Privacy Policy – Your Script Produced! Genre (YSP GENRE)
Personal Information Protection and Privacy
Your Script Produced! Genre (“YSP GENRE”) understands how important your privacy is. We are committed to protecting your privacy and any personal information we collect about you. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you about what personal information we collect and how and why we collect it, to outline the steps we take to keep your personal information confidential, and to provide you with contact information for the person to contact at YSP GENRE should you have questions or concerns about our personal information protection practices.
What is Personal Information?
“Personal information” is personally identifiable information such as your name, residential address, and email address and includes information about your product and service subscriptions and usage, credit card information, and billing records. It does not include the name, title, business address, or telephone number of an employee of an organization.
What Type of Personal Information Does YSP GENRE Collect?
YSP GENRE collects various types of personal information. We may collect any of the following:
- Your name, billing/shipping address, email address, telephone number, and credit card information, including card number, card type, cardholder name, and expiration date, when you purchase products or services from us such as tickets for a YSP GENRE event or for one of our festival partners’ events, or products from the online YSP GENRE shop. We also obtain this information from you when you become a YSP GENRE member, patron, participant, or subscriber.
- Personal information you provide to us when you participate in any of our events, including when you submit scripts, films, screenplays, pitches, or other creative works for inclusion in any YSP GENRE events or programs, seek credentials, special access, or privileges regarding a YSP GENRE event or program. This personal information might include your name, profession, email address, phone number, photograph, answers to specific questions, password, and computer information.
- Personal information you provide to us when you participate in any of our online or other meeting spaces, blogs, or forums. This personal information might include your name, profession, email address, phone number, photograph, answers to specific questions, password, and computer information. The personal information you provide to us when participating in our meeting spaces, blogs, or forums may be used for marketing purposes.
- Personal information you provide to us when you participate in one of our contests, sweepstakes, competitions, pitch events, screenplay contests, or surveys. This information may include your name, email address, street address, and the answers to survey questions. The personal information you provide to us when participating in these promotions, surveys, and contests may be used for marketing purposes.
- Personal information you provide to us when subscribing to our newsletters or emails or when you use our website, including, but not limited to, when you create an account on the YSP GENRE website. This personal information might include your name, member/buyer identification, email address, phone number, password, and computer information.
- Your personal information from our business partners and other third parties provided they have agreed to obtain your consent before disclosing your personal information to us.
- Photographs, motion pictures, and videos taken of you in public areas at YSP GENRE events, screenings, workshops, conferences, networking functions, or related venues.
- Certain technical information from your computer each time you request a page during a visit to our website. This information is collected from your computer’s web browser to enhance your experience on our website and may include your IP address, operating system, web browser software, screen resolution, and referring website.
- Personal information you may provide to us when applying for a job, internship, volunteer position, mentorship program, or partnership opportunity with YSP GENRE. Once we have identified information that has been submitted to us for such an application, we store it in a secure environment that is not shared or used other than for our staffing and administrative purposes.
How Does YSP GENRE Collect Personal Information?
We collect personal information that is voluntarily provided to us by our customers, members, sponsors, website users, applicants, participants, and the public in general when they contact us via telephone, email, web browser, social media, or in person.
As mentioned above, we may also collect personal information from our business partners and other third parties who have agreed to obtain the consent of the person the information pertains to before disclosing the information to us.
YSP GENRE may also collect personal information through the following means:
Photographs, Motion Pictures, and Videos
Photographs, motion pictures, and videos taken in public areas at YSP GENRE events, workshops, screenings, networking functions, or affiliated venues.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on a website user’s computer hard drive containing information about the user. Our site may use cookies to filter content based on user preferences, record IP addresses for analytic purposes, and connect with users’ social media accounts to share content. This information may be stored in the cookie file as encrypted data to prevent unauthorized persons from viewing the information it contains.
Permanent cookie files remain on the user’s computer hard drive until they manually delete the file. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to disclose your individual identity. A cookie will identify your browser, but not you, to our computer servers when you visit our website.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may be limited in some areas of our website.
Web Beacons
To assess the effectiveness of promotional and marketing emails we send, we may attach a web beacon to the email that provides us with confirmation when the recipient opens the email. This only occurs if the recipient’s computer supports such technology.
Why Does YSP GENRE Collect Your Personal Information?
YSP GENRE may collect personal information about you and use it for the following reasons:
- To provide products and services to you, to inform you of event changes and other relevant information pertaining to your purchase, to bill you when you make a purchase from us, to acknowledge your support or donation, and to contact you when necessary for these purposes.
- To provide you with services, recognition, opportunities, or access you request.
- To administer your submissions and applications for our programs, screenplay competitions, mentorship opportunities, festivals, events, workshops, and networking programs.
- When you register to become a member of YSP GENRE, we use your information to create and manage your member account.
- For marketing purposes. We may use your contact information to send you emails about promotions, surveys, contests, screenplay competitions, funding opportunities, industry events, educational programs, and special offers or to provide other marketing information to you.
- Promotional emails are intended to inform you of new or unique opportunities, events, or special deals that are available from YSP GENRE. You can opt not to receive these emails from us by either clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email when you receive it or by sending an email request asking to be removed from our mailing list.
- To improve the quality of your visit to our website. We use electronic information such as cookies to improve your use of our website.
- To improve our service offerings. We monitor and analyze the use of our services in order to determine which services are popular and useful to our customers, members, and website visitors so that we can improve them.
- To better understand your interests. YSP GENRE also may prepare aggregated user statistics or information summaries to describe our services and their popularity to our business partners, sponsors, advertisers, and affiliates for other lawful purposes. The aggregated statistics and information will not contain personally identifiable information.
- To provide a secure and safe environment for our visitors, staff, contractors, participants, and employees.
- To cooperate with law enforcement and to protect against violations of criminal or civil laws.
- Photographic, video, and film cameras may be used to:
- (a) protect YSP GENRE, its customers, participants, and employees against security issues, including potential violations of civil and/or criminal laws; and
- (b) support our marketing, promotional, documentary, and archival activities related to YSP GENRE events and services.
- We may use your personal information to respond when you submit a question or suggestion to us, or when you request assistance with your membership, purchases, submissions, account access, or website usage.
Disclosure of Personal Information
YSP GENRE does not sell or rent any personal information we collect.
YSP GENRE may disclose some personal information we collect to service providers who help us provide personalized content, ticketing services, payment processing, shipping, fulfillment, marketing, advertising, analytics, or technical support services.
When you purchase products or services through the YSP GENRE website or affiliated platforms, YSP GENRE may disclose your personal information to third-party service providers for production, fulfillment, shipping, ticket processing, or payment processing purposes.
YSP GENRE takes reasonable steps to ensure that each of our service providers to whom we share personal information is committed to maintaining the privacy of such information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
From time to time, YSP GENRE may provide services to partner festivals, events, production companies, educational institutions, sponsors, or organizations by processing registrations, submissions, or ticket orders on their behalf. We hold the personal information collected while performing these services separately and only use it for purposes directly related to performing these services.
How YSP GENRE Protects Your Privacy
YSP GENRE is committed to protecting your privacy. Security measures, such as locked filing cabinets, restricted access, password protection, and encryption have been adopted to protect your personal information against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.
Our employees, contractors, and authorized representatives who have access to your personal information are required to use it strictly in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable laws.
All information submitted to our website or email addresses is transferred to YSP GENRE computer servers. During online transactions, this information may be submitted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology or other commercially reasonable security technologies.
YSP GENRE will keep your personal information only as long as it remains necessary or relevant for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or as required by law.
There may be links throughout our website that direct you to third-party websites that do not operate under YSP GENRE’s Privacy Policy. When you click through to these websites, this Privacy Policy no longer applies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.
YSP GENRE makes no promises, warranties, or representations about third-party websites and bears no liability whatsoever for your use of them.
The internet is inherently open and subject to interception of information. We cannot guarantee that information you provide to us over the internet or otherwise will not be intercepted by third parties while it is being communicated by means beyond our control.
Your Consent
By choosing to provide us with your personal information, you are consenting to its collection, use, and disclosure in accordance with the principles outlined in this Privacy Policy.
If you are under the age of 18, you must not provide any personal information to us without the consent of your parent or guardian, or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
YSP GENRE encourages you to review our online Privacy Policy periodically. This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, and your continued attendance at YSP GENRE events, use of our services, participation in our programs, or use of our website will constitute your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
If you do not want YSP GENRE to collect, use, or disclose your personal information as outlined in this Privacy Policy, please inform us at the time the information is requested or collected.
You may also contact YSP GENRE with any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal information.
Verifying and Amending Your Personal Information
YSP GENRE tries to ensure that all personal information in our possession is accurate, complete, and up to date. To enable us to do so, please inform us of any changes to your personal information.
You may inquire about, access, review, and request corrections to your personal information held by YSP GENRE by contacting our customer relations or privacy department.
If there is any charge for responding to your request, YSP GENRE will advise you in advance. In some cases, YSP GENRE may be prevented by law from disclosing certain requested information. If any request you make for access to personal information is denied, we will provide you with an explanation.