LUMINA INSTITUTE

Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2026

This is a working draft to describe our current data practices in plain language. It has not been reviewed by legal counsel and should not be treated as final before public launch.

1. What we collect

When you create an account, we collect your name, email address, and a securely hashed password — we never store your password in plain text. If you publish content, make a purchase, join a discussion, or upload a file, we store what's necessary to provide that feature: your reading progress, saved library, order history, discussion posts, and uploaded files.

2. How we use it

We use your data to run the platform: authenticating you, tracking your library and progress, processing orders, and moderating community content. We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

3. Third-party services

We rely on infrastructure providers to run Lumina: a hosting provider (Vercel), a database provider (Neon), and file storage (Vercel Blob). These providers process data on our behalf under their own security and privacy commitments. When payments and email delivery are enabled, we'll name those providers here too, before they go live.

4. Cookies and sessions

We use a session cookie to keep you signed in. We don't use third-party advertising or tracking cookies.

5. Your rights

You can request a copy of your data or ask us to delete your account at any time by contacting us. Deleting your account removes your personal profile; content you've published may be retained if others depend on it, with your authorship anonymized on request.

6. Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent through our Contact page.