At That Pitch, we value your trust, respect your creative output, and prioritize your digital privacy. During the artist onboarding and payout setup phases, we utilize standard identity verification layers to ensure the long-term security of our platform, protect copyright compliance, and verify the authenticity of our creator community.
How We Handle Your Identification Documents
Do you store copies of my government ID?
No. That Pitch does not store, keep, or save copies of your physical identification documents, nor do we retain the raw facial recognition data provided during the real-time biometric verification scan.
Real-Time Verification: Your passport, driver's license, or national ID card data is used solely for instantaneous authentication.
Zero Document Retention: Once our secure verification partner confirms your identity matches your profile, the raw document images are immediately purged from the entry gateway.
No Selling: We never sell or distribute your personal information or metadata to third-party marketing networks.
Understanding Mandatory Legal Record Retention
While your raw physical identification documents are completely purged after your security scan, That Pitch is legally required by federal and international regulations to securely retain specific structural business records.
Per corporate compliance standards, your verified legal identity profile is tied to the following permanent data records:
Tax and Financial Documentation: To facilitate regular royalty payouts and comply with IRS regulations (and international tax treaties), we must maintain your signed W-8/W-9 tax forms and historical payout data records.
Proof of Prior Licensing Agreements: To protect our 100+ partner music libraries from copyright fraud, our database retains a permanent legal record of your digital split agreements, collaborator sign-offs, and master track metadata. This acts as binding legal proof that you own the rights to the music distributed through our system.
Secure Data Management Workflow
To process and maintain your catalog safely, our data infrastructure utilizes a multi-tiered security pipeline:
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Execute the Real-Time Security Scan
1.Execute the Real-Time Security Scan:
The platform runs a temporary biometric and document check through an encrypted API connection to confirm you are a real person and prevent fraudulent bot networks.
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Purge Sensitive Physical Documents
2.Purge Sensitive Physical Documents:
The second your identity is authenticated, the secure gateway completely destroys the temporary document images and raw scan profiles.
3
Archive Compliance Metadata
3.Archive Compliance Metadata:
The system isolates and securely archives your standard legal data—such as your legal name, tax documents, and library licensing history—using industry-standard AES-256 encryption.
Why Identity Verification is Mandatory
These baseline compliance steps are implemented to keep our distribution network completely clear of operational vulnerabilities. Verifying your identity helps us:
Prevent Fraudulent Activity: Halts duplicate accounts, stolen catalog uploads, and artificial streaming bot farms before they corrupt our pitching pools.
Protect Sync Eligibility: Gives our high-tier music libraries total confidence that every track in our system is backed by a verified, legally accountable creator.
Secure Your Payouts: Ensures that your earned sync royalties and Content ID revenues are safely routed to you and match your official tax reporting structures perfectly.
Simple version: That Pitch does not store copies of your physical government ID cards or biometric scans—those are completely purged immediately after verification. However, to comply with global financial and copyright laws, we do securely retain your standard tax documents (W-8/W-9) and legal track licensing history to protect your catalog and facilitate payouts.