Privacy Policy

BountySmith is a pilot marketplace for Roblox asset work — VFX, modeling, animation, UI, icon/logo, sound, and building (no programming or scripting work). Studios post funded bounties, admin-verified creators deliver work through a vault, and final files stay locked until the studio approves and payment is released.

BountySmith is operated by [BountySmith legal entity — TODO]. It is not affiliated with Roblox Corporation. The platform is for adults only: you must be at least 18 to create an account, and you confirm this at signup.

Account

• Name, email address, and your role (creator or studio).
• Your password — stored only as a scrypt hash. We never store or see it in plaintext.

Profiles

• Creator profiles: display name, Roblox username, Discord handle, bio, work category, rates, and availability.
• What's public vs. private:your Roblox username (shown as @username) is your primary public identity, and your display name and Discord handle (if set) are also public on your profile — so keep the display name privacy-safe (e.g. "Maya R."), not a legal name. Your email address, account credentials, and payment/payout details are never shown publicly; payment identity lives with Stripe, not on your profile.
• Studio profiles: studio/game name, Roblox game or group URLs, genre, team size, hiring history, and ownership proof.
• Portfolio proof: the category-specific technical evidence you submit for verification.

Files and marketplace activity

• Files you upload, stored in Cloudflare R2.
• The content of bounties, applications, submissions, reviews, and disputes.
• Automated content-scan results for your uploads (the detected file type and whether the scan passed) and any dispute evidence you add.

Reports and support

• Reports you file about a bounty, user, or file, and the messages you send us for support.

Administration

• Admin notes, verification decisions, account-moderation status, and audit logs of admin actions.

Payments

• Payment status and Stripe identifiers (checkout, payment-intent, transfer, and refund IDs), plus webhook event records.
• Card numbers and bank details never touch BountySmith. Creators enter payout bank details directly with Stripe during Stripe Express onboarding — we never receive them.

Security data

• Rate-limit counters and session records, which include your IP address and browser user agent.

• Running the marketplace — accounts, profiles, bounties, applications, the deliverable vault, and notifications about your work.
• Verification — reviewing creator portfolios and studio ownership proof before granting verified status.
• Payments — tracking funding, held payments, releases, and refunds via Stripe.
• Disputes and audit — resolving disputes and keeping audit records of admin decisions.
• Safety and moderation — scanning uploads for unsafe content, reviewing reports, and acting on abuse (including changing an account's status).
• Support — answering your requests and questions.
• Security — rate limiting, session management, and abuse prevention.

We do not sell your data. We share it only with the service providers below, so the platform can function, and where the law requires it. Parts of your profile and marketplace activity (bounties, applications, reviews) are visible to other users as part of how a marketplace works.

• Vercel — hosting.
• Neon — Postgres database.
• Cloudflare R2 — file storage.
• Stripe — payments (test mode only during the pilot; no real money moves).
• Cloudflare Turnstile — optional bot checks on signup, login, and password reset.
• Resend — optional email delivery. When it is not configured, password reset and verification links appear in server logs instead (“manual delivery mode”) and no email provider receives your address.
• Sentry — optional error monitoring. When an error occurs, technical details (such as the stack trace and the page URL where it happened) are sent to Sentry so we can fix bugs. We disable performance tracing, session replay, and automatic personal-data capture, so no name, email, or account identity is attached to an error report.

Authentication runs on Better Auth, a self-hosted library — not a third-party identity service. Your auth data stays in BountySmith’s own database.

BountySmith uses essential cookies only — the Better Auth session cookie that keeps you signed in. There are no advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no third-party analytics services, and no cross-site tracking. We don’t sell or share your data.

We keep first-party, privacy-conscious product analytics to understand how the pilot is used — for example, how many people view a page, start signup, post a bounty, or complete a hire. These are aggregate event counts stored in our own database and visible only to our administrators. Each record holds only the event name, a coarse role (visitor, creator, studio, or admin), and a timestamp. We do not attach your name, email, IP address, browser fingerprint, or any identifier to these events, and they are never used to profile or target you. No data leaves BountySmith. Because nothing here identifies you, there is no separate consent banner beyond the essential session cookie.

During the pilot, we keep your account data while your account exists. Files you delete are removed from storage within about seven days — unless they form part of a verification, dispute, or delivery record we need to retain — and uploads you start but never complete are cleared within about a day. To request deletion or ask questions about your data, contact support@bountysmith.com. Demo databases are periodically wiped and re-seeded during the pilot.

We take reasonable measures: hashed passwords, database-backed revocable sessions, server-side authorization on every action, private file storage with signed URLs and locked finals, security headers, and rate limiting. No system is perfectly secure, and we don’t claim ours is — for example, uploads are not yet virus scanned. The full, honest detail lives in the repository’s SECURITY.md.

BountySmith is 18+ only and not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If you believe a minor has provided us data, contact support@bountysmith.com and we will delete it.

You can view and edit your profile information in the app. For access, correction, or deletion requests — or any privacy question — contact support@bountysmith.com. See also the contact page.

California and EU/UK residents may have additional rights — [to be completed with counsel — TODO].

We may update this policy as the pilot evolves. The “last updated” date at the top reflects the current revision, and the policy version you accepted is recorded with your account. Material changes will be flagged before any production launch.