Buy Me a Coffee is a platform for creators to accept support from their
audience and share exclusive content. At Buy Me a Coffee, your privacy
is important to us, and we want you to feel confident that your personal
information is secure when using our products and our platform.
The services are provided by Publisherr Inc (parent company and
hereinafter referred to as “Buy Me a Coffee”), a Delaware company with
registered address at 2035 Sunset Lake Road, Suite B-2 Newark, DE 19702,
USA. It is Buy Me a Coffee’s policy to respect your privacy regarding
any information we may collect while operating our website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Buy Me a Coffee collects
non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and
servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language
preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor
request. Buy Me a Coffee's purpose in collecting non-personally
identifying information is to better understand how Buy Me a Coffee's
visitors use its website. From time to time, Buy Me a Coffee may release
non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by
publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Buy Me a Coffee also collects potentially personally-identifying
information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users
and for users making payments on BuyMeACoffee.com. Buy Me a Coffee only
discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same
circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying
information as described below, except that payee IP addresses and email
addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of Buy Me a
Coffee and is handled by payment processors at the time of processing
the payments.
Payments
To make a payment to a creator on Buy Me a Coffee, you have to provide
our payment processor (Stripe) with your payment information. They
provide us with a token that represents your account, your card’s
expiration date, card type and the last four digits of your credit card.
If you provide them with a name and email address then they also provide
us with that information.
We collect and process information about the creators you support, the
level at which you support them, what rewards you receive and how often
you support them.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Buy Me a Coffee's websites choose to interact with
Buy Me a Coffee in ways that require Buy Me a Coffee to gather
personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information
that Buy Me a Coffee gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.
For example, we ask visitors who sign up at BuyMeACoffee.com to provide
a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Buy
Me a Coffee are asked to provide additional information, including as
necessary the personal and financial information required to process
those transactions. In each case, Buy Me a Coffee collects such
information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the
purpose of the visitor's interaction with Buy Me a Coffee. Buy Me a
Coffee does not disclose personally-identifying information other than
as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply
personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent
them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
You can request to delete your personal data by emailing us at
support@buymeacoffee.com.
Aggregated Statistics
Buy Me a Coffee may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to
its websites. Buy Me a Coffee may display this information publicly or
provide it to others. However, Buy Me a Coffee does not disclose
personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Buy Me a Coffee discloses potentially personally-identifying and
personally-identifying information only to those of its employees,
contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that
information in order to process it on Buy Me a Coffee's behalf or to
provide services available at Buy Me a Coffee's websites, and (ii) that
have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees,
contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your
home country; by using Buy Me a Coffee's websites, you consent to the
transfer of such information to them. Buy Me a Coffee will not rent or
sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying
information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and
affiliated organizations, as described above, Buy Me a Coffee discloses
potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying
information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other
governmental request, or when Buy Me a Coffee believes in good faith
that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or
rights of Buy Me a Coffee, third parties or the public at large. If you
are a registered user of an Buy Me a Coffee website and have supplied
your email address, Buy Me a Coffee may occasionally send you an email
to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you
up to date with what's going on with Buy Me a Coffee and our products.
If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our
feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to
help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other
users. Buy Me a Coffee takes all measures reasonably necessary to
protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction
of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying
information.
Account deletion
You may stop using our Service, by contacting Buy Me a Coffee at
support@buymeacoffee.com, and requesting account deletion. We may retain
certain information as required by law or as necessary for our
legitimate business purposes. All provisions of this agreement survive
termination of an account, including our rights regarding any content
you’ve already submitted to the Site. (For instance, if you’ve launched
a page, deleting your account will not automatically remove the page
from the Site.) If you have signed up for a membership, you can find
information about your cancellation rights on our site. You will need to
cancel your subscription in accordance with these cancellation rights to
stop your recurring payments for the relevant subscription. Merely
deleting your account without canceling your subscription will not stop
these payments.
You can request to delete your personal data by emailing us at
support@buymeacoffee.com.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's
computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each
time the visitor returns. For more information, visit All About Cookies.
Buy Me a Coffee uses cookies to help Buy Me a Coffee identify and track
visitors, their usage of Buy Me a Coffee website, and their website
access preferences. Some cookies expire after a certain amount of time,
or upon logging out (session cookies), others remain on your computer or
terminal device for a longer period (persistent cookies). Our Site uses
first party cookies (cookies set directly by Anchor) as well as third
party cookies, as described below:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Used to provide Users with the Services
available through our Site and to use some of their features, such as
the ability to log-in and access to secure areas. These cookies are
served by Anchor and are essential for using and navigating the Site.
Without these cookies, basic functions of our Site would not work.
Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Site and the
Services, you cannot refuse them.
- Analytics/Performance: Used to better understand the behavior of the
Users on our Site and improve our Site accordingly, for example by
making sure Users are finding what they need easily. The Site uses
Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc.
(“Google”). The information collected by Google (including your IP
address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the
United States (Google is certified to the Privacy Shield for data
transfers). How long a Google Analytics cookie remains on your computer
or device depends on what it is and what it is used for. Some Google
Analytics cookies expire at the end of your browser session, whilst
others can remain for up to two years. You can prevent your data from
being collected by Google Analytics on our Site by downloading and
installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current
web browser. For more information on Google Analytics privacy practices,
read here.
Buy Me a Coffee visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their
computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Buy
Me a Coffee's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Buy
Me a Coffee's websites may not function properly without the aid of
cookies.
Business Transfers
If Buy Me a Coffee, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired,
or in the unlikely event that Buy Me a Coffee goes out of business or
enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is
transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such
transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Buy Me a Coffee may
continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
We do not run any external advertisements on Buy Me a Coffee. However,
we use ad networks such as Twitter Ads to collect retargeting
information to compile information about our users. This Privacy Policy
covers the use of cookies by Buy Me a Coffee and does not cover the use
of cookies by any advertisers.
Prohibited and restricted content
We want Buy Me a Coffee to be a safe venue for a diverse range of
creators and their communities. Please respect the people and
communities that are building with you on Buy Me a Coffee. If you find
any creators breaking our permitted content guidelines, you can report
them to us. Alternatively, you can block them permanently, and we’ll no
longer show you their profile or content posted by them.
Contact Us
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about Buy Me
a Coffee’s Privacy Policy or the information practices.
You may contact us as follows: You may send an email to
support@buymeacoffee.com, or send mail to:
Publisherr
2261 Market Street
#4610, San Francisco