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Privacy policy

Last updated 17 August 2026

Statonic (“we”, “us”) is a Brisbane, Australia based short-form video production business operated by its founder as a sole trader (not an incorporated company). This policy explains what personal information we collect through statonic.com, why, where it goes, and your choices. We handle personal information in line with the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), whether or not we are legally required to.

1. What we collect

Contact form (homepage). Your name, email, company and message.

Creator application form (/apply). Your name, email, optional phone or Telegram handle, a video of you talking to camera (uploaded to us, or a link to where it's hosted), optional Instagram/TikTok handles, and, if someone referred you, their name and email.

Technical. When you submit a form, our hosting provider passes us your IP address, which we use only for rate limiting and abuse prevention. We do not run analytics or advertising trackers and do not set tracking cookies.

Referrer details. If you name someone who referred you, we hold their name and email in your application record so we can pay the referral bonus. Only give us their details if they know and agree.

2. Why we collect it

• To reply to enquiries and discuss work with brands.
• To assess creator applications and contact you about filming.
• To administer the referral bonus (matching a referrer to a completed first shoot).
• To keep a record of who applied and when, including for resolving referral disputes.
• To prevent spam and abuse of our forms.

We do not sell personal information and we do not use it for marketing lists.

3. Where it goes

Your data is processed by a small number of service providers on our behalf:

• Vercel hosts statonic.com and runs the form handlers (servers may be outside Australia).
• Formspree receives contact-form submissions and emails them to us.
• Telegram delivers an instant notification of new applications to us.
• Cloudflare R2 stores uploaded audition videos in a private bucket; only we can generate links to view them.
• Our own server (hosted with DigitalOcean) stores creator applications so we can review them later.

If you become a creator with us, we may share your name and video with the brand a shoot is for, since they approve the people who appear in their content. We won't share your contact details with them without asking you first. We do not otherwise disclose personal information to third parties unless required by law.

4. How long we keep it

• Contact-form enquiries: until the conversation ends, then deleted within 12 months.
• Creator applications: up to 24 months from submission, so we can come back to earlier applicants as brand work lands and settle any referral claims. Sooner on request.
• Instant Telegram notifications: cleared periodically; the stored application is the record.

5. Security

Form submissions travel over HTTPS. Stored applications sit behind authentication on a server only we can access, and secrets used to move data between services are kept out of our public code. No system is perfectly secure; if we become aware of a breach that is likely to cause you serious harm we will tell you and, where required, the OAIC.

6. Your choices

• Access or correction: ask us and we'll show you what we hold about you and fix anything wrong.
• Deletion: ask us and we'll delete your application or enquiry, unless we need to keep a minimal record to settle a referral payment or meet a legal obligation.
• Withdrawing: applying does not commit you to anything; you can withdraw at any time.

7. Children

Our creator program is for people 18 and over. If you are under 18, please don't apply; if we learn we have collected an application from someone under 18 we will delete it.

8. Changes

We'll update this page if our practices change and revise the date at the top. Material changes to how we handle applications will be noted on the apply page.

9. Contact

Privacy questions, access, correction or deletion requests: use the contact form and put “privacy” in the message. If you're not satisfied with our response you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au).