Privacy Policy
Last Updated Date: August 19th, 2024
About Gmeza
Gmeza provides creators the tools they need to own their audience and build a business from their content creation. We help content creators, and creators' representatives and managers ("creator managers"), make websites that curate their content from different platforms for their audiences, sell digital goods, collect subscriber contact information and send emails, allow audiences to submit requests to work with them, and create pitch materials and messages to facilitate partnerships with brands.
Personal information we collect
Information you provide to us. Personal information you may provide to us through the Service or otherwise includes:
- Contact data, such as your first and last name, email address, mailing address, professional affiliation, and phone number.
- Profile data, such as your username and password that you set to establish an online account with us, social network handles, biographical details, photographs (we use a content creator's public Instagram photo as their default profile photo), links and descriptions that you add to your profile, interests, preferences, and any other information that you add to your account profile.
- Communications that we exchange, including when you contact us with questions or feedback, through social media, or otherwise, and that you exchange with others on or through the Service.
- Payments and transactional data needed to complete your orders, requests to content creators, support payments, or other payments on or through the Service (such as payment card information, billing and shipping information, payment processor information, financial account information).
- Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving communications about our or our partners' products, services, activities, and events, and details about how you engage with our communications.
- Creator content data, such as pitch decks, rosters, media kits, or other information about a creator that can be uploaded to or generated by the Service.
Product data, such as the description of a product or digital good for sale, its price, and its commission.
Other information that we may collect which is not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise described at the time of collection. Third party sources. We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources, such as:
- Public sources, such as social media platforms.
- Business partners, such as companies that have entered into joint marketing relationships or other joint ventures with us, merchants, and affiliate marketplaces.
- Third-party services, such as social media platforms or email hosting services, that you may affirmatively choose to connect with, or otherwise link to, your Service account. This data may include your username, profile picture, and other information associated with your account on that third-party service that is made available to us based on your account settings on that service. For example, creator managers may choose to connect their Gmeza for Managers account to their Gmail inbox to analyze selected email threads and provide notifications about changes in brand deal campaigns
Automatic data collection. We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, your activity over time on our sites and other online services, and your interactions with our marketing communications such as:
- Device data, such as your computer's or mobile device's operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., WiFi, LTE, 3G), and general location information such as city, state or geographic area.
- Online activity data, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, the website you visited before browsing to the Service, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and duration of access, and whether you have opened our marketing emails or clicked links within them.
- Cookies and similar technologies. Some of the automatic collection described above is facilitated by the following technologies: Cookies, which are small text files that websites store on user devices and that allow web servers to record users' web browsing activities and remember their submissions, preferences, and login status as they navigate a site. Cookies used on our sites include both "session cookies" that are deleted when a session ends, "persistent cookies" that remain longer, "first party" cookies that we place and "third party" cookies that our third-party business partners and service providers place.
- Local storage technologies, like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.
- Data about others. Users of the Service may have the opportunity to refer friends or other contacts to us and share their contact information with us. Please do not refer someone to us or share their contact information with us unless you have their permission to do so.
How we use your personal information
We use your personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time we collect it: Service delivery. We use your personal information to: provide, operate and improve the Service and our business; create content, such as personalized outreach emails, pitch decks, creator rosters, and media kits; process and track your orders; facilitate payments; establish and maintain your user profile on the Service; enable security features of the Service, such as by sending you security codes via email, and remembering devices from which you have previously logged in; communicate with you about the Service, including by sending announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages; understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Service and our communications; and provide support for the Service, and respond to your requests, questions and feedback. Research and development. We may use your personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and our business. As part of these activities, we may create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business. Marketing. We may send you Gmeza-related or other direct marketing communications as permitted by law. You may opt-out of our marketing communications as described in the Opt-out of marketing section below.
Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to: comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas, investigations, or requests from government authorities; protect our, your or others' rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies; enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft. Gmail integration. If creator managers choose to connect their Gmeza for Managers account with their Gmail inbox, our use of information received from the Gmail API will adhere to the Google User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
With your consent. In some cases, we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information, such as when required by law. Cookies and similar technologies. In addition to the other uses included in this section, we may use the Cookies and similar technologies described above for the following purposes:
- Technical operation. To allow the technical operation of the Service.
- Functionality. To enhance the performance and functionality of our services.
- Analytics. To help us understand user activity on the Service, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Service, as well as user interactions with our emails. For example, we use Google Analytics for this purpose.
Retention
We generally retain personal information to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we may consider factors such as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
How we share your personal information
We may share your personal information with the following parties and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:
Affiliates. Our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Service providers. Companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service or our business (such as information technology, hosting, customer relationship management and support, payment processing, email delivery, marketing, and website analytics).
Payment processors. Any payment card information you use to make a purchase on the Service is collected and processed directly by our payment processors, such as Stripe, PayPal, and Plaid. These parties may use your payment data in accordance with their respective privacy policies found at.
AI services. We may share your personal information with artificial intelligence and deep learning platforms (“AI Services”), such as Open AI or Google, to generate content for the Service. Open AI may use your personal information in accordance with its privacy policy, https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/. Google may use your personal information in accordance with its privacy policy, https://policies.google.com/privacy/.
Professional advisors. Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
Authorities and others. Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the compliance and protection purposes described above.
Business transferees. Acquiring and other relevant parties to business transactions (or potential transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, Beacons or our affiliates (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
Merchant partners. We may share your personal information with our merchant partners and affiliate marketplaces or enable them to collect information directly via our Service. For example, we work with Shopify.com merchants to display products for purchase on the Service; if you add a merchant’s product to your Beacons website or purchase a product, personal information will be shared with the merchant and/or Shopify.
Content creators, other users and the public. You may choose to make publicly visible some of the information on your profile. If you submit a request to a content creator, you can choose to make the request public or private. Any information that is not private may be associated with your profile and can be collected and used by others. We cannot control who reads the information that you make viewable or what they may choose to do with it.
When we no longer require the personal information we have collected about you, we may either delete it, anonymize it, or isolate it from further processing.
Your choices
You have the following choices with respect to your personal information. Access or update your information. If you have registered for an online account with us, you may review and update certain account information from your account. Opt-out of marketing communications. You may opt-out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails. Cookies. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, the Service may not work properly. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your browser and how to manage and delete them. You can also configure your device to prevent images from loading to prevent web beacons from functioning. Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send "Do Not Track" signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track". Declining to provide information. We need to collect personal information to provide certain services. If you do not provide the information we identify as mandatory, we may not be able to provide those services. Third party platforms. If you choose to connect to the Service through your social media account, you may be able to use your settings in your account with that platform to limit the information we receive from it. If you revoke our ability to access information from a third party platform, that choice will not apply to information that we have already received from that third party. YouTube: We use YouTube API Services and abide by their Terms of Service found at https://www.youtube.com/t/terms and https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-terms-of-service Privacy settings. In your account's privacy settings, you may choose to make certain profile information publicly visible and whether you want third parties to be able to find or contact you through the Service. Delete your information or close your account. You can choose to delete certain information in your account. If you wish to request to close your account, please contact us at support@gmeza.com.
Other sites and services
The Service may contain links to websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. In addition, our content may be included on web pages or in mobile applications or other online services that are not associated with us. We do not control websites, mobile applications or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions.
Security
We employ a number of technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. Some of the measures we have in place, depending on the service and information at issue, may include physical and digital access controls, confidentiality obligations imposed on relevant personnel, encryption, network security controls, intrusion detection, system event monitoring and logging, and physical security.
However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
International data transfer
We are headquartered in the United States and may use service providers that operate in other countries. Your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.
Children
The Service is not intended for use by children under 16 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian of a child from whom you believe we have collected personal information in a manner prohibited by law, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Service from a child under 16 without the consent of the child's parent or guardian as required by law, we will delete it.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Service. If required by law we will also provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you, such as via email or another manner through the Service. Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the modified version (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your use of the Service after the effective date of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy.