Partner Privacy Notice

Version 2026-08-25 · Effective August 25, 2026

This document has not been reviewed by a lawyer yet. It is a plain-language draft, written from an attorney-review package, and the retention periods below still need an accountant’s confirmation. If a section matters to a decision you are making, email johnsontechstudio@gmail.com and we will tell you where it stands, in writing, before you rely on it.

This Notice explains how Johnson Tech Studio LLC dba gig33, doing business as Gig33, handles personal information about people who apply to become a partner, are partners, or administer a partner account. It is separate from the Privacy Policy that covers the businesses who buy our services and their own customers.

1. What we collect about you

Identity and contact: your name, email, phone, business name if you have one, your account ID, and your sign-in and authentication events.
Eligibility: your confirmation that you are 18 or over, and the results of any identity, fraud, or risk checks we run.
Tax and payout: W-9 information and the taxpayer identifier it contains, payout account details held by our payment provider, payout status, and 1099 records — collected when you set up payouts, not before.
Sales and attribution: your referral link and partner ID, the prospects attributed to you, checkouts, sales, refunds, disputes, commission calculations and status, and payouts.
Training and compliance: training you have completed, what you acknowledged, the approved scripts and materials you were given, complaints about you, results of any monitoring, warnings, and investigations.
Support and messages: what you send us, notes on your account, and the notices we send you.
Device and usage: IP address, browser and device information, sign-in events, how you use the portal, and security logs.
Preferences: your notification settings, and a theme preference stored in a cookie on your device.

2. Why we use it

To create and secure your account.
To work out which sales are yours, calculate commission, reverse it when a sale is refunded or disputed, and pay you.
To meet tax and payment-provider requirements, including identity, fraud, and sanctions checks.
To give you training, product updates, support, and program notices.
To check that partner marketing follows the approved claims, disclosure, outreach, and brand rules — see the Compliance Policy.
To investigate complaints, chargebacks, suspicious transactions, abuse, and security incidents.
To improve the partner tools using aggregated information that does not identify you.
To comply with the law and to bring or defend a legal claim.

3. Monitoring, stated plainly

Part of running a partner program is checking what partners say in public. We may look at your public marketing, ask you for proof of consent or of a commission disclosure, make test enquiries, and keep a record of complaints and how they were resolved. That record is part of your partner file, and it is one of the things this Notice covers.

4. Who we share it with

Our payment and payout provider, and tax reporting providers.
Identity and fraud-check providers where we use them.
The companies that host our database, application, and email.
Professional advisers — a lawyer, an accountant, an insurer.
Authorities, where the law requires it.
A buyer, if our business is sold or merged.

Buyers never see your money. A business that buys through your link is not shown your tax details, your bank details, or what you earned.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with advertising companies.

5. Cookies and tracking

We use a strictly necessary cookie to keep you signed in and a preference cookie to remember your theme. There are no advertising pixels, no cross-site tracking, and no session replay in the partner portal — when we locked down what these pages are allowed to load, we checked the pages that are actually served and found no analytics package and no third-party tag of any kind.

Not settled yet — whether anything we do counts as a “sale” or a “share” under a particular state’s privacy law is a question we have not put to a lawyer. The factual position above is what those definitions would be applied to. If we ever add advertising or analytics technology we will name it here first.

6. How long we keep it

We keep things by record type rather than forever. This is what we are aiming at:

Your partner account and profile — while it is active, plus about 24 months.
Commission and transaction records — about 7 years, because they are tax records.
W-9 and 1099 records — about 7 years, or whatever tax law requires.
Complaints and investigations — generally up to 24 months after they close, longer if there is a live legal matter.
Security and sign-in logs — roughly 12 to 24 months.
Do-not-contact records — for as long as we need them to keep honouring the request.

Not final — these periods have not been confirmed by an accountant or a lawyer, and the seven-year figures in particular are the kind of number a CPA settles rather than us. Treat them as our intended schedule, not as a commitment.

Your taxpayer identifier, bank details, and any identity documents stay in the restricted workflows that need them. They do not get copied into account notes, support conversations, or AI prompts.

7. How we protect it

Our database enforces per-account access rules, so you can only ever read your own rows.
Traffic is encrypted in transit, and data is stored with our providers’ encryption at rest.
Access is least-privilege, secrets stay on the server, and sign-in and account activity are logged.
Tax and payout information is restricted and does not appear in ordinary analytics or support views.

No system is perfectly secure, and we will not claim one is.

8. Your choices and your rights

You can update your notification preferences in Settings and clear the appearance cookie at any time.
You can ask us for a copy of the information we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it, including closing your account.
Some records we cannot delete on request — tax and commission records, evidence in a fraud or compliance investigation, and anything we need to defend a legal claim.
Operational, security, tax, payout, and agreement-change messages are part of running the partner relationship and continue while your account is open. You can opt out of promotional messages separately.

To make a request, email johnsontechstudio@gmail.com from the address on your account. We may need to check it is really you first.

Not settled yet — we have not committed to a response deadline and we do not have a formal appeal route or a self-service request form. If a law that applies to you gives you one, you have it, and emailing us is how you use it.

9. United States only

This program is run in the United States and our providers store data there. We do not offer this as a service meeting European or United Kingdom data-protection requirements, and we do not have the international transfer arrangements those regimes require. An earlier version of this page implied otherwise. It was more than we could stand behind, so it is gone rather than left there to reassure someone falsely.

Questions, or a privacy request: johnsontechstudio@gmail.com, or by post at Johnson Tech Studio LLC, 4319 Country Brook Dr, Dallas, TX 75287, United States.

10. Changes

We may update this Notice. The version and effective date above change when we do, and we will tell you about a material change.