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Confidentiality Rule on ShareWell

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Written by ShareWell Support
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Confidentiality is the foundation of safety on ShareWell. Members share deeply personal experiences, and protecting those stories is essential to trust, healing, and community integrity.
Everything shared in ShareWell groups, chats, or direct messages must be treated as private and confidential.

What Confidentiality Means

Confidentiality means that anything another member shares — including their identity, experiences, words, emotions, or presence — must stay within that conversation.

What Counts as a Violation

Confidentiality violations include, but are not limited to:

  • Telling someone outside ShareWell what another member said

  • Posting or discussing a group interaction elsewhere on the platform

  • Naming, identifying, or describing another member in any context

  • Recording, screenshotting, or copying any part of a session

  • Retelling someone’s story even without using their name

  • Sharing group content with friends, partners, therapists, or social media

If the story is not yours, it is not yours to share.

What Is Allowed

Members may:

  • Talk about their own experiences and feelings

  • Share what they personally learned or felt in a group

  • Describe their own growth or challenges

As long as no other member can be identified and no one else’s story is revealed.

Why This Matters

Breaking confidentiality can:

  • Cause emotional harm

  • Put members at personal or professional risk

  • Damage trust across the entire community

For this reason, confidentiality violations are treated as serious safety issues and may result in warnings, temporary suspension, or permanent removal depending on severity.

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