Privacy Policy

1. Controller

The controller responsible for personal data processed through The Creator Leaderboard is Leiter Sales und Invest GmbH, Kefedergrundgasse 5, Block E, Tür 4, 1210 Vienna, Austria.

Email: support@thecreatorleaderboard.com

VAT ID: ATU78053516

Commercial Register: FN 572575y, Handelsgericht Wien

2. Data we process

Profile data

• display name
• social media handle
• social media platform
• profile URL
• category
• uploaded profile picture
• bid amount
• ranking position
• publicly displayed profile statistics

Contact information

• email address
• support communications

Payment and transaction information

• amount
• currency
• tax information
• payment status
• Stripe transaction identifiers
• Stripe Checkout Session identifiers
• refund information
• dispute information
• billing country or other billing information where required

Complete payment card information is processed by Stripe and is not intended to be stored directly by The Creator Leaderboard.

Technical and usage information

Depending on consent and technical configuration:

• page path
• timestamps
• referrer
• session information
• anonymous or pseudonymous visitor identifiers
• profile link clicks
• consent settings
• device/browser information where generated by our providers
• IP address where technically processed by infrastructure providers

3. Public data

The Creator Leaderboard is a public service.

Information submitted for a public listing may therefore be visible worldwide, including:

• name
• profile picture
• handle
• platform
• category
• bid
• ranking
• profile link
• public profile visit statistics

Users should not submit information they do not want displayed publicly.

4. Purposes and legal bases

Providing the service

Including profile publication, ranking, payments and profile linking. Legal basis where applicable: performance of a contract or steps taken at the user's request prior to entering into a contract.

Payment processing

For completing payments, preventing fraud, processing refunds and resolving disputes. Legal bases may include contractual necessity, legal obligations and legitimate interests in payment security.

Tax and accounting

Transaction information may be processed and retained to comply with Austrian and other applicable tax and accounting obligations.

Security and fraud prevention

We may process necessary information to secure the service, prevent abuse, detect fraudulent bids and protect our legal rights. Legal basis may include legitimate interests and legal obligations.

Optional analytics

Non-essential analytics technologies are only used where legally required consent has been obtained.

Optional marketing

Marketing technologies such as Meta Pixel are only activated after appropriate consent where required.

5. Service providers

We use service providers necessary to operate the platform. These currently include:

Stripe

For payment processing, tax calculation, fraud prevention and payment-related services.

Supabase

For database, storage and backend infrastructure.

Lovable

For application development, deployment and related platform infrastructure.

Resend

For sending transactional email such as purchase confirmations, contractual and withdrawal information, and replies to content reports. Resend processes the recipient address and the content of those messages on our behalf.

Fonts and all other visual assets are served from our own infrastructure. No fonts, scripts or stylesheets are loaded from Google or other third-party content delivery networks, so no request is made to such providers when you open this website.

6. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is not currently installed on this website. If it is activated in future, this policy will identify the relevant Google entities, the data processed, the retention period and the transfer safeguards, and the service will only load after analytics consent where required.

7. Meta technologies

Meta Pixel is not currently installed on this website. If it is activated in future, this policy will identify the relevant Meta entities, purposes, data categories and transfer safeguards, and the pixel will only load after marketing consent where required.

8. International transfers

Some service providers may process data outside Austria or the European Economic Area. Where required, transfers are protected using legally recognised safeguards such as:

• adequacy decisions
• Standard Contractual Clauses
• other lawful transfer mechanisms

9. Retention

Public profile data is generally retained while the listing remains active. Users may request deletion.

Payment, invoice and tax-relevant records may be retained for statutory retention periods, including applicable Austrian accounting and tax obligations. Where Austrian tax law requires it, relevant business records generally need to be retained for seven years, and longer where legally required in connection with pending proceedings.

Support communications may be retained as reasonably necessary to resolve the request and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Analytics data is not retained longer than necessary for its stated purpose.

10. Your rights

Subject to applicable law, individuals may have rights including:

• access
• rectification
• deletion
• restriction
• data portability
• objection
• withdrawal of consent

Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

Requests may be sent to support@thecreatorleaderboard.com. We may need to verify identity before fulfilling certain requests.

11. Complaints

Individuals in the EU/EEA have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority. For the Austrian controller, the supervisory authority is the Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde. Information is available at www.dsb.gv.at.

12. Children

The paid service is intended only for persons aged 18 or older. We do not knowingly permit persons under 18 to place bids.

13. Security

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data. However, no internet service can guarantee absolute security.

14. Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy when processing activities or legal requirements change. The current version will be published on this page.