Privacy Policy

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    Effective Date: January 30, 2026

    Welcome to FanSpark!

    FanSpark is a platform that helps connect fans with athletes, teams and other creators they love. “We,” “us,” and “our” refer to Wizards and Misfits, Inc. “FanSpark” refers to this platform and the services offered by us, including FanSpark’s websites and apps. This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use [https://www.fanspark.pro/terms-of-use], and describes how we collect, use, and share information.

    Information You Provide FanSpark

    This is information that you provide to us through text fields, such as your name, payment information, and benefits. The information of this type that we require you to provide differs depending on whether you create an account, become a fan, purchase a subscription, otherwise engage with a creator, or become a creator. It may include:

    • first and last name/surname;

    • College/NIL Director, if applicable;

    • email address;

    • phone number;

    • Username; and/or

    • password.

    You may also have the option to sign up for FanSpark using a Facebook, Google, or Apple account. We will ask for permission to access basic information from your Facebook, Google, or Apple account, such as your userID, full name, email address and profile picture. You can choose to stop sharing that information with us at any time by going to Facebook, Google or Apple to remove FanSpark’s access to that account and your ability to use it to log in to FanSpark. In order to use an account with one of these companies to sign up for FanSpark, these companies may require you to share personal data with them, including information about your usage of FanSpark. As applicable to you, please consult the Facebook, Google, and Apple privacy policies to learn more about that.

    You may also have the option to add more information to your public profile, such as a location, social media links, and an about section, which we store along with the other information that we collect.

    Fans

    A fan is someone who subscribes on FanSpark, which may come with special benefits from creators they love. As a fan, you must provide your payment information to a payment partner of ours. You can see the Privacy Policy for these payment partners on their sites, which may include Stripe, Apple and Google. FanSpark stores the expiry and last four digits associated with your payment card, but does not store your full payment card number. Instead, FanSpark uses a service provider to create a token that represents your card’s primary account number, which FanSpark then stores. If you choose to pay using a payment partner that requires you to provide to them your personal data like name and email address, then that payment partner may provide that information to FanSpark.

    We collect and process information about the creators you subscribe to. We may also derive your location from your self-disclosed country, your IP address and/or your payment card.

    Creators

    A creator is someone who creates a page on FanSpark to engage with fans who purchase subscriptions on FanSpark to support the creator’s creations. To become a creator, you must create a page that describes what you are offering. To receive payouts, you have to create an account with one of our payment partners, currently Stripe. If you choose to receive payouts using a payment partner that requires you to provide to them your personal data like name and email address, then that payment partner may provide that information to FanSpark. You may also be required to provide the payment partner your bank account information, social security number and other information to process payouts. You must also provide us with additional information for tax purposes. Depending on your location and the type of creations that you create, you may have to provide FanSpark some combination of the following:

    • email address;

    • username;

    • password; and/or

    • display name.

    Additional Information We Collect

    Automatically Collected Information

    We automatically receive information when you view creations on or otherwise interact with FanSpark, even if you have not created an account. For example, when you visit our website, view or interact with a FanSpark embed on another website or mobile app, sign into FanSpark’s services, or view or interact with an email from FanSpark, we may automatically receive information about you, including:

    • your IP address;

    • your approximate location (typically derived from your IP address);

    • your browser and/or device type;

    • your operating system;

    • your language settings;

    • the referring web page (including parameters contained therein);

    • your mobile carrier;

    • device information (including device and application IDs);

    • your search terms (including those not submitted as queries);

    • the links you click;

    • the pages you visit/the creations you load or request;

    • session length, dwell time, and duration of media experiences (including view time); and/or

    • cookie information (further detailed in our Cookie Policy below).

    Messages and Comments on FanSpark

    When you send or receive messages or when you post or are mentioned in comments or messages on FanSpark, we collect the contents of those messages and comments as well as information about related activity, including the timestamp of those messages and comments and who has viewed those messages or comments.

    Information from Third-Party Accounts

    After creating a FanSpark account, you may be able to connect your social media account(s) (e.g., Instagram, Bluesky, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Twitch) with FanSpark and we may collect and store some information related to those accounts via their commercially available API.

    You may also grant FanSpark access to these third-party accounts in order for some FanSpark features to operate. When you connect such a third-party account to your FanSpark account, that third-party service will typically present a page that describes the information that FanSpark can access and/or permissions you are granting to FanSpark to take actions on your behalf. At any time, you may be able to revoke FanSpark’s access to those accounts using the respective third party’s settings page (e.g., here for Google).

    User Research Studies & Surveys

    We conduct research about current, former, and prospective creators and fans. From time to time, we may solicit your participation in such a research study and, if you choose to participate, then we may observe how you use FanSpark and may record video, audio, and images of you using FanSpark and your interview with FanSpark researchers. As part of these research studies we may also ask you to answer survey questions, including about how you use FanSpark and how you perceive FanSpark’s services and brand. When you answer these questions, we will store your responses.

    Event Information & Surveys

    From time to time, we may solicit your participation in surveys related to FanSpark events. In order to better understand and serve creators and fans, we may ask you for demographic information, including information related to your gender identity, ethnicity, race, age, sexual orientation, earnings, and accessibility, which you may optionally choose to provide. We collect such information to help us better understand the overall population of creators and fans that use FanSpark, to develop and market events for creators and fans, and to showcase creators for greater discoverability, including at such events. When you complete these surveys, we store your survey responses, including any such demographic information you choose to provide.

    We may also request information from you at in-person and online events. This information may include your name, email address, mobile phone number, details about the types of creations you create, and survey or feedback responses.

    Blogs & Creator Education Sites

    We may collect and store your email address, your comments, and your profile information from our blog and creator education sites.

    Information Collected by Third Parties

    Cookie Policy

    Third parties may use cookies on our website. A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. This small text file may enable a site to, for example, remember your actions and preferences so that, for example, you don’t have to re-enter your login or settings information each time you visit a new page on the site.

    We use cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for the operation and security of the site, as well as limited analytics cookies to help us understand how the site is used and to improve it. You can adjust your web browser’s settings to decline cookies, delete cookies, or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie. Consult your web browser’s documentation to learn more about these controls.

    Social Media Features and Widgets

    We may use social media and related products and features and widgets, such as the Share button or similar interactive mini-programs that run on FanSpark. These features may collect your IP address and other personal data, including which page you are visiting on our site, and may set and/or read cookies. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or directly on FanSpark. For more information on the technologies used by these third parties, the information they collect, and how that information is used, please refer to their respective privacy policies. Below are links to the privacy policies of the most used such services for easy reference:

    How We Use Information

    As applicable, we use the information we collect to, among other things:

    • provide the FanSpark service generally;

    • comply with industry requirements, self-regulatory guidelines, US federal law, US state law, and international laws, including tax reporting requirements;

    • verify your identity to comply with industry requirements, self-regulatory guidelines, US federal law, US state law, and international laws;

    • enable you to sign in to your account;

    • enable you to subscribe to creators and/or purchase subscriptions on FanSpark;

    • process payments and payouts;

    • apply sales tax;

    • send you messages and notifications, including push notifications, email, and SMS/MMS as controlled by your notification preferences;

    • provide you with information about FanSpark and your subscriptions on FanSpark;

    • provide you with customer support and reply to your questions;

    • promote your FanSpark account and/or creator page for greater discoverability;

    • personalize the FanSpark experience, including recommending creators to fans;

    • market FanSpark products and services to you or to audiences similar to you, including via personalized advertising (also referred to as online behavioral advertising or interest-based advertising) as controlled by your marketing preferences;

    • organize and tailor in-person and online events;

    • understand and analyze how you use the service;

    • conduct research and development to improve FanSpark and develop our products and their features;

    • prevent fraud, abuse, and illegal activities on FanSpark, including using automated processing and manual review; and/or

    • provide you with reasonable accommodation if you notify us of a disability.

    Information Shared with the Public

    The following information may be publicly accessible or otherwise shared with members of the public:

    • Aggregated and otherwise non-personal data, including aggregated usage data in blog posts, press releases or other ways to share information about FanSpark’s usage and business.

    • Comments, likes, and other reactions inherit the visibility of the associated post or message. Accordingly, comments, likes, and reactions on public posts or messages are public and comments, likes, and reactions on posts or messages with limited visibility are visible to the audience of users to whom the author has made the post or message available. If a non-public post or message is later made public, then the comments, likes, and reactions on that post or message may also become public.

    • For fans:

      • your public FanSpark profile, including your user name, avatar image and the date you created your FanSpark account,

      • the comments you’ve made; and

      • your public biographical description if you’ve added one to your FanSpark account.

    • For creators:

      • your public FanSpark profile, including your user name, avatar image and location information you’ve added;

      • your public biographical description;

      • the contents of your creator page, including a description of your creator page, prices of your subscriptions, and the titles of all of your posts;

      • the contents of your posts are made available to the audience you’ve selected – for example, public posts are public and posts limited to your subscribers are visible to anyone who subscribes;

      • when you like or react to a comment on one of the posts on your creator page this fact may be displayed to the audience that can view the post based on the post’s visibility setting.

    Information Shared with Third Parties

    We never sell your information to third parties. Other than information that is shared with creators, shared with communities on FanSpark, or shared with members of the public, we will only share data with third parties under the following circumstances:

    • FanSpark’s service providers: these are companies that are contractually engaged with us to provide us with services, including cloud hosting, content distribution, security, order fulfillment, email and document management, internal communication/chat, analytics, credit card processing, multi-currency settlement solutions, and fraud detection and prevention. We may share your personal data with such service providers subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that these third parties use your personal data only on FanSpark’s behalf and pursuant to our instructions (service providers may use other non-personal data for their own benefit).

    • Government and law enforcement agencies

      • Tax reporting: to satisfy obligations to report information to tax authorities, including reporting information about creators’ earnings on FanSpark, tax identification information, and information related to transactional taxes such as Valued Added Tax, Goods and Services Tax, other local service or sales taxes in non-US locations, and state sales tax in the United States.

      • Legal process and law enforcement: to protect the security or integrity of FanSpark, as well as to protect the rights, property, and safety of FanSpark, its employees, fans, creators, or others, or if we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, or other valid legal process (e.g., subpoenas or warrants served on FanSpark). When legally permitted to do so, and under appropriate circumstances, FanSpark will endeavor to notify you (typically by email) when we intend to release your data pursuant to a valid government request, law-enforcement request or other legal process.

    • Any third parties connected with the sale, merger, bankruptcy, sale of assets or reorganization of our company: in such a circumstance the promises in this Privacy Policy apply to any data transferred to a new entity.

    • Third-party services to which you’ve connected your FanSpark account: when you connect your FanSpark account to other websites, apps, or services, you may be asked to give those websites, apps, or services access to information about your FanSpark account and/or permission to perform actions within your FanSpark account on your behalf. If you choose to take such an authorization action, then FanSpark will follow your instructions and grant the access or permission that you’ve selected.

    Your Preferences and Control over Your Data

    Choosing Your Preferences

    You can see and adjust your account preferences, including privacy preferences, after logging in to your account.

    Opting out of Marketing

    You may opt out of email marketing by clicking a link included in each marketing email. You may opt out of SMS/MMS marketing by replying “STOP” or equivalent. You may also adjust your preferences in your settings.

    Please allow up to 30 days for your opt-out request to be processed. If you have an account with FanSpark, you will continue to receive service-related emails and/or texts if you have opted in to receive such communications.

    We may work with third-party advertising partners to market our services. You can opt your current browser out of interest-based advertising from partners that adhere to the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising at https://optout.aboutads.info. On Android, depending on your version of Android, you can delete the advertising ID for your current device in your Android phone’s settings or you can opt your current device out of interest-based advertising by enabling “Opt out of Ads Personalization” in your Android phone’s settings (precise directions and setting name may be different on different Android versions). On iOS 13 and previous versions only, you can opt your current device out of interest-based advertising by enabling the “Limit Ad Tracking” setting in your iOS phone’s settings (precise directions may be different on different iOS versions). On iOS 14 and later versions only, if you don't want to allow apps to access your current device’s iOS Identifier for Advertising, you can disable the “Allow Apps to Request to Track” setting in your iOS settings (precise directions may be different on different iOS versions).

    Controlling Your Data

    We enable individuals to:

    • access their personal data that FanSpark has collected;

    • correct or rectify any such personal data that they believe is inaccurate;

    • restrict or oppose the processing of their personal data;

    • delete their personal data; and

    • transport their personal data.

    You can do this on FanSpark in the following ways:

    • access, review, modify and update your data by logging in to your account at FanSpark and going to your account settings;

    • access your personal data or delete data by emailing "Make a Privacy Request" to support@fanspark.pro;

    • delete a previously-disabled account by emailing FanSpark at support@fanspark.pro; and

    • exercising preferences as described above.

    If you are unable to log in to your account, and are unable to recover your account with a password reset in order to lodge your privacy request, then you may reach out to support@fanspark.pro. We reserve the right to refuse access to or recovery of an account, at our sole discretion, in order to prevent an unauthorized takeover of your account or unauthorized access to your personal data.

    You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In order to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, you must provide a valid power of attorney, the requester’s valid government ID, and the authorized agent’s valid government ID. Please contact legal@fanspark.pro with your request. To prevent an unauthorized takeover of your account or unauthorized access to your personal data, we may decline access to or recovery of your account at our sole discretion.

    Verification of Requests

    Users typically maintain password-protected accounts with FanSpark. If you submit a request to exercise your privacy rights, you will be asked to verify the request by logging in to your FanSpark account, or to verify your identity in another manner.

    If we are unable to adequately verify your request at our sole discretion then, in order to protect against unauthorized access to personal data, we reserve the right to deny the request.

    Do Not Track Signals

    Your browser may be configured to transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites that you visit. There is no industry-standard approach to what this signal means. Accordingly, FanSpark does not monitor or otherwise respond to these “Do Not Track” signals.

    Children

    FanSpark is not directed to children, and you may not use FanSpark if you are under the age of 13. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data. You must be at least 18 years old or have your parent’s or legal guardian’s permission to have a creator page on FanSpark or to purchase subscriptions on FanSpark.

    Security

    The security of your personal information is important to us. We use reasonable and appropriate physical, technical, and administrative industry safeguards to protect information from unauthorized access, use, loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration.

    Our systems never access your full credit card number, and we encrypt the most sensitive information like tax information using transport layer security (TLS). We also offer advanced security measures, such as two-factor authentication for signing in, and CAPTCHA verification in cases when a bot is detected, when a user attempts to login from a suspicious IP address or after rapid succession login attempts. We only serve traffic over HTTPS, which encrypts all data between you and us.

    As a creator or fan, you can help prevent unauthorized access to your account and information by choosing a strong and unique password which is stored in a password manager. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at security@fanspark.pro. If you are a security expert or researcher and you believe that you have discovered a security-related issue with FanSpark, we appreciate your help in disclosing the issue to us responsibly. You can sign up for our bug bounty program and submit bug reports to us at security@fanspark.pro. Please include a detailed description of the issue and the steps required to reproduce what you have observed when you submit bug reports.

    Please do not engage in any behavior that endangers the security of our website and users. Below are some examples of things you should not do on FanSpark:

    • Illegal Activities – Don’t break the law or encourage others to break the law.

    • Personal Information – Don’t distribute others’ personal information or otherwise abuse it.

    • Spam – Don’t spam others or distribute unsolicited advertising material.

    • Malware – Don’t host or distribute, malicious or destructive software.

    • Service Degradation – Don’t degrade others’ use or do any kind of brute force or load testing.

    • Data Mining – Don’t crawl, scrape or otherwise index information. If you are doing this to create a useful feature then we may allow it, but you must check with us first.

    • Reverse Engineering – Don’t reverse engineer or access our code in any manner that is not authorized by us. If you are interested in improving our security, email security@fanspark.pro to sign up for our bug bounty program.

    If you engage in any of these behaviors, or otherwise endanger the security of our website and users we may suspend or terminate your account.

    Our Data Retention Period

    FanSpark stores your personal data until it is no longer necessary to provide our services, or until you ask us to delete it. We may continue to retain some information even after you delete your account if we are required to do so to comply with applicable laws.

    California Privacy Laws

    FanSpark’s headquarters are located in Minnesota, USA.

    The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) allows California residents to request access to the specific pieces and categories of personal information that the business has collected about the consumer, the categories of sources for that information, the business or commercial purposes for collecting the information, and the categories of third parties with which the information was shared.

    FanSpark provides California residents and all users with the right to view, access, or transport their information upon request. All users also have the right to submit a request to delete information by emailing support@fanspark.pro with the subject line "Make a Privacy Request" and requesting "Erase." We do not discriminate against users who exercise their privacy rights.

    Under California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code section 1798.83), California residents have certain rights regarding the disclosure of their information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. FanSpark’s policy is not to share your information with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes if you have exercised your option to prevent that. If you wish to not have your personal information shared for those purposes, you may adjust your preferences or request that we delete your personal information by following the steps outlined above.

    Changes

    We may sometimes make changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make a change to this Policy that, in FanSpark’s sole discretion, is material, then we will let you know before the changes come into effect. Continuing to use FanSpark after a change to this policy means you accept the new policy. If you have any questions, please email support@fanspark.pro.

    Questions/Concerns

    If you have privacy concerns or questions, you can email at support@fanspark.pro. You may also post a letter to us with your questions.

    FanSpark Privacy Team
    1065 24th Ave. SW
    Suite 155
    Owatonna, MN 55060

    We take your privacy queries seriously, and are committed to resolving any complaints that may arise about our collection or use of your data. If you believe your privacy rights have been infringed, we encourage you to contact us at support@fanspark.pro. You may also have the right to complain to the appropriate data protection supervisory authority.