For California Residents: Please refer to the Notice to California Residents section below for important information about your personal information and your rights under California privacy law.
BISU ("BISU," "we," "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you access our website and use our services (collectively, the “Services”). By accessing or using our Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
About BISU
BISU provides creators with the tools they need to effectively engage with their audience and monetize their content. We support content creators, their representatives, and creative managers ("creative managers") in building websites that aggregate content from multiple platforms, selling digital products, collecting subscriptions, supporting email communication, managing brand collaboration requests, and creating professional pitch materials.
Personal Information We Collect
We collect various types of personal information to provide and improve our services:
1. Information You Provide to Us
- Contact Data: Name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and professional information.
- Profile Data: Username, password, social media accounts, biography, profile photos, links, preferences, and settings.
- Communications: Messages exchanged with us or other users through the Services or social media.
- Marketing Data: Preferences for receiving marketing communications and interactions with our marketing activities.
- Creative Content Data: Media kits, portfolios, and other content-related details about creators.
- Product Data: Descriptions, pricing, and commissions related to products or digital goods for sale.
- Other Information: Any additional information you provide that is not specifically listed above.
2. Third-Party Sources
- Public Sources: Information from social media platforms.
- Business Partners: Data from joint marketing relationships, merchants, and affiliate marketplaces.
- Third-Party Services: Information from connected services like social media or email hosting services.
3. Automatically Collected Data
- Device information, browsing activity, and interaction data collected using cookies and similar technologies.
Your Data Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Request correction or deletion of your information
- Object to or restrict our processing of your data
- Withdraw your consent at any time (if processing is based on consent)
- Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority
- To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Providing Services: To operate and improve our Services, process transactions, personalize your experience, and communicate with you.
- Research and Development: To analyze and enhance our Services and create anonymized data for business insights.
- Marketing: To send you promotional messages, offers, and event notifications.
- Compliance and Protection: To comply with legal obligations, protect our rights, and prevent fraud.
- With Your Consent: To collect, use, or share information as authorized by you.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: To ensure functionality, analyze user behavior, and improve our Services.
How We Share Your Personal Information
We share your personal information with various third parties depending on how you use the BISU Services and for specific purposes, as outlined below:
1. Sharing with Different Categories of Recipients:
- With Other BISU Users: If you register to join a BISU user’s community or download/purchase content from them, we may share the necessary information with those users to help them understand you better, serve their communities, add you to their communities outside of the Platform (if applicable), and provide paid content.
- With Social Login Providers: We share data with third parties that support login to BISU Services, such as Google, linkedin or other social platforms we offer for login via social media.
- With Advertising Partners: Depending on your geographic location and how you use our Services, we may disclose your personal data to third parties whose products are advertised on our Platform or who wish to advertise with us.
2. Sharing with Third Parties for Service Operations:
- Identifiers (e.g., contact and profile information): Shared with affiliates, service providers, business partners, content creators, other users, and the public (when relevant to your posted content).
- Commercial and Financial Information (e.g., profile data, payment, transaction, and creative content): Shared with service providers, payment processors, and business partners to process payments and operate services like the BISU Wallet.
- Internet or Network Activity Data: Shared with service providers, analytics firms, and advertising partners for functionality improvement, analytics, and personalized marketing.
- Inferences Drawn from Your Data: May be shared with AI services, affiliates, and business partners to enhance personalization and optimize user experience.
- Sensitive Personal Information (e.g., payment data): Only shared with trusted parties such as payment providers, affiliates, and professional advisors to ensure compliance with privacy and security standards.
3. Financial Transactions & Payment Processing:
- We use third-party payment providers to facilitate paid services and the BISU Wallet. We do not store or collect your payment card or bank account information. These details are submitted directly to third-party payment providers, whose use of your personal data is governed by their own privacy policies and terms as data controllers.
- These providers comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), governed by the PCI Security Standards Council—a joint effort by brands such as Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover—to ensure secure handling of payment information.
- Our current payment processors include:
- PayPal – https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
- Coinbase – https://www.coinbase.com/legal/commerce/privacy-policy
4. Legal Requirements and Protection of Rights:
We may disclose your personal information to:
- Law enforcement agencies, regulatory authorities, courts, or other third parties where we believe the disclosure is necessary:
- (i) under applicable laws or regulations,
- (ii) to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, or
- (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person.
5. Business Transfers (Mergers or Acquisitions):
- In the event of an actual or potential purchase, merger, or acquisition involving any part of our business, we may share your personal information with the buyer (and their agents and advisors), provided that they are informed that such data must only be used for purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice.
6. With Your Consent:
- In all other cases, your personal information will only be shared if you provide explicit consent or are notified at the time of data collection.
Security
We implement a range of security measures to protect your personal information, including encryption, access controls, and secure servers. However, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
International Data Transfers
Your information may be transferred to and stored on servers outside your jurisdiction, where data protection laws may differ. By using our Services, you consent to such transfers.
Children
Our Services are not intended for children under the age of 13. Users between the ages of 13 and 18 must use the Services only with the supervision and consent of a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from users under 13. If we become aware that such information has been collected without parental consent, we will promptly delete it.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, or as required by applicable laws.
Unverified Accounts:
- Accounts that have not been verified within 30 days of registration will be automatically deleted. All associated data, including personally identifiable information (PII), will be permanently removed from our systems after this period.
Account Deletion:
- If you choose to delete your BISU account:
- Your login will be deactivated immediately.
- All personally identifiable information (PII) will be permanently erased from our servers.
- Your BISU account, including all associated profiles, content, and data, will be permanently deleted.
- Visitors will no longer be able to access your BISU profiles or content.
Please note that deleted data cannot be recovered. If you have any questions or need assistance prior to account deletion, you may contact our support team at [email protected].
Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to provide functionality, personalize content, analyze traffic, and serve targeted advertisements.
You can control cookie preferences through your browser settings or via the cookie banner when you visit our site.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email or through our Services. Your continued use of the Services after any changes indicates your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
- Email: [email protected]
- Mailing Address: BISU, 760 Market Street, Floor 10, San Francisco, CA, 94102