Effective Date: March 9, 2025
Thank you for using WOKEFUND, a service of Unmutedco LLC ("WOKEFUND," "we," "us," or "our"). We've updated our Privacy Policy to reflect changes in data privacy laws and our use of personal information.
Please review this Policy carefully before you use or submit any personal information to WOKEFUND. By using our application and services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
Users: Individuals who use the WOKEFUND platform to discover, support, and fund projects.
Project Creators: Individuals or organizations who run funding campaigns on the WOKEFUND platform.
Collaborators: Other parties that Project Creators can appoint to help manage their project, including by providing project marketing, updating project information, and coordinating reward fulfillment.
Personal Information: Any information that identifies you directly or indirectly in combination with other data about you. Personal information does not include information that is publicly available, de-identified, or aggregated.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as privacy laws or our practices change. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically. If you continue to use WOKEFUND after a change, we will assume you accept the current version of the Policy. This Policy may be translated into another language for your convenience; in the event of a conflict between the English version and any translations, the English version shall control.
WOKEFUND is a service offered by Unmutedco LLC (together with its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, representatives, consultants, employees, officers, and directors—collectively, "Unmutedco," "we," or "us"). WOKEFUND provides a funding platform specifically designed to support projects led by Black and Brown creators, organizations focused on urban centers, and initiatives in disenfranchised markets. We are a limited liability company based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
This Policy describes the personal information we collect from you, how we use that personal information, and our reasons for doing so. It also explains when and how personal information may be shared and your rights and choices regarding the personal information you provide to us.
This Policy is incorporated into and part of WOKEFUND's Terms of Use.
WOKEFUND collects personal information in several ways, primarily:
To create an account on WOKEFUND and use our services, we collect and process certain personal information. Depending on your use of our services, this personal information may include:
You may decline to provide us with your personal information. However, this can limit your ability to register for an account, create or support a project, or otherwise use our services. You may review, update, or delete your account through your account settings.
WOKEFUND collects data about website and app use through our own tracking technologies and tracking technologies provided by our vendors, such as those that help us with data analytics, marketing WOKEFUND projects, and content delivery. Some of this data may be considered personal information.
WOKEFUND commonly uses cookies and pixels. Cookies are small text files that may be saved by your internet browser when you visit a website. These text files then store information about your use of WOKEFUND's services that can be retrieved from your device. Pixels are snippets of code or tiny invisible images embedded in email and websites that help us learn how you interact with the content (for example, if you clicked on a link or an image).
Some tracking technology use is necessary for website and app functionality. These tracking technologies can also support security, analytics, and an improved overall user experience. You may be able to use your browser settings to block tracking technologies, but blocking tracking technologies necessary for our website functionality may prevent you from using our services.
Please see WOKEFUND's Cookie Policy for more information about our tracking technology use, including your choices regarding our use of tracking technologies.
We use the personal information we collect for various purposes, including to:
We also use personal information we collect as reasonably necessary for our legal compliance, to maintain appropriate records for administrative purposes, to protect our rights and interests or those of others, to resolve disputes, to enforce our policies, to prevent harm, and for any other purposes permitted by applicable laws or for which you provide your consent.
There are certain circumstances in which WOKEFUND may share your personal information with others. WOKEFUND will seek to share the minimum amount of personal information necessary when your personal information is shared with others. The usual circumstances in which WOKEFUND may share your personal information are as follows:
When you create an account, we create a basic profile page for you on WOKEFUND, containing your username, the date the account was created, and the number of projects you have supported or launched. By default, your profile is set to private and will only publicly display your username and avatar, date your account was established, and number of projects supported or launched. You can choose to make it public in your account settings. Your username appears, for example, with the comments you post and messages you send on WOKEFUND and, if your profile is set to public, people can click your username to view more information about you. If you make your profile public, others will be able to see the following things:
If you are a User and don't want others to see your real name or image on a project's Community tab, you may choose an avatar or name that is not identifiable. You can also modify or delete certain personal information associated with your account (such as your username, avatar, bio, and location) through your account settings, where you can also change your privacy settings. You may delete your entire account by submitting a privacy request via [email protected].
Project Creators are asked to verify their identities before launching a project. Once this has been done, the Creator's Verified Name will be publicly displayed on their account profile and on any projects they launch. Collaborators are not verified, and are instead invited by Project Creators and sign up for a WOKEFUND account.
Project Creators and Collaborators are central to WOKEFUND's services as they provide the projects that drive our mission. Given that responsibility, Project Creators and Collaborators are bound by this Policy and may only use personal information they receive from WOKEFUND for fulfillment purposes. When "Project Creator" is used in this section, we are also referring to their Collaborators.
When a User pledges to support a project, the Project Creator will receive personal information about the User, including the User's name and amount of contribution. If the project is successful, Project Creators receive additional User personal information, such as an email address and other profile details. This allows Project Creators to send out a survey directly requesting any information necessary to provide rewards the User requests, such as a mailing address or t-shirt size.
Project Creators are required to keep Users' personal information confidential and may only use Users' personal information they get from WOKEFUND as strictly necessary to communicate with Users directly and provide rewards. Project Creators may not sell any personal information or use it for targeted advertising purposes.
Project Creators never receive Users' credit card details or other payment information. Project Creators also should not ask for personal information that isn't necessary to provide your reward and should never request sensitive personal information, such as an identification number or payment information. Contact us at [email protected] if you receive a request for personal information that seems inappropriate or excessive.
Collaborators may be able to access the personal information made available to Project Creators and are similarly bound by this Privacy Policy and required to treat Users' personal information with the same care and respect as Project Creators are. Any Project Creator that chooses to add a Collaborator to a project must only do so in a way that complies with all other WOKEFUND personal information sharing and privacy practices. Regardless of whether the Collaborator is one person or a fulfillment company, Collaborators are prohibited from using User personal information provided to them by Project Creators for any purpose other than fulfillment and in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
Project Creators and Collaborators may also receive routine traffic analytics about their project pages and project marketing.
WOKEFUND reserves the right to take disciplinary action(s), including suspension, for any Project Creator or Collaborator found to be in violation of any requirement or limitation set out in this Policy.
WOKEFUND's website and app may include links to other websites or services whose privacy practices may differ from ours. When you follow a link to a website or service off of the WOKEFUND platform, the privacy policy and other disclosures for that website or service will govern their processing of your personal information.
WOKEFUND does not knowingly collect personal information from people under the age of 16. People under the age of 16 are not permitted to register for a WOKEFUND account or pledge to support projects. You must be at least 18 years old to run a project as a Project Creator or to be appointed as a Collaborator.
If you believe that someone under the age of 16 has provided us with personal information or that someone under 18 is a Project Creator or Collaborator on a WOKEFUND project, please contact us at [email protected]. If we learn that we have received personal information from someone under the age of 16, we will delete such personal information in accordance with applicable law. We will take appropriate actions to remove projects run by people under the age of 18.
If at any time, you believe that your personal information has been used in violation of this Policy, you may report your concerns to us by emailing [email protected].
User Account Settings: All WOKEFUND users can manage personal information in their account settings. From your account, you can request a downloadable copy of your personal information from WOKEFUND. To correct or update the personal information you've provided to us, please log in and update your profile information. You may also delete your user account from within your account settings, or by emailing [email protected]. We may retain personal information when required by law or as necessary for our business following an account deletion request.
Privacy Rights under Certain Laws: Users in certain locations, such as the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and California, are given certain privacy rights regarding their personal information. These rights include the right to know what personal information we process about you and to request access to, correction of, and deletion of your personal information. You also may have the right to ask for a portable copy of your personal information or to object to or ask that we restrict our processing of your personal information. If we rely on your consent for personal information processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time. WOKEFUND will not discriminate against any user for exercising privacy rights provided by applicable law.
If you would like further information regarding your legal rights under applicable data privacy law or would like to exercise any of them that are relevant to you, contact us at [email protected]. In your email, please include your full name, WOKEFUND username, zip code or postal code, the email address at which you prefer to be contacted and, if different, the email address associated with your WOKEFUND account, and the privacy right(s) you are requesting, such as the deletion of information related to a particular transaction or the correction of specific information about you. Please monitor your incoming email correspondence in case we have follow-up questions regarding your privacy request.
Certain laws allow an authorized agent acting on your behalf to make privacy requests, which they may do by following the instructions above. If an authorized agent submits a request for you, we may ask you to verify your own identity or confirm the request directly with us.
Subject to appropriate verification of your identity, which may include asking you for additional information to match to information we have, WOKEFUND will honor the privacy rights provided to you by applicable law (such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation if you are located in the European Economic Area). You can expect that WOKEFUND will respond to your privacy request within the required time period under applicable law, unless we reach out to explain that it will take us longer. If we cannot fulfill your privacy request in whole or in part, we will explain why. It is our policy not to disclose any information in response to a privacy request that may adversely affect the privacy of other persons unless legally required to do so.
If you have any questions about our response to your privacy request, please contact us at [email protected]. While we will always try to assist when you have concerns about the privacy of your personal information and appreciate an opportunity to do so, if you have concerns about how we manage your personal information or respond to your requests, you may be able to file a complaint with your local data protection authority or privacy regulator.
WOKEFUND wants to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. We try to keep emails to a minimum, and you can unsubscribe from marketing or promotional communications at any time by adjusting your notification settings or by selecting the "unsubscribe" link in any communication you receive. If you download the WOKEFUND app, you can manage the notifications you receive on your mobile device in your profile settings. Additionally, to improve our services we may contact you for market research purposes. You always have the choice about whether to take part in our market research.
Even if you unsubscribe from marketing communications, WOKEFUND and our Project Creators and their Collaborators will still be able to send you communications relating to your transactions and rewards, such as successful projects you have supported. This helps ensure they can provide you with updates on your rewards. We'll also be able to send you service-related announcements when it's necessary to do so.
In general, we keep personal information as necessary to provide you with our services. We will typically retain your personal information as long as your account is active and for a reasonable period of time afterward. We will retain and use personal information as permitted by law, as necessary for any purposes explained in this Policy and any reasonably compatible purposes, and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and protect WOKEFUND's legal rights and those of our users. Where your personal information is used for more than one purpose, we will retain it until the last retention period is met.
In determining our retention periods, we consider factors such as our legal and contractual obligations, as well as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the purposes for which we process the personal information, and the potential risk of harm that may result from unauthorized processing of the personal information.
The security of your personal data is important to us. We look to good industry practices to protect the data we collect and maintain, including using Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt information as it travels over the internet. No method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, so WOKEFUND cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. Your account information is protected by a password, which you should choose carefully and keep secure. We encourage all users to enable two-factor authentication in account settings to further protect their account. We also encourage the responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities of our services by emailing [email protected], and we will invite valid disclosures to our bug bounty program.
Over the past several years, more than a dozen states have passed privacy laws to protect consumers in those states. We recognize the privacy rights of consumers residing in any state with an active consumer privacy law that is applicable to WOKEFUND. If you are a resident of a state with an active consumer privacy law, and you want to ask for additional information about your rights, you may contact us at [email protected].
State privacy laws may permit consumers to opt out of the sale of personal information, including when that personal information is provided to others in exchange for non-monetary value or to facilitate targeted advertising. When WOKEFUND permits others to collect Personal Information about you on our website or mobile app, we take steps to limit their use of your Personal Information. We recommend that you review our Cookie Policy to find out about additional steps you can take to limit the collection of Personal Information through tracking technologies. If you would like us to remove your Personal Information from use in our marketing efforts, please contact us at [email protected].
This information supplements other parts of this Policy and provides additional information to California residents in accordance with the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act. Here we provide additional information about our personal information processing practices in the previous 12 months and our current personal information collection practices. Please read this information in conjunction with the other portions of our Policy. For instance, we have described the personal information we collect, the sources from which we collect personal information, and our purposes for that collection at the beginning of this Policy. We have also explained how we disclose personal information to others and how you can exercise your privacy rights in other portions of our Policy.
Throughout this Policy, we discuss the specific pieces of personal information we collect from and about our users. Note that the personal information we collect about you may vary depending on the nature of your interactions with us and may include all or some of the examples listed below or additional types of personal information in the categories we identify:
We may disclose any of these categories of personal information to our service providers, Project Creators, and others as described in the "How We Share Personal Information" and "Personal Information Shared with Project Creators and Collaborators" sections above.
WOKEFUND may process sensitive personal information such as driver's license number, passport number, information about racial or ethnic origin, information about sexual orientation, and contents of messages between users of WOKEFUND. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that would give rise to the right to limit the use and disclosure of this data.
In addition to the rights described in the "Privacy Rights and Choices" section above, California residents may ask us for information about our processing of their personal information, including the categories and sources of personal information, our purposes for processing personal information, and how we disclose personal information to others.
You, or an authorized agent acting on your behalf, may submit any California privacy rights requests to us by emailing [email protected]. Please include your full name, WOKEFUND username, zip code, the email address at which you prefer to be contacted and, if different, the email address associated with your WOKEFUND account, and the privacy right(s) you are requesting.
WOKEFUND may choose to offer financial incentives to our users from time to time. If we offer financial incentives to California residents that involve certain uses of personal information, we will provide you with a separate notice regarding the financial incentive when we offer it. This notice will describe the financial incentive offered, including any material terms, how you can participate or withdraw from participation, and information about how any price or service difference offered to you is related to the value of your personal information processed as part of the incentive.
California's "Shine the Light" law gives Californians the right to request information from us about how we share personal information with other parties for their direct marketing purposes. WOKEFUND does not share your personal information for this purpose.
Unmutedco LLC is the data controller responsible for personal information we collect through our website and app. Our Privacy Office can be contacted at [email protected].
To exercise your rights under this Privacy Policy, or if you have questions about this policy, contact us at [email protected]. This email address is valid for all inquiries including WOKEFUND's designated data protection representatives in the EU, EEA, and UK. If you wish to contact our data protection representatives other than by email, you may do so at the following address:
For EU/UK inquiries:
[email protected]
WOKEFUND is based in the United States. If you are using our website or app outside the United States, please be aware that your personal information is being sent to and processed in the United States. The United States has its own laws governing privacy and government access to personal information that we need to comply with. The rules that protect your personal information under United States law are likely different than in your home country. By providing us with your information, you acknowledge and permit our processing of your personal information in the United States.
When applicable under foreign data protection laws, such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, WOKEFUND relies on the following legal bases for processing personal information:
In certain countries, you may have the right to file a complaint with a data protection authority if you believe our use of your personal information violates your rights under applicable data protection or privacy law.
To contact our Privacy Office with questions about this Policy wherever you are based, whether in the United States or internationally, please email [email protected].
You can contact us in writing at:
Unmutedco LLC
Compliance Office
245 N. Highland Avenue, Suite 230-395
Atlanta, GA, 30307
United States