Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 19, 2026

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Account Information

• Email address: Account creation and communication
• Phone number: Account verification and security (SMS two-factor authentication)
• Name: Account identification and payout processing
• Date of birth: To confirm the 18+ age requirement
• Payout details: The PayPal account (email) used to receive earnings. PaidByAds does not collect or store your bank or card numbers; payouts are handled by third-party payment processors (see Section 3).

1.2 Identity Verification (KYC)

To withdraw earnings and to help prevent fraud, identity verification is required. For this we collect and process:

• Government-issued ID: A driver's license or state ID. You enter the information printed on the ID, and the app verifies that what you entered matches the front of the document and that the barcode on the back is consistent with the front. We do not currently accept passports.
• Liveness check: A brief check that confirms a real, present person is completing verification. We do not match your face or selfie against your ID. Any image captured may be retained for in-app use such as your profile photo.
• Device identifiers / fingerprints: To detect duplicate or multi-account activity

1.3 Participation and Verification Data

To confirm a genuine, present human is completing participation blocks, the app uses the front camera during verification windows. What this does and does not do:

• On-device presence and liveness signals only. The app analyzes face orientation (the direction the face is pointed relative to the screen), natural facial movement, and mouth movement, all computed on your device.
• No gaze or eye tracking. The prior eye-contact/eye-openness model has been removed; the app does not track gaze or whether eyes are open.
• No microphone. Mouth-movement signals are derived visually only; audio is never captured for this purpose.
• No images or video leave your device for this feature. Only numeric signals (for example, face-orientation angles and movement measures) are sent to our servers; the camera frames themselves are not stored or transmitted.
• Gesture verification: Periodic on-screen challenges that confirm active participation.
• Block and session data: Which participation blocks and slots you complete, session timing, and ad-view completion signals reported by the ad network.
• Multi-device registration: Whether you have registered more than one device.

1.4 Market-Research Data

• Survey and post-ad question responses. Research responses are evaluated on response timing and participation, not on whether answers are "right" or "wrong."
• Receipts you choose to submit for research-participation eligibility. During submission you select which regions of a receipt image contain personal information; the app masks the regions you select and strips associated text before the receipt is retained.

1.5 Technical Information

• Device information: Device model, operating system, Android version
• App usage and diagnostics: Features used, crash reports, performance metrics
• IP address and general location: Coarse location for fraud prevention (not precise GPS)
• Network information: Connection type and carrier

1.6 Google Account Data (OAuth)

If you sign in with Google, we receive basic profile information (name, email, profile picture) and an authentication token. We do not access your Gmail, Drive, Calendar, or other Google services beyond basic authentication.

2. How We Use Your Information

2.1 Core Platform Operations

• Compensation: Determining and distributing earnings under the platform's fixed revenue model (see Section 14 and the Terms of Service)
• Participation and research: Operating advertising views, surveys, and post-ad research questions, and verifying genuine participation
• Fraud prevention: Detecting multi-account abuse, automation, and attempts to simulate a present participant
• Account management: Authentication, security, and support
• Service improvement: Analyzing aggregate usage to improve the platform

2.2 Presence and Liveness Verification

We use on-device face analysis (orientation, facial movement, and mouth movement) and gesture challenges to confirm a present, live human is participating, and to resist spoofing with photos, video, or simulated input. As described in Section 1.3, this processing happens on your device and only numeric signals are transmitted; no camera images or video are stored or sent for this feature, and no gaze tracking or microphone is used. These signals may also influence eligibility for the bonus pool described below.

2.3 Bonus Pool

A portion of advertising revenue funds a shared bonus pool that is distributed periodically based on a performance ranking. To protect the integrity of the ranking and to prevent gaming, the underlying scores, subtotals, weights, thresholds, and formulas are not disclosed. See Section 14 for what is shown to users.

3. Data Sharing and Disclosure

3.1 Service Providers We Share With

• Payment processors (e.g., PayPal): Receive the information necessary to deliver your payout. Your payout name must match your verified identity.
• Identity verification providers: Process your government-issued ID to confirm your identity
• Advertising provider (Google AdMob): Serves advertisements and reports view-completion signals; subject to Google's privacy policy
• Third-party search providers: May be used to identify potentially relevant information presented in the app (see Section 7.3 for important disclaimers)
• Firebase / Google Cloud: Authentication, database, and hosting; subject to Google's privacy policies

3.2 What We Never Do

• We do not sell your personal information.
• We do not share your email or phone number with advertisers.
• We do not transmit the participation camera frames described in Section 1.3 (only numeric signals).
• We do not share your identity with third parties for their own marketing.

3.3 Legal Requirements

We may disclose information where required by law (valid legal process, protection of legal rights, investigation of fraud or illegal activity, or protection of user safety).

4. Data Security and Retention

4.1 Security

• Encryption in transit: TLS/SSL
• Server-authoritative writes: Financial and sensitive records are written only by secured server functions; security rules restrict client access
• On-device processing: Participation presence/liveness signals are computed on your device (Section 1.3)
• Access controls and audit logging

4.2 Retention

• Active accounts: Retained while the account is active
• Deleted accounts: Personal data deleted within 30 days, subject to legal retention requirements
• Financial records: Retained as required by law
• Fraud-prevention identifiers: Retained for a limited period to prevent abuse

5. Your Rights and Choices

• Access: Request a copy of the data we hold about you
• Correction: Update inaccurate personal information
• Deletion: Request account deletion
• Portability: Receive your data in a machine-readable format
• Communication preferences: Manage notifications in-app; transactional messages may still be sent
• Camera: You may decline camera access, but presence verification (and therefore verified participation) cannot function without it

6. Children's Privacy

PaidByAds is available only to users 18 years or older. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If we learn a user is under 18, we will terminate the account and delete the associated data.

7. Third-Party Services

7.1 Advertising

The app currently serves advertisements through Google AdMob, which is subject to Google's Privacy Policy and may use its own identifiers and tracking technologies. Advertising providers may change over time.

7.2 Analytics and Infrastructure

We use Firebase / Google Cloud for analytics, performance monitoring, authentication, database, and hosting.

7.3 Third-Party Search Providers and Informational Content

• PaidByAds may use third-party search providers to identify potentially relevant information.
• Search providers may change over time due to availability, technical requirements, cost, reliability, or platform needs.
• PaidByAds does not control the ranking methodologies used by third-party search providers.
• Results are presented for informational purposes and should not be interpreted as endorsements or recommendations.
• PaidByAds does not endorse products, services, merchants, brands, manufacturers, providers, or search results.
• Users remain solely responsible for evaluating products, services, businesses, and information presented.

8. International Data Transfers

Your information may be processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate. By using PaidByAds you consent to transfers to countries that may have different data-protection laws than your own.

9. California Privacy Rights (CCPA)

• Right to know what personal information we collect and how it is used
• Right to delete your personal information
• Right to opt out: We do not sell personal information
• Non-discrimination for exercising your rights

10. European Privacy Rights (GDPR)

If you are in the European Economic Area, you have rights to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection, and to withdraw consent where consent is the legal basis. Our legal bases are contractual necessity and legitimate interests (such as fraud prevention).

11. Camera and Sensor Disclosure

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will update the "Last Updated" date, provide notice of material changes in-app and/or by email, and, where required, advance notice before changes take effect.

13. Contact

14. Operator, Jurisdiction, and Transparency

The PaidByAds platform is operated by Quancom Holdings LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. State-specific privacy inquiries may be directed to the contact above.

Consistent with our transparency commitment, users can view within the app: the current total bonus-pool amount and the number of eligible users (updated live), and their own rank, percentile, and movement (updated on a periodic batch). Individual scores, subtotals, weights, thresholds, and formulas are never displayed. Users can always view their own earnings and payout history.