Privacy Policy

ViewStage LLC ("ViewStage," "we," "us") is the controller of the personal data described here. This policy explains what we collect from creators, brands, and visitors, how we use and share it, and the choices and rights you have. Questions: privacy@viewstage.io.

1. Data we collect

• Account information — name, email, password, role, and billing details when you sign up.
• Connected-platform data — when you connect a social account (e.g., YouTube, TikTok, Instagram), we access your profile, analytics, engagement metrics, and audience data to build your match profile, and — where you enable it — publish content you have approved to your channels. OAuth access tokens are stored encrypted and are deleted when you disconnect the account.
• Video submissions — content you upload for AI review and brand review, with related metadata and comments.
• AI-derived signals — transcripts, frame analysis, brand-mention extraction, and scores produced from your submissions by our AI pipeline.
• Payment & payout information — payout routing, tax forms, and transaction history (handled through our payment processors).
• Usage data — log data, IP address, device information, and diagnostics.

YouTube API Services. ViewStage uses YouTube API Services. By connecting your YouTube account you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google's handling of your data is governed by the Google Privacy Policy. ViewStage's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. We do not use Google or YouTube user data to develop, improve, or train generalized AI or machine-learning models, and we do not use it for advertising. You can revoke ViewStage's access at any time by disconnecting in the app or via your Google security settings.

2. How we use your data

• Operate and maintain the marketplace and review pipeline.
• Match brands and creators and compute match scores.
• Run the automated AI review of submissions.
• Facilitate payments and payouts and meet tax obligations.
• Communicate about deals, support, and platform updates.
• Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and safety issues.

3. AI & automated processing

Submissions are processed by automated AI systems (such as Whisper, Gemini, and Qwen) to transcribe, analyze, and score them against the brand's brief. These outputs are recommendations only. We do not make decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects about you solely by automated means — a brand makes the final, human decision on every submission. You can contact us at privacy@viewstage.io with questions about this processing.

4. Legal bases (EEA/UK)

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we process personal data on these bases: performance of a contract (operating the Service for you); our legitimate interests (improving and securing the Service, preventing fraud); compliance with legal obligations (e.g., tax); and your consent where required, which you may withdraw at any time.

5. How we share data

• With brands — when you apply to or are matched with a campaign, your profile, match score, and relevant analytics are shared, and your video submissions are shared with that brand for review.
• Service providers (subprocessors) — we use vetted third parties (hosting, GPU inference, AI, payments, email, error monitoring) bound by data-processing agreements to act only on our instructions. The current list is on our Subprocessors page.
• Payment processors — Stripe, and where enabled for payouts, PayPal and Wise, process payment and payout data.
• Legal & safety — where required by law, legal process, or to protect rights and safety (including reporting apparent child sexual abuse material to NCMEC as required by law).
• Business transfers — in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal.

6. Cookies

We keep cookies to a minimum — a strictly-necessary session cookie and a first-party attribution cookie that honors GPC/Do Not Track — and we use no third-party advertising cookies. See our Cookie Policy for details.

7. Data retention

We keep personal data only as long as needed for the purposes above or as required by law. Connected-platform access tokens and synced platform data are deleted when you disconnect an account. When you delete your account, we delete your personal data, except limited records we must keep (such as transaction and tax records) for the period the law requires.

8. Security

We use technical and organizational safeguards including encryption in transit and at rest, encryption of sensitive credentials, strict access controls, and tenant isolation. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your data and to respond promptly to incidents.

9. Your rights & choices

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, export (port), restrict, or object to processing of your personal data, and to opt out of marketing. Under U.S. state privacy laws (such as the CCPA/CPRA) you may request to know, delete, or correct your data, and opt out of any sale or sharing (we do neither) — and we will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

To exercise your rights, see our Data Deletion page or email privacy@viewstage.io. We verify requests before acting on them.

10. International transfers

ViewStage operates primarily in the United States, and some of our subprocessors are U.S.-based. If you are in the EEA or UK, transfers of your data to the U.S. are protected by appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (and the UK Addendum) or another lawful transfer mechanism. [EEA/UK representative under Art. 27 — to be appointed before EU/UK launch; contact details will be listed here.]

11. Children's privacy

The Service is for adults — you must be at least 18 to use it. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18; if we learn we have, we will delete it.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will post the updated policy with a new "Last updated" date and, for material changes, take reasonable steps to notify you.

13. Contact

ViewStage LLC · privacy@viewstage.io
2986 Lehman Avenue #405
West Valley City, UT 84119, United States