What we collect
We collect only the information needed to verify membership, operate conversations, protect the community, and maintain the service.
- Account and verification data, including institutional email, verified organisation, authentication events, and account status.
- Profile information you choose to provide, such as display name, biography, location, language, and public ten-digit member ID.
- Posts, replies, edits, reports, appeals, and the decisions needed to moderate them.
- Limited technical and security information reasonably needed to maintain secure access, prevent misuse, diagnose essential failures, and protect the service.
How we use information
- Verify eligibility and keep the verified organisation visible with a member's chosen name.
- Deliver the feed, discussions, profile management, support, and account communications.
- Screen contributions, investigate reports, enforce community rules, and provide review or appeal paths.
- Secure, diagnose, measure, and improve the service without surveillance-style advertising profiles.
Content review and service providers
Submitted contributions may be assessed before publication using service-protection tools and, where appropriate, authorised reviewers. Materially adverse content and account decisions remain under authorised human control.
Contracted service providers may process limited information on Merifora's behalf for hosting, delivery, security, communications, review, monitoring, support, or recovery. They receive only the access reasonably needed for their service and may not use Merifora data for their own advertising.
Visibility, sharing, and retention
Verified members can see published contributions and the public profile information attached to them. Login email, internal account identifiers, private reports, reviewer notes, and restriction records are not public profile fields.
We do not sell personal information. We may disclose information when required by law, to protect people or the service, or during a properly governed business reorganisation. Active account information and content are kept while active and necessary unless deletion is requested; information is also removed or anonymised when no longer necessary, subject to limited justified exceptions.
Your choices and rights
- Edit supported public profile fields and manage your own contributions from your profile.
- Report content privately and appeal an eligible account restriction once.
- Request access, correction, export, or deletion where applicable. A verified organisation relationship and necessary audit evidence may need to be retained or corrected through support rather than edited directly.
- Contact and jurisdiction-specific request instructions will be added before the external beta opens.