Privacy notice for creators

You are reading this because a business using Talkscope contacted you about a collaboration, and its message said where your contact details were found. This page explains what is held about you, by whom, and how to have it corrected or removed (GDPR Article 14).

Who is responsible

• TinyMentions, Inc. (a Delaware corporation; 2810 N Church St PMB 37128, Wilmington, Delaware 19802-4447, US), which runs Talkscope (Talkscope is a product of TinyMentions, Inc.), is the controller of the creator discovery database: the creators, their published work and the contact details described below.
• The business that wrote to you is the controller of its own outreach: its message, its notes about you and what it keeps of your reply. Its name is in the message it sent.

For either, write to feco@talkscope.co; we pass a request about a business's outreach to that business.

What is held, and its source

• Your name and your public profiles (your website, newsletter, podcast or channel), as you publish them.
• Your published work: its title, link and date, and the text extracted from it (an article's text, a video's or an episode's transcript), each with the page it came from.
• A way to contact you — an email address or a contact form — from one of three sources, which the message you received names: a public page (your site, your bio, your feed, a public registration record), a business-contact lookup service (Anymail Finder), or an address the business entered itself because you gave it to them.
• Public figures about your channel (for example, subscriber counts) and any rates you publish.
• What is derived from that inside a business's account: how well you fit its search (scores and the evidence for them), the decisions its members recorded about you (for example "not a fit"), the notes its team wrote about your work, and inferences such as your likely country or the kind of creator you are.

Nothing is collected by logging in to any site, and nothing is held about your readers, commenters or followers.

Why, and on what basis

To help businesses find creators who already write or talk about the problem their product solves, and to draft a first message to them. The legal basis is legitimate interests (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)): the data is professional and public, and it is used to propose a collaboration. Talkscope sends nothing: a person at the business reviews and approves each message and sends it from their own mailbox.

Profiling

Fit scores rank creators for a business's search: a model reads your published work against what the business does, and the score orders its list. No decision with legal or similarly significant effect is made automatically: a person at the business decides whether to contact you, and approves every message.

Who receives it, and where

The data is processed on Google Cloud, us-central1 (USA). The members of the business account that contacted you see what concerns its searches. The processors that handle it for Talkscope are OpenAI, SendGrid, Sentry, Decodo and Anymail Finder: OpenAI's language models read your published work to score fit and draft the message; SendGrid delivers Talkscope's own email (such as the confirmation of a removal request); Sentry receives error reports, which can carry a fragment of a page being processed; Decodo fetches public pages and search results; and Anymail Finder, the contact-lookup service, looks up a business contact address. Public pages are also found through the YouTube Data API and Podcast Index. They are in the United States, so your data is transferred there. The data is not sold.

How long

Your data is kept until 24 months after the last time any business's project used or contacted you, then deleted. A contact detail you no longer use is marked as replaced and is not used again. Copies of the pages that back a quoted claim are kept for 365 days. Raw web pages are not stored.

Your rights

You may ask for a copy of what is held, to have it corrected or removed, to restrict its use, or to object to it. To be removed, use https://talkscope.co/remove-me: enter the address that was contacted, and we send it a link; the request is confirmed by email, from that inbox only, and the link works for 48 hours. The confirmation blocks all use of your data and every contact through Talkscope at once, and the data is deleted within minutes; we email you when it is done. For anything else — a copy, a correction, a request the page cannot take — write to feco@talkscope.co from the address that was contacted, or name the message you received; a person handles it within one month. So that the block can be honoured, a minimal record is kept: a one-way fingerprint of your address (it cannot be turned back into the address), the key that identifies you to our discovery (so you are not found again), the do-not-contact entry, and the log of contacts already made (the kind of contact or answer, the channel, the time and which member of the business recorded it, without its notes). The web addresses, titles, dates and sizes of your public pages already reviewed are kept, without their text and with no stored link to you; text a co-author is also credited with stays until that co-author is erased. A business's own records of its searches and conversations stay with that business, which we ask to act on your request.

Replying "no thanks" to a message stops that business from writing again. To stop every business using Talkscope, use https://talkscope.co/remove-me or write to the mailbox. You may also complain to your data-protection authority.

If you asked for early access

A request for early access keeps what you wrote in the form (your name, work address, company and its website, your role, business type, team size, how you heard of Talkscope and what you would use it for) so that the founder can decide it and write back. A declined or withdrawn request is deleted 90 days after the decision, and an unanswered one 180 days after it was last touched; an accepted one becomes part of your account and is deleted with it. Write to feco@talkscope.co to have it deleted sooner.