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Privacy Policy

The privacy of SoCal Film Market users and their information is extremely important to SoCal Film Market and we take this matter very seriously. All users of the SoCal Film Market are covered by the following Privacy Policy. The SoCal Film Market reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy. If required to do so, or it is in our best interest, SoCal Film Market may release user information in compliance with law enforcement agencies.

In order to secure your personal information, all communications between you and the SoCal Film Market website are secured. Furthermore, your personal information cannot be accessed by other users. Therefore, other users will never be able to see this private information. Moreover, SoCal Film Market will never share your contact information with another user, unless requested to do so by you.

Persons under the age of 18 are prohibited from using the SoCal Film Market and any associated services. These individuals are therefore not authorized to submit any private information to the system and SoCal Film Market accepts no liability for such actions.

The SoCal Film Market

The SoCal Film Market is an online service that allows entertainment and business professionals to connect and interact with one another. Users are represented on the site with personal profiles. You choose the information in your profile/listing/ad/etc. and therefore control what can be seen by other users. The SoCal Film Market must collect certain pieces of information in the normal course of its business and SoCal Film Market retains the ownership rights to this information.

Primary Information Types

There are several primary types of information that are collected including Contact, Profile, and Internet information. In the future, credit card information may also be accepted for membership fees and other services. SoCal Film Market is in no way limited to the collection of only this type of information and may deem it necessary to collect other data. You will be notified if any changes are made to this policy via a posting on this website.

Contact Information

Upon registering as a SoCal Film Market user, certain contact information such as your name, email address, and mailing address may be collected. This serves as an example and is not intended to be a complete list of information that may be collected at registration.

Profile and Listings

As a part of the registration, SoCal Film Market users may be prompted to complete a profile. Current users can also make changes to their own user profile by contacting the SoCal Film Market. A user profile may contain, but is not limited to, your name, a personal statement, your work experience, goals, and any items contained on a resume.  A listing may also contain specific information about your project, whether it be a movie, screenplay or other project. You should use good judgment about the information that you post in your profile since this can be viewed by others on the SoCal Film Market. Your personal contact information CANNOT be viewed unless you release this information.  Under certain posting categories or to view certain information, you may be required to release personal contact information.  At any point where you are required to release personal contact information, you will be doing so willingly and of your own volition.  Additionally, the information in your profile can be edited at your discretion at any time.   The SoCal Film Market retains the right to approve any and all profiles that are created and/or changed.  Changes to a profile must be submitted to SoCal Film Market for approval.

Listings

By listing a project with the SoCal Film Market, you are acknowledging that you are the owner of the copyright and/or have approval to release the property for exhibition on the SoCal Film Market website, with the understanding that this is a non-exclusive, non-binding agreement.  The SoCal Film Market is not guaranteeing sales or distribution of properties, projects or ideas.  Furthermore, you are acknowledging that the SoCal Film Market is not responsible and will not be held accountable for any similar projects, listings, or productions on the SoCal Film Market website or through any other media whether affiliated with the SoCal Film Market or not.  You release this information with the understanding that the SoCal Film Market is ultimately not responsible for the parties that may be viewing the website as it is open for public display.  However, through the registration process, the SoCal Film Market may contact affiliates and/or member to verify the submitted information.  If the SoCal Film Market decides that a listing is in violation of copyright law, it will be removed and it is at the discretion of the SoCal Film Market whether or not to issue a refund for the listing.  Refunds may be full or partial at the discretion of the SoCal.

Internet

As part of our efforts to provide better services to SoCal Film Market users, SoCal Film Market collects certain information related to the Internet and your computer. In order for us to analyze trends and provide superior service to our users, SoCal Film Market retrieves the web address (URL) of both the website that you visited directly before and directly after visiting the SoCal Film Market site. We also receive certain other information about your personal computer such as the unique IP address. SoCal Film Market may also follow a standard practice of using cookies and logs to analyze website usage. Cookies a extremely small files that are stored on your computer and help us to provide you with a better experience by automatically recalling your preferences each time you visit our site. Cookies will not harm your computer in any way and can be deleted at any time.

User Accounts

You may make changes to your SoCal Film Market account and any associated preferences at any time, by submitting them to the SoCal Film Market.  You may also request to terminate your account. To request a removal of your account or to make changes, please contact info@socalfilmmarket.com.

System Generated Emails

As part of the normal functioning of the SoCal Film Market, users may receive email requests from SoCal Film Market or for contact from other users. However, SoCal Film Market will NOT reveal your email address to any other user until you chose to do so. Additionally, SoCal Film Market will send you system generated emails and promotional materials. These communications may begin during the registration process and continue while your account remains on the SoCal Film Market. If you wish to opt out of promotional emails, please contact info@socalfilmmarket.com and specify your request.

Affiliate and Partner Services

We will not release your personal information to any party unless required to do so by law or if it is requested by you or part of the normal functioning of the SoCal Film Market. We do intend to use a third party to verify and process credit card information for any fees or purchases made on the SoCal Film Market or with SoCal Film Market. All third parties are required to use your information in a secure manner and only for the purpose given to them and cannot store or release this information. Certain non-sensitive profile information may be released to our affiliates and partners for the purpose of marketing and improving our service to you.

If you have a question about this privacy policy, please email info@socalfilmmarket.com or write to us at:

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