Our Privacy Policy
Stylink Social Media GmbH (“stylink”, the “Company” or “We”) is an online community and affiliate platform for influencers. We help you create affiliate links to your favorite products and earn money per click with our free Linkmaker, and we provide you with support and connections to supercharge your influencer and affiliate marketing.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.stylink.com/au (our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
We explain how we use your personal information in more detail in the section 'How we use your personal information'. We collect personal information because it helps us to improve and deliever our Website, as well as our products and services. In addition, your personal information helps us communicate to you our latest opportunities, news, special offers, and information and events about which you might like to hear. We may also collect your personal information to help us design and deliver our Website, and to deliver targeted marketing to you based on your interests and previous engagement with the Website. We also may correlate the personal information obtained from you with information from other sources. For example, if you provide us with your personal information, we may cross-check that against information that might be available through other entities.
By using this Website and/or by contacting us and providing any personal information, you consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal information by us in accordance with this Privacy Notice. If we decide to change our Privacy Notice, we will post those changes on this page. Our Privacy policy only applies to your use of this Website and our services. This Website may contain links to other websites, which are operated by third parties and these include Affiliates. We do not endorese or authorise any such external website links on our Website. Your use of such websites and other online platforms, such as social media platforms, is subject to the privacy policy of each of these platforms. We suggest that you read and familarise yourself with their privacy policies and privacy settings. We are not responsible for the collection, storage or use of your personal informationn by these wesites and platforms.
1. Responsible body
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which stylink collects and uses your information described here, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under this policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Postal Address:
Stylink Social Media GmbH
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 181-183
48153 Münster
Germany
HRB 18156 | Münster Local Court | VAT ID No.: DE313221267
Managing Director: Michael Elschenbroich
Phone: +61 2 8311 7223
E-mail: legal@stylink.com
Web: www.stylink.com/au
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, payment details, tax identification number, date of birth, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline, as well as information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device, such as internet protocol addresses and device location data (“personal information”);
- We do not collect sensitive information from or about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. This includes your racial or ethnic original, political beliefs or associations, religous beliefs, sexual orientation, criminal record and health or gentic information. If you voluntarily provide sensitive information, you consent to us collecting and handling it as personal information;
- For further information on personal and sensitive information: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/your-privacy-rights/your-personal-information/what-is-personal-information;
- Information you send us as part of your communication with us, including by What’s App, text and email;
- That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as aggregate usage statistics; and/or
- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
We may collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the site and/or use our services. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
- From third parties, for example, our business partners, affiliate marketing networks, data analytics providers and social media networks.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
This Website is not currently configured to respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
- Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Categories of Information Collected in the Past 12 Months
We have collected the following categories of personal information within the last twelve (12) months:
Category |
Examples |
Collected |
A. Identifiers. |
A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier (such as Instagram user handle or YouTube user handle), online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, payment details like bank account number, tax identification number, or other similar identifiers. |
YES |
B. Other personal information |
A signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. |
NO |
C. Sensitive classification characteristics |
Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). |
NO |
D. Commercial information. |
Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. |
YES |
E. Biometric information. |
Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. |
NO |
F. Internet or other similar network activity. |
Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. |
YES |
G. Geolocation data. |
Physical location or movements. |
NO |
H. Sensory data. |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. |
NO |
I. Professional or employment-related information. |
Current or past job history or performance evaluations. |
NO |
J. Non-public education information |
Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. |
NO |
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. |
Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. |
NO |
How We Use Your Information
We may use, sell, or disclose information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To assess your suitability for our Website and services.
- To present our Website and its contents to you, as well as to support and develop our Website, products, and services.
- To personalize your Website experience and to curate, target and deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
- To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us and to process payments to you.
- To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
- To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
- To understand the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing, including where these are on third party websites and platforms.
- For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services.
- To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.
- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and
- For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, you may opt-out at any time by following the instruction in our communication. Even if you opt out, we will still send you information which we are requireed by law to provide to you. We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice. Some of our service providers, including data storage and technology service providers, may be located or use locations outside of Australia, including Finland and Germany. You also agree that we can store your personal information on our servers in Finland and Germany. Storage and handling of your personal information is subject to applicable local laws and we take no steps to ensure that the recipients in these countries do not breach Australian privacy laws and principles.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your personal information by disclosing it to a third party for a business purpose. We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract. Please note that this may involve disclosure to a third party outside Australia and these third parties could be located in Finland or Germany. We do not take any steps to ensure that these third parties comply with Australia privacy laws and principles.
We do not sell personal information nor did we sell personal information in the preceding twelve (12) months.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- Communications from the Company. If you do not wish to receive communications from the Company, you can opt-out by clicking the link in the email that you received, or by sending us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative, the Internet Advertising Bureau or the Digital Adverstising Alliance on their websites.
Your Rights and Choices
We provide provides consumers with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
Right to Know and Data Portability
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months (the “right to know”). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of personal information we collected about you.
- The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
- If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
- sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
- disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
Your right to access to your personal information is governed by Australian privacy law and we do not have to provide you with access where this would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of other people or pose a serious threat to the safety, health of life of another person, including when:
- Access would be unlawful
- Access would disclose information about our commercially-sensitive decision making processes
- There is an order from an Australian court or tribunal not to provide access
- The information relates to anticipated or existing proceedings between you and us and you would not be entitled to the information through discovery
- This would prejudice negotiations between you and us
- We suspect that this relates to unlawful activity in relation to our operations or activity and access would prejudice taking action in relation to such unlawful activity
- Access could prejudice enforcement activities
Right to Correction
You have the right to request that we correct any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, where the personal information is inaccurate, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading (the “right of correction”). If we accept that the personal information we hold is inaccurate, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, we may agree to correct your personal information by adding to, replacing or deleting the personal information, as we see fit. We will not correct personal information where we are required to retain the personal information by law or it is unreasonable for us to correct personal information. Where permitted by law, we may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
- Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise our right to free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete
To exercise your rights to know or delete described above, please submit a request by either:
- Emailing us at legal@stylink.com.
- Visiting www.stylink.com/au.
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request to know or correct related to your personal information.
You may only submit a request to know twice within a 12-month period. Your request to know or delete must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
You do not need to create an account with us to submit a request to know or correct. However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that specific account.
We will only use personal information provided in the request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make it.
If you would like to delete your account, please send an email to talents@stylink.com and request that we delete your account.
Response Timing and Format
We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days. If you do not receive confirmation within the 10-day timeframe, please us via e-mail at talents@stylink.com.
We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable consumer request within thirty (30) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy policy, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.