keep the information

As long as you are a member of the community, or until you ask us to delete it. Information about published skills is kept for as long as the skill is published.

Your rights

You may ask to see the information stored about you, to correct it, or to delete it completely. You can also ask to remove a skill you contributed or to change the credit shown on it. Email us and we'll handle the request within a reasonable time.

Minors

The community is intended for students aged 18 and over. If we find that information about a minor was collected, we will delete it.

Changes to the policy

We may update this document from time to time. The current version will always appear on this page, with the date of the update.