This privacy policy sets out our privacy practices for this website and how your personal information will be treated by us.
We allow "Contributors" - who we call "Thinkers" - to upload videos of how they experience products and services. This is in order to help the organisations who provide those products and services (our clients) to better understand their customers. These clients may use the videos in any way they choose for internal purposes only or privately with their suppliers or retailers (please see the Terms & Conditions for more information).
To set up a Watch Me Think account we will, as a minimum, collect your name, the country you currently live in, and email address. We also need your paypal account ID in order to pay you. All email contact will come from Watch Me Think.
We do not pass on your personal information to anyone else.
We use your personal information:
The other information we ask for is optional. This includes things such as your address, gender, age, household income etc.
If this additional information is provided, we can invite you to take part in specific briefs where the client has requested a more detailed consumer profile. While adding this additional information is optional, the more information you provide, the more opportunity there is for you to earn money.
You can update your personal profile information on your profile page at anytime.
The video "content" that you upload on the site will be seen by our clients on a password protected site. It is never placed on external sites unless your permission is expressly given via direct and personal contact with us. You are too important for us to do anything that would obviously make you angry :-)
Please note that if you give out personal information in your videos, this can be collected by Third Parties and you disclose this information at your own risk.
Our clients are located in many different countries. We constantly endeavour to take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to ensure that all our clients do not breach Australian Privacy Legislation in relation to your personal information, wherever this is possible. We additionally insist that our clients do not publish any of your videos in any public website or forum without our (and your) permissions.
Additionally - while working for Watch Me Think is “work made for hire”, we voluntarily follow, where appropriate, the principles as set out in the European General Data Protection Regulation, where they do not negatively impact the Terms & Conditions or impact the Lawful Basis of the work we pay you for.
You can close your account at anytime by logging in and doing so via your account settings. On request, all your personally identifiable text stored by us in our application can at any time be pseudo anonymised.
When you visit our site we automatically log your IP address which identifies your computer's access point to the internet. We use IP addresses to help us administer the site and to collect broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information.
We may store some information (commonly known as a "cookie") on your computer when you visit our site. Our site uses cookies to assist you in your use of our site, for example when you are creating an account or uploading a video. Cookies are used temporarily. The only personal information we maintain in our database is information you supply in your profile.
Watch Me Think safeguards personal information through a variety of technological processes and internal policies which we will continue to update from time to time. These include the use of encryption, security keys and firewalls.
Data provided through this site will be transferred between countries, mainly Australia, the UK and the USA. This is because the technologies we use may be hosted outside of these territories. However we will take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected to the highest levels.
We reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy. Since any changes will be posted on this page, we encourage you to check this page regularly. Your continued use of our website and/or submission of Thinker Content constitutes your acceptance of any revised Privacy Policy.
Use of the website is governed by the provisions contained in the Watch Me Think's Terms and Conditions. Your use, or access of the website constitutes your agreement to be bound by these provisions. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, you should not use or otherwise access the website.
Whilst in general use of this site is on a work-made-for-hire basis, Watch Me Think will still honour, where appropriate and applicable, the basic principles of the GDPR, as follows:
All your key personal data held in the WMT system is viewable by you in your profile, as are the videos you make under the direction of accepted briefs. We will also respond to any request regarding any additional data that you think we may have as regards your good self.
Each brief for which you make videos explains the purpose behind making those videos. These videos will only ever be used for internal research purposes. You will be explicitly notified (pre-brief) or asked (post brief) should there be any request whatsoever to use your video in a wider setting (such as publically). Post-brief requests are entirely dependent on you giving your explicit permission.
Pre-brief - you must not take part that brief if you object to the stated intended use for the videos.
We will only ever ask you for information that is relevant to the brief you are paid to make the videos for. You can choose how much or how little information you give. We may store some of this information for a limited time if we think it will help us to stop asking you the same questions over and over again.
You have access to modify and correct your key personal information held by us at anytime by logging into your account. If you feel additional corrections are needed to data that is uneditable by you, or that you think we may hold outside of the application, please get in touch and we will correct and/or remove these for you.
The information you give and the videos you make will be held on our servers for as long as they are deemed useful to either ourselves the client that commissioned the video/s.
However you can request at any time to have your data pseudo anonymized (effectively all text data about you will be erased and replaced by non identifiable pseudo information).
Accounts that are unused (no-one has logged in) over a 2 year period will be closed and pseudo anonymised.
All videos will be reviewed at 5 year intervals and those no longer found to be useful will be erased completely.
Watch Me Think uses bank level security certificates to secure data transfers. It also uses a secure virtual private server. Your information may also be stored with other services (as listed below) or with our clients. At every step, we will take every reasonable precaution to secure your data against any unauthorised access. If we ever find that this has been breached, we will notify you within 24hrs.
Watch Me Think has a nominated Data Protection Officer, has documented its use of all personal data and has policies & processes in place to monitor and escalate any issues that may occur. If you have any questions about your privacy please contact us.
Please contact us if you want to:
Please contact us immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your Thinker Account by anyone else or any other breach of security.
For more general information regarding privacy in Australia, visit the website of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (www.oaic.gov.au).
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 20 March 2018.