Privacy note

What we collect

What you type into the form:

• Your name and email address.
• Your WhatsApp number, if you give it.
• Your area and what you do.
• Your Instagram handles and links to your work, with any notes you add.
• Your experience, how you work (alone, team or agency) and your rough rates.

What we create or see

Your member code (like CGIG-34DK) and the dates you joined and last updated your answers. Each time you send the form we keep a copy of what you sent, so changes don’t lose earlier answers.

Your IP address, used only to block spam and repeated attempts. It is not stored with your sign-up. Cloudflare checks that a person, not a bot, is filling in the form.

If we email you: whether each email was delivered, bounced or reported as spam, and whether you unsubscribed.

When you visit the site, Google Analytics records which pages are viewed, the device and browser, the rough location (city level) and how visitors arrived. It uses cookies for this. It counts visits, it is not linked to your sign-up, and we don’t use it for advertising.

We don’t ask for your date of birth, ID numbers or bank details, we don’t use advertising trackers, and we don’t follow you across other sites.

Why we use it

To contact you about early access, to set up your profile with you before launch, and to give early members first pick of the paid jobs we share. Your email and WhatsApp number are how we reach you. Your work links, Instagram and rates help us understand what you do.

We don’t sell your details, and we don’t share them with brands until you have a profile you have approved.

Emails we send

Only emails about your sign-up and the service:

• A confirmation when you join, with your member code.
• Messages to set up your profile before launch.
• Early-member job alerts and launch news that affects your profile.
• Replies when you write to us.

No marketing, easy to stop

We don’t send newsletters or marketing, and we never sell or rent email addresses.

Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. If an email to you bounces permanently or is marked as spam, we stop emailing that address automatically. We keep just the address and the reason on a do-not-email list, so we don’t email it again by mistake.

Who handles it for us

A few services process your data on our behalf, only to run the site:

• Cloudflare: hosts the website and runs the spam check.
• Our database server, run by us: stores your sign-up. Connections to it are encrypted.
• Amazon Web Services (Amazon SES, Mumbai region): sends our emails.
• Google (Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager): measures visits to the site.

Your consent

You give consent by ticking the box on the form. You can withdraw it at any time with the unsubscribe link or by writing to us. We’ll stop contacting you and delete your sign-up, except the do-not-email entry.

The list is for people aged 18 and over.

How long we keep it

Until we have set up your profile, or until you ask us to delete it. If we don’t launch, we delete all sign-ups. Do-not-email entries are kept so we can keep honouring them.

Your rights

You can ask to see the data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or name someone to act for you. Write to us at the address below. We reply within 7 working days. If you are not happy with our answer, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Grievance contact

Mouad PN, Kochi, Kerala 682025, India. Email: hello@creativegigs.in.

Changes

If we change this note in a way that matters, we’ll update the date above and tell people on the list by email.