WeAre8
Child-Friendly Privacy Notice

This is our child-friendly version of our main privacy notice, and not a replacement to it. If you are under 18 years old, you must read this privacy notice and/or ask for a parent or guardian to help you understand our main privacy notice before downloading our app or engaging in any of our adwatching services.

If you’re under 13 years old, you must not use our platform or services. We monitor our platform, ban and delete information from children under 13 years old.

This document explains how WeAre8 collects, uses and protects your personal information. If you disagree with the way we use your personal information, please do not use our services or talk to a parent or guardian about your concerns.

You can also send us a message at privacy@weare8.com if you have any questions about this document or the way we use your information.You can ask your parent or guardian to send us an email or assist you when contacting us. We will get back to you in a month or less.

Who we are

We are WeAre8, a platform that pays users to watch ads videos and answer opinion and consume habits surveys for brands of your interest while supporting social causes and hosting our own social media platform, where people can post their content.

What is personal data?

Personal data (or personal information) is any information that could be used to identify you.

Personal data can mean your name, email address, telephone number, pictures and videos, your opinion, address,age, etc.

How do we use your personal data?

Does WeAre8 Collect Information From Children?

WeAre8 does not intentionally collect information from children under 13 years of age, and children under age 13 should not submit any information to us nor access our platform. Even though we have an age gate that keeps children under 13 years of age from accessing our platform, it is still possible that such controls are bypassed, in which case, if we become aware that a child has provided us with information without parental consent, or a parent or guardian of a child contacts us through the contact information provided below, we will use reasonable efforts to delete the child’s information from our databases.

However, children between the age of 13 and 18 may use our app and benefit from watching our videos under the condition that consent and validation from a parent or guardian is obtained.

Purposes for which we use personal data and the lawful basis

When providing services to you, we may use your personal data for the following purposes and on the following lawful bases:

Purpose Personal Data Lawful Basis for Processing
Creating and setting up your account preferences and making it possible for you to use our services and platform as expected by you. Establishing and verifying the identity and eligibility of our users. When it comes to age, to establish the identity and eligibility of Advertisers • First name
• Last name
• Username
• Emails
• Phones
• Locations (with history, down to the city and zip code, GPS)
• Date of birth
• Gender
• Social handles
• Interests
• Bio
• Favourite charities
• Passions
• Personal Statements
• Login details
• Contact list
• Phone Status
Performance of our contract
Legal obligation
Consent
Processing payments from brands to you Financial information, such as PayPal email for payouts

Performance of our contract
To upload and disclose your content on our social platform, 8Stage Content you produce and upload to 8Stage, including written statements, videos, and photography, voice
Consent
To comply with our tax obligations • Full name
• Business name
• Federal tax classification
• Permanent residence address
• Social Security Number OR Employer Identification Number
• Country of citizenship
• SSN or other Tax identifying number
• Date of Birth
Legal obligation
To obtain market intelligence information and analytics about our users, from third-party social media networks to improve our services and to Check individual’s eligibility to publish content on our Platform and 8Stage. • Social networks following and performance
• Content, caption, and performance of content published through our service
• Link to social account
• Profile picture
• Followers
• Following
• Name
• Username
• Email address
Consent
Tracking and mapping our users’ activities, behaviours and interaction with our platform, to generate insights and market intelligence in order to improve our services, personalise/target the right contents to you, and for marketing purposes. • Device IDs
• Type of device (IOS/Android)
• History and usage of our platform (such as buttons clicked and interactions with the platform) through pixels and cookies
• IPs (tracking for locations, but not storing)
• Browser preferences
• Paid Brand Video views, acceptance, completion and charities which user paid it forward
• Information about whether user navigated to the Brand website and acquired any of their products and services after watching their ads.
• Performance includes:
- Views
- Likes
- Comments
- Clicks on trackable links
- Conversions/installs
Legitimate interest
To answer to your customer enquiries and provide you with customer service and IT support upon your requests • Name
• Email address
• Login
• Information you choose to share as part of your enquiry
Performance of contract
To onboard brands as our clients/partners, roll out brand campaigns, and provide our brand customers with product, service, or company update • Name
• Corporate email address
• Role within the organisation
• Professional address
• Professional or personal phone numbers
Performance of contract
To send you marketing and advertisement communications about our services, platform, events, sweepstakes, surveys, contests and offers • Name
• Email
• Marketing preferences
Consent


Where personal data is processed because it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, we will be unable to provide our services without the required information.

Sharing your data

8Stage: we share your information with the audience on the platform that you specifically identify as well as anyone when you share public content. All details about your public profile may be shared with other platform users.

We share your information such as opinions on brands, life habits and preferences with our partner brands in order to make it possible to provide you with our services and process your payment, as part as our service agreement. When we do it so, we make sure to fully anonymise your personal data and to only share aggregated data that cannot be traced back to you by any mechanism or process.

We may disclose your information to third parties who help us with our business functions, such as service and payments providers or suppliers, and with business partners. Such third parties are not authorized to use or disclose your information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. Examples of these service providers include entities that process credit card and other types of payments, help us moderate content posted on the platform, provide web hosting and cloud-based data storage services, or analytics services, or who assist with marketing functions. These services providers may be located around the world and in countries where privacy rules are different or less stringent than rules in the country where you reside.

We may also contract with third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other information through the use of cookies, web server logs and web beacons on our platform and emails; on third-party platform and emails; and on our advertising placed on third-party platform. They use this information to provide advertisements about products and services tailored to your interests (including for companies not affiliated with us). You may see these advertisements on other platform. This process also helps us manage and track the effectiveness of our and third-party marketing efforts.

In addition, we may share your information if necessary to protect the safety, property, or other rights of us, our customers, or employees, or when otherwise required by law. We may also share your information with your consent in certain circumstances.

We reserve the right to transfer information we have about you in the event we sell, transfer, or engage in another transaction involving all or a portion of our business or assets, or undertake another form of corporate change, including bankruptcy. Following such a sale, transfer, or transaction, or corporate change, you may contact the entity to which we transferred your information with any inquiries concerning the processing of that information.

It is necessary that we share your personal data outside the UK, the European Union, or European Economic Area in order to provide you with our services. However, we will only share it with organisations in countries benefiting from a European Commission adequacy decision or on the basis of International Data Transfer Agreements approved by the Secretary of State, which contractually oblige the recipient to process and protect your personal data to the standard expected within the UK/EU/EEA. A copy of the model clauses can be provided on request.

Whenever we engage and share your personal data with third-parties, we make sure to conduct a thoroughly due diligence assessment to guarantee any data will be shared in accordance with the highest UK GDPR/EU GDPR standards, and to sign the appropriate agreements.

Social Media 

Our platform allow you to connect you social network account. This is required for you to become a verified 8Creator and to publish content on our platform. WeAre8 will collect certain information from your social media account including your profile information (such as name, username, email address, profile picture, followers, following). 

The information we may have access to will vary by social media platform and is controlled by privacy settings on that platform and your choices on that platform. Your use of services on third party social media platforms are governed by the privacy statement and other terms of use for that third party social media platform.

How long we keep your data

We will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to provide you with our services and for a reasonable period thereafter to enable us to meet our contractual and legal obligations and to deal with complaints and claims. 

At the end of the retention period, your personal data will be securely deleted or anonymised, for example by aggregation with other data, so that it can be used in a non-identifiable way for statistical analysis and business planning.

You can delete your account at any time. When you delete your account or content you have posted on the Platform, that content (such as profile information, photos, and status updates) will no longer be viewable to the public or Platform users. However, your information will continue to be stored in our internal systems for our administrative purposes. In addition, information that other users have posted about you will remain on the Platform. We also participate in interest-based or behavioral advertising. This means that you may receive advertising on our website or other platform that are tailored to how you browse.

If you want to understand specific retention periods for specific types of personal data we hold from you, you may ask us for a copy of our Data Retention and Destruction Policy.

How we protect your data

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect data that we process from unauthorised disclosure, use, alteration or destruction.  

In addition to the technical and organisational measures we have put in place, there are a number of simple things you can do to in order to further protect your personal information;

  1. v1. Never share your account credentials with anyone
  2. 2. Be diligent with emails and text messages that you receive. Potential scammers may pose as our Platform.
  3. 3. Always send confidential information by encrypted email where possible this reduces the risk of interception.
  4. 4. If you’re logged into any online service do not leave your computer or mobile phone unattended. 
  5. 5. Close your internet browser and app once you’ve logged off.
  6. 6. Never download software or let anyone log on to your computer or devices remotely, during or after a cold call.

If you want to know more about the technical measures we adopt to protect data, you may ask us for  a copy of our Information Security Polciy.

Your rights and options

You have the following rights in respect of your personal data:

  •  •  You have the right of access to your personal data and can request copies of it and information about our processing of it. 
  •  •  You can restrict certain permissions in the phone settings
  •  •  If the personal data we hold about you in incorrect or incomplete, you can ask us to rectify or add to it. 
  •  •  Where we are using your personal data with your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time, including disconnecting your social media accounts. You may “opt-out” or unsubscribe from our newsletters, special offers or discounts, or other marketing communications by following the unsubscribe instructions in any e-mail or other communication you receive from us. After doing so, you will not receive future promotional emails unless you open a new account, enter a contest, or sign up to receive newsletters or emails. You may also continue to receive non-marketing communications about your account. Please allow up to 2 weeks to process your request.
  •  •  Where we are using your personal data because it is in our legitimate interests to do so, you can object to us using it this way. 
  •  •  Where we are using your personal data for direct marketing, including profiling for direct marketing purposes, you can object to us doing so.
  •  •  You can ask us to restrict the use of your personal data if: 
  1.   -  It is not accurate.
  •   -  It has been used unlawfully but you do not want us to delete it.
  •   -  We do not need it anymore, but you want us to keep it for use in legal claims; or 
  •   -  if you have already asked us to stop using your data but you are waiting to receive confirmation from us as to whether we can comply with your request.
  •  •  You can request to erase your personal data and/or request a machine-readable copy of your personal data to transfer to another service provider.
  •  •  You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.

If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at privacy@weare8.com. 

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

If you live in California, you have certain rights concerning your personal information under the CCPA, such as:

 •  The right to know what personal information we have collected, used, and stored in the past 12 months;

 •  The right to know how we have been using your personal information in the past 12 months;

 •  The right to know what the purpose of using your personal data is;

 •  The right to ask us to delete your personal data from our database;

 •  The right to opt-out from any activities considered to be a “sale” of personal data under the CCPA: we do not sell, trade, share, or rent personal data for commercial purposes. However, we do engage in personal data sharing activities that could be considered “sales” under the CCPA, such as sharing commercial information, identifiers, or virtual network activity with third-parties. If you wish to opt-out from these activities (“sales”), please contact us at privacy@weare8.com,or, alternatively, if you’re in the EU, at datarequest@datarep.com.

 •  The right to not be discriminated against when exercising any of your rights concerning privacy.

You can find a detailed description of what kind of personal data we collect from you and how we use it in our activities in the past 12 months by reading our “Personal Data We Collect” and Purposes for which we use personal data and the lawful basis” sections of this Privacy Notice.

How to complaint

If you live in the UK, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority, if you believe we are infringing the data protection laws or you are concerned about the way in which we are handling your personal data. 

The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner’s Office who can be contacted using the information provided at: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or by telephone on 0303 123 1113.

If you are a resident of an USA state that has passed a Data Protection Law (such as California, Maryland, Colorado, Virginia and more), your data protection rights may be enforced by the Attorney General or district attorneys in your location.

If you are a resident of California, you have the right to lodge an online consumer complaint under the CCPA with the Attorney General at https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company

If you are a resident of Australia, you have the right to lodge a complaint under the Privacy Act 1988 at privacy@ag.gov.au or by post, to:

Privacy Contact Officer

Freedom of Information and Privacy Section

Attorney-General's Department

Robert Garran Offices

3-5 National Circuit

BARTON ACT 2600

Contact us

If you have any questions, or wish to exercise any of your rights, then you can contact:

AUSTRALIA:

Weare8 Australia Pty Ltd

LEVEL 11 , 139 MACQUARIE STREET

SYDNEY 

NSW 2000

UK:

WeAre8 Media Ltd

3 Bloomsbury Place

London

WC1A 2QA

EUROPE:

Weare8 Greece PLC

Kalapothaki 7

Thessaloniki

54624

Greece

USA:

WeAre8, Pbc.

224 W 35th St

Ste 500 PMB 195

New York, NY 10001

Alternatively, you can email us at privacy@weare8.com

If you arein the EU, WeAre8 EU data protection representative contact details are:

DataRep  (Data Protection Representative Limited)

datarequest@datarep.com

Changes to this privacy notice

We may update this notice (and any supplemental privacy notice), from time to time as shown below. We will notify of the changes where required by applicable law to do so.

Last modified: August 22, 2023.