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+ When we started designing Buy Me a Coffee in 2017, our
+ goal was to remove all the complexities and give creators a simple way
+ to get paid and connect with their fans. But simple wasn't enough.
+ Creators needed a product that was meaningful and enjoyable to use.
+ This meant designing a payment platform that doesn't feel
+ transactional—starting with the name itself.
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+ Where did the idea come from? Our founders Jijo Sunny and Joseph Sunny
+ were creators who lived on a moderate advertising income from their
+ creative gigs. Although $500 per month is what you pay for a gym
+ membership in San Francisco, it’s enough to make a living in many
+ parts of the world. If it weren't for those Adsense checks, there
+ would be no Buy Me a Coffee.
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That said, advertising model and algorithms have become too
+ unreliable to pay creators what they're worth. It is far more reliable
+ to build a direct relationship with the audience. Buy Me a Coffee
+ gives fans a meaningful way to express gratitude to creators. Creators
+ can also offer exclusive content and community access for their
+ biggest fans.
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Sip sip hooray.
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+ 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.
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+
+
+ 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.
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+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
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+ Welcome to Buy Me a Coffee, this page explains our terms of use. When
+ you use Buy Me a Coffee, you’re agreeing to all the rules on this page.
+ Some of them need to be expressed in legal language, but we’ve done our
+ best to offer you clear and simple explanations of what everything
+ means.
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ To sign up for a Buy Me a Coffee account, you need to be 18 or over.
+ You’re responsible for your account and all the activity on it. You can
+ browse Buy Me a Coffee without registering for an account. But to use
+ some of our features, you’ll need to register, choose a username, and
+ set a password. When you do that, the information you give us has to be
+ accurate and complete. Don’t impersonate anyone else or choose names
+ that are offensive or that violate anyone’s rights. If you don’t follow
+ these rules, we may cancel your account. You’re responsible for all the
+ activity on your account, and for keeping your password confidential. If
+ you find out that someone has used your account without your permission,
+ you should report it to support@buymeacoffee.com. To sign up for an
+ account, you need to be at least 18 years old, or old enough to form a
+ binding contract where you live. If necessary, we may ask you for proof
+ of age.
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ 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.
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