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WriteMovies Privacy Policy

 

Latest update: 1st July 2020

This privacy policy sets out how WRITEMOVIES uses and protects any information that you give WRITEMOVIES when you use this website, and also to any information which is provided to our partners TALENTSCOUT INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT, who are also owned and managed and regulated under the controls stated in this Privacy Policy.

WRITEMOVIES is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

WRITEMOVIES may change this policy from time to time and will inform you of these changes in our newsletter – if you have unsubscribed from this, or did not opt in to it when you first submitted your personal data to us, you may need to check our website for updates. This policy is effective from July 1st 2020.

 

UK and EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

WRITEMOVIES and TALENTSCOUT INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT, formerly divisions of rossWWmedia, Corp., offer access to the international entertainment industry for customers and others across the world. In order to show our commitment to the highest data protection standards internationally, this policy will be regulated under UK law, and will also meet the requirements the California Consumer Protection Act of the State of California where we conduct a high proportion of our business activity, and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. This combination of commitments ensures that WRITEMOVIES will meet the highest standards of the USA (CCPA), EU (GDPR) and UK (Data Protection Act) simultaneously. Our parent company, Friendly Creatives Ltd, is responsible for its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and any updates to this for the UK following Brexit. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework, the U.S. Department of Commerce has a Privacy Shield List you can view. With respect to personal data, WRITEMOVIES is subject to the requirements of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, https://ico.org.uk/. We may sometimes be required to provide personal data information to lawful requests from public authorities, including national security or law enforcement requirements.

By giving us your personal data information, you consent to this information being collected, stored, used, disclosed, and transferred between the United States and United Kingdom, as described in our Terms and Conditions and in this Privacy Policy. Due to the nature of business in the international entertainment industry (which we provide access to for our customers, in order to fulfil our contracts with our customers), we may transfer strictly limited data assets to colleagues, partners or prospective producers (or other appropriate parties) in other territories across the world as defined in our Terms and Conditions and as per the recognized industry norms of the international entertainment industry. This can include data transfer into, and out of, the EU. WriteMovies will remain responsible for the data protection compliance of any data controller or processor who we work with in other territories.

 

What we collect

  • Full details of what data types we collect are provided below with additional information.
  • We do not store credit card details. Nor do we share customer details with any 3rd parties other than in order to execute our responsibility to judge and promote writers and their scripts to a high standard, as defined in our submission Terms and Conditions.
  • We will not knowingly record, store, use or process the personal data of individuals below the age of 18.

 

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to fulfil our contractual commitments to you, to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • To fulfil our contracts with you, and provide you with whatever services or information you have opted to receive.
  • Compliance with statutory regulations, for example those preventing money laundering and fraud.
  • Internal record keeping.
  • We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided, unless you have unticked an option to receive our marketing when you submitted your details to WriteMovies, or have subsequently unsubscribed from our mailing list on the relevant platform(s). UK and EU citizens have an absolute right to object to direct marketing, and we extend this right to all our customers and followers: guidance information is below.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email or other digital media platforms. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests. UK and EU citizens have an absolute right to object to this, and we also accord this right equally to our customers and followers in other territories: guidance information is below.

The Business Address of WriteMovies is 264 S. La Cienega Boulevard, Suite 1132, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. For the purposes of local regulation by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, WriteMovies.com is a division of Friendly Creatives Ltd, with Data Controller and Data Protection Officer: IW Kennedy, c/o 155 Millhouse Road, B25 8QS.

 

Your rights as a Data Subject, if we hold your personal data:

Your data will held for fixed terms, not indefinitely, and wherever we hold your data due to your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent on a modular (individualized) basis. We may request proof of your identity in order to ensure that your data is not provided to anyone impersonating you.

Using Data Subject Access Requests, you have the right to: find out what information we hold on you; access that information; and rectify any errors. All of those requests will be fulfilled for free, within 30 days of the request. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to info@writemovies.com.

EU citizens also have a legal right (from May 2018), which we also give to all our customers who are subject to this Privacy Policy, to:

  • withdraw their consent for us to hold and use single (or general) aspects of their personal data, if that data is held due to consent rather than another legal basis;
  • opt-out or restrict any ‘automatic processing’ or ‘profiling’ that our systems may make about you without human input;
  • have your data transferred to another suitable provider in a commonly-readable format on request, if that does not violate our other legal requirements; bring class actions;
  • object to receiving any direct marketing; and the ‘right to be forgotten’.

All of these rights will be applied without charge on request, within 30 days of the request. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to info@writemovies.com. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect without charging a fee for this.

 

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

 

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps you to interact with our website, analyses our web traffic, or lets you know when you visit a particular site. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. We do not keep or use any records of individual user data that may be available from our cookies, website hosts or other related services.

 

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

 

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the option that you can select to indicate that you wish to be contacted for direct marketing purposes.
  • if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@writemovies.com.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission, need to do so in order to fulfil our contract with you, or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting, if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

We receive and retain personal data in compliance with the relevant international laws, including the EU GDPR which came into force in May 2018. Some personal data information is requested and stored for legal reasons, such as to help government authorities verify that we are not conducting any money laundering or fraud within our activities (referred to below as ‘AML’). We have provided a table below, to show what personal data we hold, what legal basis we have for holding it, and how long we retain that data. We do not collect or use personal data such as email addresses from other platforms such as Twitter without consent.

Please note that where the business relies on externally owned platforms, such to host our online services and to process payments, that platform may hold copies, records or backups of its own of the relevant data of WriteMovies users. These may be beyond our knowledge or control or ability to delete. Wherever possible we will avoid the use of services that fail to meet adequate data protection laws and requirements, but it is the responsibility of those platforms to ensure that they remain legally compliant at all times and able to provide sufficient information security. While we are committed to deleting on request users’ personal data from whatever records we have access to, and to preventing security breaches as far as is realistically possible, WriteMovies cannot be held responsible for breaches or other failings caused by any externally owned platform or its staff.

Please note that we consider that users who submit to us or register for our marketing are demonstrating an interest in both scriptwriting opportunities and in developing their writing and their potential writing careers, and our ongoing marketing activity is designed to help users in these goals. Therefore, although we delete all other data after 5 years, we generally retain newsletter subscriber details for 25 years, as writing careers often take many years to succeed, and our communications can remain useful to them on an ongoing basis. However, we ensure that users can easily unsubscribe from any or all of our marketing using the ‘Unsubscribe’ options provided by the relevant platform, and can revoke their consent for any or all other marketing on request, by emailing info@writemovies.com.

 

Index of Personal Data

Type of data Legal basis for holding this data Duration of retention of this data How to revoke consent (where appropriate)
Your Name, and related personal information In order to fulfil contract as specified in Terms and Conditions For up to 25 years for e-marketing – but fully deleteable from these records at any time if consent is withdrawn. For all other purposes, relevant data is retained for 7 years to ensure our ability to comply with all statutory bodies wherever required, and this data is securely deleted after 7 years. Unsubscribe from any marketing individually using the options provided within the relevant platform or form, and/or by emailing info@writemovies.com.
Email address, and related personal contact information In order to fulfil contract as specified in Terms and Conditions For up to 25 years for e-marketing – but fully deleteable from these records at any time if consent is withdrawn. For all other purposes, relevant data is retained for 7 years after last contact from the customer, to ensure our ability to comply with all statutory bodies wherever required, and this data is securely deleted after 7 years. Unsubscribe from any marketing platform or mailing list individually using the options provided within the relevant platform or form, and/or by emailing info@writemovies.com.
Postal address (if provided), and related personal information AML/ verification 7 years (relevant data retained for 7 years to ensure our ability to comply with all statutory bodies wherever required). Unsubscribe from any marketing individually using the options provided within the relevant platform, and/or by emailing info@writemovies.com.
Script/ submission title, story synopsis, submission format, length of script, content of script, and other related information Consent to manage your submission as specified in Terms and Conditions 5 years (to enable us to recontact you if a later opportunity emerges for a script of your type within the industry which we feel we can help with). Consent can be withdrawn at any time by emailing info@writemovies.com, though if the relevant competition results have not yet been announced this may withdraw your entry from the contest under the contest Terms and Conditions.
“Additional authors” names, and related personal information Legitimate interest (to prevent false attribution which could lead to complaints and legal challenges) 5 years (relevant data retained for 5 years to ensure our ability to comply with all statutory bodies wherever required). Your submission can be withdrawn within two weeks of submission by emailing info@writemovies.com, though this may typically withdraw your entry from the contest under the contest Terms and Conditions.
User’s biographical information, user’s Twitter handle, information about how the user found out about us, demographic information and personal interests, and other related information Consent to manage your submission as specified in Terms and Conditions 5 years (relevant data retained for a maximum of 5 years to ensure our ability to comply with all statutory bodies wherever required). Consent can be withdrawn at any time by emailing info@writemovies.com, though if the competition results have not yet been announced this may withdraw your entry from the contest under the contest Terms and Conditions.
User’s payment details, and related information In order to fulfil contract as specified in Terms and Conditions, and to enable refunds in the event of dispute or withdrawal of services. AML/ verification. 7 years (relevant data retained for 7 years to ensure our ability to comply with all statutory bodies wherever required). WriteMovies does not store any credit or debit card details. To request earlier deletion from our records, email info@writemovies.com, and we will review your rights and our statutory duties.
Other personal data types Based upon your consent, other personal data may be communicated in emails, survey platforms, social media or other platforms for specific, explicitly named purposes within appropriate safeguards. From time to time, WriteMovies may change or update its practices, for example in order to remain legally compliant or to ensure the data security of our users. We will notify you of any new data types which we begin to store or process. Where consent is our legal basis for doing so, our customers’ data will not be used unless we have received their specific and informed consent. To be confirmed (variable, dependent upon reason for holding or using this data). We typically retain email data for 5 years. Third party digital media platforms such as social media are responsible for legal compliance in the retention and deletion requirements of all data provided to them; any copies of data that we export from these platforms are subject to this Policy. We do not extract or store personal data that may be generated by website cookies, website hosting records or other similar logs. To query this, email info@writemovies.com, and we will review your rights and our statutory duties on a case-by-case basis.

 

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