Privacy Policy

Information You Provide

When creating and using a SellshotPro account, we may collect:

• Name or display name
• Email address
• Username
• Password (stored in encrypted form)
• Profile information voluntarily provided by the user
• Photographs, titles, descriptions, tags, categories, and other content uploaded to the platform

Contributor Information

If you offer content for licensing or sale through SellshotPro, we may collect additional information necessary to identify you as the content creator and manage your account, including:

• Display name
• Author profile information
• Payout-related information required for payment processing

Payment Information

SellshotPro does not collect, store, or process credit card numbers, banking credentials, or other sensitive payment details.

All purchases, subscriptions, and payment transactions are processed directly by Stripe. Payment information is collected and managed by Stripe in accordance with its own Privacy Policy and security standards.

Technical Information

To ensure platform security, performance, and reliability, SellshotPro may automatically collect limited technical information, including:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Login and activity logs
• Basic analytics and usage information

This information is used exclusively for security, fraud prevention, troubleshooting, and service improvement purposes.

Required Information

Certain information is required to create an account, access platform features, complete purchases, or distribute earnings. Failure to provide required information may limit the availability of certain services.

Specific Purposes for Data Processing

• Authentication and Access: To enable you to create an account, securely log in, verify your identity, and maintain your access to the SellshotPro platform.
• Platform Functionality and Account Administration: To manage your account, display your profile information, track your platform status (such as registration date, Buyer Tier, or Creator Tier), and properly display and manage the content you upload (photographs, titles, descriptions, tags, and categories).
• Service Communications: To send you essential platform notifications, such as order receipts, subscription or renewal confirmations, system updates, and security alerts.
• Customer Support: To process and respond to your inquiries, support tickets, and feedback, and to register your platform benefits or support rights.
• Payment and Payout Facilitation: To facilitate secure commercial transactions for both purchases and contributor earnings. Please note that SellshotPro does not collect or store credit card numbers or sensitive banking credentials; all financial data is processed directly by Stripe. We use transaction data solely to track purchases, manage licenses, and administer creator accounts.
• Internal Statistics and Service Improvement: To analyze basic analytics, activity logs, and usage trends (such as tracking the volume of uploads, purchases, and tier distributions). This data is used for research and development (R&D) to troubleshoot technical issues, improve site performance, and optimize the overall user experience.
• Marketing and Promotions: To notify you of special offers, new features, or updates directly related to SellshotPro, or to run platform promotions and notify you of the results. You can opt-out of receiving marketing communications at any time.
• Security, Fraud Prevention, and Compliance: To analyze technical data (including IP addresses, device types, operating systems, and login logs) to detect, investigate, and prevent potentially prohibited, unauthorized, or illegal activities, and to enforce our Terms of Service.

Legal Disclosures and Mandatory Sharing

We value your privacy, but we may disclose your information under the following limited circumstances:

• By Law: Where we are legally required to do so to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or public authority requests (including national security or law enforcement requirements).
• Legal Proceedings: To comply with valid legal processes such as subpoenas, warrants, or court orders and judicial decisions.
• Protection of Rights: When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our legal rights, avoid litigation, ensure your safety or the safety of others, or investigate potential fraud.

Security Measures

We take the security of your personal data, uploaded content, and technical information seriously. SellshotPro implements appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration:

• Encryption in Transit & Storage: All user passwords are encrypted using strong, modern cryptographic hashing algorithms before being stored. All data transmitted between your browser and the SellshotPro platform is encrypted in transit using industry-standard Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology.
• Secure Infrastructure: Personal information, account metadata, and platform statistics reside on secured, password-protected servers. Access to this data is strictly limited to authorized SellshotPro staff and contractors who require it to perform their duties and are bound by confidentiality obligations.
• Third-Party Payment Security: Any sensitive financial data (such as credit card numbers or banking credentials required for transactions and payouts) is transmitted directly and securely via TLS to our payment processor, Stripe. SellshotPro never stores or handles this sensitive data on its own infrastructure.
• User Responsibility: Access to your account is protected by your chosen password. You are solely responsible for keeping your password confidential and using a strong, unique combination of characters.
• Security Disclaimer: While we deploy rigorous, industry-standard protective measures, no method of electronic transmission over the internet or method of digital storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your data, absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

Data Retention and Portability

We do not retain your personal data longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as outlined below:

• Account Lifecycle: We retain your account credentials, profile details, upload logs, and platform stats (Buyer/Creator Tiers, Joined date) for as long as your SellshotPro account remains active, or as needed to provide you with access to our services.
• License Verification and Enforcement: Transaction logs, purchase histories, and creator upload records may be retained even after account deactivation or closure. This is strictly necessary to maintain the integrity of our digital marketplace, verify and enforce content licensing rights, and track financial distributions.
• Legal and Regulatory Compliance: We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal, accounting, and tax obligations, resolve ongoing disputes, prevent fraud, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Authorized Third-Party Service Providers

• Payment Processors (Stripe): To facilitate secure purchases, subscriptions, and creator payouts, necessary transaction data is shared with our third-party payment gateway, Stripe. To our knowledge and based on their security standards, these processors do not store, retain, disclose, or use your personal data or financial credentials for any secondary purposes outside of executing your requested transactions.
• Infrastructure and Service Delivery Vendors: We may share limited technical and account data with specialized service companies that provide essential infrastructure for SellshotPro. This includes cloud hosting providers, secure data storage servers, and automated email delivery services used to send your order confirmations or support responses.
• Strict Operational Boundaries: Any partner or vendor working on our behalf is granted access only to the specific data strictly required to perform their specialized function. They are legally or contractually obligated to protect your information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.

Other Sharing Scenarios

Your information will only be shared outside of the operational boundaries mentioned above in the event of a mandatory legal request, subpoena, or corporate restructuring (such as a merger or asset sale), as detailed in Section 2 (Legal Disclosures) of this Policy.

Managing Your Information (Your Legal Rights)

You can exercise your privacy rights directly through your account dashboard or by submitting a formal request to our support team:

• Right of Access: Upon your request, SellshotPro will provide you with confirmation as to whether we are processing your personal data, along with a clear overview of the specific information we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification (Correction): You have the right to review, update, or correct your name, email, display name, and other profile details at any time by logging into your account and visiting the My Account section.
• Right to Erasure (Deletion / "Right to be Forgotten"): If you wish to close your account and permanently stop the use of your information, you can initiate this process directly via Account Settings → Delete Account. Please note that certain transactional and licensing data may be retained for historical or legal compliance purposes, as outlined in Section 3.
• Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for specific purposes, such as direct marketing or analytics based on legitimate interests.
• Right to Restriction: You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances (e.g., if you contest the accuracy of the data or object to its processing, while we verify your request).
• Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request a digital, structured, and commonly used transfer of your personal data, allowing you to move your information to another service provider.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: Where our processing is based on your explicit consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing done prior to your withdrawal.

Your Choices and Opt-Out Options

• No Data Sales: SellshotPro does not sell, rent, or monetize your personal data or platform activity to third parties under any circumstances.
• Marketing and Newsletters: You can opt-out of receiving promotional emails, special offers, or marketing newsletters from SellshotPro at any time. You can adjust this preference during registration, within the My Account panel, or by clicking the "Unsubscribe" link found at the bottom of any marketing email.
• Transactional and Service Messages: Please note that opting out of marketing emails will not stop essential service-related communications. You will continue to receive critical, non-promotional messages, including order confirmations, purchase receipts, terms of service updates, security alerts, and creator account/benefit notices.
• App and Push Notifications: If applicable, push notifications sent to your browser or device can be customized or entirely disabled at the device or browser settings level.

What Technologies We Use and Why

• Log Files and Visit Analytics: As is true of most websites, we automatically gather certain technical information and store it in log files. This data includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and version, Internet Service Provider (ISP), operating system, device type, date/time stamps, pages viewed, and clickstream data. We use this information to maintain site reliability, diagnose technical bugs, prevent fraud, and optimize our platform's overall performance.
• Session and Persistent Cookies: We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them or they expire). These cookies allow us to recognize you as a returning user, maintain your active login session, and remember your preferences (such as language or display settings) to customize your experience.
• Third-Party Analytics and Marketing: We may integrate trusted third-party analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) to help us understand how users interact with SellshotPro. Additionally, we may partner with third-party advertising networks to manage our ads on other websites. These partners may use cookies and tracking technologies to collect non-personal data about your activities on this and other sites to provide you with targeted, interest-based advertising.
• Mobile and Application Analytics: If you access our services via a mobile device or dedicated application, we may use mobile analytics software to better understand the functionality of our platform on your device. This software may record data such as how often you use the app, events that occur within the app, aggregated usage data, and performance metrics. This analytics data is processed aggregate-style and is not directly linked to any personal identifiers you submit within the app.

Standard License

The Standard License allows the buyer to use the image for personal and small commercial projects with attribution. This may include:

• Personal websites
• Small blogs
• Social media posts
• Small business materials
• Presentations
• Non-large-scale digital use

Attribution to the photographer is required. The photographer retains full ownership of the image.

Exclusive License

The Exclusive License allows broader commercial use of the image. This may include:

• Commercial websites
• Advertising materials
• Marketing campaigns
• Social media advertising
• Business presentations
• Digital and printed promotional materials
• Wider distribution

Attribution is not required under the Exclusive License. The buyer receives extended usage rights, but the photographer remains the copyright owner unless a separate written agreement expressly transfers copyright ownership.

Important Notice Regarding Copyright

SellshotPro does not sell, transfer, or assign copyright ownership unless this is expressly stated in a separate written agreement. By default:

• The photographer owns the image and retains all copyright.
• The buyer receives usage rights only, as defined by the applicable license.
• SellshotPro acts solely as the marketplace facilitating the transaction.
• The photographer receives 70% of the sale proceeds.