1. Who we are
Adbidvertiser (adbidvertiser.com) operates a crowd-powered advertising platform. This policy explains what we collect and why, and the choices you have.
2. Information we collect
You give us:
- Account details: your email address and a securely hashed password.
- Profile details: your real name, phone number, profile image, advert text, call-to-action link, category, country-display preference, and any auto-reactivation or alerts-and-automation preferences you choose to save.
- Country-market details: your primary advertising country, country-change history, and related admin overrides where country ledgers are enabled.
- Messages you send us through the Contact form.
We collect automatically:
- Exposure analytics: impressions, clicks, hover views, shares, qualified share-page loads, search appearances, qualified search views, time in position, and the placements where your ad appeared, tied to an anonymous visitor session identifier. Raw ledger-search phrases are not stored or shown to advertisers.
- Technical data: IP address and request metadata, used for security, rate-limiting, fraud prevention, coupon-redemption audit trails, ad-report audit trails, and initial country-ledger viewing where enabled.
- Cookies: a session cookie that keeps you logged in and a CSRF cookie that protects form submissions.
From payment providers:
- Payment confirmation data such as a reference, amount, currency, and the last four digits of the card. We never receive or store your full card number — that is handled entirely by the payment provider.
3. How we use your information
- To provide the service: run your account, place and rank your ad, process activations and spotlight reservations, and run any alerts or automation you expressly enable.
- To report performance: show you impressions, clicks, shares, and other exposure analytics.
- To operate rewards and referrals.
- To keep the Platform safe: moderation, fraud detection, chargeback and risk management.
- To communicate with you about your account, verification, and support requests.
4. Public information
When you are on the Public Exposure Ledger, your advert, image, category, Challenge Score, Exposure Score, country badge, ranking, and Top Sponsor reservation for a spotlight you hold may be shown publicly. Your ad may be syndicated to partner or sister-site placements. Your name is partially masked (only the last three letters of your first name are shown). Your email, phone, and payment data are never shown publicly.
5. How we share information
We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with: payment providers (to take payments), email providers (to send verification and service emails), and authorities or advisers where required by law or to protect the Platform and its users.
6. Marketplace classification and ad-version records
Where marketplace discovery is enabled, we store each ad's approved and pending versions, moderation history, selected taxonomy category, countrywide or selected-region coverage, Evergreen confirmation state, and ad-specific rights, score, reward, automation and analytics attribution. This lets us keep a prior approved version public during review, explain how each ad's score was built, prevent value from moving silently between ads, and audit classification changes.
Public category and region counts are aggregate. A region is offered as a public filter only after an eligible ad is explicitly assigned there; countrywide ads can match an already available region filter without creating new public region options. Raw search phrases are not retained.
7. Ad media and video-link records
When you submit ad media, we may store compressed image or GIF data, gallery images, watermark metadata, full ad descriptions, supported external video URLs, provider names, provider video identifiers, moderation decisions, and viewer reports about video mismatch or ad abuse. We use these records to display ads, enforce upload limits, review changes, investigate reports, and maintain audit history.
External video providers such as YouTube or Instagram may receive information from the viewer's browser when the viewer chooses to load that video. Videos are click-to-load so the provider is not contacted merely because the ledger page is opened.
8. Cookies
We use strictly necessary cookies only: a login session cookie and a CSRF-protection cookie. We do not use third-party advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. Our analytics measure how your ad performed on this Platform, keyed to an anonymous session, not to a cross-site profile of you.
9. Data retention
We keep account and transaction records for as long as your account is active and as long as needed for legal, tax, accounting, and fraud-prevention purposes. Anonymous analytics may be kept for reporting. You can ask us to delete your account, subject to records we must retain by law.
10. Security
We protect data with measures including password hashing, transport encryption in production, CSRF protection, rate limiting, and restricted access. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and to limit what we collect.
11. Your rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data, and to object to or restrict certain processing. To exercise any of these, contact us through the Contact page.
12. Children
The Platform is for adults aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
13. International transfers
Your information may be processed in countries other than yours (for example, by our payment or email providers). Where required, we take steps to protect it in line with applicable law.
14. Changes and contact
We may update this policy from time to time. For any privacy question or request, reach us through the Contact page.