Privacy Policy
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SME WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
SME may collect and temporarily store your personal information for purposes of responding to your business and legal inquiries and/or other ordinary business purposes. By using this site and choosing to click any or all links within you are excepting full responsibility for your own actions and agree to not hold this site or anyone related to it responsible in any way.
This SME Website Privacy Policy describes how we collect such information, how we use it and to whom and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, your name, postal address, zip or postal code, email address, telephone number, corporate information, demographic information, details on your bookings, inquiries and/or projects, and other information you choose to provide us, including one or more factors specific to your biographical information (“Personal Information”). Your personal information may also include information sourced from the public domain.
The Personal Information we collect is stored and/or controlled by SME In Los Angeles, CA. When you visit our website, we may also collect anonymous information such as your IP address or domain name to analyze website traffic, but this information is not personally identifiable. We may use this information to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our website, or to display the content according to your preferences.
INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
We may disclose information we collect (including your Personal Information) in the following ways to third parties, to the extent permitted by law:
To our service providers and suppliers, who collect or use such information for us or on our behalf (such as website or database hosting companies, address list hosting companies, email service providers, analytics companies, distribution companies, fulfillment companies, and other similar entities that help us to operate the Site and/or provide functionality, content and services); SME companies and affiliated entities;
To auditors and professional advisers like bankers, lawyers, accountants, personal and business managers and insurers solely as necessary and under obligations of confidentiality;
As necessary, if we believe that there has been a violation of the Company policies, or if we have reason to believe that our rights or property, or the rights or property of any third party, may be or have been harmed;
To respond to subpoenas or other judicial processes, or to provide information as requested by law;
In the event that SME or substantially all of its assets are acquired by one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, consolidation, bankruptcy, liquidation or other similar corporate reorganization, where your information may be one of the transferred assets.
Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy; and
Traffic and transaction information may also be shared with business partners and advertisers on an aggregate and anonymous basis; and
As otherwise, with your permission or as permitted by law.
OPT-OUT PROVISIONS
If you receive commercial e-mail from us, you may unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions contained within the e-mail. You may also opt-out from receiving commercial e-mail from us, and any other promotional communications that we may send to you from time to time (e.g., by postal mail) by sending your request to us by e-mail at [email protected]. Additionally, if we offer user account functionality on the Service, we may allow you to view and modify settings relating to the nature and frequency of promotional communications that you receive from us.
Please be aware that if you opt-out of receiving commercial e-mail from us, it may take up to fourteen business days for us to process your opt-out request, and you may receive commercial e-mail from us during that period. Additionally, even after you opt-out from receiving commercial messages from us, you will continue to receive administrative messages from us regarding the Service.
PORTAL ACCESS MODIFICATIONS
If we offer the ability to create user accounts or profiles on the Service, you may have the ability to access and update many categories of personal information that you provide to us by logging in to your account and accessing your account settings. If you wish to access or amend any other personal information we hold about you, you may contact us at [email protected].
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code provides that residents of California can obtain certain information about their personal information (as defined under Section 1798.83(e)(6) of the California Civil Code) that companies have shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year, as well as the identity of those third parties. Personal information, as defined under the California Civil Code, includes, but is not limited to, data relating to a living individual who is or can be identified either from the data or from the data in conjunction with other information that is in, or is likely to come into, the possession of the data controller.
ROLE OF SME. SME offers talent procurement services to private persons and companies seeking to book talent for event or performance opportunities. SME Procures Talent for its clients by negotiating directly with Talent or Talent’s representatives. However, SME is not a Talent Agency with obligations to seek the highest talent fee on behalf of Talent because SME represents Talent Purchasers, and is therefore free to seek the lowest available talent fee for its clients.
COMPLAINTS
For assistance with any business, copyright, or privacy issues please contact SME Business Affairs at [email protected]. Please address any functional or maintenance questions or complaints regarding this website to the SME Website Help Desk at [email protected].
DISPUTE RESOLUTION, GOVERNING LAW
All matters relating to the Site and this Privacy Policy and any dispute or claim arising therefrom or litigation related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of California without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of California or any other jurisdiction). By using the website or disclosing Personal Information to us, you agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to this Privacy Policy or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof, including the determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, shall be determined by arbitration in Los Angeles, California before a single neutral arbitrator.