Last Revised: Jan 5th 2025
Protecting your privacy is very important to Mindoxide Tech (HK) Limited.
This Privacy Policy sets out how we process your personal data (“Personal Data”) that we collect from you through your use of our website at BrandU.club (the “Website”) and the BrandU platform (the “Platform”), how we will process your Personal Data, as well as when we choose to disclose such Personal Data to third parties. The Website and the Platform are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Services”.
Your use of the Services and submission of Personal Data to us constitutes your confirmation that you have received and read this Privacy Policy.
Data Controller
The data controller is:
Mindoxide Tech (HK) Limited
Certificate No. 76983167-000-08-24-1
UNIT 1603, 16TH /F THE L. PLAZA 367 – 375 QUEEN’S RD, CENTRAL SHEUNG WAN, HONG KONG
Hereinafter referred to as “BrandU“, “we”, “us” or “our”
Personal Information we collect
We may collect and process the following personal data:
- Information you give us: you may give us information about you when you create an account on our website or platform, including but not limited to your name, gender, age, location, e-mail, picture.
- Information we collect about you: When you visit or browse the Online Services, we and our advertising, marketing, or service partners may collect information such as your Internet Protocol or “IP” address, the “URL” of the web pages you visit, and may use “cookies,” web beacons, or other objects to collect statistical and other information about your use of the our website and other websites.
The purpose of collecting this information is to improve the effectiveness of the Online Services and to conduct targeted advertising or marketing. The collected information may include, for example, the web pages you visited; the date and time of your visit; the websites you visited immediately before and after visiting our web site; your language preference; demographic information; the kind of browser you use; and the popularity of various advertising words and phrases used by us. We share the information with Google to improve the effectiveness of targeted advertising. The collection of this information allows for the compilation of aggregate and anonymous information about the usage of our online Services.
The data table below shows what submitted personal data we store about you when you sign up. The period of retention is based on the last time you were active on the platform.
We take certain appropriate security measures to help protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not occur. The period of retention for each of your personal data is 24 months.
- First Name: We use this information to identify you in the platform. This allows the brands to recognize you as user
- Last Name: We use this information to identify you in the platform. This allows the brands to recognize you as user
- Country, City: This information allows the brands to present customized missions and content to you
- Education: This information allows the brands to present customized missions and content to you
- Interests: This information allows the brands to present customized missions and content to you, and also showing brands that correlate with your interests
- Photo: Brands will use this information to identify you in the platform. This allows the brands to recognize you as user
- Gender: This information allows the brands to present customized missions and content to you
- Measurements: With this information brands will be able to send you products that match your indicated measurements
- Social Network Info (TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube (Google), Tumblr, Lemon8, LinkedIn, Snapchat, etc.): BrandU stores the social network identifier, your reach and an access token if you choose to link your accounts. This information will allow the brands to present customized missions and content to you. The access token will only be used to validate and store the contents that you publish on your social networks which is submitted in relationship with BrandU. This to make sure the social media content you share with brands through submitting to missions is made available to the brand admins, and to ensure the can evaluate and give feedback on your submitted content in a timely and simple manner.
- BrandU is using the YouTube API Services. To better understand the data collected through the API, please read the Google Privacy Policy. If you wish to revoke your user data, please do so on your Google security settings page.
- IP Address: BrandU stores your IP address as a means to detect fraudulent behaviour.
- Device identifiers: The device identifiers let us send you push notifications to your device, making sure that you are up-to-date on the actions related to you
- Bank details: BrandU keeps the address and the last four digits of your bank account, to provide this information to our third-party provider
- E-mail address: We collect this information to be able to contact you about updates and information related to your use of the service.
- Mobile number: We collect this information to be able to contact you regarding information related to your use of the service.
California Business & Professions Code Section 22575(b) provides that California residents are entitled to know whether we respond to “Do Not Track” browser signals. Certain web browsers enable users to activate a “Do Not Track” signal but we do not currently respond to the “Do Not Track” signal or other similar mechanisms.
General Use and Legal Basis
We use your personal data:
- To provide, maintain and improve your user experience and website operation, and to facilitate the creations of and securing your account on our network. It is in our legitimate business interests to continue to maintain our product and service offering to individuals in order to keep running our business;
- To provide you with our services.We need this information in order to fulfil our obligations arising out of the Terms of Service entered into between you and us. Without this information we would not be able to provide the services requested by you.
- To comply with applicable laws and protect BrandU’s legal rights, including, but not limited to, in connection with legal claims, compliance, regulatory, and investigative purposes (including disclosure of such information in connection with legal process or litigation).
We may disclose your personal data to third parties:
- If we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
- If BrandU, its business, or its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its users, suppliers, or customers will be one of the transferred assets;
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions and other agreements; or if we reasonably consider this necessary; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of BrandU, our users, our customers, or others; and
- For the purposes of crime prevention and fraud protection.
How is Personal Information protected?
We take certain appropriate security measures to help protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not occur.
Your rights
You have the right to access your personal data (Art. 15 GDPR); to correct, delete or restrict (stop any active) processing of your personal data (Art. 16- 18 GDPR); and to obtain the personal data you provide to us for a contract or with your consent in a structured, machine readable format, and to ask us to share (port) this data to another controller (Art. 20 GDPR).
In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances (in particular, where we don’t have to process the data to meet a contractual or other legal requirement, or where we are using the data for direct marketing – Art. 21 GDPR)).
These rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal personal data about another person, or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to keep or have compelling legitimate interests in keeping.
The easiest way to access and update the information you provided to us is to log into your account. To exercise any of the above mentioned rights, you can get in touch with us – or our data protection officer – using the details set out below. When addressing us, please always provide your name, address and/or email address as well as detailed information about the change you require.
If you have unresolved concerns, you have the right to complain to an EU data protection authority where you live, work or where you believe a breach may have occurred.
When we ask you to supply us with personal data we will make it clear whether the personal data we are asking for must be supplied so that we can provide the services to you, or whether the supply of any personal data we ask for is optional.
How long we keep your personal data?
Where you are a customer or a registered user, we will keep your information for the duration of any contractual relationship you have with us, and, to the extent permitted, after the end of that relationship for as long as necessary to perform the purposes set out in this notice.
How to request deletion of your data
On the app itself you can go to setting and delete your account. All personal data will then be deleted immediately. You can also e-mail [email protected] and request specific data or all data to be permanently removed. You may only delete your account if your cash balance is positive.
Notice to California Residents
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a calendar year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please send an email to [email protected].
You have the right to know whether your personal information is being sold. Your personal information is “sold” when it is provided with a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration for a purpose that is not a “business purpose” as set forth in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) or other U.S. state data privacy laws. Please note a “sale” does not include when we disclose your personal information at your direction, or when otherwise permitted under law. BrandU does not sell your personal information.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Site, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Site. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure that the data is not publicly displayed on the Site, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems.
To request any other changes or information about our collection, use or disclosure of your information, please email us at [email protected].
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Services are intended for users who are 13 years of age and older. If you are under the age of 13, you are not permitted to submit any Personal Information to us. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected].
International Users
Please note that the Services are directed towards users who reside in the United States and European Union. By using the Services, you consent to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of your information in and to the United States and European Union, or other countries and territories, pursuant to the laws of the United States and European Union. Some of these countries may not offer the same level of privacy protection as your own.
Might this Privacy Policy change?
We may update this Policy from time to time. We may notify you of an update to this Policy by any reasonable means, including by e-mail, by an online account notification, mobile application pop-up, or by regular mail. You agree that if you choose to continue to use the Online Services after BrandU sends you such an e-mail, online account notification, mobile application pop-up, or regular mail (allowing one week from the sent date for delivery of regular mail), you are bound to the most recent version of the Policy. You should periodically check the effective date at the top of this Policy to be sure that you are aware of the most recent version of this Policy and the important information described in it.