How much does creatorSea cost?

creatorSea is free for creators, there is no fee to join or to generate links. Brands pay a commission only on verified sales, at a rate they set themselves. There is no upfront budget and no monthly platform fee.

Do I need a minimum follower count to join as a creator?

No. There is no follower minimum. Selection is based on the fit between your work and a brand's brief, not on audience size, so a focused audience can be as valuable as a large one.

How does creatorSea track a sale?

Every creator gets a unique tracked link per product. When someone clicks it and buys, the brand's store confirms the order back to creatorSea through a webhook, and the commission is attributed to that creator. Attribution runs on a 30-day window, so a follower who clicks now and buys later still counts.

Where can I share my creatorSea links?

Anywhere you can put a URL, an Instagram or TikTok bio, a story link, a YouTube description, a newsletter, or a post. One link works across every platform.

When do creators get paid?

Commission lands in your creatorSea wallet once the brand confirms the order and the return window closes. You can see the status of every sale, tracked, in review, or approved, as it moves.

What does a brand need to start?

A product to list and a commission rate. Connect your store, publish the product with its rate and brief, and creators can start generating links. No developer work is required to launch.

Privacy Policy

Last updated 30 August 2026

creatorSea is an affiliate marketplace. Creators share tracked links to brands' products, and creatorSea records which creator referred a sale so commission can be paid. This policy explains what we collect, why, and how long we keep it.

Who we are

creatorSea (“we”) operates the creatorSea platform and the creatorSea Shopify application. For questions about this policy or your data, contact privacy@creator-sea.com.

What we collect

Brands

Company name, business email, industry, country, and the details of any Shopify store you connect. When you connect a store we store an access token so we can read your product catalogue and order totals. We also store your product titles, descriptions, images and prices.

Creators

Name, email, country, niche, biography, social profile links, follower counts and an optional avatar. We record the affiliate links you create and their performance.

When you request a payout we store the details needed to send the money: the account holder name, and either an InstaPay address or mobile number, or a bank name, IBAN or account number and optional SWIFT code. You can save these for future withdrawals or enter them each time. We store them so we can pay you, and for the records we are required to keep about payments made.

These details are visible only to you and to Creator Sea staff processing your payout. Lists and queues show a masked version, such as ····4821; the full value is read only when a payment is being made, and each read is logged. We are not a payment provider and do not hold funds: transfers are made through a bank or payment service.

Shoppers

We do not collect shopper names, email addresses, phone numbers or postal addresses. When someone clicks an affiliate link we record:

a randomly generated visitor identifier, stored in a first-party cookie
the affiliate link clicked and the time
the device class (mobile, tablet or desktop)
a salted, truncated hash of the IP address, used only to detect abuse
the referring page, where the browser provides one

When a purchase is made through a connected Shopify store we receive the order from Shopify and retain only the order reference, currency, subtotal, total and payment status. Customer identity fields present in Shopify's data are discarded on receipt and are never written to our systems.

Cookies

We set one first-party cookie on the merchant's storefront (_cs_ref) holding the affiliate reference and visitor identifier, and one on our redirect domain (cs_vid) holding the visitor identifier. They exist solely to attribute a purchase to the creator who referred it. On merchant storefronts our tracking runs through Shopify's Web Pixel, which loads only where the shopper's consent choices permit it. Where a shopper declines, no attribution data is collected.

Why we process this data

to attribute a sale to the creator who referred it
to calculate and pay commission
to show brands and creators their own performance
to detect fraudulent or abusive activity
to meet accounting and tax obligations

We do not sell personal data, we do not use it for advertising, and we do not carry out automated decision-making that produces legal effects.

How long we keep it

Data	Retention
Click records	24 months from the click
Attribution records	24 months after the sale settles
Order references, commission and payment records	7 years, to meet accounting obligations
Shopify access tokens	Deleted when the app is uninstalled
All other merchant data	Deleted within 30 days of uninstall
Payout destination details	Until you delete them, or 30 days after account closure
Payment records and transfer receipts	7 years, to meet accounting obligations
Account data	Deleted within 30 days of account closure

Merchants using our Shopify app

We request the minimum Shopify permissions the app needs: reading products, reading order totals, and creating the tracking pixel. We do not request access to customer names, email addresses, phone numbers or addresses. We respond to Shopify's customers/data_request, customers/redact and shop/redact requests. On a shop redaction we delete sessions and personal data within 48 hours, retaining only anonymised financial records required for accounting.

Sharing

Brands can see which creators drove sales for their products and the commission owed. Creators can see their own performance. Neither can see the other's wider account data. We use Supabase for database and hosting, Shopify for merchant integration, and Vercel for this website. We share data with them only to operate the service.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit using TLS and at rest by our hosting provider. Shopify access tokens are stored in a table that no client application can read; only our server can access them. Access to production data is limited to named administrators.

Payout information

Payout details and transfer receipts are held under stricter controls than the rest of the platform. Saved destinations can only be read by the creator they belong to; administrators reach them through an audited route that records every access. Transfer receipts are kept in private storage that is never publicly reachable and are visible only to Creator Sea staff — creators do not see receipts, because a bank receipt can expose account balances or unrelated transactions.

You can delete a saved payout destination at any time from your wallet. Records of payments already made are retained for accounting purposes.

Your rights

Depending on where you live you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete your personal data, and to object to or restrict its processing. Contact privacy@creator-sea.com and we will respond within 30 days. Shoppers who bought through a merchant using creatorSea should contact that merchant, who can raise the request with us through Shopify.

Changes

We will update this page when our practices change and revise the date above. Material changes affecting merchants will be notified directly.