Privacy Policy
Effective Date: April 21, 2025
At Creatormeets, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our platform.
1. Information We Collect
- Personal Information: When you register or interact with our platform, we may collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, postal address, payment information (for transactions), professional details, and any other information you voluntarily provide.
- Usage Data: We automatically collect certain information about your interaction with our platform, including your IP address, browser type, device information (device model, operating system), referring URLs, pages visited, time spent on pages, and other analytical data related to your usage patterns.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to enhance user experience, analyze platform performance, personalize content, and deliver relevant advertising. These technologies may collect information about your browsing activities. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings, but disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our platform.
2. How We Use Your Information
- Facilitating Connections: To enable and manage connections between businesses and creators on our platform.
- Account Management: To create and manage your account, verify your identity, process payments, and provide customer support.
- Communication: To communicate with you about promotional offers, updates, new features, relevant content, and important announcements related to our platform. You can manage your communication preferences.
- Personalization: To personalize your experience on our platform, including recommending relevant connections, content, and features based on your interests and usage.
- Platform Improvement: To analyze usage patterns, monitor platform performance, troubleshoot issues, and improve the design, functionality, and content of our platform.
- Security and Fraud Prevention: To detect and prevent fraudulent activities, unauthorized access, and other security incidents.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, and our contractual obligations.
3. Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may share your information in the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our platform, processing payments, conducting analytics, sending emails, providing customer support, and performing other services on our behalf. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes we specify. Categories of service providers may include payment processors, analytics platforms (e.g., Google Analytics), email marketing services, and cloud hosting providers.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or other business transaction, your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity or third party involved, subject to this Privacy Policy or a similar policy. We will notify you of any such transfer and any changes to the privacy policy.
- Legal Requirements:** We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, court order, or other legal process, or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others.
- Aggregated and Anonymized Data:** We may share aggregated and anonymized data that does not directly identify you with third parties for research, analytics, and other legitimate purposes.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use various cookies and tracking technologies, including:
- Essential Cookies:** These cookies are necessary for the basic functionality of our platform, such as user authentication and session management.
- Analytics Cookies:** These cookies help us understand how users interact with our platform by collecting and reporting information anonymously. We may use services like Google Analytics for this purpose. These cookies help us analyze website traffic, user behavior, and improve our platform.
- Functional Cookies:** These cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalization, such as remembering your preferences and settings.
- Marketing/Advertising Cookies:** These cookies are used to track users across websites to deliver targeted advertising based on their interests. We may partner with third-party advertising networks for this purpose.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies. Please note that disabling certain cookies may impair the functionality of our platform. For more information about specific cookies we use, please refer to our Cookie Policy (if we have a separate one) or contact us.
5. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. The retention period may depend on factors such as the nature of the data, the purpose for which it was collected, our legitimate business interests, and legal or regulatory obligations. When your personal information is no longer needed, we will securely delete or anonymize it.
6. Data Security
We implement robust physical, electronic, and administrative security measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include encryption, firewalls, secure server facilities, and regular security assessments. However, please understand that no online platform or data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We strive to protect your information, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Your Rights
You have certain rights regarding your personal information, depending on your location and applicable laws. These rights may include:
- Right to Access:** You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification:** You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten):** In certain circumstances, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal information.
- Right to Restriction of Processing:** You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal information in certain situations.
- Right to Data Portability:** You may have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller.
- Right to Object:** You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as for direct marketing purposes.
- Right to Withdraw Consent:** If we rely on your consent as the legal basis for processing your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below. We may require you to verify your identity before processing your request. Please note that there may be limitations to these rights, and we may not be able to fulfill your request in all circumstances, such as when we have a legal obligation to retain your data.
8. Children's Privacy
Creatormeets is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately, and we will take steps to delete such information.
9. International Data Transfers
If you access our platform from a country outside the country in which our servers are located, your communications with us may result in the transfer of information across international borders. By using our platform, you consent to the transfer and processing of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will take appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal information remains protected in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
10. Third-Party Links
Our platform may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites or services you visit.
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will post any changes on this page and update the "Effective Date" at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about how we are protecting your information. Material changes to this Privacy Policy will be communicated to you through our platform or other appropriate means. Your continued use of our platform after the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Email: hello@creatormeets.com