# Documentation — Latest **URL:** /c/documentation/9410 **Topics on this page:** 20 ## [Documentation index](/t/documentation-index/27320) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2025-05-06T13:11:15Z Documentation about Privacy Guides the organization, how to contribute, what we expect in our communities, etc. Reader Guide Add to search engines: Add Privacy Guides to Your Personalized Search Engine Results Or… --- ## [Typography & Formatting](/t/typography-formatting/35807) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2026-02-28T12:32:25Z Boldface Boldface text is commonly used, but is appropriate only for specific usages. To create it, surround the text with **two asterisks**. When bold text can or should be used: Usually: For the first occurrence o… --- ## [Add Privacy Guides to Your Personalized Search Engine Results](/t/add-privacy-guides-to-your-personalized-search-engine-results/32891) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2025-11-18T10:46:44Z Don’t miss out on any updates from Privacy Guides when you’re searching the web. In many search engines, you can add our resources as “preferred results” if you want our articles to rise above the rest of the content ou… --- ## [Branding Guidelines](/t/branding-guidelines/27322) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2022-11-01T05:00:00Z The name of the website is Privacy Guides and should not be changed to: PrivacyGuides Privacy guides PG PG.org The name of the Subreddit is r/PrivacyGuides or the Privacy Guides Subreddit. Additional branding guide… --- ## [Guidelines for Privacy Guides Volunteers](/t/guidelines-for-privacy-guides-volunteers/27353) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2025-05-10T09:58:21Z Thank you for choosing to spend your time contributing to Privacy Guides. Founded in 2021, our 501(c)(3) non-profit operates several staff-led but volunteer- and community-powered initiatives, including our educational… --- ## [Conflict of Interest Policy](/t/conflict-of-interest-policy/27426) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2025-05-09T02:58:01Z Privacy Guides is built on transparency and trust, and we expect all contributors with a potential conflict of interest to adhere to our strict integrity standards. What is a conflict of interest? Any contributions w… --- ## [Community Moderation Basics](/t/community-moderation-basics/27351) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2024-08-07T05:00:00Z Everything within our community must adhere to our conduct policies. This document deals with some trickier moderation decisions you may be wondering about. Keep a Light Touch In many situations, our community can be… --- ## [Commenting on PRs](/t/commenting-on-prs/27327) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2025-04-17T05:00:00Z Please refrain from using the general Add a comment box in GitHub PRs when leaving a comment or performing a review. Comments that are left like this are not threaded, which makes it difficult to keep track of mult… --- ## [[EP2] Donation Acceptance Policy](/t/ep2-donation-acceptance-policy/27360) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2025-03-04T06:00:00Z Privacy Guides takes the ethical responsibility of making unbiased recommendations on its website very seriously. Privacy Guides aspires to obtain funding from a wide variety of sources to reduce our dependency on any… --- ## [[EP1] Freely-Provided Product Samples](/t/ep1-freely-provided-product-samples/27358) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2024-09-07T05:00:00Z Our policy on accepting product samples for review was adopted September 7, 2024. Privacy Guides shall not proactively reach out to vendors asking for product samples or review accounts. Privacy Guides shall not ac… --- ## [List of Executive Policies](/t/list-of-executive-policies/27359) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2024-09-07T05:00:00Z These are policies formally adopted by Privacy Guides’ executive committee, and take precedence over all other statements expressed on this website. Full list :right_arrow: The keywords must, must not, required, shall,… --- ## [Reviewing Pull Requests on GitHub](/t/reviewing-pull-requests-on-github/27352) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2024-08-07T05:00:00Z Anyone who is interested in helping us out is encouraged to leave reviews on GitHub, even if you are not a trusted reviewer yet. We primarily invite new reviewers based on a history of constructive Requests for Changes a… --- ## [Commit Messages](/t/commit-messages/27326) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2024-06-03T05:00:00Z For our commit messages we follow the style provided by Conventional Commits. Not all of those suggestions are appropriate for Privacy Guides, so the main ones we use are: Update to existing text This example could b… --- ## [How to use admonitions on the site](/t/how-to-use-admonitions-on-the-site/27361) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2024-01-15T06:00:00Z Admonitions (or “call-outs”) are a choice writers can use to include side content in an article without interrupting the document flow. Formatting To add an admonition to a page, you can use the following code. The… --- ## [Translations](/t/translations/27323) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2023-07-06T05:00:00Z Crowdin has good documentation, and we suggest looking at their Getting Started guide. Our site is largely written in Markdown, so it should be easy to contribute. This page contains some helpful pointers for translati… --- ## [Services hosted by Privacy Guides](/t/services-hosted-by-privacy-guides/27357) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2022-11-01T05:00:00Z We run a number of web services to test out features and promote cool decentralized, federated, and/or open-source projects. Many of these services are available to the public and are detailed below. Please report any… --- ## [Git Recommendations](/t/git-recommendations/27325) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2022-11-01T05:00:00Z If you make changes to this website on GitHub.com’s web editor directly, you shouldn’t have to worry about this. If you are developing locally and/or are a long-term website editor (who should probably be developing loca… --- ## [Uploading Images](/t/uploading-images/27324) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2022-11-01T05:00:00Z If you make changes to this website that involve adding new images or replacing existing ones, here are a couple of general recommendations: Images We prefer SVG images, but if those do not exist we can use PNG imag… --- ## [Writing Style](/t/writing-style/27321) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2022-11-01T05:00:00Z Privacy Guides is written in American English, and you should refer to APA Style guidelines when in doubt. In general the United States federal plain language guidelines provide a good overview of how to write clearly… --- ## [Community Code of Conduct](/t/community-code-of-conduct/27319) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2022-09-09T05:00:00Z We pledge to make our community a harassment-free experience for everyone. We strive to create a positive environment, using welcoming and inclusive language, and being respectful of the viewpoints of others. We do n…