WGY Creator App Privacy Policy

WGY Academy Limited (“WGY Ltd”) Privacy Policy

WGY Ltd respects your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how WGY Ltd (“we,” “us,” and/or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses information from individuals and organisations (“you” and/or “your”) who access and use our online community or mobile or other downloadable applications (collectively, the “Community”). 

How we collect your personal data 

We can collect personal data either automatically through the Community, directly from yourself, brands or third-party social media sites. 

This can be through voluntary information supplied by you, filling out a form, participating on our online platforms, interactions within the Community, making a purchase, publishing a statement on our platform, participating in a contest or promotion, social media sites and information from messages between members.

We and our third-party partners may automatically collect information you provide to us, information about how you access and use the Community and information about the device you use to access the Community. Including, device identifiers, internet or other electronic network activity information, geolocation information and information from cookies and similar technologies.

What personal data we collect

We will collect, store and use the following categories of personal data about you:

• Identity and contact data: full name, address, phone number, email address and any other information provided upon engaging with us

• Brand opportunity data: campaign information and company information related to opportunities 

• Biographic and demographic data: including biographic information you provide, and demographic statistics obtained through social media sites 

• Information from interactive features: supplied by you whilst participating in any interactive features of the Community 

• Messages between members:  messages and information about those messages such as when a message was sent or received

• Content and information shared through the Community: such as comments on a blog post and participation information through interaction on the Community

• Payment data: If a payment is made through the Community, payment-related information, credit card and financial information shared. If payment is agreed to be made to you, billing information provided by you

• Device identifiers: such as your IP address, internet service provider, type of mobile device being used, the temporary or persistent unique device identifiers (sometimes called UDID), and identifiers associated with browser cookies, web beacons and similar technologies we deploy on the Community

• Electronic network activity information: including devices and computers you use to access the Community, browser type, language, operating system, referring web page, pages visited, and hyperlinks clicked 

• Internet activity information: including pages you visit, links you click, ads you view and click on, videos you watch, purchase information, checkout process and location when you access or interact with our Community 

• Geological information: the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We may combine this information with other location-based information, such as your billing or postal code. However, you can stop the collection of this information any time through your device’s operating system settings.

• Information from cookies and similar technologies: collected by us and our third-party partners including analytics. Our partners may use technologies to collect information about online activities over time and across different services. 

• Information from third-party sources: such as marketing partners and others that you choose to share or provide to them when interacting with our members in the Community.

Legal basis for processing your data

We process your personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018. The legal basis we rely on are: 

• Performance of a contract: we process your personal data where it is necessary for the fulfilment of our contractual obligations. For example, to connect brand opportunities with content creators, manage contractual payments and communicate information on campaigns and opportunities 

• Legitimate interests: we process certain personal data where it is necessary for our legitimate interests unless there is good reason to protect your personal data which overrides our legitimate interests. These interests include improving our services, responding to any enquiries or complaints, building and maintaining a network for brand and influencer opportunities and promotional activities. 

• Consent: we can process personal data where we have obtained your consent. For example, if we communicate a collaborative opportunity and request details to be shared from you with a brand 

• Legal obligations: we will process your personal data where it becomes necessary for us to comply with the law. For example, with our regulatory requirements, legal proceedings or order from a court.

Data sharing 

In certain circumstances, we need to share your personal data with other third parties, including partners and service providers. 

Any disclosures or data sharing will be done in accordance with the law or relevant contractual arrangements. Third parties are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. They are not allowed to use your personal data for their own purposes.

If you are a brand, we may share your campaign opportunities with influencers. If you are an influencer, we may share your data with brands to allow collaborations on campaign opportunities. 

We will share your personal data with service providers (including contractors and designated agents) who carry out the following functions: IT, payment processors and marketing facilitators.

We may need to share your personal data with third parties as part of any merger, acquisition, sale or restructure of our business.

We may need to share your personal information with a regulator or to otherwise comply with the law. This may include making returns to HMRC, disclosures as part of proceedings or responding to regulatory bodies. 

Data security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to protect your personal information against accidental loss and unauthorised access, use, alteration or disclosure. 

We impose controls for access to employee data based on business requirements and in accordance with the relevant lawful bases for processing. Any party with access rights will only process your personal information in accordance with applicable data security policies and procedures, relevant employee obligations or third-party contractual terms. 

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

Data retention

We will only retain your personal information in accordance with applicable laws, regulatory requirements or for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, as set out in our Data Retention Policy. 

In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your personal information. This is considered in the next section. 

Once you are no longer engaged in service with us, we will retain and securely destroy your personal information in accordance with our Data Retention Policy and any applicable legal requirements.

Your rights in relation to your personal information

You have the following rights under data protection laws:

• Request access to your personal information (commonly known as making a data subject access request). We will provide you with copies of your personal information and other information, such as where we got the information from and who we have shared it with. 

• Request rectification of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

• Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. 

• Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

• Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.

• Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

Updates to this policy

This privacy policy may be updated to reflect changes in law or data practices, as such we encourage for you to regularly check this page for any changes.

Questions or complaints

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, or if you wish to exercise any of the rights it refers to, contact: Support@wegotyouagency.com

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The ICO's contact details are as follows:

The ICO's address:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk