Privacy Policy

Effective Date: December 10, 2024

Strickman-Ripps, Inc. d/b/a GENUINE: The Real People Company (collectively referred to herein as “GENUINE”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), is committed to and will respect and protect the privacy of our clients, customers, applicants, and others who use our website and services. This Privacy Policy governs GENUINE websites and services that are in the www.genuinerealpeople.com domain; and any other website owned or operated by us, email campaigns, and our mobile applications (the “website”) and online services. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy.

Our Privacy Policy tells you what Personal Data we collect from you, how we collect them, how we protect them, how we disclose them, how you can access and change them, and how you can limit our disclosing of them. Our Privacy Policy also explains certain legal rights that you have concerning your Personal Data. Any capitalized terms not defined herein will have the same meaning as where they are defined elsewhere on our website.

Definitions
The terms “us”, “we”, and “our” refer to the owner of this website.

‘NONPERSONAL DATA’ (NPD) means any information that is in no way personally identifiable.

‘PERSONAL DATA’ (PD) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person can be identified directly or indirectly by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person. PD is in many ways the same as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). However, PD is broader in scope and covers more data.

‘SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA’ (SPD) is a consumer’s social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; a consumer’s account login, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security, access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; a consumer’s exact geolocation; a consumer’s ethnic or racial origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; the contents of a consumer’s mail, text messages, and email unless the business is the intended receiver of the communication; a consumer’s genetic data; the processing of biometric data to uniquely identify a consumer; personal information collected and analyzed about a consumer’s health; sex life or sexual orientation. Sensitive personal information that is “publicly available” is considered sensitive personal information or personal information.

Topics Covered in Our Privacy Policy
YOUR DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS USED AND DISCLOSED

HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS STORED

PROTECTING THE PRIVACY RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES

DO NOT TRACK SETTINGS

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

PROTECTING CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

OUR EMAIL POLICY

OUR SECURITY POLICY

TRANSFERRING PERSONAL DATA FROM OTHER COUNTRIES

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

YOUR DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS
Contact us using the information at the bottom of this Privacy Policy to exercise any of your legal rights contained within this Privacy Policy. We will respond to your request within 30 days of receiving it.

When using our website and submitting Personal Data to us, you have certain rights under privacy laws in the United States including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and privacy laws of other countries including the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), European Union General Data Protection Regulation of 2016 (the “EU GDPR”), the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR / the Data Protection Act 2018), the Data Protection Act 2018, and other U.S. and international privacy laws. Even if not listed here, we will make reasonable efforts to honor data subject access requests even though we may be under no legal obligation to do so. However, we reserve the right to decline any data subject access request that we are not legally obligated to comply with. Your rights include but are not limited to the following:

    1. The right to equal service, price, and not being discriminated against even if you exercise your privacy rights.
    2. The right to one or more means where you can submit requests under this Privacy Policy including a mailing address or an email address.
    3. The right to know whether your Personal Data is sold, shared, or disclosed, and to whom.
    4. The right to request that we do not sell or share any of your Personal Data. 
    5. The right to request that we disclose the following personal information to you: the categories of personal information we collected about you; the categories of sources from which your personal information is collected; the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing your personal information; the categories of third parties to whom we disclose your personal information; the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
    6. The right to be informed about the Personal Data that we collect from you and how we process them. 
    7. The right to get confirmation that your Personal Data are being processed and you can access your Personal Data.
    8. The right to have your Personal Data corrected if they are inaccurate or incomplete.
    9. The right to request the removal or deletion of your Personal Data if there is no compelling reason for us to continue processing it. However, the right to deletion is not absolute and can be overridden to continue data processing in some cases where we still have legal ground or overriding legitimate interest to process your data.
    10. The right to ‘block’ or restrict the processing of your Personal Data. When your Personal Data are restricted, we are permitted to store your Personal Data, but not to process them further.
    11. The right to request the Personal Data that you provided to us and use them for your own purposes. Upon express request, we will provide your data to you or another service or product provider within 30 days of your request subject to commercial and industrial secrets.
    12. The right to object to us processing your Personal Data for the following reasons:
      • processing was based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling);
      • direct marketing and targeted advertising (including profiling);
      • processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics.
    13. The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects regarding you or similarly significantly affects you. 
    14. The right that we limit the collection of your Personal Data to that which is “adequate, relevant and reasonably necessary with the purposes for which the data is processed.
    15. The right that we do not process your Personal Data for purposes that are neither reasonably necessary nor compatible with the disclosed purposes for which such Personal Data is processed, as disclosed to you unless the controller obtains your consent.
    16. The right to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. When designating an authorized agent, you must provide a valid power of attorney, the requester’s valid government-issued identification, and the authorized agent’s valid government-issued identification.
    17. The right to file a complaint with supervisory authorities if your information has not been processed in compliance with your rights under privacy laws.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
Generally, you control the amount and type of information that you provide to us when using our website.  The information we collect when you complete and send a Contact Us form or request our newsletter is your name, email address, and phone number.

Personal Data We Collect and Process with Your Consent
We collect Personal Data and information that you voluntarily provide to us. For example, this may occur when you contact us to complete a questionnaire, respond to a casting opportunity, or email us with your Personal Data. The Personal Data we collect may include your first and last name, mailing address, email address, phone number, geolocation, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, and union membership.

With your explicit permission, we may also collect Personal Data that personally identifies you, such as your photograph, likeness, image, voice, and statements (collectively referred to as your “Likeness”). Depending on the specific client, brand, or project, we may also collect Sensitive Personal Data, including information about your sex life or sexual orientation; personal stories, experiences, and opinions; as well as health information related to your disease state, medications, and treatment. We may collect photos, questionnaires, videos, and recorded interviews. With your consent, we may use recorded call conversations for use as a record of projects we are working on with our clients.

Only Personal Data and information that we have specifically requested, should be sent to us.

Contact Forms
Our website contains contact forms that enable visitors to communicate with us online or offline by email. In some cases, visitors can communicate with us without engaging in our services. You should limit the information you give to us to one that is necessary to answer your questions.

When communicating with you about our business, we will use the contact information you have provided to discuss technical matters, new services, casting opportunities, and other relevant information of interest.

What Happens If You Don’t Give Us Your Personal Data
If you do not provide us with enough Personal Data, we may not be able to provide you with all our services. However, you can access and use some parts of our website without giving us your Personal Data.

Our Legal Basis for Collecting and Processing Personal Data
Our legal basis for collecting and processing your Personal Data when you engage in our services or filling in any of the contact forms on our website is based on the necessity for the performance of a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract. 

We may access, preserve, and disclose your Personal Data and/or other information if we believe that such access, preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with any law, regulation, legal process or governmental request (such as search warrants, subpoenas or court orders), which may include responding to legal requests from jurisdictions outside the United States; (ii) enforce our policies or agreements with users, or investigate potential violations; (iii) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (iv) protect or enforce the rights or property of GENUINE, you, or any other person or entity; or (v) prevent physical harm to any person, including situations involving possible violence or self-harm.

Information Collected Automatically
We may automatically collect certain information about how you access or use our services, and by using our services you consent to the collection of that information. Examples include but are not limited to Internet browser, operating system, device and application identifiers, IP address and geolocation information, access times and dates, referring and exit pages and URLs, clickstream data, search terms, pages viewed, time spent on pages, bounce rate and login frequency.

Information from Other Sources
We may obtain Personal Data and information about you from third-party partners such as other companies or clients on whose behalf we may conduct research, recruiting and casting, or companies with which we may jointly offer services or conduct promotional events, third-party service providers, including but not limited to demographic information, contact information, open data, publicly available data, background check and/or credit check information. We may use this information for legitimate business purposes, including the offering of casting opportunities, performance of a contract, customer support, along with other purposes described in this Policy.

Information Collected Through Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies
We use web beacons, cookies, and similar technologies to collect general information about your interactions with our website, promotions, and newsletters. Web beacons help us monitor engagement, such as the number of people who open our emails. Additionally, we use Google Analytics to gather data on website usage, including user demographics, interests, visit frequency, pages visited, and referring websites. This information helps us analyze traffic and improve our marketing, advertising, and services. While we do not combine Google Analytics data with personal information, these tools, along with cookies and similar technologies, help us better understand and enhance user engagement with our services. Third-party providers may also use these technologies to support their services. 

Our Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you.  When you enter and use our website and agree to accept cookies, some of these cookies may contain your Personal Data.

By agreeing to accept our use of cookies you are giving us and the third-parties with which we partner permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer and/or mobile device.

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies – These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of the website, such as displaying content, logging in, validating your session, responding to your request for services, and other functions. 
  • Performance Cookies – These cookies collect information about the use of the website, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management, and other website measurements.
  • Functional Cookies – These cookies enable the website to remember users’ choices, such as their language, usernames, and other choices while using the website. 
  • Media Cookies – These cookies can be used to improve a website’s performance and provide special features and content. They can be placed by us or third parties who provide services to us.
  • Advertising or Targeting Cookies – These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests. 
  • Session Cookies – These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for remembering what a user puts in their shopping cart as they browse a website. Session cookies also permit users to be recognized as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes, they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session.
  • Persistent Cookies – These cookies are stored on a user’s device between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a website or across different websites to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website or target advertising to them.
  • We may also use cookies for:
    • identifying the areas of our website that you have visited;
    • personalizing the content that you see on our website;
    • our website analytics;
    • remarketing our services to you;
    • remembering your preferences, settings, and login details;
    • targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests;
    • allowing you to distribute content to social networks.

Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.

HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS USED
We use the information we receive from you to:

  • provide our services you have requested or engaged in with us;
  • personalize and customize our content; 
  • make improvements to our website;
  • contact you with updates to our website and services;
  • resolve problems and disputes;
  • contact you with services that we believe may be of interest to you.

Communications and Emails
When we communicate with you about our website, we will use the email address you provided when you registered as a user or customer. We may also send you emails with promotional information about our website or offers from us or our affiliates unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change your contact preferences at any time through your account or by contacting us using the information at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

Providing Your Information When You Login Using Social Media Websites
We may provide your Personal Data to third parties such as Linkedin.com, Meta, YouTube.com, Google.com, and others. If you sign into our services through a third-party social networking service or website, your “friends” list from that service or website might be automatically imported to our services. We do not have any control over the Privacy Policies and business practices of other third-party services or websites.

Text Messaging, SMS, Push Notifications, and Telephone Calls
If you provide a mobile telephone number, or landline telephone number to us, you are giving your express consent and authorize us to contact you by using any of these communication methods. You are not required to give us your consent to contact you through these communication methods. However, withholding your consent may interfere with or prevent us from providing some or all our services to you. You can stop receiving text messages, push notifications, and telephone calls at any time by contacting us or using one of our opt-out methods.

Sharing Information with Third-Parties
We may send your Personal Data and information to other companies under the following circumstances:

  1. We may share your Personal Data and information with third-parties, including advertising agencies, production companies, agents, and clients (“Clients”), to facilitate the casting process by allowing our Clients to review relevant personal information. By submitting your information for potential casting, you understand and agree to share personally identifiable information about yourself. This may include contact details such as your phone number and email address, as well as identifying characteristics like your height, weight, hair and eye color, and other personal details, including video or photographic representations of your likeness and/or voice recordings. By providing this information, you consent to its disclosure to third parties and acknowledge the inherent risks associated with doing so. We don’t share personal information or submit it to third-parties Clients without the knowledge and explicit consent of the person who provided the personal information.
  2. Access to your Personal Data is only permitted by our employees and agents on a need-to-know basis and subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations when processed by third-parties. 
  3. At times we share your Personal Data to third-party service providers whom we hire to provide operational services to us.  These third-party service providers may include but are not limited to our payment processors, advertising companies, consulting firms, accountants, law firms, auditors, IT and website hosting services, web analytics companies, and email service providers.
  4. If required to do so by law, or in urgent circumstances, to protect personal safety, the public or our website.
  5. We do not sell or rent your Personal Data to third-parties for marketing purposes.

Legally Required Releases of Information
We may disclose your Personal Data if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal processes; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third-parties, including you and or other users; or (d) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal and or real property, or the personal safety of our company, users, employees, and business partners.

Disclosures to Successors
If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retain the right to transfer your Personal Data to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your Personal Data according to the terms of this Privacy Policy as well as to any changes to this Privacy Policy as instituted by the new business. We also retain the right to transfer your Personal Data if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or company.

HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS STORED
We will maintain your Personal Data in a structure that identifies you only for as long as it serves the purpose(s) for which it was initially collected as stated in this Privacy Policy, or for legal, business, or tax purposes. We will attempt to permanently erase or anonymize your Personal Data once it reaches the end of its retention period or if we receive a valid request from you to do so. If you would like to request the deletion of your Personal Data or request that it be returned to you, please contact us at the email or mailing address under “Contacting Us” below.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our Privacy Policy. We have no responsibility for these websites, and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites is solely at your risk.

PROTECTING CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website and/or services and they are under the age of 18, please contact us. Before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child under the age of 18 is accessing our website and/or services, we will delete their information within a reasonable period of time. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor have any liability to do so. 

Our website and services are not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information as defined by the U.S. Children’s Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) in a manner that is not permitted by COPPA. If a parent or guardian learns that a child has provided us with Personal Information, that child’s parent or guardian should email us or send us a letter to the mailing address in the section entitled “Contacting Us” below.

Parental Consent Regarding Casting Minors
Only a parent or legal guardian (or a professional representative acting with the explicit permission of a parent or legal guardian) of a child under the age of 18 years old may provide information regarding that child for potential casting opportunities, or for any other purpose. If the child is under 18 years of age, a parent or guardian (or a professional representative acting with the explicit permission of a parent or legal guardian) must affirm that the information they are sharing is made with the knowledge and consent of the parent or legal guardian of the child, and consents to the release of the child’s Personal Data consistent with the terms and conditions recited in the rest of this Privacy Policy.

Accessing and Correcting Your Child’s Personal Data
At any time, you may review the child’s Personal Data maintained by us, require us to correct or delete the Personal Data, 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 Data by emailing us or sending us a letter to the mailing address in the section entitled “Contacting Us” below.

OUR EMAIL POLICY
You can always opt-out of receiving email correspondence from us or our affiliates. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third-party without your permission except in the sale or transfer of our company.

OUR SECURITY POLICY
GENUINE takes the security of your Personal Data very seriously. We make every effort to protect your personal data from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.

Our measures include implementing appropriate access controls, the use of Secure Sockets layer (“SSL”) technology on our website, secure servers, password protection and encryption and investing in the latest Information Security Capabilities to protect the IT environments we leverage, and ensuring we encrypt and anonymize personal data wherever possible.

We have built our website and services using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your Personal Data. We and the third-parties who provide services to us also maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your Personal Data. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the prevention of loss or misuse of your Personal Data or secure data transmission over the Internet because of its nature. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have from us and not provide it to anyone.

TRANSFERRING PERSONAL DATA FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
Personal Data that we collect from you may be stored, processed, and transferred among any countries in which we operate. The European Union has not found the United States and some other countries to have an acceptable level of protection of Personal Data under Article 45 of the GDPR. Our company relies on derogations for specific situations as defined in Article 49 of the GDPR. If you are a European Union user, or a user from another country, with your consent your Personal Data may be transferred to the United States or other countries when you request information from us. When you engage in our services, we will use your Personal Data for the performance of our services with you. Wherever we transfer, process, or store your Personal Data, we will attempt to apply reasonable safeguards to protect it. We will use the information we collect from you by following the practices described in our Privacy Policy. Also, we enter into data processing agreements and standard contractual clauses when appropriate. By using our website and/or services, you agree to the transfers of your Personal Data described within this section.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If our company decides to change this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on our website so that our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we decide to disclose or use your Personal Data in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide the updates to our Privacy Policy. Otherwise, we will use and disclose our users’ and customers’ Personal Data in agreement with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was collected. In all cases, your continued use of our website and services after any change to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change. If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us through the information at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

CONTACTING US
If you have questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, would like to know what Personal Data we hold about you, or would like to update, delete, or request access to your Personal Data, you may contact us by email sent to privacy@genuinerp.com or by mail sent to GENUINE: The Real People Company, ATTN: PRIVACY OFFICER, 5256 Route 82, Salt Point, NY 12578, U.S.A.