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Digital Safety & Privacy

Online safety, data privacy, and digital health literacy

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6 articles

What Is SHELY Vault: Your Encrypted Private Space for Sensitive Health Data

SHELY Vault is a separate, PIN-locked, end-to-end encrypted space inside SHELY for the health information you cannot risk anyone else seeing — cycle logs you do not want in-laws to read, mood and trauma journals, abuse documentation, fertility plans. This guide explains how Vault works, why it matters under India's DPDP Act 2023, who it protects, what to put in and what to keep out, and what to do if someone tries to force you to open it.

8 min read SHELY Health

4 December 2024

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Sharing Health Logs with a Partner – What to Watch For

Sharing cycle and health data with a partner can foster empathy, mutual support, and coordinated self‑care. Yet without clear boundaries and consent, it risks misunderstandings, breaches of privacy, or emotional harm. This guide offers practical frameworks for setting expectations, communicating needs, and maintaining trust when sharing your most personal health information.

3 min read SHELY Health

3 December 2024

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Deepfake Body Scams & Sextortion: Protecting Your Privacy and Agency

With advances in AI, malicious actors can create realistic deepfake images or videos to extort, harass, or defame. Understanding how these scams work, recognizing warning signs, and knowing how to protect yourself and seek recourse are critical to safeguarding your dignity and mental health. Build a long-term safety stack: store evidence in [what-is-shely-vault](/varsity/what-is-shely-vault), [lock-shely-on-shared-phones](/varsity/lock-shely-on-shared-phones) so screenshots stay private, set boundaries around [sharing-health-logs-with-partner](/varsity/sharing-health-logs-with-partner), and remember this is digital sexual violence — the same support that helps with [i-was-touched-without-consent-now-what](/varsity/i-was-touched-without-consent-now-what) and [healing-after-medical-trauma](/varsity/healing-after-medical-trauma) applies here too.

2 min read SHELY Health

1 December 2024

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How to Lock SHELY on Shared Phones

When you share your device with family or friends, securing SHELY ensures your private health data stays confidential. Learn how to set up PIN or biometric locks, activate stealth or guest modes, and configure auto‑logout to protect your cycle logs, journal entries, and sensitive insights. For related guidance, see [what-is-shely-vault](/varsity/what-is-shely-vault) on private health storage, [sharing-health-logs-with-partner](/varsity/sharing-health-logs-with-partner) for consent-based sharing, [deepfake-body-scams-and-sextortion](/varsity/deepfake-body-scams-and-sextortion) on image-based abuse, [respecting-her-privacy-during-pms](/varsity/respecting-her-privacy-during-pms) for partner boundaries, and [asking-for-space-guilt-free](/varsity/asking-for-space-guilt-free) for setting limits with joint-family households.

2 min read SHELY Health

2 December 2024

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Online Safety for Indian Teen Girls: A Practical Guide

If you are a girl or young woman online in India, or a parent trying to keep your daughter safe, this guide gives you the practical skills that actually reduce risk, with a clear rule up front: online harassment is never the victim's fault. You will learn how to lock down your accounts, recognise grooming and stranger contact, keep your images safe, use platform reporting tools, and know which Indian laws and helplines protect you. The goal is confidence, not fear. For the bullying side of this, see our companion guide on [handling cyberbullying as a teen in India](/varsity/cyberbullying-teens-india).

14 min read SHELY Health

31 May 2026

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Menstrual App Data Privacy in India: What They Collect and How to Choose

Your period-tracking app may know more about your private life than almost anyone else does — when you bleed, when you have sex, what contraception you use, whether you are trying for a baby, and how your mood shifts across the month. This guide explains, in plain language, what menstrual apps really collect, who can get hold of that data, what the Flo 2021 settlement revealed, and how India's new Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 changes your rights. You will also get a practical way to choose an app you can trust — or to skip apps altogether with [paper-based cycle tracking](/varsity/cycle-tracking-without-app-india).

22 min read SHELY Health

1 June 2026

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