Personal Information Protection and Privacy
Your Script Produced! (YSP) 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 Your Script Produced! (YSP) 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 subscriptions, submissions, purchases, memberships, services usage, payment 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 Collect?
Your Script Produced! (YSP) collects various types of personal information. We may collect any of the following:
• Your name, billing/shipping address, email address, telephone number, and payment information, including card number, cardholder name, expiration date, when you purchase products or services from us such as tickets for YSP events, workshops, competitions, educational programs, or merchandise sold through the YSP online store. We also obtain this information when you become a YSP member, donor, sponsor, participant, or partner.
• Personal information you provide when participating in any of our events, screenplay competitions, pitching sessions, mentorship programs, educational workshops, festivals, productions, or other YSP programs. This information may include your name, profession, biography, email address, phone number, photograph, résumé, project details, script submissions, answers to specific questions, passwords, and computer information.
• Personal information you provide when participating in any online communities, forums, chat groups, blogs, webinars, networking events, or collaboration spaces operated by YSP. This information may include your name, profession, email address, phone number, photograph, profile information, passwords, and computer information. Information shared in these spaces may also be used for promotional or marketing purposes.
• Personal information you provide when entering contests, giveaways, surveys, fellowships, grants, or sweepstakes administered by YSP. This information may include your name, address, email address, phone number, demographic information, and responses to questionnaires or surveys. This information may also be used for marketing purposes.
• Personal information you provide when subscribing to newsletters, updates, marketing emails, SMS notifications, or when using our website or mobile platforms. This information may include your name, user ID, email address, phone number, password, and technical computer information.
• Personal information we may receive from business partners, sponsors, affiliates, educational institutions, production companies, distributors, talent agencies, or third parties, provided they have obtained appropriate consent before disclosing your information to us.
• Photographs, motion pictures, video recordings, livestreams, interviews, and audio recordings taken of you in public or semi-public areas during YSP events, productions, screenings, workshops, festivals, networking events, or educational programs.
• Certain technical information from your device each time you visit our website, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers, screen resolution, language preferences, browsing behavior, and referring websites. This information is collected to improve user experience and site performance.
• Personal information you provide when applying for employment, internships, volunteer opportunities, mentorships, or contractor positions with YSP. This information is securely stored and used solely for staffing, administrative, and operational purposes.
How Does YSP Collect Personal Information?
We collect personal information voluntarily provided to us by customers, members, participants, sponsors, filmmakers, writers, visitors, applicants, and the general public when they communicate with us by telephone, email, website, social media, applications, forms, or in person.
We may also collect personal information from business partners and third parties who have obtained proper consent from the individual before sharing the information with us.
Additional Methods of Collection
Photographs, Motion Pictures, and Video Recordings
Photographs, motion pictures, livestreams, and video recordings may be captured during YSP events, productions, screenings, workshops, educational programs, and networking activities.
Cookies
A cookie is a small data file stored on a user’s device containing information about website activity. Our website may use cookies to:
• personalize content and user experiences;
• remember user preferences;
• analyze traffic and usage trends;
• improve functionality and performance;
• support social media sharing and integration; and
• provide advertising and promotional services.
Cookies cannot independently identify you personally. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but users may modify browser settings to decline cookies. Some website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.
Web Beacons
YSP may use web beacons or similar technologies in emails and digital communications to monitor engagement, including whether emails are opened or links are clicked, where supported by the recipient’s device or software.
Why Does YSP Collect Your Personal Information?
YSP may collect and use personal information for the following purposes:
• To provide products, services, memberships, tickets, educational programming, competitions, mentorships, productions, and event-related services.
• To process purchases, donations, sponsorships, memberships, and applications.
• To communicate important information regarding purchases, screenings, events, scheduling changes, productions, programs, or submissions.
• To administer contests, competitions, fellowships, grants, workshops, events, festivals, and educational initiatives.
• To recognize supporters, sponsors, donors, mentors, judges, and participants.
• To create and manage member and participant accounts.
• For marketing and promotional purposes, including sending emails, newsletters, updates, surveys, promotions, contests, sponsorship opportunities, fundraising campaigns, and special offers related to YSP and its partners.
• To improve our website, products, educational offerings, productions, services, and customer experience.
• To analyze trends, audience engagement, purchasing behavior, and participation patterns to improve programming and services.
• To create aggregated, anonymous statistical information used for reporting, sponsorship presentations, business development, advertising, or strategic planning purposes.
• To maintain a safe and secure environment for visitors, participants, employees, contractors, volunteers, and partners.
• To cooperate with law enforcement agencies and comply with applicable legal obligations.
• To respond to questions, customer service requests, technical support inquiries, membership issues, account access problems, or other communications.
• To promote YSP events, productions, educational programs, screenings, workshops, and services using photography, video, livestreams, and recordings captured during public events and activities.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Your Script Produced! (YSP) does not sell or rent personal information to third parties.
YSP may disclose personal information to trusted service providers, contractors, vendors, payment processors, hosting providers, marketing partners, fulfillment companies, analytics providers, educational partners, production partners, or event partners who assist us in operating our organization and providing services to users.
When products, merchandise, tickets, or services are purchased through YSP platforms, personal information may be shared with third-party providers for payment processing, fulfillment, shipping, customer service, or event administration purposes.
YSP takes reasonable steps to ensure that service providers handling personal information maintain appropriate privacy and security standards consistent with this Privacy Policy.
YSP may also disclose personal information when required by law, court order, legal process, governmental request, or where necessary to protect the rights, property, safety, or security of YSP, its users, employees, participants, or the public.
How YSP Protects Your Privacy
YSP is committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining the security of your personal information.
Security measures such as encryption, password protection, restricted access systems, secure servers, monitoring systems, and secure storage procedures are used to safeguard personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, misuse, alteration, loss, or theft.
Employees, contractors, volunteers, and authorized representatives with access to personal information are required to handle it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable privacy laws.
Information submitted through our website is protected using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology or other industry-standard encryption and security protocols where appropriate.
YSP retains personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as required by applicable law.
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, sponsors, partners, or services that operate independently from YSP. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or policies of third-party websites and encourage users to review their privacy policies separately.
Although YSP uses commercially reasonable safeguards, no method of internet transmission or electronic storage is completely secure. Accordingly, YSP cannot guarantee absolute security of personal information transmitted electronically.
Your Consent
By providing personal information to YSP, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
If you are under the age of 18, you should not provide personal information without the consent of a parent or legal guardian unless otherwise permitted by applicable law.
YSP may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Continued participation in YSP programs, events, services, productions, websites, educational offerings, or activities after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
If you do not wish YSP to collect, use, or disclose your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy, please notify us at the time the information is collected or contact us directly.
Verifying and Amending Your Personal Information
YSP strives to keep personal information accurate, complete, and up to date.
You may request access to, correction of, or updates to your personal information held by YSP by contacting our customer relations or privacy department. In some cases, applicable laws may limit the information we can disclose.
If a request for access is denied, YSP will provide an explanation where legally permitted.