Privacy Policy

October 17th, 2021.

Introduction

Your privacy is paramount to us. The Cineself Privacy Policy describes what data we collect from you, the purpose for gathering the data in conjunction with the Cineself application, sites and services, how we share, process, and manage your Personal Data, and your rights associated with your data.

This Privacy Policy applies to www.cineself.com, and the Cineself Android and iOS Apps (together, "Cineself"). It explains how we collect information from the users of Cineself, and how we use such information. Your use of Cineself constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. Please also read our Terms of Use, which govern the basic operation of Cineself. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use, you should immediately stop using or visiting Cineself. .

1. What information we collect and store

Cineself collects Personal Data that you voluntarily provide us, when you register for Cineself, create a profile, or create a company (production) profile. We also collect Personal Data when you sign up for email newsletters or alerts on Cineself. Personal Data may contain your name, email, contact information, your location, as well as other information you provide to Cineself.
Cineself collects billing information when processing payment on Cineself.com in conjunction with posting casting notices and subscribing for membership.
Cineself logs your visits and use of Cineself, including the Cineself IOS and Android apps, such as when you view or click on content, casting notices, or ads, perform a search, install or update one of our mobile apps, or apply for roles. We use log-ins, cookies, web beacons, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you, your location, and log your use.
Cineself collects and stores data about you when you use Cineself’s messaging platform to communicate with other users.
Cineself may place a "cookie" and on your computer when you visit a Cineself website. Cineself may use cookies to personalize your experience using Cineself, and to gather usage data that will help to improve the quality of the websites. There is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny, accept or delete cookies. In European Union and EEA countries, you must voluntarily consent to cookies before using the Cineself websites as detailed in Section 6 below.
Cineself may also obtain information about you through third party sources as permitted by applicable law, such as public databases, social media platforms, and marketing partners.
Cineself’s IOS and Android Apps do not employ any third-party tracking, and does not collect data from its app for the purpose of targeted third party advertising, advertising measurement, or the sharing of data collected from the Cineself app with a data broker.

2. How we use your data

To create an account for you to use the Cineself casting platform and services.
To personalize Cineself to give you a better experience, such as sending you targeted job postings based on your location.
To respond to your requests or to manage user accounts.
To receive product feedback and understand our users better so we can improve Cineself.
To monitor the safety and security of the Cineself service and casting platform.
To use data and content about users for communications promoting membership, role posting, and engagement with Cineself, on Cineself properties and across other platforms.
To target and measure the performance of advertisements displayed to our users directly by Cineself or through third party advertising partners, on and off Cineself.
o verify that Cineself account owners are 16 years of age or older, in order to comply with COPPA, the CCPA, and the GDPR.
To verify your identity, in order to protect the safety and security of our customers.
Cineself may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties in connection with a corporate transaction where all or a portion of our business (e.g., a portion that includes our customer lists) is sold or transferred. We also may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information if disclosure is required by law or as part of a lawsuit or government investigation or proceeding, or in order to permit us to exercise or preserve our legal rights or take action regarding potentially illegal activities or to protect the safety of any person.

Cineself reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor information, comments or other content that you voluntarily disclose and post to the Websites. Cineself reserves the right to remove any such information or material for any reason or no reason, including without limitation, if in our sole opinion such information or material violates, or may violate, any applicable law or the Terms of Use or to protect or defend our rights or property or those of any third party. Cineself also reserves the right to remove information upon the request of any third party.

Cineself reserves the right to investigate abuses on the Websites and enforce and apply this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use and any other terms or conditions applicable to the Websites or the use thereof. Cineself may disclose information about you to third parties if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) take action regarding suspected illegal activities; (2) enforce or apply the Terms of Use; (3) comply with legal process and law enforcement instructions and orders, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, judicial proceeding or other legal process served on us; (4) protect our rights, reputation, and property or that of our users or the public or (5) protect against legal liability.

3. How we share your information

Comment, rate and shortlist applicants quickly, efficiently from anywhere, without the need to install additional software.

The Cineself service allows you to share information with other users by sending and receiving messages on the Cineself messaging system. When you send email or message Cineself customer support, Cineself will collect and store your name, email address and the content of your message so we can provide customer support.

Posting Castings

When a user posts a casting, the notice may contain personally identifiable information. By posting a casting on Cineself, you consent to share the contents of the casting with other Cineself users, as well as make the contents of your casting publicly discoverable across the world wide web.

Other Parties Designated by You

When using the Cineself Service, you may share your data with other parties designated by you. For example, when applying to a casting notice on Cineself, you may share personally identifiable data with the recipient of your application. When inviting a Cineself user to apply to your casting notice, you may also share personally identifiable information with that user.

Service Providers

From time to time, we may partner with unaffiliated companies or individuals for market research, product development, quality assurance testing, or similar purposes. These companies or individuals may be provided with access to personally identifiable information, but we will require by contract that they agree to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of such information. We also may subcontract with other companies and individuals to do work on our behalf; they may be provided with access to personally identifiable information, but only as needed to perform their functions.

Data Processors

Cineself, as a data controller, collects and shares data with different data processors in the following categories:

Technology and Infrastructure: Cineself distributes data to processors in order to host, enable and support the Cineself platform and service.

Analytics and Reporting: Cineself distributes data to analytics platforms to better understand user behavior and track key business metrics, in order to provide a better service to its users.

Marketing Partners: Cineself distributes data to marketing companies to facilitate email marketing, mobile app messaging campaigns, on-site promotions, and social media, search, and display advertising campaigns.

Identity Verification: Cineself works with external data processors to verify the identity of users and to confirm their date of birth, in order to protect the safety and security of customers on the platform, and to comply with applicable laws such as COPPA, the CCPA and the GDPR. You acknowledge that our vendors may provide us with certain sensitive information including your name, date of birth, and criminal history.

Please direct your inquiries about any operator’s privacy practices and use of children’s information to the operator at its contact information provided.

International Data Transfers

Information, including information collected in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) may be transferred, stored and processed by Cineself and its services providers in the United States and other countries whose data protection laws may be different than the laws of your country. We will protect your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Notice wherever it is processed and take appropriate steps to protect the information in accordance with applicable laws.

Your Privacy Settings

You can manage the content and information you share when using your account through the privacy settings you select.

International Data Transfers

4. Data of children under 16

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and its rules (collectively, “COPPA”) require us to inform parents and legal guardians (as used in this, “parents”) about our practices for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information from children under the age of 13 (“children”). It also requires us to obtain verifiable consent from a child’s parent for certain collection, use, and disclosure of the child’s personal information.

Cineself does not knowingly collect Personal Data on our Websites from children under the age of 16 without the prior consent of the child’s parent or guardian.

This section notifies parents that (i) the types of information we may collect from children, (ii) how we use the information we collect, and (iii) our practices for disclosing that information is consistent with the other sections of this Privacy Policy.

This section also notifies parents of (i) our practices for notifying and obtaining parents’ consent when we collect personal information from children, including how a parent may revoke consent and (ii) all operators that collect or maintain information from children through Websites.

This section only applies to children under the age of 16 and supplements the other provisions of this Privacy Policy. Only the other provisions of this Privacy Policy applies to teens and adults.

Parental Consent

Only a Parent or Legal Guardian of a child under the age of 16 years old may create an account on Cineself.com to promote their child’s performing arts career. When creating a Cineself Actor Profile on behalf of their child, the Parent or Legal Guardian will be asked to enter their child’s date of birth. If the child is under 16 years of age,a Parent must affirm that they are the Parent or Legal Guadian of the Child whose profile they are creating, and consent to the release of the child’s personal information within the Cineself Actor Profile.

Cineself may require the Parent or Legal Guardian to transmit a scanned image or photograph of their driver’s license or other official identification, such as a passport, to verify their date of birth.

Accessing And Correcting Your Child’s Personal Information

At any time, you may review the child’s personal information maintained by us, require us to correct or delete the personal information, and/or refuse to permit us from further collecting or using the child’s information.

You can review, change, or delete your child’s personal information by:

Logging into your Cineself account and visiting your child’s account profile page.

Sending us an email to hello@cineself.com. To protect your privacy and security, we may require you to take certain steps or provide additional information to verify your identity before we provide any information or make corrections.

Only the Parent or Legal Guardian of a child under the age of 16 years old who is a resident in a country within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) may create an account on Cineself.com to manager their child’s performing arts career. When creating a Cineself Actor Profile on behalf of their child, the Parent or Legal Guardian will be asked to enter their child’s date of birth. If the child is under 16 years of age, a Parent must affirm that they are the Parent or Legal Guardian of the Child whose profile they are creating, and consents to the release of the child’s personal information within the Cineself Actor Profile. Children who live in EEA countries under the age of 16 are prohibited from using Cineself.

5. Data Retention

Cineself retains personally identifiable information for the maximum period allowable by law, where there is a reasonable business need or legitimate interest to retain such data. You may contact us at hello@cineself.com if at any time you would like to see the Personally Identifiable Information we hold about you, or to ask us to correct or update this information, or to ask us to delete it. Please contact us if you have questions or wish to take any action with respect to information to which this Privacy Policy applies (see below for contact information).

6. Rights, rules and provisions for European Economic Area users

If you are the resident of a country in the EEA, you may have additional privacy rights available to you under applicable laws. We will process your requests in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

- Right not to provide or withdraw consent: you have the right not to provide or withdraw your consent at any time.
- Right of access: you may have the right to access the Personal Data that you provided Us.
- Right of erasure: you may have the right to the erasure of Personal Data that we hold about you.
- Right to object to processing: you may have the right to request that Cineself stop processing your Personal Data and/or to stop sending you marketing communications.
- Right to rectification: you may have the right to require Cineself to correct any of your Personal Data.
- The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you feel the above conditions aren’t being met.

To make such requests regarding your personal data, please email the customer success team at hello@cineself.com with the term “privacy” in the subject line. Please contact us if you have questions or wish to take any action with respect to information to which this Privacy Policy applies (see below for contact information).

Cineself is a casting service for film, television, theatre, commercials and other performing arts productions. Users located in EEA countries may choose to enter personal data relating to their race or ethnicity, trade union membership, gender, and sexual orientation when using the service. This type of information is considered to be a part of the “Special Categories of Personal Data” under Article 9 of the GDPR. By choosing to enter the above categories of personal data on the Cineself service, you are giving explicit consent to the processing of this personal data for purposes referenced in this privacy policy on Cineself.

Cineself has appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee all aspects of our privacy and data security policies. If you would like to contact our Data Protection Officer, please send an email to hello@cineself.com.

In order for users from EEA countries to use Cineself websites, users must accept cookies. Users will be prompted at the beginning of their session to accept cookies. Users may withdraw consent by deleting their cookies from their browser settings at any time.

7. Links to our websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Websites and mobile applications of Cineself. The Websites may contain links to other websites that Cineself may not own or operate. The links from the Websites do not imply that Cineself endorses or has reviewed these websites. The policies and procedures we describe here do not apply to these websites. We neither can control nor are responsible for the privacy practices or content of these websites. We suggest contacting these websites directly for information on their privacy policies.

8. California privacy rights

California Civil Code Section §1798.83 permits users of Websites that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to hello@cineself.com.

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, California Civil Code Sections 1798.100 et seq. (CCPA), may additionally afford rights to our users and customers who are California residents. For example, California residents may have a right, following a verifiable request, to (1) access—twice in a 12-month period, free of charge—for the 12-month period prior to the request, the categories and specific pieces of personal information Cineself has collected about the user, the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, the business purpose for collecting the personal information, and the categories of third parties with whom Cineself shares personal information; and (2) delete personal information under certain circumstances. Cineself does not discriminate against our users and customers on the basis of their exercising any of their rights afforded by the CCPA, which is further in accordance with California residents’ rights under that title.

Cineself does not discriminate against our users and customers on the basis of their exercising any of their rights afforded by the CCPA, which is further in accordance with California residents’ rights under that title.

Following any request, we will verify your identity. You may also authorize an agent to submit a request on your behalf, so long as you provide the authorized agent written permission to request on your behalf, and your authorized agent is able to verify their identity with us.

9. Data Security

Cineself is committed to protecting the security of Your Personal Data. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect Your personal data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We attempt to follow policies and procedures that will protect against unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information. No amount of measures is 100% secure, however. We cannot make any promises or guarantees that your data will be safe, and you provide information to us at your own risk.

10. Contact Us

You may contact Cineself Ltd regarding our privacy practices at the following address:

Cineself Ltd

5 Lyuben Karavelov str

1142, Sofia, Bulgaria

Email: hello@cineself.com

If you have any questions regarding Cineself’s privacy practices, need to access the policy in an alternative format due to a disability, or if you would like to access, update, or delete your personal information, please contact us via email to hello@cineself.com

11. Privacy policy changes

This Privacy Policy is effective as of October 17th, 2021. Cineself reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Cineself does not undertake to provide you with personal notice of any changes. In the event of material changes, Cineself will provide notice by means that are reasonable under the circumstances, such as by posting a notice on the websites. Your continued use of Cineself following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept those changes.