Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of October 7, 2020.
Overview
Project Casting, Inc. (alternately, “Project Casting”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to complying with this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), which describes what information we collect about you, including how we collect it, how we use it, with whom we may share it and what choices you have regarding our use of your information. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected on our website located at https://projectcasting.com/ and the associated mobile application (collectively, the “Website”); or any associated content, material, or service contained on the Website (collectively, the “System”).
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is a part of the terms of use of the System located https://projectcasting.com/terms-of-use (the “Terms of Use”). We encourage you to become familiar with the terms and conditions of both this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.
Project Casting collects and stores certain information from or about you that can be used to uniquely contact, identify, or locate you (“Personal Information“).
What Information Do We Collect?
Project Casting collects information, including Personal Information about you from a variety of sources, including information that you provide directly to us when you contact us, apply for a job, sign-up for an account and create a profile, and make payments to us through the Website, and information that we automatically collect about you when you access and use the Website
Information You Provide Us. To manage and provide the System and to market our products, if you sign-up for a customer account, make a payment, or contact us through the Website, we and/or our service providers collect the requested information that you provide including your name, demographic information (including your self-reported ethnic and gender information), photographs and video, career details, order information, e-mail, phone number, address, and payment information.
We may also collect information to enable certain System features, such as facial recognition data. If we do so, we will make it clear through a notice that we are collecting such information and will collect your consent to do so.
Information Collected Automatically. We collect information automatically from you when you visit and use the Website. Such information includes the following:
Usage information. We collect information about how you interact with the Website to operate and improve the Website. This includes information such as the dates and times that you visit the Website, the page you view, referring / exit URLs, and your browser type. In some cases, we collect this information through cookies and similar technologies. To learn more about these technologies, please see the Cookies section below.
Device Information. To manage the Website, we collect information about the devices you use to access the Website, including your device model, IP address, inferred geolocation information, operating system, and unique device identifiers.
Transaction Information. We and, or our third party providers collect other transaction details related to your purchases through the Website.
Cookies and Usage Reports
By placing a small file known as a “cookie” on your computer (or other device), Project Casting’s and its third party service providers’ servers passively gather information about all visitors’ use of the System for several reasons, including, but not limited to, the following: statistics collection and analysis, System optimization, analytics, and maintenance of user login information. The information that we and our third party service providers track with cookies includes, but is not limited to, the type of browser (such as Google Chrome or Internet Explorer) and Internet-connected devices being used to access the System, your Internet protocol (“IP”) address, your home domain or Internet service provider, your referrer URL (which is the URL for the website that you were viewing prior to visiting the System), how you were directed to the System, which specific pages you access on the System, how long you view each page, the time and date you access our System and the total number of visitors to the System and any portions thereof. We, and/or our third party service providers, may use the information collected from cookies or similar files on your computer for security purposes (such as authentication), to facilitate site navigation and to personalize your experience while visiting the System. This data helps us and our third party service providers improve our respective products and services.
Most popular Internet browser applications will allow you to configure the browser so as not to accept cookies. However, setting your browser to reject cookies may, in certain instances, prevent you from taking full advantage of the System (or some portion thereof) and its capabilities, or cause some features of the System to function improperly or more slowly.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, in order to better understand your use of the Website and how we can improve it. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit a website, what pages you visit when you do so, and what other websites you used prior to coming to such website. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit a website, rather than your name or other directly identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with your Personal Information. Although Google Analytics plants a persistent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit a website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google Analytics uses its cookie(s) and the information Google Analytics collects to track your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our Website, and other websites. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Website is governed by the Google Analytics Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of the Website, to prepare reports on its activities, and share them with other Google services. To more fully understand how Google may use the data it collects on the Website, please review “How Google Uses Information From Sites or Apps That Use Our Services” (located here).
Correspondence
We appreciate your questions and comments about the System and welcome your messages at [email protected]. If you correspond with Project Casting, we may collect information including the content of, and metadata regarding, any correspondence you may provide us. We may share your messages with those within our organization who are most capable of addressing the issues contained in your message. We may archive your message for a certain period of time or discard it.
How Can I Opt-Out of Promotional Correspondence?
We may send you emails with promotional offers only if you opt-in to receiving such emails. If you would no longer like to receive information, newsletters or other promotional messages from us, please click the link at the bottom of any such email you receive from us and follow the instructions, or alternatively you may contact us at [email protected] with the word “UNSUBSCRIBE” or “REMOVE” in the subject line. Your email address will be removed from our marketing list. Please allow us a reasonable period of time in order to satisfy your request, as some promotions may already be in process.
Online Account Management
If you elected to subscribe to certain services available on the Website, including the ability to access any password-protected areas of the Website through your account, you will be required to submit Personal Information for the purpose of verifying your identity and your authority to manage the account. This Personal Information will be used exclusively by us and our third-party service providers for internal use and to respond to your service requests.
How Do We Use The Information That We Collect?
Project Casting and our third party service providers (such as hosting, email marketing, and payment processing providers) collect and use the Personal Information that we collect to operate the System, including to provide certain services and improve the user experience, address System integrity or security issues, and conduct research and analysis to maintain, protect, develop, and improve the System, and, additionally, use the information submitted by users as described below or elsewhere in this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use. For example, we use your Personal Information to better connect candidates and casting jobs, including through the use of automated decision making. We may send you emails, in-app messages, or SMS messages to receive information about casting opportunities through the System.
We retain the Personal Information that we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with the services you requested or to comply with an applicable legal requirement).
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, Project Casting will not use, disclose, or transfer your Personal Information unless:
- you expressly authorize Project Casting to do so,
- it is necessary to allow Project Casting’s service providers, agents, or other third parties to provide products or services for, or to Project Casting,
- it is necessary in order to provide the System,
- Project Casting is sending you other information that may be useful to you,
- subject to applicable contractual or legal restrictions, it is disclosed to entities that perform marketing services on Project Casting’s behalf or to other entities with whom Project Casting has joint marketing agreements,
- it is necessary to protect the confidentiality or security of your records,
- it is necessary in connection with other business purposes including, without limitation, verifying your identity, age, and/or payment details, investigating complaints about the System, risk assessment, security, fraud and crime prevention/detection, monitoring, research and analysis, marketing, customer purchasing preferences and trends and dispute resolution,
- it is necessary to comply with law enforcement, a governmental mandate, or other legal requirement, if appropriate, for your protection or in connection with an investigation or prosecution of possible unlawful activity,
- subject to applicable contractual or legal restrictions, it is necessary in connection with a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Project Casting or the merger of Project Casting into another entity or any consolidation, share exchange, combination, reorganization, or like transaction in which Project Casting is not the survivor, or
- it is otherwise necessary for Project Casting to disclose it as required or permitted by law.
With Whom Do We Share Information That We Collect?
If you are a professional, creators and other professionals will be able to see your Personal Information that you have submitted and is contained within or associated with your account profile.
For any purchases that you make, it will be necessary for us to share some of your Personal Information with the third party payment processors in order to process your requested transaction.
We may share information, which may include Personal Information, with third parties for the purpose of delivering targeted advertising.
We may also disclose Personal Information if we become subject to a subpoena or court order, or if we are otherwise legally required to disclose information. We may also use and disclose Personal Information to establish or exercise our legal rights, to enforce the Terms of Use, to assert and defend against legal claims, or if we believe such disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding actual or suspected illegal or fraudulent activities or potential threats to the physical safety or well-being of any person.
As Project Casting grows and develops its business, it is possible that its corporate structure or organization might change or that it might merge or otherwise combine with, or that it or portions of its business might be acquired by, another company. In any such transactions, customer information generally is, and should be expected to be, one of the transferred business assets. Also, if any bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, your information may be considered a company asset that may be sold or transferred to third parties.
Project Casting Job Applicants
Any Personal Information you provide us when applying for a career position with Project Casting will be used solely to consider and act upon your application. We may retain your Personal Information for a period of time, but only for as long as necessary for such purposes. We may disclose your Personal Information to our agents for the purpose of evaluating your qualifications for the particular position you applied for, or other available positions. We may also disclose your Personal Information to third parties hired by us to collect, maintain, and analyze candidates for career positions.
What Choices Do You Have?
When submitting information, corresponding, making requests for information, and otherwise interacting with Project Casting and its representatives through or in connection with the System, you generally choose what information to supply or submit, whether you wish to receive further information, and how you may be contacted. Please take care to share only such information as is needed or that you believe is appropriate. Any promotional email we send to you will contain a link which will allow you to opt out of receiving any further correspondence. If you have created an online account, you may also change your correspondence preferences by logging into your account. You may disable your online account access at any time.
How Do We Protect Information Collected About You?
Project Casting takes commercially reasonable measures to secure and protect information transmitted via or stored on the System. Nevertheless, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee that information that users of the System may happen to transmit or otherwise supply will be totally secure. You agree to immediately notify us of any breach of the System’s security, this Privacy Policy, or the Terms of Use of which you become aware.
Linked Websites
For your convenience, some hyperlinks may be posted on the System that link to other websites not under our control. We are not responsible for, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to, the privacy practices of those sites or of any companies that we do not own or control. We cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of any such websites or pages not under our control and we do not endorse any of those websites or pages, the services or products described or offered on such sites or pages, or any of the content contained on those sites or pages. We encourage you to seek out and read the privacy policy of each website that you visit. In addition, should you happen to initiate a transaction on a website that our System links to, even if you reached that site through the System, the information that you submit to complete that transaction becomes subject to the privacy practices of the operator of that linked website. You should read that website’s privacy policies to understand how Personal Information that is collected about you is used and protected.
User-Provided Content
Any information, communications, or material of any type or nature that you submit to the Website by e-mail, posting, messaging, uploading, downloading, or otherwise (collectively, a “Submission(s)”) is done at your own risk and without any expectation of privacy. We cannot control the actions of other users of the System and we are therefore not responsible for any Submissions contained on the Website. By visiting any of our pages that are contained on the Website, you are representing and warranting to us that you have reviewed this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use and that you will abide by all such provisions contained therein.
Additionally, in the event that we offer a message board or any other interactive or social-type feature on the Website, please be aware that these areas may allow you to post, and share with other users, certain messages, content, or other information. We encourage you to be wary of giving out any Personal Information, or any Personal Information of others to which you may access, in such forums. The information you post can be collected and used by other people. We cannot guarantee the privacy and safety of these areas and are therefore not responsible for any information you choose to post. Your use of these features is fully at your own risk.
Social Media Platforms and Websites
Any Submission that you submit to any of our pages contained on a social media platform or website by e-mail, posting, messaging, uploading, downloading, or otherwise is done at your own risk and without any expectation of privacy. We cannot control the actions of other users of a social media platform and we are therefore not responsible for any Submissions contained on a social media platform or website.
Children
If you are under the age of 13, your parent or guardian must use the System on your behalf, such as to create an account and/or apply for jobs. Parents or guardians may review, modify, or delete the child’s Personal Information, or withdraw consent, by contacting us using the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy. We do not provide any information about children under 13 to any third party, except for the third party providers that provide services on our behalf.
Visiting The System From Outside The United States
If you are visiting the System, or any part thereof, from outside of the United States of America, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored or processed in the United States, where our hosting service provider, Amazon Web Services, is located. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country, but please be assured that we take steps to protect your privacy. By using any portion of the System and expressing your interesting in US offerings, you understand and consent to the transfer of your information to the United States and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy.
Do Not Track Requests
Certain state laws require that we indicate whether we honor “Do Not Track” settings in your browser. We do not currently honor “Do Not Track” requests. To find out more about “Do Not Track”, you may wish to visit https://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Data Subjects in the European Economic Area
If you are located in the European Economic Area, you may have the right to access; correct; update; port; delete; restrict; opt-out of automated decision making or object to our processing of your Personal Information. You can exercise many of those rights by managing your account. You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority about the collection and use of Personal Information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
Generally, we process Personal Information based on our or a third party’s legitimate interest. However, if Personal Information is collected or processed on the basis of consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your Personal Information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
We will store your information so long as you maintain your account with us. We will disclose information to our service providers, such as for email marketing or payment processing purposes.
Other Data Protection Rights
Subject to applicable data protection laws, you may have the right to access, update, and correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information. Please send such requests to [email protected]. We may request certain Personal Information for the purposes of verifying the identity of the individual seeking access to their Personal Information.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy is reflected by the effective date located at the top of this Privacy Policy. All such updates and amendments are effective immediately upon notice thereof, which we may give by any means, including, but not limited to, by posting a revised version of this Privacy Policy or other notice on the Website.
Whom Can You Contact For More Information?
If you have any questions or suggestions about the Website, System, Project Casting, or our privacy practices, please contact us [email protected].