Privacy Policy & Data Protection

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1. Information We Collect

We collect information directly from you when you register an account, publish articles, submit AI tools or prompts, subscribe to our engineering newsletters, or interact with developer challenges:

• Account Credentials: Name, username, email address, password hashes (Argon2id/Bcrypt), avatar, and biographical headlines.
• Creator Data: Published articles, code repositories, prompt templates, GPT configurations, and verified social handles.
• Telemetry & Usage: IP address, browser user-agent, read time, bookmarked entries, and interaction telemetry.

2. How We Use Collected Data

Your data is processed strictly for legitimate platform purposes:

• Delivering the personalized "For You" technical reading radar and topic recommendations.
• Distributing weekly technical digests, security alerts, and creator payout notifications.
• Protecting platform infrastructure against DDoS attacks, automated scraping, and unauthorized intrusions via our Cyber Firewall.
• Calculating author view counts and disbursement of creator revenue rewards.

3. Data Sharing & Third-Party Services

TechScout never sells personal developer information to third-party data brokers. We only transmit minimal required payload data to vetted infrastructure providers (e.g. Cloudflare for DDoS protection, Stripe/PayPal for creator payouts, and Resend/Amazon SES for transactional emails).

4. Your Rights (GDPR & CCPA)

Regardless of your geographic location, you retain full ownership of your data, including the right to request a complete machine-readable export (JSON) of your account data or invoke account erasure by contacting privacy@techscout.online.

5. Security & Encryption Standards

All traffic is strictly routed over TLS 1.3 encryption. Passwords and sensitive credentials are encrypted using modern key-derivation algorithms with automated rate-limiting.