Privacy Policy

AcquireSponsor ("we", "us") operates acquiresponsor.com, a marketplace connecting content creators and brand sponsors. Contact: r@acquiresponsor.com.

• Account data: name, email, password (hashed, when you set one), username, role (creator/sponsor), profile details you provide.
• Sign-in with X: if you use Sign in with X, X provides your X user ID, display name, username, profile photo URL, and (if you grant email access) the confirmed email on that X account. See section 3.
• Usage data: posts, messages, deals, notifications, and activity on the platform.
• Payment data: processed by Stripe; we store related IDs and status, not full card numbers.
• Technical data: IP address, the country it belongs to (used to decide how the newsletter box starts, and kept on the record of each newsletter decision, see section 4), device/browser info, cookies needed for sessions and security.

Sign in with X is optional. We use X's OAuth 2.0 so you can create or access an AcquireSponsor account without giving us your X password. We never collect or store X passwords.

When you authorize our app, we request only what we need to identify you: profile read access and your confirmed email. X also requires a posts-read scope for that identity call; we do not download, store, or display your posts, likes, followers, or Direct Messages, and we do not post, follow, or message on X for you.

Email. If you grant email access, X sends us the confirmed email on your X account. We store it as your AcquireSponsor account email and use it to send receipts, deal and payment notices, security and verification messages, and account recovery. You can change that address on the signup screen before the account is created. Completing signup is your consent to associate that X identity with the email you confirm, an identifier outside X.

We share with X only what is required to complete OAuth (sending you to X to sign in and receiving tokens and profile fields back). We do not sell X data, and we do not use X data for surveillance or to build off-platform advertising profiles. You can revoke the app in your X account settings; that stops future X access but does not delete your AcquireSponsor account.

Our newsletter carries deal news and new podcast episodes, and we send it through Beehiiv. There is no newsletter box on the signup form. The box appears on the step that finishes your account: the onboarding screen you finish on, or, if you sign up with X, the screen where you confirm your email. For most visitors the box is ticked by default. Where the law requires you to make a positive choice (including the European Union with its overseas regions and the Aland Islands, the rest of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Canada), it starts unticked, and it also starts unticked when we cannot tell which country you are in. Leave it ticked, or tick it, and your address is added to the newsletter right away, whether or not you have confirmed your email yet. Untick a ticked box and you are not subscribed. Leaving a box that starts unticked as it is does not subscribe you, and it does not unsubscribe you from anything you subscribed to elsewhere, such as the newsletter page or Settings. A screen that never shows you the box never subscribes you. You can unsubscribe any time in Settings, or with the one-click unsubscribe link in any issue. Transactional email is required to operate the Service.

The newsletter page. Our newsletter page has no box. Typing your address into its form and pressing the subscribe button is your direct request to receive the newsletter, and your address is added right away. For that request we record your address, your decision, the wording shown with the form, when you made it, the country of your IP address and how we found it, a one-way hash of your IP address (never the address itself) and the user agent your browser sends. For the page's own test of different headlines we also record which headline you were shown and which page, and which form on it, you used.

Members subscribed under an earlier rule. Some members were subscribed before the box existed, or by the automatic subscribe new accounts had on September 27, 2026. They stay subscribed until they unsubscribe, in Settings or with the one-click link in any issue. We add nothing new for them: an address of theirs that is not on the newsletter is not added to it.

If you change your email or delete your account. A subscription you chose on the box, in Settings or on the newsletter page moves to your new address, and the old address leaves the list. A subscription from an earlier rule ends at the old address and is not recreated at the new one. Deleting your account takes your address off the list.

How we find your country. We look up the country of your IP address. If your request reaches us with a Cloudflare country header, we use that. Otherwise we look your IP address up in MaxMind's GeoLite2 country database, which runs on our own server, so your IP address is not sent to MaxMind. We refresh that lookup data from MaxMind regularly. We use the country to decide how the box starts, and we keep it on the record of each newsletter decision. For each decision we record the wording you were shown, the country we found and how we found it, whether the box was shown ticked or unticked, whether you submitted it ticked or unticked, and when, together with a one-way hash of your IP address (never the address itself) and the user agent your browser sends. If the box was shown to you ticked but the country we find when you submit it is one where a ticked box is not valid consent, or we cannot tell the country, we do not subscribe you.

This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from https://www.maxmind.com.

• Provide and improve the marketplace (matching, deals, messaging).
• Authenticate you, secure accounts, and prevent abuse.
• Send transactional email (verification, password reset, receipts, deal and payment notices).
• Send the newsletter to members who chose it on the newsletter box or in Settings, to anyone who asked for it on the newsletter page, and to members subscribed under an earlier rule until they unsubscribe. You can unsubscribe any time in Settings, or in one click from any issue.
• Comply with law and enforce our Terms.

We share data with service providers that help us operate, including:

• Hosting and infrastructure (e.g. Vercel, Render)
• Database (MongoDB Atlas)
• Email (SendGrid) and newsletter (Beehiiv, when enabled)
• Payments (Stripe)
• Media hosting (Cloudinary, when enabled)
• Identity providers you choose (X, and Google or LinkedIn when enabled), only to complete sign-in

We do not sell your personal information. We may disclose data if required by law or to protect rights and safety.

We use essential cookies and local storage for authentication and preferences. You can clear browser storage, which will sign you out.

We keep account and transaction records while your account is active and as needed for legal, security, and accounting purposes. You may request deletion subject to those needs.

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, export, or delete your data. Contact r@acquiresponsor.com.

The service is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your region). Do not create an account if you are under that age.

We may update this policy. Material changes will be reflected by the "Last updated" date and, where appropriate, an in-product notice.

Privacy questions: r@acquiresponsor.com. Also see our Terms of Service.