1Introduction
Valueskins Private Limited ("ValueSkins", "we", "us") respects your privacy. This policy explains what personal data we collect when you use valueskins.com (the "Platform"), why, and what you can do about it.
It is written to meet the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. The Platform is offered in India.
2Information we collect
Account and profile. Your email address and the profile details you save once. For a Creator: full name, city, age and gender. For a Brand: brand name, city, website and an optional hiring pitch. We store your age with the date you gave it, so it can go up each year. We do not ask for your date of birth.
From Instagram. When you sign in with Instagram, Meta gives us your Instagram user ID, username, name, account type, profile picture, follower and following counts, post count and bio. We also read the like and comment counts on your latest 12 posts to work out your engagement rate. We keep your Instagram access token encrypted and use it only to refresh these details.
Payout details (Creators). The UPI ID you want to be paid on, the name on that account, and when you agreed to share them. We never accept bank account numbers, IFSC codes or PANs.
Billing details (Brands). Billing name, address, state and, if you give it, your GSTIN, used on the tax invoice for our fee.
Deal data. The Deals you post or apply to, the dates of each step, the content links shared, feedback, disputes, the UPI references a Brand records, and a Creator's confirmations that money arrived.
Emails and technical data. A log of the emails the Platform sends you, and the requests your browser makes to our servers, kept for security and troubleshooting.
3How we collect it
You give us most of it directly. Meta gives us your Instagram details when you sign in. Our payment processor, Razorpay, tells us whether a fee payment succeeded.
4How we use it
To run the Platform: your account, posting and applying to Deals, showing a confirmed Brand where to pay a Creator, recording payments, sending emails about your Deals, issuing invoices and reviewing disputes. Your username, picture and profile details are shown to other users so each side of a Deal knows who the other is.
5Legal basis
We process your data to perform our agreement with you, to meet our legal duties such as keeping tax records, and with your consent where we ask for it, for example before showing your UPI ID to a Brand.
6Who we share it with
- The other side of your Deal. A confirmed Brand sees the Creator's full UPI ID and name, only while a payment is due. Everyone else sees it masked.
- Service providers. Razorpay for fee payments, Netlify to host the website, Render to host the API, Neon to host the database, Resend to send email, and Meta for Instagram sign-in.
- When the law requires it. To comply with a valid legal request.
We do not sell your data and we do not use advertising trackers.
7How long we keep it
We keep your data while your account is active. When you delete your account, we remove your profile, email, UPI ID, billing details and Instagram data and sign you out. Deal records, payments and invoices are kept for as long as the law requires, with your name replaced by "Deleted user". An invoice already issued keeps the billing details it was issued with.
8Your rights
You can ask for a summary of the data we hold, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, subject to legal exceptions. Profile details cannot be edited on the Platform once saved, so to correct one, email us and we will fix it after a reasonable check.
9Security
- Data between your browser and the Platform is encrypted.
- We hold no password for you. Your session lives in a cookie that scripts on the page cannot read.
- Instagram tokens are stored encrypted. Card and bank details for our fee are handled by Razorpay and never reach us.
- Access to the database is limited to the people who run the Platform.
10Cookies
We use only the cookies needed to keep you signed in and to protect forms. We do not use analytics or advertising cookies. If that changes, we will ask first and update this policy.
11International transfers
Some of our providers process data outside India. Where they do, we require protection equivalent to Indian law.
12Children
The Platform is for adults aged 18 or older. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone younger. If you believe someone under 18 has given us data, tell us and we will delete it.
13Deal records
For each Deal we keep its terms, the date of each step, the content links, feedback, and the payments recorded and confirmed. Both parties can see and download this record, so either can show what was agreed and what happened.
14Deleting your data
Delete your account in Settings, or email founder@valueskins.com from the address on your account. You can also remove ValueSkins from Instagram in its settings under Apps and websites. When Meta tells us you asked for your data to be deleted, we delete your account in the same way.
15Grievance officer
Saketh Velamuri, Valueskins Private Limited, founder@valueskins.com. We acknowledge a complaint within 24 hours and resolve it within 15 days.
16Payments
Our fee is paid through Razorpay. A Brand pays a Creator directly by UPI, outside the Platform. We do not process those payments. We store the Creator's UPI ID and name, show them to the confirmed Brand, and store the reference the Brand records. We do not verify UPI IDs.
17What we do not collect or do
- We do not read your messages, insights or analytics from Instagram, and we never post or act on your behalf.
- We do not verify identity, age, gender, city or UPI IDs. We confirm only that you control the Instagram account you sign in with.
- We do not store the content a Creator delivers, only the link to it, and we do not track how it performs.
- We do not collect a phone number, a password or a date of birth.
18Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. We will tell you about important changes by email or by a notice on the Platform, and show the date of the latest change at the top.
19Contact
Valueskins Private Limited. Email founder@valueskins.com.