Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2, 2026

Vahuk respects your privacy and aims to be clear about what information we collect, why we use it, and what happens when you share content with the Vahuk community.

This Privacy Policy applies when you visit Vahuk, create or use an account, submit a Story, comment, react, participate in community features, manage your profile, or otherwise use Vahuk.com.

Vahuk is a social bookmarking and link discovery platform. Much of the activity on Vahuk is designed to be public, so it is important to understand the difference between information you give us privately and information you choose to publish for the community.

Who Operates Vahuk

Vahuk is operated under Micro Solutions Bangladesh, the parent company behind Vahuk.

Micro Solutions Bangladesh may provide technical, administrative, security, infrastructure, support, and other services needed to operate Vahuk.

MCQ Academy is a sister concern website under the same broader organization. The fact that Vahuk and MCQ Academy are related does not by itself mean that information from your Vahuk account is automatically transferred to or used by MCQ Academy for unrelated purposes.

You can learn more about the platform itself on About Vahuk and How Vahuk Works.

Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use Vahuk. You can browse many public areas without creating an account, while account holders and contributors provide additional information through their activity.

Account Information

When you create or maintain an account, we may process information such as your username, display name, email address, password credentials, profile information, website URL, avatar, and other information you choose to add to your account.

Passwords are not intended to be stored as readable plain text. Vahuk relies on WordPress authentication and password hashing mechanisms to protect account credentials.

Stories and Other Content You Submit

When you submit a URL to Vahuk, it can become a Story. A Story may contain information such as the source URL, Story title, summary or description, selected Genre, Tags or Tagsets, contributor information, publication time, and other information related to the submission.

You can learn more about this content type on What Is a Story?.

Community Activity

When you participate in Vahuk, we may process information connected to your activity, including comments, reactions, votes where available, Karma-related activity, Story submissions, reports, moderation history, and other community interactions.

Some of these activities may be visible publicly and may contribute to how Stories or contributors are presented within Vahuk.

Technical and Security Information

Like most websites, Vahuk may automatically receive technical information when you visit or use the service. This can include your IP address, browser type, device or operating system information, requested URLs, referring pages, timestamps, server logs, and information used to detect errors, abuse, automated traffic, or security problems.

Messages, Reports, and Support Requests

If you contact us, report a Story or account, appeal a moderation action, or request help, we may keep the information you provide and related correspondence so we can respond and maintain an appropriate record of the issue.

Information That Is Public

Vahuk is built around public discovery and community participation. Information that you intentionally publish may be available to anyone on the internet, including people who do not have a Vahuk account.

Public information may include your display name, public author or profile page, Stories you submit, Story titles and summaries, source links, Genres, Tags, comments, reactions or engagement information, Karma or reputation information shown by Vahuk, and publication dates.

Public Vahuk pages may also be discovered, cached, indexed, summarized, or referenced by search engines, social networks, AI-powered search services, web archives, and other third-party services when those services are permitted to access the page.

Please do not publish private, confidential, or sensitive personal information in Story summaries, comments, profile fields, or other public areas unless you are comfortable making that information public.

How We Use Information

We use information to operate Vahuk and provide the features people expect from a social bookmarking and link discovery community.

Create, authenticate, and manage user accounts.
Publish and attribute Stories submitted by contributors.
Organize Stories by Genre, Tags, and other discovery signals.
Enable comments, reactions, voting, and other community features.
Calculate or manage Karma and contributor reputation features.
Help determine which Stories appear in Trending and other discovery areas.
Detect duplicate or repeated URL submissions.
Prevent spam, fake engagement, automated abuse, malicious activity, and attempts to manipulate the community.
Review reports and apply moderation policies.
Protect accounts, the website, and Vahuk infrastructure.
Diagnose bugs, performance problems, and technical failures.
Improve the usability and operation of Vahuk.
Respond to support, privacy, abuse, or administrative requests.
Meet legal obligations and protect the rights and safety of Vahuk, its users, and others.

Karma, Voting, and Reactions

Community activity helps Vahuk understand what people find useful, interesting, or worth discussing. Reactions, votes where available, Story activity, and other participation may contribute to Karma, reputation, discovery, Trending, moderation, or abuse-prevention systems.

Vahuk does not publish every internal anti-abuse rule or ranking signal. Keeping some details private helps reduce attempts to manipulate Karma, reactions, Story rankings, or other community systems.

For more information, see How Karma Works and Voting & Reactions.

Stories and External Websites

A Vahuk Story usually points to a page somewhere else on the web. That external website is separate from Vahuk.

If you follow a Story’s source link, the external website may collect information about you through its own cookies, analytics, advertising, account systems, server logs, or other technologies. Its privacy policy and terms apply to what happens on that website.

Vahuk does not control the privacy practices of an external website simply because a community member submitted its URL.

Contributors should review the Submission Guidelines before sharing links.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Vahuk may use cookies and similar browser technologies to keep the website working, maintain login sessions, remember preferences, protect accounts, improve security, measure site activity, and support other features.

Some cookies are necessary for account and website functionality. Other cookies may come from analytics, advertising, embedded content, security services, or other third-party tools when those services are active on Vahuk.

You can usually control or remove cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may prevent login, account preferences, or other parts of Vahuk from working correctly.

Analytics, Advertising, and Service Providers

Vahuk may work with service providers that help us host, secure, operate, measure, communicate about, or support the website. Depending on which services are active, these providers may include hosting and infrastructure companies, security and anti-spam services, email providers, analytics tools, advertising services, content delivery services, or similar technology providers.

These services may receive information needed to perform their work, such as IP addresses, browser information, page requests, account-related delivery information, or security signals.

Where a third-party service operates under its own privacy policy, its handling of information is also governed by that policy.

When We May Share Information

We do not treat personal information as something to publish or distribute without a reason. Information may be shared when it is reasonably needed to operate or protect Vahuk, including in the following situations.

With service providers that help operate, host, secure, maintain, or support Vahuk.
With Micro Solutions Bangladesh where access is needed for Vahuk administration, infrastructure, security, support, legal compliance, or related operational work.
When you ask us to share information or give us permission to do so.
When disclosure is required by applicable law, court order, legal process, or a valid government request.
When reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, abuse, security threats, harmful activity, or violations of Vahuk policies.
When needed to protect the rights, property, or safety of Vahuk, Micro Solutions Bangladesh, our users, or others.
As part of a merger, restructuring, acquisition, sale, or transfer involving the service, where legally appropriate.

Information that you intentionally publish as part of a public Story, comment, profile, or other community activity is different from private information shared with a service provider. Public contributions are intended to be viewed by other people.

Our Organization and Related Websites

Micro Solutions Bangladesh is the parent company behind Vahuk and may be involved in technical, administrative, security, infrastructure, and support operations for the service.

MCQ Academy is a sister concern website. Having a Vahuk account does not automatically create an MCQ Academy account, and being part of the same broader organization does not by itself mean that information collected for Vahuk is used for unrelated activity on MCQ Academy.

If Vahuk introduces shared accounts, shared services, or another form of cross-site data processing in the future, this Privacy Policy should be updated to explain that change clearly.

Spam, Abuse, and Fraud Prevention

Vahuk may use account information, submission history, source URLs, technical logs, community activity, duplicate signals, reports, moderation history, and related information to identify spam or abuse.

This can include attempts to flood Vahuk with promotional links, create fake accounts, manipulate Karma or reactions, repeatedly submit duplicate URLs, misuse Genres or Tags, automate activity, publish malicious links, evade previous restrictions, or otherwise interfere with the community.

Read the Spam & Abuse Policy, Community Guidelines, and Moderation Policy for more information about these rules.

Moderation and Privacy

Moderation sometimes requires us to review account activity, Stories, comments, reports, duplicate submissions, Genre assignments, reactions, or technical signals.

A moderation decision does not always mean content has been deleted. Depending on the situation, Vahuk may leave content unchanged, correct classification, limit search visibility, mark or consolidate a duplicate, remove content, restrict an account, or take another appropriate action.

We may retain enough information about serious or repeated abuse to identify attempts to return, repeat the same behavior, or bypass previous moderation actions.

How Long We Keep Information

We keep different types of information for different periods depending on why the information exists and what is needed to operate, secure, or protect Vahuk.

Account information may be kept while an account remains active. Public Stories and community contributions may remain available while they continue to be part of Vahuk. Technical, security, moderation, abuse-prevention, support, and backup records may be kept for an appropriate period based on operational, security, or legal needs.

Information may also remain temporarily in backups after it has been changed or removed from the live website.

We do not promise one retention period for every type of information because account data, public contributions, security logs, reports, and backups serve different purposes.

Your Account Settings

Registered users can manage available account information through Account Settings.

Depending on the information and the features available to your account, you may be able to update profile information directly. If something cannot be changed through Account Settings, you can contact us with a correction, privacy, or deletion request.

Changing or closing an account does not always mean that every public contribution disappears automatically. For example, a Story or comment may have become part of a public discussion or moderation record. Requests involving public contributions will be reviewed based on the type of content, the reason for the request, community integrity, applicable law, and other relevant circumstances.

Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have rights relating to personal information held about you.

Ask what personal information we hold about you.
Ask us to correct inaccurate account information.
Ask for deletion of personal information where appropriate.
Object to or ask questions about certain uses of your information.
Withdraw consent when a particular use depends on your consent.
Ask for other privacy rights available under applicable law.

We may need to confirm that a request comes from you before acting on it. Some requests may also be limited where information must be retained for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or another legitimate reason.

Security

We use reasonable technical and administrative measures to protect Vahuk and the information processed through it. These measures may include access controls, authentication protections, password hashing, software updates, backups, security logging, anti-spam systems, abuse monitoring, and other safeguards appropriate to the service.

No website, account system, server, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Please use a strong password, protect access to your email account, and let us know if you believe your Vahuk account has been compromised.

Children’s Privacy

Vahuk is not intended to encourage children who are not legally permitted to use an online service on their own to create accounts or provide personal information.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to Vahuk in a way that is not permitted by applicable law, please contact us so the situation can be reviewed and appropriate action can be taken.

International Visitors

Vahuk is operated from Bangladesh through Micro Solutions Bangladesh, while people may visit the service from many countries.

Information may therefore be processed or stored in Bangladesh or in other locations used by Vahuk’s hosting, infrastructure, security, email, analytics, or other service providers. Privacy and data protection rules can differ between countries.

Third-Party Links and Embedded Content

Vahuk contains links to websites that we do not operate. Stories are specifically designed to help people discover useful pages from across the web.

External websites may use cookies, analytics, advertising, login systems, embeds, tracking technologies, and other tools that are outside Vahuk’s control.

Where Vahuk displays embedded content from another service, that service may be able to receive technical information about the visit in the same way it would if you visited its website directly.

Please review the privacy policy of an external website if you want to understand how it handles your information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Vahuk will continue to change as features, community systems, technology, service providers, and legal requirements change. We may update this Privacy Policy when those changes affect how personal information is handled.

When the policy is updated, the “Last updated” date at the top of this page will be changed. For significant changes, we may also provide additional notice where appropriate.

We encourage users who regularly contribute to Vahuk to review this page from time to time.

Contact Us About Privacy

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, believe information about you is incorrect, want to make a privacy request, or have a concern about how Vahuk handles information, please contact Vahuk through Micro Solutions Bangladesh.

Please include enough information for us to understand the request, but do not send passwords, payment credentials, or other sensitive information that is not needed to explain the issue.

Related Vahuk Pages

The following pages explain how Vahuk works and the rules that apply to community participation: