Privacy Policy

Nearfluence operates this platform. The operating entity and registered details are: REQUIRES FOUNDER REVIEW — registered office REQUIRES FOUNDER REVIEW. For privacy questions contact REQUIRES FOUNDER REVIEW.

We collect: account information (name, email, password stored in hashed form, role, account status, sign-up date, and your recorded consent to our Terms and Privacy Policy including any marketing opt-in); profile information you provide; content you upload; messages you send; opportunities, applications and invitations you create or respond to; collaboration records; and limited technical information such as your approximate device/browser information from ordinary web requests.

If you are a creator, your profile can include your display name, location and areas covered, bio, niches, profile photo, social platform usernames/links and self-reported audience statistics (followers, average views, engagement), portfolio images/videos or post links, collaboration services and pricing, gifted preference, and any ratings/reviews you receive. This information is visible to businesses and, for public profiles, to visitors.

If you are a business, your profile can include your business name, logo, category, location, website, social links, description and target customer. Opportunities you publish (title, brief, deliverables, compensation, dates) are visible to creators, publicly if you choose a public opportunity.

To create and operate your account; display profiles and opportunities; enable discovery, applications, invitations, messaging and collaborations; send service notifications; keep the platform safe; respond to your enquiries; and improve the Service.

We rely on: contract (to provide the Service you sign up for); legitimate interests (to run, secure and improve the platform and prevent misuse); consent (for optional marketing communications and optional cookies); and legal obligation where applicable.

Creators may either enter social details manually, or optionally connect an Instagram or TikTok account through that platform's official, approved authorisation (OAuth). If you connect an account you explicitly consent to Nearfluence importing the information the platform's API permits — such as your username, profile picture, follower/following counts, post or video count, and available engagement metrics. We store the resulting access tokens encrypted, server-side only, and never expose them to your browser or other users. You can disconnect at any time, which deletes the imported social data and tokens for that platform; deleting your account removes them too. Only a connected-and-authorised account receives the "verified" badge — a manually entered username does not.

We use the town/city you select to help with discovery and to estimate distance between a business and creators using approximate coordinates for that location. We do not collect precise GPS location.

Messages you send within a collaboration are stored so both parties can see the conversation. We may send you service emails where an email provider is configured; see also your marketing preferences.

We keep limited internal usage information to run the Service — for example opportunity view counts and search terms used on the platform. We do not currently use third-party advertising or tracking analytics. REQUIRES FOUNDER REVIEW if a third-party analytics provider is later added.

We use essential storage to keep you signed in, and store your cookie preferences on your device. See our Cookie Policy for details.

Profile and opportunity information is shared with other users as part of how the marketplace works. We share personal data with service providers who help us run the platform (below). We do not sell your personal information.

We use: a database provider to store platform data; a cloud object-storage provider to host uploaded images and videos; and an email provider to send transactional emails when configured. The specific provider legal names and locations are: REQUIRES FOUNDER REVIEW. Image generation tooling may be used to create marketing/branding assets but is not used to process your personal profile data on an ongoing basis.

Where any provider processes data outside the UK, we will ensure an appropriate safeguard (such as UK adequacy or standard contractual clauses) is in place. Specific transfer details: REQUIRES FOUNDER REVIEW.

We keep your information for as long as your account is active and as needed to provide the Service. After account deletion we remove your profile and personal data, though we may retain limited records where required for legal, security or dispute-resolution reasons, and such records are not shown publicly.

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your information, including hashing passwords. No online service can be guaranteed completely secure. We do not claim any specific security certification unless stated: REQUIRES FOUNDER REVIEW.

Under UK GDPR you have rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict and object to processing, and to data portability, as well as to withdraw consent where we rely on it.

You can view and edit most information in your profile at any time. You can download a copy of your data and delete your account from your profile settings, or contact us for help exercising your rights.

Deleting your account removes your profile and personal data across creator and business accounts. Collaboration records kept for the other party are anonymised so your personal details are not shown.

Nearfluence is not intended for children. You must be old enough to form a binding contract and meet the minimum age of the social platforms you use.

We may update this policy and will change the “Last updated” date above. Significant changes will be highlighted where appropriate.

Contact us at REQUIRES FOUNDER REVIEW or via our Contact page.

If you are in the UK and have a concern we cannot resolve, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.