Privacy Policy
Last updated: 30 September 2026
In short: ClipCurrency pays creators for the views their clips earn on brand campaigns. To do that we need your account details, the social accounts you post from, the view counts of the clips you submit, and the details needed to pay you or take a campaign payment.
We do not sell your data. We do not use data from Instagram or Facebook for advertising. You can disconnect an account or delete your data at any time — see Data deletion.
1. Who we are
ClipCurrency ("ClipCurrency", "we", "us") runs the ClipCurrency mobile app and the website at clipcurrency.com (together, the "Service"). For any privacy question or request, email join@clipcurrency.com.
2. What we collect
Your account
- Email address, and a securely hashed version of your password (we never store the password itself).
- Whether you use ClipCurrency as a creator or an advertiser, and the country you choose at sign-up.
- Verification and password-reset codes, stored only in hashed form and deleted after use or after 10 minutes.
Social accounts you connect or verify
| Platform | How it is linked | What we collect |
|---|---|---|
| You tap Connect Instagram and approve access on Instagram's own screen (Instagram API with Instagram Login). Only Instagram professional accounts can be connected. | Your Instagram account ID and username; for your reels: the media ID, caption, publish time, link and media type; and the reel's views insight. We receive an access token, stored encrypted. | |
| You tap Connect Facebook, approve access, and choose which Facebook Page to link (Facebook Login for Business). | The Page ID and name; for the Page's reels and videos: ID, description, publish time and link; and the reel's play count insight. We receive an access token, stored encrypted. | |
| TikTok | You add your handle and place a short code in your profile bio so we can confirm the account is yours. | Public information only: your handle, account ID and bio (to check the code), and for clips you submit: views, likes, comments, caption, length and publish time as shown publicly. |
| YouTube | You add your channel and place a short code in your channel description. | Public information via the YouTube Data API: channel ID, name and description, and for Shorts you submit: views, title, length and publish time. See also the Google Privacy Policy. |
We only read data for accounts you have linked, and only what we need to check your submissions and pay you. We never post, comment, message or change anything on your social accounts.
Campaigns and clips
- For creators: the clips you submit, the campaigns you join, view counts over time, earnings, and any review decisions.
- For advertisers: your campaigns, their rules and budgets, and the content you upload with the categories you give it.
Payments
- M-Pesa (Kenya): your phone number and M-Pesa transaction references.
- USDT: the wallet addresses you give us and transaction hashes. Blockchain transactions are public by nature.
- Bank transfers: the details needed to match your payment, shared with our support team when you request a bank payment.
- A record of every payment, payout and fee, which we are required to keep.
Technical and safety information
- IP address and the approximate country it indicates, device and app version, and logs of requests to our servers.
- Signals we use to detect fraud, such as unusual view patterns or a location that differs from your declared country.
3. How we use it
- To run your account, sign you in and keep it secure.
- To confirm you own the social accounts you submit clips from.
- To check each submitted clip meets the campaign's rules (posting time, handle, caption tag, minimum views) and to track its views.
- To calculate earnings, pay creators, take advertiser payments and keep accurate financial records.
- To prevent fraud, fake views and abuse, and to enforce our Terms.
- To send you service emails and notifications, such as verification codes, payment confirmations and campaign updates.
- To meet legal, tax and regulatory obligations.
4. Data from Instagram and Facebook
Data we receive through Meta's APIs is used only to verify your account, check your submitted reels against campaign rules, track their views and calculate your earnings. We do not sell it, use it for advertising, build profiles from it, or share it with anyone except as described in section 5 (for example, showing an advertiser the view count of a reel you submitted to their campaign). We follow the Meta Platform Terms.
You can remove ClipCurrency's access at any time from the app (Profile → Connected accounts → Disconnect), in Instagram (Settings → Website permissions → Apps and websites) or in Facebook (Settings → Business integrations). When you do, we delete the access token straight away and stop reading your data.
5. Who we share it with
- Advertisers see, for clips submitted to their campaigns: your handle, the clip link, its views and earnings, and review status. They do not see your email, phone number or payment details.
- Service providers that run the Service for us, under contract: cloud hosting and database (DigitalOcean, MongoDB Atlas — servers in Frankfurt, Germany), email delivery (Postmark), network security (Cloudflare), payments (Safaricom M-Pesa) and blockchain networks for USDT.
- Authorities, when the law requires it or to protect people from fraud or harm.
- A buyer or successor, if ClipCurrency is sold or merged, under this same policy.
We do not sell personal data.
6. How long we keep it
- Account and campaign data: while your account is open.
- Social access tokens: until you disconnect the account or delete your data.
- Detailed view history: 30 days, then a daily summary per clip.
- Payment and payout records: as long as the law requires (usually at least five years), even after you close your account.
- Server logs: up to 90 days.
7. Security
Data is encrypted in transit. Passwords are hashed, one-time codes are hashed, and social access tokens are encrypted at rest. Access to production systems is limited to the people who run the Service. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects you we will tell you and the regulator as the law requires.
8. Your rights
You can ask to access, correct or delete your personal data, to object to how we use it, or to receive a copy of it. Email join@clipcurrency.com from the address on your account. We respond within 30 days. In Kenya, you may also complain to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.
9. Children
ClipCurrency is for people aged 18 and over, because it involves payments. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone younger.
10. Changes
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will tell you in the app or by email before the change takes effect. The date at the top shows the latest version.