Privacy and account management

Akurium is designed for showing collections publicly while keeping account information and unfinished work out of view. You decide which collections and items to publish, and you remain responsible for what you include in their text, images, and video.

Know what is public

Information intended for your public profile can include:

• Your full name and username
• Your avatar and About Me biography
• Social and website links you provide
• Published collections and items
• Comments and reactions you contribute
• Follower and following counts

Published pages can be viewed by people without an Akurium account and may be shared outside Akurium. Do not include personal information in a profile, description, image, note, or attribute unless you are comfortable making it public.

Know what remains private

Your email address, password, billing details, draft content, and private content are not displayed to ordinary visitors. Authorized site administration may still access information when necessary to operate Akurium, provide support, prevent abuse, or comply with legal obligations.

Visibility applies to Akurium’s public display; it is not a substitute for removing sensitive information. Avoid uploading passwords, financial information, government identifiers, private addresses, or other secrets even to drafts.

For the complete policy, read the Akurium Privacy Policy.

Protect your account

• Use a unique password that you do not use on another service.
• Keep your account email current so you can receive password-reset messages.
• Do not share password-reset links or verification messages.
• Log out when using a shared or public device.
• Review unexpected changes to your profile or collections promptly.

To log out, open your account menu and select Log Out.

Reset a forgotten password

From the login screen, choose Forgot password? and enter the email address associated with your account. Akurium sends a password-reset link to that address.

Open the link, enter and confirm a new password, then return to the login screen. If the message does not arrive, check your spam folder and confirm that you entered the account’s current email address.

Accounts created through Google may continue to use Google sign-in instead of an Akurium password.

Control what you publish

Use Draft, Private, or Archived visibility when material should not appear publicly. Remember that an item is public only when both it and its collection are Published.

Before publishing photographs, check backgrounds, labels, paperwork, reflections, and location clues for information you did not intend to share.

Mark an item for Mature Audiences when its text, images, or video may not be suitable for everyone. Mature labeling adds warnings; it does not make prohibited content acceptable. Review the Community Guidelines for the current rules.

Choose cookie consent

When Akurium displays its cookie banner, you can choose:

• Accept Required — allows cookies needed for core functions such as sessions, sign-in, security, and saved preferences.
• Accept All — also allows optional third-party content that requires consent, including embedded YouTube or Vimeo video.

If you accept only required cookies, video pages display a placeholder until you choose to allow the additional cookies and load the video.

Your browser stores the consent choice for up to one year. To choose again sooner, clear Akurium’s site cookies in your browser and reload the site. Clearing cookies may also sign you out.

Report inappropriate content

Signed-in users can report a public collection, item, or page:

1. Select Report this page near the bottom of the page.
2. Choose one or more reasons.
3. Add relevant context under Additional Comments if helpful.
4. Select Submit Report.

Reasons include spam or scams, sexually explicit content, hate or abuse, violence, harassment, misleading information, intellectual-property violations, and other concerns.

Reports are sent for review. Do not use reporting merely because you dislike a collection; use it for potential violations of the Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, or another person’s rights.

Delete individual content

You can delete collections and items through their management pages. Deleting a collection can affect access to every item inside it, so export anything important and confirm that you selected the intended record first.

Comment authors and content owners can hide comments they are permitted to moderate.

Export before leaving

Before closing an account or removing substantial content, create an export of the collections you want to keep. Include images when you need a package containing the available photographs.

The current export is not a complete account backup. Review Importing and exporting for its included data and known omissions.

Close your account

Akurium does not currently provide a self-service account-closure control in Account & Settings. To request closure, email hello@akurium.com from the address associated with your account.

Before requesting closure:

1. Export any collection data and images you want to retain.
2. Manage or cancel an active paid subscription through Stripe.
3. Include your Akurium username in the request.
4. Be prepared to verify that you control the account.

Account closure is different from canceling a subscription. Canceling billing returns the account to the Free plan after the paid period ends; it does not itself request deletion of the account.

Ask a privacy or data question

For account access, correction, closure, or other data questions, contact hello@akurium.com. Include enough information to identify the account, but never send your password or full payment-card details by email.