privacy policy

Last Updated: July 16, 2025

At The Social Inc, we're dedicated to empowering brands and talent while respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you interact with our services.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may collect various types of information, including personal data, from you in a number of ways:

Information you provide directly to us:

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, mailing address.
• Professional Information: CVs, resumes, portfolios, headshots, social media profiles, previous employment history, skills, qualifications, experience, career preferences, and any other information relevant to your professional background or brand identity.
• Communication Content: Information you provide when you communicate with us via email, phone, or online forms, including inquiries, feedback, and support requests.
• Marketing Preferences: Your preferences for receiving marketing communications from us.
• Financial Information: Payment details if you engage in paid services (handled securely by third-party payment processors).

Information we collect automatically:

When you visit our website or interact with our online services, we may automatically collect certain information:

• Usage Data: Information about how you access and use our services, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and clicks.
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are small files stored on your device that help us improve your experience and analyze usage patterns. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.

Information from third parties:

We may receive information about you from third-party sources, such as public databases, social media platforms, industry contacts, or professional references, where permitted by applicable law.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use the collected information for various purposes, including:

• To provide and maintain our services: This includes connecting brands with talent, facilitating campaigns, managing talent representation, and fulfilling our contractual obligations to you.
• To personalize your experience: To tailor our services and communications to your specific needs and interests.
• To improve our website and services: To analyze trends, gather insights, and enhance the functionality and user experience of our website and offerings.
• To communicate with you: To respond to your inquiries, provide updates, send newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. You can opt out of marketing communications at any time.
• For recruitment and talent management: To assess your suitability for opportunities, conduct reference checks, and manage your profile within our talent database.
• For internal operations: Such as troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, and administrative purposes.
• To comply with legal obligations: To meet our legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
• To protect our rights and interests: To prevent fraud, protect the security of our systems, and enforce our terms and conditions.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We may share your information with third parties in the following circumstances:

• With clients and partners: To connect brands with suitable talent and to facilitate campaign execution. This may include sharing professional information (e.g., resumes, portfolios) with potential clients, but we will always seek your explicit consent where sensitive personal data is involved or where required by law.
• With service providers: We may engage third-party companies and individuals to perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, marketing assistance, and customer support. These service providers only have access to the personal information necessary to perform their functions and are obligated to maintain its confidentiality.
• For legal reasons: We may disclose your information if required by law, court order, or governmental regulation, or if we believe it's necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others.
• Business transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
• With your consent: We may share your information with other third parties when we have your explicit consent to do so.

DATA SECURITY

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your data against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

YOUR DATA RIGHTS

Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• Right to Access: Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification: Request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.
• Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): Request the deletion of your personal information under certain circumstances.
• Right to Restriction of Processing: Request that we restrict the processing of your personal information under certain conditions.
• Right to Data Portability: Request to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
• Right to Object: Object to the processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes or on grounds relating to your particular situation.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw your consent at any time if we are relying on your consent to process your personal information. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information (or to exercise any of your other rights).

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Our website may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by us. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party websites before providing any personal information.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us, and we will take steps to remove that information from our systems.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Your continued use of our services after any modifications to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

The Social Inc.