Privacy Concerns Were Built Into The Entire Idea of This Website

As we built this service, we asked ourselves if this was our profile, how would we want our data to be displayed and treated? How can we strike a balance between promoting your work while retaining as much privacy as placing our data on the internet will provide? We will continue to ask these questions and establish policy as technologies change and privacy options improve.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.filmcrewdb.com. We aim to provide a service to make it easy to find the television or film crew personnel you need to create your film, tv, or any media related project. To that end, we provide publicly searchable and search engine friendly profiles of crew members from every experience level, across all departments.  Some may say we are a book of faces who belong to a very exclusive group of people who work in the film and television industry. The members of this exclusive group should be able to network and find collaborators for their projects. The purpose of this privacy policy is to outline the ways in which we do this by collecting, displaying, and promoting your information in a responsible manner.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

If you register on our site for a crew profile we collect information such as name, email address, profile information. Your profile includes the information you provide to display in your profile and it is viewable to the public. We store this information to display.

We also provide a secondary email address feature we are calling Public Email Address so that the email address displayed on your profile can be different than your everyday email account or the email account you used to register. We suggest you take advantage of this feature and provide a public email address you can use for public consumption.

No one online needs to know your physical living address. This is why instead of collecting your address we provide a field called Home Base and it allows you to provide profile viewers a general idea of where you are rather than a physical address. To that end, we strongly advise against adding your address or phone number to your Credits portion of your profile. On a side note, and not one that pertains directly to our privacy policy, if you send your resume to someone there is no need to include your address or phone number.

As you begin using and customizing your profile we'll store those account preferences for you. Some of this date may be contained in cookies (read more about how cookies work below) so your browser will recognize you as a registered member and what preferences you've chosen.

We strongly advise against posting any personal information on your profile concerning financial and health matters.

Paid members pay through PayPal. PayPal stores all the transactional date except we retain the amount paid, when paid, and the transaction number for verification purposes. Members can private message other Members but every Member has the ability to block those private messages. Member profiles include fields for Social Media. None of these are mandatory. We suggest you choose social media accounts that promote your projects or career path. All the profiles on this website are publicly viewable and to make that easier there is a search function to display profiles. Anyone with a profile can turn their profile to private (and back again) to be temporarily removed from search. In addition, anyone with a profile may delete their profile at any time. Like every modern website, visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string are collected for analytics and to help spam detection.

Media

If you upload images to ANY website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Website (all websites) visitors can download and extract any location data from images that contain location data. Here's just one link that describes methods of removing EXIF GPS data from images: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-ways-to-remove-exif-metadata-from-photos-and-why-you-might-want-to/

Cookies and how they work

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments and registration forms may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We also operate https://www.nycfilmcrew.com and as part of the service we provide, links to member's profiles on this site may appear on that site. Also, as part of the service we provide, if you post an ad for a job on https://www.nycfilmcrew.com, those jobs will appear on that site and this one.

Who we share your data with

Analytics

Film Crew Database does not sell your personal details onto a third party. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website. Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ad Settings. We use Google Analytics features to track website usage and display advertising. Visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. Registered user information is retained this website until the member or administrator deletes the account. Data can also be exported or removed upon users request.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.