Privacy Policy
Last Updated On 21-March-2024
Effective Date 21-Mar-2024
This Privacy Policy describes how The Screenwriting Life, LLC, 4156 Bellingham Avenue Studio City, CA, California 91604, United States of America (“TSL,” “us”, or “we”), our affiliates collect, store, use and share the information we collect when you use our website ( https://www.thescreenwritinglife.co/ ), or otherwise engage with us online or offline (the “Service”). By accessing or using the Service, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the same, please do not access or use the Service.
We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service. The revised Policy will be effective the date the revised Policy is posted on the Service and your continued access or use of the Service after such time will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We therefore recommend that you periodically review this page.
1. Information You Choose to Provide Us:
When you register to use the Services, or contact us directly, you may provide some or all of the following information:
Name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, username, and password (“personal information”);
User-generated content, including comments, photographs, audio, videos, and other items that you choose to upload or broadcast on our Services (“User Content”);
Payment information, such as AMEX, Visa, PayPal or other third-party payment information (where required for the purpose of payment);
Your opt-in choices and communication preferences;
Information to verify an account;
Information (including email addresses) in correspondence you send to us, including when you report a problem with our Services; and
Your search queries on the Service.
2. What Information We Collect:
We collect and process information that identifies, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with you (“Personal Information”). We collect the following Personal Information directly from you when you use our Service.
Customer information. We may collect some or all of the following, your name, phone number, email address, mailing address, and other information when you register for or use our Service.
Account Credentials. If you register for an account online, we collect your username, password, and password hints.
Payment Data. To process billing, we may require your bank or payment card information and other relevant transaction data.
Internet and Network Activity. As described in more detail in Section 7 on Cookies, if you visit our website, we may collect information about your browsing and search history, interaction with the features of our Service, and responses to advertisements.
Customizations and Preferences. We may collect information about the types of Services you use, home city, communications preferences, and other inferences drawn from your activity to improve and customize our Service.
3. How We Use Your Information:
WE DO NOT SELL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. We use the Personal Information we collect for the following business and commercial purposes.
Operate our Business and Provide You Services. The main reason we use your Personal Information is to provide you with the Services you request, maintain your account, process billing and payment, and otherwise run day-to-day operations.
Communicating with You. We use your Personal Information to communicate with you about our Service, your account, and if you contact us with a question or concern. We also use your information to deliver news, updates, and other types of communications, according to your subscriptions, alerts, and other preferences.
Evaluate and Improve our Services. We may analyze the Personal Information we collect for quality assurance, training, and to understand how we can meet and exceed your expectations.
Marketing and Advertising. We may use the Personal Information we collect for marketing or advertising purposes. For example, we might send you promotional messages about products, services, programs, or events that may be of interest to you. We may also use the insights we gain about how you use our Services to improve the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and ability to attract new customers. For purposes of clarity, we do not share Personal Information with third parties who want to advertise to you. Promotional messages you receive will be from us and/or merchants through the Service.
If we want to use your information for any other purpose, we will ask you for consent and will use your information only on receiving your consent and then, only for the purpose(s) for which grant consent unless we are required to do otherwise by law.
4. How We Share Your Information:
We will not share your Personal Information with any third party, except under the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:
With Service Providers, Contractors, and Agents: We may share your Personal Information with third parties who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, hosting services, or customer services and support. These service providers may access your personal data and are required to use it solely as we direct, to provide our requested service.
With Your Permission: With your consent or at your request, we may share information to third parties outside the scope of this Privacy Policy.
We require such third party’s to use the personal information we transfer to them only for the purpose for which it was transferred and not to retain it for longer than is required for fulfilling the said purpose.
We may also disclose your personal information for the following: (1) to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process; (2) to enforce your agreements with us, including this Privacy Policy; or (3) to respond to claims that your use of the Service violates any third-party rights. If the Service or our company is merged or acquired with another company, your information will be one of the assets that is transferred to the new owner.
5. Retention Of Your Information:
We will retain your personal information with us for no longer than two (2) years after users terminate their accounts or for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may need to retain certain information for longer periods such as record-keeping / reporting in accordance with applicable law or for other legitimate reasons like enforcement of legal rights, fraud prevention, etc. Residual anonymous information and aggregate information, neither of which identifies you (directly or indirectly), may be stored indefinitely.
6. Your Rights:
6.1 Review or Correct Your Information
Depending on the law that applies, you may have a right to access, review, correct, or erase your personal data or receive a copy of your personal data, restrict or object to the active processing of your data, ask us to share your personal information to another entity, withdraw any consent you provided to us to process your data, a right to lodge a complaint with a statutory authority and such other rights as may be relevant under applicable laws. To exercise these rights, you can write to us at thescreenwritinglife@gmail.com. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
Do note that if you do not allow us to collect or process the required personal information or withdraw the consent to process the same for the required purposes, you may not be able to access or use the services for which your information was sought.
6.2 Unsubscribe or Opt-Out of Certain Communications
We may contact you via email, phone, or text message with important information about your account and promotional opportunities. You may unsubscribe or opt-out of receiving these communications by following the instructions provided. Ways to unsubscribe to certain communications include clicking on the unsubscribe link in any email or responding STOP to any text messages. You may also contact us to update your communication preferences. Please note that we may still need to contact you with important information about your account or payments due, and you cannot opt-out of these account administration communications.
6.3 California Residents Only
If you are a California Resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). The CCPA requires that we provide California residents with a privacy policy that contains a comprehensive description of our online and offline practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and sale of personal information and of the rights of California residents regarding their personal information.
The CCPA defines “Personal Information” to mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Personal information does not include information that is publicly available, deidentified or aggregate information.
If we collected Personal Information about you in your role as an applicant, employee, or independent contractor, this Policy does not apply to you. Please contact us if you have questions about Personal Information related to your application or work with TSL. Additionally, if we collected Personal Information about you in your role as an employee, owner, director, officer, or contractor of a commercial client, investor, or developer this Policy does not apply to you.
The CCPA requires a description of data practices using specific categories. This table uses these categories to organize the information in this Privacy Policy.
Categories of personal information we collect
Identifiers such as your name, phone number, and address, as well as unique identifiers tied to the browser, application, or device you’re using.
Commercial information such as your payment information and a history of purchases you make through TSL’s services.
Internet, network, and other activity information such as your search terms; views and interactions with content and ads; Chrome browsing history you’ve synced with your TSL Account; information about the interaction of your apps, browsers, and devices with our services (like IP address, crash reports, and system activity); and activity on third-party sites and apps that use our services. You can review and control activity data stored in your TSL Account.
Geolocation data, such as may be determined by GPS, IP address, and other data from sensors on or around your device, depending in part on your device and account settings.
Other information you create or provide, such as the content you create, upload, or receive (like photos and videos. or emails). TSL Dashboard allows you to manage information associated with specific products.
Business purposes for which information may be used or disclosed
Protecting against security threats, abuse, and illegal activity: TSL uses and may disclose information to detect, prevent and respond to security incidents, and for protecting against other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity. For example, to protect our services, TSL may receive or disclose information about IP addresses that malicious actors have compromised.
Auditing and measurement: TSL uses information for analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used, as well as to fulfill obligations to our partners like publishers, advertisers, developers, or rights holders. We may disclose non-personally identifiable information publicly and with these partners, including for auditing purposes.
Maintaining our services: TSL uses information to ensure our services are working as intended, such as tracking outages or troubleshooting bugs and other issues that you report to us.
Research and development: TSL may use information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and the public.
Use of service providers: TSL shares information with service providers to perform services on our behalf, in compliance with our Privacy Policy and other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. For example, we may rely on service providers to help provide customer support.
Legal reasons: TSL also uses information to satisfy applicable laws or regulations, and discloses information in response to legal process or enforceable government requests, including to law enforcement.
Parties with whom information may be shared
Other people with whom you choose to share your information, like docs or photos, and videos or comments on the Service.
Third parties to whom you consent to sharing your information, such as services that integrate with TSL’s services. You can review and manage third party apps and sites with access to data in your TSL Account.
Service providers, trusted businesses or persons that process information on TSL’s behalf, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Domain administrators, if you work or study at an organization that uses TSL services.
Law enforcement or other third parties, for the legal reasons, such as court ordered subpoenas.
The Right to Request More Information
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request more information about how we have treated your Personal Information in the past 12 months, including:
The categories of Personal Information we collected about you;
The categories of sources from which we collected that information;
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that information;
The categories of third parties with whom we shared that information; and
The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you.
The Right to Request Access
You also may have the right to receive a copy of your Personal Information.
The Right to Request Deletion
Under certain conditions, you have the right to request that we delete your Personal Information. Please note that simply logging out or uninstalling an app does not delete your account or the Personal Information we may have collected.
How to Exercise these Rights
To submit a request to exercise these rights you may use one of the following three methods:
Mail: The Screenwriting Life, LLC, Attention: Privacy Officer, 4156 Bellingham Avenue Studio City, CA 91604
Telephone: (440) 665-3247
For all requests, please clearly state that the request is related to “Your California Privacy Rights,” indicate which type of request you are making, and provide your name, street address, city, state, zip code and an e-mail address or phone number where you may be contacted. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly or that do not include complete information.
Verification
Before responding to your request, we must first verify your identity using Personal Information you recently provided to us. If we are not able to verify your request we will contact you for more information. If we are unable to verify your identity after a good faith attempt, we may deny the request and, if so, will explain the basis for the denial.
Designating an Authorized Agent
You may designate someone to submit requests and act on your behalf (an "Authorized Agent"). To do so, you must provide us with written permission to allow your Authorized Agent to act on your behalf.
Do Not Track Requests
As explained in the Section 7 above, we use cookies to collect information about your internet activity to help us provide you with relevant advertisements, incentives or offers. Some web browsers or smartphones have the ability to set “Do Not Track” requests to block user activity from being tracked across web pages or devices. Our website does not recognize “Do Not Track” signals.
Third-Party Marketing and Selling
The CCPA requires notice and an opportunity to opt-out from certain disclosures of Personal Information considered to be a “sale” as defined in the CCPA. TSL may collect your unique online identifiers, internet and network activity, device identifier, Internet Protocol address, browsing history, search history, and information about how you interact with our website or mobile application. We may disclose this information with third party companies, social or analytics partners that support our online efforts, and help us improve the use of our website and services.
Our website is not intended for use by children under the age of 18 and we do not knowingly collect or disclose information from children under 18 years old. We also do not intend to disclose Personal Information to third parties without providing you notice and an opportunity to opt-out.
You or your Authorized Agent may request to opt-out of certain disclosures of your Personal Information by submitting a request to thescreenwritinglife@gmail.com.
No Discrimination
We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.
7. Ads and Cookie Policy:
Our website uses cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies ("Cookies") to provide, customize, evaluate, improve, and secure our Service. A Cookie is a small piece of text that is placed on your website browser when you visit a website. These include our own first-party Cookies and possibly, third-party Cookies of our service providers. Some Cookies are only stored temporarily and destroyed each time you close your web browser. Our website also uses persistent Cookies, which do not delete when you close your browser and may collect and store data for a set period of time after you’ve left our website. You can find out more about Cookies in general and how they work at Cookiepedia. {https://cookiepedia.co.uk/all-about-cookies}
7.1 How We Use Cookies
We use Cookies for the following purposes:
Website Operation. Cookies help us run our website securely and enable basic functions like page navigation.
Performance and Analytics. Cookies help us analyze how you interact with our website. This enables us to monitor and improve our website performance, services, and your experience.
7.2 How to Manage Cookies
If you wish to prevent Cookies from tracking your activity on our website or visits across multiple websites, you can set your browser to block certain Cookies or notify you when a Cookie is set. If you block Cookies, certain features on our website may not work. For more information on how you can customize your browser’s Cookie setting please visit the link to your web browser below:
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Additionally, you may have the following options to opt-out of interest based advertising. We are not responsible for the completeness, effectiveness, or accuracy of any third party opt-out options or programs.
You may opt-out of interest-based advertising in general by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s {https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN} or Network Advertising Initiative’s { https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1} websites. You can also manage ad personalization by Google Ads through Google {https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated}.
8. Information Regarding Children:
Our website and Service are intended for users who are 18 years or older and we do not knowingly collect information from children under 18 years old. If we become aware that we have collected information from a child under 18 years old, we will delete such information from our records. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe your child has given us information and you did not provide consent, please contact us at thescreenwritinglife@gmail.com.
9. Security:
The security of your information is important to us and we will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration of your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, we cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.
10. External Links:
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not address the privacy policy and other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service that may be accessible via a link on the Service. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
11. Legal Disclaimer:
Nothing in this Privacy Policy restricts our ability to:
Comply with federal, state, or local laws;
Comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local authorities;
Cooperate with law enforcement agencies concerning conduct or activity that the business, service provider, or third party reasonably and in good faith believes may violate federal, state, or local law;
Exercise or defend legal claims;
Detect security incidents and protect against fraudulent or illegal activity and prosecute those responsible for such activity; or
Transfer Personal Information as part of a merger or acquisition, dissolution of TSL, or in the event of bankruptcy or any other transaction in which a third party assumes control of all or part of TSL.
12. Updates to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is reviewed and updated regularly. If we change this Policy, we will post the updated Privacy Policy here, and those changes will go into effect on the “last updated” date shown above. We will take your continued use of our Service to mean you accept the terms of the updated Policy. We will not retroactively use or share your Personal Information for materially different purposes without first taking reasonable steps to provide you notice.
13. Questions and Contact Us:
If you have a questions about this Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact our Grievance Officer at The Screenwriting Life, LLC, 4156 Bellingham Avenue, Studio City, CA 91604, email: thescreenwritinglife@gmail.com. We will address your concerns.