Privacy Policy Influency, Inc.
Last updated_10/11/23_.
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(“Influency” or “we” or “us”) recognizes that you care how information about you is collected and used. We have created this Privacy Policy to inform you of our information collection, use, and sharing practices. This Privacy Policy explains Influency’s collection and use of information that may identify you and covers information collected through its websites, including www.myinfluency.com (the “Website”), or through any social media platform, emails, text messages, direct messages, or other communications whether electronic or written (all of the above, including the Website, is referred to collectively as “Resources”). It is Influency’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect, subject to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Services of the Website (“Terms of Service”), as either or both may be amended from time to time. In addition, various other resources of Influency (e.g., text or direct messaging, services, products, email, etc.) may include different terms or policies, and you should review any such terms and policies carefully, as they will control your use of that resource. Terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meanings ascribed them in the Terms of Service. By providing us any information or accessing the Website, individuals agree to the following terms and conditions as final and binding.

Types of Information We Collect

‍We collect the following types of information about you:

Personal Information: Information that directly or indirectly identifies you, such as:
· Your name.
· Email address.
· Phone number.
· Any other details you provide that, combined with other data, might be used to identify you.

Proposal and Campaign Information: Data associated with campaigns or proposals you have created, participated in, or expressed interest towards, which includes:
· Proposal statuses.
· Related communications.
· Specific proposal terms.
· Deadlines and timelines.

Transaction and Payment Data: All details pertaining to transactions executed within the platform:
· Utilized payment methods.
· Transaction amounts.
· Timestamps of transactions.
· Details of both recipient and sender (encrypted for enhanced security).

Dispute and Feedback Data: Relevant information regarding any disputes or feedback:
· Dispute nature and description.
· Involved parties.
· Resolution outcomes.
· Correspondence about the dispute.

Profile and Preference Data: Information about your user profile and individualized preferences:
· Preferences related to campaigns.
· Preferred influencers or brands.
· Other user-defined settings and choices on our platform.
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Social Media Metrics (for Influencers): If influencers integrate their social media accounts or grant access for campaign tracking, we accumulate content performance metrics linked to campaigns:
· Engagement rates.
· Reach and impressions.
· Other relevant social media analytics.

Other Information: Data that does not directly identify a specific individual:

· Browser and Device Data: Information such as browser type, device-specific data, and technical specifics.
· Usage Metrics: Data like frequency of Website access, duration, and used features.
· Log Information: Data such as language preference, referring sites, IP addresses, and date/time of access.
· Location Data: Relevant when available, especially if location functions are activated on the Website.
· Stored Data: Details stored on your device using tools like web storage.
· Cookies and Identifiers: Technologies to recognize your device and offer insights into preferences and interactions with the Website.

For users interacting with Influency, the kind of interaction typically determines the type and quantity of data collected. For instance, if you're making inquiries about our offerings or using the Website, we may request various data based on the transaction's nature.Always, our data collection is within legal parameters and purely when deemed necessary. If you wish to avoid any data collection, refrain from using the Website or sharing personal information. This decision might, however, limit your access to certain functionalities or services on the Website.

Like many online platforms, Influency accumulates non-personal information, which is typically shared by browsers, apps, and servers. This data helps us understand user engagement with our Website more deeply. We might adjust our usage or share non-personal information in a collective format occasionally. Accessing the Website implies your consent to this type of data use.
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How We Collect InformationWe employ various methods to collect Personal, Proposal, Campaign, Transaction, and other types of information from our users:

Information you provide directly: This typically pertains to the information you furnish when signing up for our Services or interacting with various elements of our platform. Examples include:

Your name and email address when registering.
Details you provide during the setup of a campaign or proposal.
Feedback, ratings, or comments you submit.

Information We Collect from Your Use of Our Services: This encompasses data automatically logged or registered by our system when you access or use our Resources:
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·  Device Information: Device-specific details like:
- Hardware model.
- Operating system version.
- Unique device identifiers.
- Information from device sensors.
- Mobile network details including phone number.

Influency may correlate your device identifiers or phone number with your user account. We adhere to the usage/license constraints linked to your device.

·  Log Information: Data automatically logged when you access the Website or our content, including:
- Your engagement pattern with the Website.
- Pages visited before or after accessing our Website.
- Internet protocol (IP) address.
- Device-related data such as system crashes, activity, settings, and browser details.
- Cookies linked to your browser or account, which help us recognize your device.

· Location Data: If our Website supports location-based functions, it might register your precise location.

· Stored Data on Device: Using technologies like browser web storage (e.g., HTML 5), we might store data, including Personal Information, on your device.

· Cookies and Identifiers: We employ several technologies, including cookies, to gather and store data when you visit the Website. This could involve dispatching one or multiple cookies or anonymous identifiers to your device.

·  Interaction Data: Encompasses:
- Proposal and Campaign Data: Details related to campaigns or proposals you've been a part of or demonstrated interest in.
- Transaction and Payment Data: Specifics of all transactions executed within the platform.
- Dispute and Feedback Data: Information concerning any disputes or feedback linked to you.

·  Engagement Metrics: Analytics like engagement rates, preferences, and user response times.

·  Profile and Preference Information: Data concerning your user profile, preferences on our platform, and any customizations.

·  Notifications and Alerts Interaction: Data about your engagement with notifications or alerts from us.

·  Social Media Metrics: For influencers, these are performance data for content linked to campaigns.

·  Security Logs: Records and details about any suspicious or potentially malicious activity in relation to your account.

Your engagement with the Website and our Services signifies your acknowledgment and agreement to our data collection methodologies.
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How We Use Information We Collect
‍Your privacy is paramount to Influency. The data we collect supports our commitment to delivering, refining, safeguarding, and enhancing the services and offerings we provide. We pledge not to sell your data to third-party entities and to utilize your information solely for legitimate business endeavors. Below are ways we employ your data:

· User Inquiries and Support:
-Addressing questions or concerns you might voice.
-Delivering assistance related to your engagement with our Resources or Services.
-Improving our customer support mechanisms.

· Provision and Enhancement of Services:
-Offering products or services you solicit.
-Enhancing and refining our business, as well as our diverse services and products.
-Managing your involvement in events, campaigns, or promotions where you have registered.

· Communication and Updates:
-Updating you about alterations or novelties concerning Influency or associated services or products that could pique your interest.
-Circulating administrative notices or communications pertinent to your engagement with the Resources.

· Analysis and Improvement:
-Elevating our marketing communication methodologies and tactics.
-Analyzing general trends and statistics concerning visitors' interactions with our Website, social media platforms, or other Resources.
-Understanding user preferences, engagement rates, feedback, and response times to refine user experience.

· Security and Compliance:
-Guarding against unauthorized access, fraudulent activities, unwarranted transactions, claims, and other potential risks.
-Ensuring adherence to all legal standards and requisites applicable to our operations.

By interacting with our Resources and Services, you acknowledge and concur with the above methods of data utilization.

‍Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some of our Website pages may utilize “cookies” and other tracking technologies like pixel tags and web beacons (often called “smart cookies”) to improve the functionality of the Website. Cookies are text files that are sent by servers to web browsers and stored on your computer. They tell us which parts of the Website you’ve visited so Influency can alert you to software compatibility issues and save your preferences for future visits to the Website. Web beacons and pixel tags are images embedded in a webpage or e-mail for the purpose of measuring and analyzing usage and activity. The Website, or third party service providers acting on our behalf, may use web beacons and pixel tags to help us analyze usage and improve our functionality. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously provided by a user.

We use information collected from cookies and other technologies to improve your user experience and the overall quality of our services. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of the Website, and their access preferences. We may use your Personal Information to see which web pages you visit at our websites, which website you visited before coming to our website, and where you go after you leave our website. We can then develop statistics that help us understand how our visitors use our websites and how to improve them. Influency visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Influency websites; provided, however, that Influency disclaims, and you hereby waive, any claim or liability that may arise due to your partial or incomplete access to the content of any of the Influency websites as a result thereof.

We also may use the information we obtain about you in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection. We may ask for your consent before using information for a purpose other than those set out in this Privacy Policy.

‍How We Share Information We Collect

As part of the use of your information for the above purposes, we may disclose your Personal Information or Other Information to our vendors and other contractors who perform various functions on our behalf. In the event that we disclose Personal Information to a vendor or other contractor, we will take reasonable steps to assure that such third party appropriately protects such Personal Information.

We also may provide Personal Information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons who provide services to you or us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

If Influency, any of our affiliates, or the Website is involved in a merger, acquisition, asset sale, joint venture or other, similar transaction, we may transfer or allow access to Personal Information as part of the transaction and in review or preparation for it as described below under “Business Transfers ”.  

We also may provide information about you to other third parties with your consent, for one of the purposes above, or for other appropriate purposes, e.g., following a subpoena or other legal process or to a regulatory agency in order to protect against fraud or investigate a criminal or civil matter or when Influency believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect Influency’s rights and interests, third parties, or the public at large.

‍How We Protect Your Information

Influency discloses Personal Information to those of its employees, contractors, agents and affiliated organizations that need to know that information in order to process it on Influency’s behalf or to provide services. Some of those employees, contractors, agents and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your state, province or country. By using the Website or providing us information, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Influency will not rent or sell potential Personal Information to anyone.  

If you are a registered user of one or more Resources, you agree that in addition to any information you may have solicited or requested, Influency may further send you emails to provide you with information, to inform you of new products, to solicit your feedback, or to keep you up to date on Influency and its products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. You may choose not to receive marketing email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in our marketing emails. You also may ask us not to send you other marketing communications by contacting us as specified in the “Contact Us”  section below, and we will honor your request.

We aim to maintain our services in a manner that protects information from accidental or malicious destruction. Because of this, we may not immediately delete residual copies of Personal Information that is on our active servers and may not remove information from our backup systems. If you believe that Personal Information we maintain about you is inaccurate, subject to applicable law, you may have the right to request that we correct or amend the information by contacting us as indicated below.

Influency undertakes commercially reasonable efforts to guard against unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of Personal Information, which efforts you agree are sufficient, adequate and complete. In some cases, we cannot control, and are not responsible for, information that is shared about you. For example:

· Information you share. Some of our Resources may let you share information with others. Remember that when you share information publicly, it may be indexable by search engines or otherwise further disclosed.

· Social Media Accounts. Influency may maintain various social network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Please note that comments and information that you leave in such settings are likely to be broadly visible and may not be controlled by Influency. We are therefore not responsible for any information or messages you leave in such settings or for how such information may be used by others.

· Accessing and updating your Personal Information. If you provide us with information or create an in order to access or receive information from the Resources, we may or may not be able to provide you with access to your Personal Information. If information that we control about you is incorrect, we strive to give you ways to update it quickly or to delete it (unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes). When updating your Personal Information, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request.

‍Business Transfers

In the event (i) Influency engages in one more asset sales or purchases, (ii) Influency is acquired, (iii) Influency engages in one or more business combinations, mergers or acquisitions, (iv) substantially all of Influency’s assets are acquired, (v) Influency is subject to an event of bankruptcy, or (vi) Influency sells the Resources or any related assets or rights in any URL, you acknowledge and agree that user information comprises an asset of Influency and that the same is subject to assignment, transfer and/or acquisition by a third party. Accordingly, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, you acknowledge and agree that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Influency may continue to subsequently use your Personal Information, and that such subsequent use may not be consistent with this Privacy Policy.

‍Advertisements

‍ Advertisements appearing on the Website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Influency and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

You acknowledge and agree that Influency has no duty or obligation to respond to or save user comments.

‍Third Party Links

‍The Website may contain links to webpages or tools operated by parties other than Influency. We do not control such websites or tools and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy policies or other practices of such websites or service providers. Our inclusion of links to an outside website or tool does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or tools or any association with their operators. Further, it is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you select or software you download (whether from an electronic platform (such as an app) or other websites) is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses, defects and other items of a destructive nature. These websites and services may have their own privacy policies, which you will be subject to upon accessing the third party’s website. We strongly recommend you review the third party’s terms and policies.

‍Children

‍The Website is not intended for use by children.  We do not intentionally gather Personal Information about individuals who are under the age of 13.  If a child has provided us with Personal Information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us to have the information deleted from our records. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 13, please contact us at kyle.painting@myinfluency.com. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected the Personal Information of a child under 13, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.  

‍Do Not Track

Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that lets you tell websites and online services that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. Such browser features and industry standards are not uniform, so our websites and online services do not respond to those signals.  

‍Contact Us

If you have any specific questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact:

Influency
kyle.painting@myinfluency.com

‍Policy Changes

Influency reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time and at any time, without notice, within the sole, independent, absolute and uncontrolled exercise of its discretion. Influency encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of any Resources after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of, and consent and agreement to, such change.