Privacy Policy

Casting Networks Inc, DBA ModelWire, ("we" or "MW" or "us") has a firm commitment to informing you (talent, and in the case of minors, their parent(s) or legal guardian(s)) about how we handle and protect your personal information. This privacy policy applies to transactions and activities in which you engage and data gathered only on the MW websites (collectively, the "Site"). This privacy policy does not apply to any other website or any offline contact between MW and any other company or offline contact between you and MW or between you and other registered members of the Site.

Sites We Manage

This privacy policy pertains to the following Sites, all of which are owned and operated by MW: modelwire.com Please review this privacy policy periodically because we modify it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on November 1, 2007. Each time you visit this Site or provide us with information through the Site, by doing so you are accepting practices described in the privacy policy in effect at that time. You are also accepting our terms of use which may be can be accessed at the following links: Terms of Use for Talent, Terms of Use for Agents, Terms of Use for Managers, Terms of Use for Casting Directors, Terms of Use for Independent Casting Directors.

Special Notice to Talent

There are practical considerations relating to the need for agents and casting directors to review certain personal information, and considerations relating to the need to contact talent in order to cast them. By submitting your information on this Site you understand that you are affirmatively choosing to post personally identifiable information about yourself, including contact information such as your phone number and e-mail address, as well as identifying information such as your height, weight, hair and eye color. You also have the option to post photographs, video and other information that may allow third parties to personally identify and locate you. Others will be able to view this information. By registering to be on this Site you are agreeing to have personally identifiable information revealed to third party members who use this Site, and you are acknowledging the risks inherent in so doing. Please see our tips on privacy section for ways to protect yourself and your personal information.

Information We Collect

Like most interactive websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with the Site we use your IP address, which helps us identify you and gather broad demographic information about you and where you logged in from. Our server logs may also capture and collect additional information such as your web request, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, and/or the date and time of your visit, all of which helps us track user's movements around our site and understand trends.

The Site uses cookies to keep track of your activity on the Site and to enhance your experience on the Site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password, and if you so choose, to save other personal and financial information so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the Site. Third party advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies on your browser should you click through to their website. If you wish to disable these cookies, the help portion of the tool bar on most browsers will tell you how do that. If you set your browser to disable cookies, however, you may not be able to access certain parts of this Site.

Information You Provide

In order to operate the Site and to provide agents, talent and casting directors with information that facilitates the casting process, we also collect the information that you provide when you sign up for a ModelWire account, including personal contact information, financial information, and demographic information. Personal contact information is information that you provide which can be used to contact you directly without going through the Site and may include your full name, postal address, phone number, or e-mail address. Financial information that you provide and that we collect may include your credit card number or password. Demographic information is information that you submit or we collect that is neither personal nor financial; this may include but is not limited to your zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, user name, your age, height and weight. We also collect your account password, browsing history information and searching history information, registration history information, and the content of communications between you and other members over this Site, subject to the rest of this paragraph. Demographic information is divided into two categories: (1) non-public information, which consists of purchase history information and your exact address; and (2) public information which consists of all other demographic information. We ask that you do not enter personal information or financial information into your public profile. For example, don't use your full address or password as your user name and don't post it in your public profile. Also, remove your full name and address in your written responses. If you choose to include personally identifiable information in your profile, it may be publicly posted on the Site, and we cannot control who may access such information and/or what they do with the information you provide. Publicly posted information will be treated as demographic information by MW. In addition, other members will be able to view this information.

Please note that nowhere on this Site do we knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18 unless they are represented by an agent, parent, or guardian.

Third Party Sites

On this Site we may place links to other websites operated by third parties. We strive to limit those links only to websites that provide goods and services to you about products that you may be interested in. Some of these other websites contain our brand name and trademarks and other intellectual property that we own. Others do not. When you click on these links and visit these other websites you should be aware that you are leaving the MW Site and that we do not control these third party websites nor can we make any claims regarding those website's terms of use or privacy policies. This privacy policy does not apply to any third party websites. Operators of these other websites may collect different kinds of information about you and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected on this Site. These websites may use tracking tools, such as cookies, to collect information about you and/or the computers used to view or interact with their advertisements. We encourage you to review those third party privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use your e-mail address and your other personal information to help us efficiently operate the Site. We also use this information to contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the Site (including but not limited to confirmation e-mails for important news that could affect your relationship with us), and to forward messages to you from other registrants. These types of communications are known as maintenance communications. In some cases maintenance communications may also contain commercial messages such as banner ads and special offers.

We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for MW's or third parties' goods and services. We attempt to send you offers that are of value to you such as information relating to photographers or agents, exclusive offers or others special event information. The Site provides you with options to decline to receive communications from MW other than those contained in our maintenance communications. Some of these options may only be for a certain category of communications, others may be more general. By posting a profile on the Site you are opting in to receive maintenance communication information from MW as well as MW newsletters and other communications. To stop receiving MW's newsletter, go to the e-mail address section of your account profile and uncheck "Send me email notices for ModelWire sponsored mixers, special events, seminars and announcements."

Additionally, MW may process your personal information for the following purposes:

* Providing our services to you, including display of customized content and advertising * Fulfilling your requests for services * Facilitating the use of the Site * Managing your account preferences * Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services * Ensuring the technical functioning of our network * Developing new services * Identify and protecting against misuse or unauthorized use of our Site; and Enforcing our Terms of Use

To operate the Site, including processing any transactions and supporting any activities you do on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, e-mail originations, receipt of support services, customer relationship management services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes promotion fulfillment. We require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose. Moreover, registrants on this Site, including agents and casting directors, are not authorized to use your information for any other purpose.

If you are visiting the Sites from outside of the United States, please be advised that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws the United States and other countries, might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Please be assured that we seek to take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Policy.

Promotional Relationships and Co-Branded Pages

In some cases we may enter into a promotional relationship with another company in which we prominently display their brand name or trademark on pages of the Site. These pages are known as co-branded pages and these companies are known as co-branded companies. If the page on which you submit information is a co-branded page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a co-branded page, then we may share your personal information with the associated co-branded company. Co-branded companies may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact co-branded companies to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such co-branded companies in the same manner than which we are entitled to use and disclose any information you submit to us.

Some co-branded pages may contain an action pack that a third party such as an advertising company may use to read cookies that it or its clients may have placed on your browser. This technology is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements on such other websites that promote co-branded pages. These third parties may use the information collected through this technology to learn more about your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We have been informed by these third parties that unless you are otherwise notified, they do not use your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number and do not link your on-line actions to any information that can be used to identify or contact you. However, because we may not verify that this is the case, you should seek their assurances yourself as we are not accountable for the accuracy of the above statement.

We strive to create relationships with advertising and fulfillment partners that believe in and respect your privacy, too. While we do not control the third-party websites of our partners, we do strongly encourage our partners to post privacy policies clearly and conspicuously and to protect the information of their users.

Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is authorized to use your personal information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.

California has passed legislation requiring certain specific disclosures be made available to California residents who use the Internet and provide information that may be used for marketing purposes. That legislation requires any business that discloses a customer's personal information to any third party for direct marketing purposes to provide the customer a method for obtaining the names, addresses and certain other specified details of anyone who might have received that personal information. If you are a California resident you may request this information from MW by writing to:  

Casting Networks Inc, DBA ModelWire

3250 Wilshire Boulevard

Suite 1800 

Los Angeles, CA 90010

or by sending an e-mail to support@modelwire.com MW is not obligated to respond to more than one such request from you per calendar year.

Additional Ways That We May Share Your Personal Information

Talent not represented by an agent, agents and casting directors may be asked to provide financial information to use and access this Site. We use your financial information to check your qualifications and to bill you for any services provided on this Site for which we charge. You consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine are necessary to support and process your activities and transactions as well as your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process and support the transaction or activity. By registering or taking advantage of services offered on this Site or by participating in programs offered on this Site that are administered by third parties and that require you to submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to those third parties. Additionally if the page on which you submit information is a co-branded page as defined in an earlier section, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a co-branded page then we may share your financial information with the associated co-branded company. Any of these various third parties including co-branded companies may be authorized to use your financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies over which we have no control. You agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Additionally you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information that you submit to us.

Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership of assets or a bankruptcy. We may also use and/or disclose personal information or financial information without your prior consent when we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, court order, subpoena or enforceable government request; (b) enforce our Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (d) protect against the imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of MW, its registered members, or the public as required or permitted by law. We also may disclose your personal information or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses and other affiliated legal entities in businesses with whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal information or financial information is disclosed under this paragraph we may also disclose your demographic information along with it. All of our parent subsidiary and affiliated legal entities are businesses that receive your personal information, financial information or non-anonymous demographic information from us and will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure.

We review all demographic information. We may also use public information to enable other users to find your profile to determine whether they are seeking information about you for a specific casting role and to communicate with you. We may use this demographic information to help you navigate the Site to best find matches for you. We may also share information on an anonymous aggregate basis and to the extent that we have advertisers we share the information to help them determine if their products and services will appeal to our users. We do not identify specific MW users by name in these cases. If you respond directly to an advertiser any information you provide them directly will not be subject to this privacy policy.

MW will not share your personal information except as in the manner set forth in the Privacy Policy in effect at the time and/or as specifically authorized by you. Certain personal information however, including contact information, contained within a member's portfolio is always available to professionals within the industry ("Industry Professionals") who are entitled to share such information for project-specific professional purposes. Although MW requests that Industry Professionals submit certain credentials and make certain representations to MW, MW cannot guarantee the truth and/or accuracy of these credentials and/or representations.

When you provide information in connection with open casting notices, such information is available to the persons posting such open casting notices (who may or may not be Industry Professionals) and, MW has no control over the manner in which this information is used.

Information Security

MW takes commercially appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data that you share and we store. These security measures include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We make commercially reasonable efforts to restrict access to personal information to MW employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations. Unfortunately, no security system can be 100% secured; accordingly, MW cannot guarantee the security of any information provided to us in connection with the information that we collect through our website.

Changes To This Policy

Please note that we will continue to have the right to change our privacy policy and practices and how we use your personally identifiable information, without notice, as described in the first paragraph of this privacy policy. We will post any Policy changes on this page and, if we make material changes in the way we collect, use or share your personal information, we will, within 30 days, provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, e-mail notification of Policy changes to the email address you most recently provided to us).

If at any point we decide to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated in the Privacy Policy in effect at the time it was collected, we will we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of your personal information for those other purposes.

If MW becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale or transfer of some or all of its assets, we will provide reasonable notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

How We Manage Children's Information

This Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. Because we understand that agents and casting directors use this Site to find Talent of all ages, we allow parents to register their children on the site and to manage their information. Agents and managers who represent minor talent may be required to verify that they have received consent from a parent or guardian prior to posting information about minors on the Site.

In addition to the foregoing, our policy is not to admit any child under the age of 13 to any portion of the site, regardless of whether parental consent to have a profile posted on the Site has been submitted to us. Children over the age of 13 may, with parental permission, monitor their personal information posted on the Site.

For safety reasons, anyone who uses search criteria to look for Talent under the age of 18 may be required to reconfirm their password and name. Searches may be tracked and recorded. We may also keep track of the number of searches and visits you have made to a particular talent profile and may release this information pursuant to a court order or other legally binding directive, including an emergency search warrant.

We remind parents, guardians, and Talent that providing their password or account information to anyone other than the registered member is a violation of our Terms of Use and may result in termination of your membership.

Questions and Contacts

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or the practices of this Site, you may contact us at:  