Privacy policy

The data controller is Klipeak, 7345 W Sand Lake Rd, Ste 210 Office 1351, Orlando, FL 32819, United States, which publishes the service available at klipeak.com.

Klipeak is established in the United States. Because the service is offered to creators in the European Union and the United Kingdom, we treat the GDPR and the UK GDPR as applying to their data, alongside the United States laws that govern the company. Where a US state privacy law gives you more, it applies too.

For any question about your personal data: privacy@klipeak.com.

We only collect what the service needs to work. No data is bought from third parties, and nothing is collected for advertising.

Account

Name, email address and profile picture passed on by the service you sign in with (Google or Discord), along with the access tokens needed to keep the session alive. We neither receive nor store your password.

Creator profile

Display name, optional bio, date of birth (the service being for adults only), country of residence (two-letter code, required for tax obligations) and payout email address.

Tax identification

First name, last name, postal address, date of birth, country of tax residence and taxpayer identification number — a US TIN (SSN or EIN) on a Form W-9 if you are a US person, a foreign TIN on a Form W-8BEN otherwise. This data is collected and verified by our payment provider when you open your payout account, then passed back to us for the sole purpose of the information returns we owe the tax authorities. It is only requested from creators who are actually paid.

Claimed social accounts

Public handle, public identifier, profile URL and temporary verification code, for each account you connect. Verification consists of posting that code in your bio: it proves the account is yours and stops anyone else submitting your clips in your place.

Submitted clips

Clip URL, video identifier on the platform, title, thumbnail, duration and publication date where the platform exposes them.

Public statistics

View count, and depending on the platform the number of likes and comments. These values are read several times a day and the timestamped history is kept.

Payments

Amounts earned and paid, payout method, period concerned, transaction reference given by the provider and, where relevant, the reason for failure.

Technical data

Server logs generated on each request (IP address, date, page requested, user agent) and a session cookie.

We collect neither bank details (they stay with the payment provider), nor identity documents, nor any data deemed sensitive under article 9 of the GDPR or treated as sensitive personal information by US state privacy laws. A taxpayer identification number is collected only where the tax rules below require it, and is never used for anything else.

Performance of the contract

Creating and maintaining your account, showing campaigns, recording your clips, counting views, working out earnings and making payouts. Without these, the service cannot be delivered.

Legitimate interest

Detecting bought views and fraudulent behaviour, securing accounts, preventing abuse and keeping proof of what was counted in case of a payment dispute. The balance is this: without a history of readings, a payment dispute would be impossible to settle.

Legal obligation

Keeping accounting records, collecting a Form W-9 or W-8BEN before paying you, and filing the information returns United States tax law requires of whoever makes the payment — chiefly Form 1099-NEC for creators who are US persons. Where you are resident in the European Union, a reporting obligation may also fall on us under the EU rules on platform operators. This processing does not rest on your consent and cannot be objected to: without this data, the law forbids us from paying out your earnings.

We make no fully automated decision producing legal effects for you: when a spike in views is judged abnormal, it is set aside with its reason and can be re-examined by a person.

Klipeak queries the official interfaces of TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and X to measure the audience of the clips you submit to us yourself. The scope is deliberately narrow:

• We only access the public information of the clip concerned: title, author, thumbnail and audience counters.
• We access neither your private messages, nor your contact or follower list, nor your drafts, nor content you have not submitted to a campaign.
• We never post on your behalf and never alter your content.
• The data obtained is used solely to work out your payment and to justify it to the studio. It is neither sold, nor rented, nor used for advertising targeting.
• When you disconnect a social account, delete a clip or delete your Klipeak account, the corresponding platform data is erased from our systems, subject to the accounting retention periods in section 5.

This processing complies with the terms of use of the platforms concerned. Your relationship with each of them remains governed by its own privacy policy.

Account and profile

Kept while the account is active, then deleted within 30 days of your deletion request.

Clips and view readings

Kept for the whole duration of the campaign, then 3 years after it ends. That period covers the window during which a payment can be disputed.

Payment records

7 years from the close of the tax year, the period over which the tax authorities may examine a return and ask us to substantiate what we paid.

Tax identification data

Forms W-9 and W-8BEN are kept for 7 years following the last year they covered. This period is imposed on us: it outlives the deletion of your account, but the data then serves only to answer an audit.

Server logs

12 months at most.

Your data is never sold. It is accessible to the following people and providers, each limited to what they need:

• The studios whose campaigns you join: they see your display name, the clips you submit to them and the views counted on those clips. They see neither your email address, nor your payout details, nor your earnings on other studios' campaigns.
• Vercel Inc., host of the application and its database.
• Stripe, Inc. and its affiliates, payment provider, with whom you open your payout account. They collect your identity, your supporting documents and your bank details, and execute the transfer.
• The United States Internal Revenue Service, recipient of the information returns covering what we paid you, and, where a reporting obligation applies to us, the tax authority of your own country of residence.
• Google and Discord, for authentication, if you choose to sign in through them.
• The competent authorities, on lawful request.

Klipeak is a United States company, and the service runs on infrastructure located there. If you are in the European Union, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, your data is therefore transferred to the United States — not as an exception, but as the ordinary way the service works.

These transfers rest on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, completed by the United Kingdom addendum where it applies, together with the technical measures described under Security below. You may ask us for a copy of the safeguards in force.

United States law allows public authorities to request data in circumstances that have no exact equivalent in European law. We disclose data only on a lawful, specific request, we never grant general access to our systems, and we tell you of any request concerning you unless we are forbidden from doing so.

Klipeak sets only a session cookie, strictly necessary to keep you signed in. It is not subject to prior consent.

We use no analytics tool, no advertising tracker and no third-party share button.

Exchanges are encrypted in transit (HTTPS). Access to the database is restricted and the tokens issued by third-party platforms are not exposed to the browser. No system is infallible: in the event of a data breach likely to create a high risk to your rights, you will be informed — within 72 hours and in the terms of article 34 of the GDPR where it applies, and in the terms of the United States state breach notification laws that cover you.

You have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability, as well as the right to set directions about what happens to your data after your death. We apply them to every creator, wherever they live, rather than sorting people by which law happens to cover them.

If you live in California, Colorado, Virginia or another US state with a privacy law, those rights also carry the right to know what we hold, to have it corrected or deleted, to receive a copy, and to be free of retaliation for asking. You may act through an authorised agent.

We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, within the meaning of those laws or any other. There is nothing to opt out of, and we run no loyalty or financial incentive programme.

To exercise any of this, write to privacy@klipeak.com from the address linked to your account. We reply within one month, or 45 days where a US state law sets that period, and we will say so if we need longer.

If our answer does not satisfy you, you may complain to your own supervisory authority: in France the CNIL — 3 place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07, cnil.fr — elsewhere in the European Union the authority of your country of residence, and in the United States your state attorney general.

Taking part in campaigns is for adults only — 18 or over. Your date of birth is asked at sign-up and governs both submitting a clip and paying out your earnings.

The service is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13, as the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires. If you believe a child has given us data, write to privacy@klipeak.com and we will delete the account and its data.

It is kept only for that check and for the reporting obligations that fall on platforms; it is neither displayed publicly nor shared with studios.

This policy may change. The date of the last update is shown at the top of the page, and any substantial change will be notified to you by email or at your next sign-in.

See also our terms of use and our legal notice.