Welcome to CreatorUp. The CreatorUp website and learning platforms (the “Site”) are owned and operated by CreatorUp, a Delaware corporation (referred to as “CreatorUp, or “we”.)
If you submit any information to us from outside the USA you consent to the transfer of such information to (and the processing of) in the USA, and the exclusive application of the laws with regards to the collection and use of such information.
By using this site or/and our services, you agree to our Terms & Conditions, and to consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
CreatorUp is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us at [email protected] / 525 S Hewitt St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Definitions used in this Policy
Data protection principles we follow
What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data
What Personal Data we gather about you
How we use your Personal Data
Who else has access to your Personal Data
How we secure your data
Information about cookies
Contact information
DEFINITIONS
Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – an individual whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – an individual under 16 years of age.
We/us – CreatorUp
DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES
We promise to follow the following data protection principles:
Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.
Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
Processing is limited with a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.
We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.
DATA SUBJECT’S RIGHTS
Based on your location, The Data Subject may have some or all of the following rights:
Right to information – meaning you have the right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.
Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.
Right to rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records.
Right to restrict processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data.
Right to object to processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing.
Right to object to automated Processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.
Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.
Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.
Right to withdraw consent – you have the right to withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data.
DATA WE GATHER
Information you have provided us with
This might be your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address etc – mainly information that is necessary to create an account with us, and for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website.
Work submitted to CreatorUp for any evaluation remains your intellectual property. Work completed for CreatorUp and Clients is the property of CreatorUp and / or the Client. Any user generated content submitted voluntarily becomes the property of CreatorUp and CreatorUp reserves the right to use this as we see fit.
Information automatically collected about you
This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your shopping cart information, your IP address, your viewing and shopping history (if there is any) etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged. Also, IP address and login/logout activity will be collected so that the security of our services is ensured, for instance, if someone tries to log into the website multiple times from a certain IP in a short period of time, i.e. 5 minutes, this attempt might be considered malicious and based on that type of activity tracking, the next effort will be blocked, this is applied mainly to protect the rest of our users and services.
Information from our partners
We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This may contain either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds.
Publicly available information
We might gather information about you that is publicly available.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We use your Personal Data in order to:
provide our service to you;
enhance your customer experience;
fulfill an obligation under law or contract;
protect our users and services from malicious attacks
implement our law-related obligations for taxes and economics, referring to data such as billing info, invoices and receipts.
We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.
On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
to identify you;
to provide you a service or to send/offer you a product;
to communicate either for sales or invoicing;
to enhance our security of users and services
On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
to administer and analyse our website and services (purchasing behaviour and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/ services offered/provided;
communicate progress to teachers and our production teams
to send you personalized offers* (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
to conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction;
As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behaviour to be our legitimate interest.
With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
to send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
for other purposes we have asked your consent for;
to implement our legal-bound obligations towards the tax law required in our Country.
We process your Personal Data in order to fulfill obligations rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for the period of time for which our relation with you is active or until you ask us to remove your data, unless it is needed for tax and accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law.
We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:
the link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;
the further Processing would not harm your interests and
there would be appropriate safeguard for Processing.
We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.
WHO ELSE CAN ACCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. From time to time, Personal Data about you may be provided to our trusted partners who work with, or on behalf of us, in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience.
Connected third parties:
When some of our services are connected or handled by third parties, we as well as you, you must abide by their own privacy policies which you can find more information on their websites.
We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.
HOW WE SECURE YOUR DATA
We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymising and pseudonymising where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, for instance, if someone tries to log into the website multiple times from a certain IP in a short period of time, i.e. 5 minutes, this attempt might be considered malicious and based on that type of activity tracking, the next effort will be blocked, this is applied mainly to protect the rest of our users and services.
Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches within 72 hours from our perception of the breach. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur. We are also always on the lookout to choose the best services related to your data in terms of data security.
If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.
CHILDREN
We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not knowingly target children with our services.
COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES WE USE
We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us. You can read our detailed cookie policy here.
You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.
ACCESS YOUR DATA AND REQUEST DELETION, THE RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN
You can access information on your data by emailing us using the Data Protection Officer email address mentioned below, asking for information collected or a copy of your data.
You can delete your account in the same manner. Also you can ask our Data Protection Officer to delete all your data from our systems but please note that we are legally obliged to keep tax-related records for at least 5 years as per law requirements.
As part of our store, you can follow the same process mentioned above or again ask our Data Protection Officer to remove your records from our system, same legal obligations apply.
WEBSITE-COLLECTED DATA AND CONSENT
You cannot submit a form on our website if you don’t explicitly accept these terms
You are informed of cookie-related usage once visited our website and until you click accept.
You cannot submit an order on our online store unless you accept the terms, a checkbox has been implemented on the checkout process of our website.
You can send us your question or deleting request at any time, to our Data Protection Officer mentioned below, so to remove all your data or get information on how your personal data are being used, if the explanation on this policy is not enough.
DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
As our Data Protection Officer you can contact the following person via email or phone to state your need for your data or questions that you might have :
Michael Tringe
Email: [email protected]
By Mail: 525 S Hewitt St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy. We will inform all changes by posting an updated Privacy Policy on our website. By continuing to use our website and our services, you agree to honor the resided policy.
Last modification was made June 22, 2020