Last Updated: July 27th, 2022
Your privacy is important to us. The Worldwide Casting Privacy Policy describes what data we collect from you, the purpose for collecting the data in conjunction with the Worldwide Casting Sites and Services, how we share, process, and manage your Personal Data, and your rights associated with your data.
This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.worldwide-casting.com ("Worldwide Casting"). It explains how we collect information from users of Worldwide Casting, and how we use such information. Your use of Worldwide Casting constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. Please also read our Terms of Use, which govern the basic operation of Worldwide Casting. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use, you should immediately stop using or visiting Worldwide Casting.
You may choose to make your talent profile fully visible to all users on Worldwide Casting, as well as publicly discoverable across the world wide web, or not publicly discoverable, where only logged in users can view it. You may modify the information you have provided to Worldwide Casting at any time through your Worldwide Casting profile.
The Worldwide Casting service allows you to share information with other users by sending and receiving messages on the Worldwide Casting messaging system. When you send email or message Worldwide Casting customer support, Worldwide Casting will collect and store your name, email address and the content of your message so we can provide customer support.
When you post messages on the message boards on Worldwide Casting, the information contained in your posting will be stored on Worldwide Casting servers and will be openly available by other Worldwide Casting users and across the world wide web.
When a user posts a casting notice, the notice may contain personally identifiable information. By posting a casting notice on Worldwide Casting, you consent to share the contents of the casting notice with other Worldwide Casting users, as well as make the contents of your casting notice publicly discoverable across the world wide web.
When using the Worldwide Casting Service, you may share your data with other parties designated by you. For example, when applying to a casting notice on Worldwide Casting, you may share personally identifiable data with the recipient of your application. When inviting a Worldwide Casting user to apply to your casting notice, you may also share personally identifiable information with that user.
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.
Worldwide Casting, as a data controller, collects and shares data with different data processors in the following categories:
Technology and Infrastructure: Worldwide Casting distributes data to processors in order to host, enable and support the Worldwide Casting platform and service.
Analytics and Reporting: Worldwide Casting 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: Worldwide Casting distributes data to marketing companies to facilitate email marketing, IOS app messaging campaigns, on-site promotions, and social media, search, and display advertising campaigns.
Identity Verification: Worldwide Casting 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.
A list of all operators or processors that may collect or maintain personal information through the Websites is available on this web page.
Please direct your inquiries about any operator's privacy practices and use of children's information to the operator at its contact information provided.
Information, including information collected in the European Economic Area ("EEA") may be transferred, stored and processed by Worldwide Casting 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.
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.
Worldwide Casting 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.
Only a Parent or Legal Guardian of a child under the age of 16 years old may create an account on Worldwide Casting.com to promote their child’s performing arts career. When creating a Worldwide Casting 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 consent to the release of the child’s personal information within the Worldwide Casting Actor Profile.
Worldwide Casting 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.
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 Worldwide Casting account and visiting your child’s account profile page.
Sending us an email to privacypolicy@worldwide-casting.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.
A list of all operators or processors that may collect or maintain personal information from children through the Websites is available on this web page.
Please direct your inquiries about any operator's privacy practices and use of children's information to the operator at its contact information provided.
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 Worldwide-Casting.com to manager their child’s performing arts career. When creating a Worldwide Casting 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 Worldwide Casting Actor Profile. Children who live in EEA countries under the age of 16 are prohibited from using Worldwide Casting.
Worldwide Casting 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 privacypolicy@worldwide-casting.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).
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.
To make such requests regarding your personal data, please email the customer success team at privacypolicy@worldwide-casting.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).
Worldwide Casting 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 Worldwide Casting service, you are giving explicit consent to the processing of this personal data for purposes referenced in this privacy policy on Worldwide Casting.
Worldwide Casting 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 DPO@worldwide-casting.com.
In order for users from EEA countries to use Worldwide Casting 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.
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Websites. The Websites may contain links to other websites that Worldwide Casting may not own or operate. The links from the Websites do not imply that Worldwide Casting 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.
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 privacypolicy@worldwide-casting.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 Worldwide Casting 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 Worldwide Casting shares personal information; and (2) delete personal information under certain circumstances. Worldwide Casting 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.
Worldwide Casting 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.
Worldwide Casting 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.
You may contact Worldwide Casting LLC regarding our privacy practices at the following email address:
Email: privacypolicy@worldwide-casting.com
If you have any questions regarding Worldwide Casting’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.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of July 27, 2022. Worldwide Casting reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Worldwide Casting does not undertake to provide you with personal notice of any changes. In the event of material changes, Worldwide Casting will provide notice by means that are reasonable under the circumstances, such as by posting a notice on the websites. Your continued use of Worldwide Casting following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept those changes.