EarnPaste ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our link shortening service and website.
Account Information
When you sign in with Google (Firebase Authentication), we receive:
- Email address
- Display name and profile picture
- A unique user ID (UID) and authentication tokens
Payout Information
When you request a payout, we collect the payment details you provide:
- Your chosen payout method (PayPal, USDT, BTC, or ETH)
- Your PayPal email address or your cryptocurrency wallet address
- Payout amounts, earnings balance, and transaction history
Content You Create
- Pastes you create (text, links, images, videos, and other uploaded content)
- Profile information, buddies/connections, and any bio or customization you add
- Direct messages you send to other creators and messages sent via support chat
Usage, Analytics & Fraud-Prevention Data
When pastes are viewed, we process the following, primarily to count views accurately and prevent fraud/abuse:
- IP address of visitors (used to derive approximate location and to detect proxies/VPNs, bots, and fraudulent traffic)
- Approximate geolocation derived from the IP address (country, region, city, and approximate coordinates)
- Proxy/VPN, crawler/bot, and threat-level signals returned by our IP intelligence provider
- Browser and device information, and session identifiers
- View and click counts, aggregated by country and city
We store view statistics in aggregated form (for example, per-country and per-city counts). We do not retain individual visitor IP addresses alongside these view counts.
API Keys
If you use our API, your API key is stored only as a securely hashed value (SHA-256), never in plain text.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
- Essential cookies for authentication and website functionality
- Google reCAPTCHA, used to verify that paste viewers are human
- Analytics and advertising cookies, where used and in accordance with applicable law
How We Use Your Information
- Provide and maintain our link shortening and paste service
- Count paste views accurately and calculate your earnings by country/region
- Detect and prevent fraud, bot traffic, proxies/VPNs, and other abuse
- Process payouts to your PayPal or cryptocurrency address
- Process premium purchases and subscriptions through our payment provider
- Enable profiles, direct messages, and support chat
- Send you important service updates and notifications
- Improve our service and develop new features
- Comply with legal obligations and respond to copyright/DMCA and abuse reports
- Display relevant advertisements (where applicable, with consent)
EarnPaste uses trusted third-party service providers to help operate, maintain, secure, and improve the platform. These providers may process personal information on our behalf or as independent service providers in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Such services may include:
- Cloud infrastructure, hosting, storage, and authentication services used to provide and secure the platform.
- Payment Processing
Premium purchases and subscriptions are processed by a third-party payment processor acting as our Merchant of Record. Payment and billing information is processed in accordance with the provider's privacy policy. EarnPaste does not store full payment card details. - Fraud prevention, security, and abuse detection services used to help identify malicious activity, automated traffic, unauthorized access, and other threats to the integrity of the platform.
- Analytics and performance monitoring services used to understand how our services are used and to improve reliability and user experience.
- Advertising and monetization partners where applicable to display advertisements or measure advertising performance.
We share only the information reasonably necessary for these providers to perform their services on our behalf or to comply with applicable legal obligations. When acting as independent controllers or service providers, these third parties handle personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies and applicable law.
We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.
- SSL encryption for data transmission
- Secure authentication systems
- Reasonable security monitoring and periodic security improvements
- Limited access to personal information
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to provide our services, process payments and payouts, prevent fraud and abuse, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our Terms of Service, and protect the security and integrity of the platform. When information is no longer required, it will be deleted or anonymized where reasonably practicable.
When you create an account or accept updated Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy, we may record the date and time of acceptance, the version accepted, and related technical information for legal and compliance purposes.
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:
- Access your personal data
- Correct inaccurate information
- Delete your account and data
- Object to processing of your data
- Data portability
- Withdraw consent for marketing communications
To exercise any of these rights, please email us at [email protected] or [email protected]. We may need to verify your identity before responding, and we will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Essential Cookies
Required for basic website functionality and cannot be disabled.
Analytics Cookies
Help us understand how visitors use our website to improve performance.
Advertising Cookies
Where used, these help display relevant advertisements and measure ad effectiveness, in accordance with applicable law.
Our services are not directed to children under the age of 13 (or such higher age as required by applicable law). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under this age. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.