Privacy Policy

At PostNest.in ("PostNest", "we", "our", or "us"), we take your privacy and data sovereignty seriously. We are committed to maintaining transparent, ethical, and secure data practices for all our users—whether you are an independent tech blogger, a SaaS founder, or a digital marketing team publishing guest posts.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect when you visit our website, register an account, publish articles, or utilize our backlink and guest posting services, and how that information is utilized and protected.

We collect information to deliver a seamless publishing and backlink distribution experience. The types of data collected include:

• Account Information: When you sign up, we collect your name, email address, password hash (securely encrypted with bcrypt), optional company profile details, and profile avatar.
• User-Generated Content & Articles: Blog post titles, markdown/HTML body content, categories, tags, cover images, canonical URLs, and embedded contextual backlinks submitted through our editor or bulk ingestion tools.
• Usage & Technical Data: Browser user agent, IP address, approximate geographical location, pages visited, session duration, and interactions with our publishing editor.
• Payment & Subscription Records: Invoicing history, plan tier details, and payment transaction identifiers processed securely through our verified payment gateway partners. We never store raw credit card numbers.

Your data is utilized strictly for legitimate operational purposes:

Please note that PostNest is an open web publishing platform. Any guest post, article text, author bio, social handle, and backlink marked with status "PUBLISHED" is made publicly accessible across the Internet and will be crawled and indexed by search engines such as Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo.

We use essential cookies and browser local storage mechanisms to:

• Keep you securely authenticated during your active sessions (JWT tokens).
• Preserve your theme preference (Dark Mode vs Light Mode).
• Prevent recurring display of early-bird announcement modals once dismissed.
• Safeguard against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and bot attacks.

You can manage or disable cookie preferences directly in your browser settings, though certain authenticated features may require cookies to function properly.

We work with trusted third-party providers who adhere to strict data security standards:

• Media & CDN Hosting: ImageKit.io handles image compression, transformation, and high-speed global media delivery.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Managed cloud database and serverless hosting with end-to-end TLS/SSL encryption.
• Payment Processors: PCI-DSS compliant payment gateways manage transactions without exposing raw card data to PostNest servers.

We implement industry-standard technical and organizational measures to safeguard your information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction:

• HTTPS/TLS 1.3 encryption across all communication endpoints.
• Bcrypt salted password hashing with high work factor.
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) preventing unauthorized administrative changes.
• Routine automated database backups and vulnerability scanning.

As a registered user of PostNest, you retain full rights over your data:

• Access & Export: You can view, export, and edit your articles, drafts, and company profile at any time through your dashboard.
• Content Modification & Deletion: You have the ability to unpublish, edit, or permanently remove your guest posts from our platform.
• Account Erasure: You can request full account deletion and purging of personal data by contacting our support team.

If you have any questions, clarifications, or requests concerning this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please reach out to our privacy desk: