Effective October 1, 2024
This Privacy Policy explains how and why Banksmyth, LLC (“Banksmyth” or “Company”) collects, uses, and shares personal data or personal information when you interact with or use our Site or Service. It also includes any information Banksmyth collects offline in connection with the Service, which we may combine with information from the Site and Service.
When we say “Banksmyth”, we mean Banksmyth, LLC. When we say “Site,” we mean www.banksmyth.com, and when we say “Service”, we mean the Site plus any websites, features, applications, widgets, or online services owned or controlled by Banksmyth.
As part of the Service, Banksmyth provides a community and marketplace which results in platform information pertaining to different parties to an interaction. Users of the Service may be Sellers, Buyers, or Site Visitors (as each is defined in the User Agreement) (together “Users”).
This Privacy Policy applies to Banksmyth’s processing of personal information of Users where Banksmyth determines the purposes and means of processing. It does not apply to processing of information by Users themselves, who may be controllers of the personal information they access through the Service.
For information about how Users process your personal information, please contact them directly.
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When you use the Service, you may provide us with information about you. This may include your name and contact information, financial information to make or receive payment for services obtained through the Banksmyth platform, or information to help us fill out tax forms. When you use the Service, we may also collect information related to your use of the Service and aggregate this with information about other users. This helps us improve our Services for you. You may also provide us with information about your contacts or friends if, for example, you’d like to add those contacts to a message room. Agencies may also provide us with information about Freelancers associated with the Agency.
Depending upon our relationship with you, we may collect the following categories and types of personal information from and about you:
| Categories of Personal Information We Collect | Examples of Personal Information Collected | Categories of Sources of Personal Information | Business Purpose for Collection of Personal Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Name, Date of Birth, SSN/EIN, Social Media Account Information, Profile Data, IP Address, demographic data | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Contact / Account Profile Information | Email Address, Home Address, Billing Address, ZIP code, Phone Number | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communicating with You, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Sensitive Personal Information / Government Issued Identification Numbers | Social Security Number/Employer Identification Number, Driver’s License, State Identification or Passport Number, VAT Identification Number, Tax Identification Number, Immigration Status, Citizenship Information | Directly from You | Improving and Providing the Service, Verifying Your Identity and Detecting Fraud, Identity Theft, or Other Misuse of Your Account, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Commercial Information | Transaction Data including services offered, considered, or purchased | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Financial Data/Payment Information | Credit card or other financial account / banking / payment information | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Improving and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Internet or Other Network or Device Activities Including Information from Cookies | Unique device and app identifiers, browsing history or other usage data, the browser and operating system you are using, the URL or advertisement that referred you to the Service, the search terms you entered into a search engine that led you to the Service, areas within the Service that you visited, which links you clicked on, which pages or content you viewed and for how long, other similar information and statistics about your interactions, such as content response times, download errors and length of visits to certain pages and other information commonly shared when browsers communicate with websites | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Approximate Geolocation Information | Your approximate location | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Sensory / Biometric Information | Audio recordings if you call our customer service, video recording (if you provide permission); any profile photos you provide to Site. | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Service Providers; Third Parties (such as affiliates) | Providing and Improving the Service, Identification, Communications, , Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Platform Communications | Communication Information (e.g., your name, contact information, and the contents of any messages you send) | Directly from You, Your use of the Service, and Users with whom you communicate | Providing the Service, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
With your consent, the contents of any messages you send may be used to Develop and Improve the Service. | | Professional Information | Previous place(s) of employment, position(s), work history, earnings, resume | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Service Providers; Third Parties (such as other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. | | Other information that identifies or can be reasonably associated with you | User-generated content, (e.g., community posts, feedback, ratings and job postings), photographs, examples of your work, information on work previously performed via the Service and outside the Service, skills, tests taken, test scores, hourly pay rates and earnings information. | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Service Providers; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
b. Aggregated Data
Compiled and non-personal information: We also may collect other information that does not identify you, such as usage data not tied to your particular experience – for example, we will include the number of times you click on a link on the Site without necessarily tying those clicks to your account in all circumstances. When this information is not tied to you, it is not personal data, and we refer to it as “Non-Identifying Information”. In the same way, we may combine information collected from Banksmyth users, whether they are registered or not (“Banksmyth Users”) into an aggregated dataset that cannot be used to identify you. For example, we may combine the total number of hours spent using the Services in a month or the total number of questions we receive into a statistic – that statistic is data, but it does not reveal anything about you. We call this data “Anonymized Information.”
Combination of Personal and Non-Identifying Information: We may combine your Personal Information with Non-Identifying Information and Anonymized Information, but any time your Personal Information is present in the data and can identify you, Banksmyth will treat the combined information as Personal Information.
c. Information Collected Automatically
Like other online companies, we receive technical information when you use our Services. We use these technologies to analyze how people use the Service, to improve how our Site functions, to save your log-in information for future sessions, and to serve you with advertisements that may interest you.
Banksmyth and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movement around the website, the desktop app, and the mobile app, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The technology used to collect information automatically from Banksmyth Users may include cookies, web beacons, and embedded scripts. In addition, we and our marketing partners, affiliates, analytics, and service providers may use a variety of other technologies (such as tags) that collect similar information for security and fraud detection purposes and we may use third parties to perform these services on our behalf.
For further information on cookies and how they are used for the Service, please visit our Cookie Policy at www.Banksmyth.com/cookie-policy.
d. Portfolios
With your permission, we collect information about a Seller’s work for a Buyer, including automatically collected information about work on a particular project. If a Seller enables Portfolios, we will share Portfolios with the relevant Buyer.
As part of the Service, when enabled by a Seller, we collect information about a Seller’s work on a project for a Buyer, including information that may be considered personal information. This feature is known as Portfolios.