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5.5 We do not endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted as UGC. Any information or material placed online by other users of the Service, including advice and opinions, is the view and responsibility of those users and does not represent the view of Models Culture. You agree that, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we have no responsibility or liability to you for UGC including for any failure to or delay in removing UGC. If you have a complaint about any UGC, see the Complaints section below.
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From time to time, we may run competitions, free prize draws and promotions on the Service. These are subject to the Competition Terms & Conditions and/or separate terms and conditions that will be made available in each instance.
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All digital advertising campaigns are managed by our in-house Ad-Operations team using the latest technology and verification techniques and served through our publication, our website and (3rd Party) email marketing platform only.
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Upon raising this issue our Ad Operations team will remove any activity deemed in breach of our contractual obligations.
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16.2 Other terms of use that are not covered on the terms and condition will be found on policy page as shown below. This term and condition are applicable to registered user with specific purpose of use on service and functionality of modelsculture.com.
The Models Culture Ltd
“Models Culture”, “Models Culture Magazine” refers to as Models Culture Ltd, a privately-owned company built in Paris France by fashion entities and based in London UK, we publish multi-media brand in the UK and around the world. We are an online community-platform that connects new faces (aspiring models) and professional models with reputable agencies, photographers and other industry professionals all around the world, thanks to our powerful database, contacts within the industry and community of support. We specialize in helping artists get published on our magazines and other outlets.
Models Culture Ltd is renowned as the authority on the latest brand in beauty, fashion, models, designers, stylist and photography artist/talents publication, and for influential showcasing of fashion talents around the globe. Our portfolio includes Models Culture Magazine.
Data privacy and protection is very important to us for everyone who uses our products and services, and who entrusts us with their information. We have written this privacy notice so you can better understand how we collect data, what we do with it and how we look after it. We will tell you how long we keep data and what happens when we no longer need it. We will also outline what rights you have over your data and how we protect and facilitate those rights.
Sometimes people want to read privacy notices because a business is asking for their permission to contact them for marketing. They want to be sure that, if they agree, it will be easy for them to withdraw permission in the future. We want you to be able to opt out as easily as you opted in. Any marketing email we send you will always have an “unsubscribe” link that will take you off that relevant marketing list. Please remember that you may have subscribed from another email address; you will only be able to use the link to “unsubscribe” from the address to which the marketing email has been sent. We make it easy for you to change your preferences for postal marketing as well, giving clear instructions for opting out on all direct mail.
If you want to change the preferences you have with us for email, you can tap unsubscribe link at the bottom of our campaign email.
1. What personal information do we collect from you?
We collect information:
We collect the following types of information:
Contact information
When you use or subscribe to one of our services, such as purchasing a print or digital subscription, signing up to an email newsletter, entering a competition, joining one of our online communities or participating in any of our research projects, we will ask you to provide information such as your name, email and/or postal address so that we can provide you with the services requested.
General personal information
When conducting surveys or running competitions, in addition to contact information, we may collect other personal information such as your gender, date of birth, marital status, etc.
Payment details
When you purchase a product or service from us, such as subscribing to one of our magazines or attending one of our events, submission to our magazine and use our marketplace to hire MC-Freelancers we will also ask you for your payment details in addition to your contact information, in order to secure payment and to authorize access to our products and services.
Online identifiers
When you visit one of our websites, we collect information about your web visit, such as how long you visited, what sites you visited or pages you looked at, your IP address and where you were when you visited, what sort of device you were using when you visited (such as a mobile phone or type of desktop PC, Mac etc), and information identifying the language used by your Device.
Behavioral data
When you visit one of our websites, we collect data on your online behavior (e.g. time spent on website, items clicked on, etc.)
When you buy a product or service from us, such as membership, magazine subscription or submission, and hire MC-Freelancers through our marketplace we will collect information about what products and services you have bought from us.
When you register for a newsletter or take part in research, we may collect data about your preferences, tastes and interests.
“Special” categories of data
Sometimes, we may collect data in online surveys on what is called “special categories of data”. These could be data sets such as biometric information (including voice samples, facial recognition, etc.), or political opinions, religion, philosophical beliefs, health, sexual orientation, etc. Whenever we conduct research on these topics, it is always optional, and we will make sure we have your consent to process this data. We will remind you at the time of why and how we are processing this data and what additional safeguards are in place for using, storing and ultimately either deleting or anonymizing this data.
At Models Culture we collect different types of information about people for four main reasons:
Newsletters
When you sign up to one of our newsletters, you are giving consent for us to use the email address provided to send you relevant content for the brands you have signed up to. You can withdraw this consent for any newsletter by unsubscribing at any time.
Advertising
We advertise on our site and in our newsletters to help keep most of the content free. We use cookies and similar technologies and work with trusted partners so that we can show you advertisements we believe might interest you, to control the number of times you see an ad and to measure the effectiveness of a campaign. We have a legitimate interest in using cookies but you can opt in or out of using them at any time. If you are interested and want to learn more about these, including how to opt out, please see our Cookie Policy. Please note, opting out of cookies does not mean you will not see any advertisements.
Social Media Advertising
We work with social media networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, VK, Twitter, LinkedIn etc., to show you interest-based marketing content from our brands and selected advertisers if you have viewed a Models Culture website. Data collected by the social media may also be anonymized and used in aggregate to help improve the quality and effectiveness of our websites and marketing efforts.
You can limit the kind of tracking and profiling that social media undertakes by going to your account settings. You can also find out more about the cookies we use on our websites by reading our Cookies policy.
We may also participate in Facebook’s ‘Custom Audience’ service from time to time. This service enables Models Culture to display to you personalized advertisements when you visit Facebook’s social media platforms. It works by converting your email address to a unique number that Facebook uses to match to unique numbers that Facebook generates from email addresses of its users. Where we use Facebook Custom Audiences, we will only include you if you have consented to receive marketing from us. If you have given us your consent, you can change your mind at any time by unsubscribing (linked in any email we send you).
Research & Insight
We run various user communities, forums and reader panels. We send out research invitations to our research communities, to people who pay for our products and services and to people who have opted in to receive communications from us.
We may sometimes use your gender and age range collected during a survey for building “look-a-like” models. This data is anonymously transmitted to our Data Management Platform and matched with our subscribers and members. This allows us to provide relevant and targeted advertising. If you are interested and want to learn more about these, including how to opt out, please see our Cookie Policy. Please note, opting out of cookies does not mean you will not see any advertisements.
Delivery of goods and services / Customer account management
We will use the information you have provided for the provision of goods and/or services that you have requested and subsequently communicating with you about those products and services.
Please note too, that when you buy something from us – such as subscription or products – we may contact you about your registration details, to manage any account or subscription you have with us, or to provide customer service. This will be the case even if you have opted-out of, or declined to consent to, receiving promotional emails.
Competitions
When you enter one of our online competitions, we will process your information for the purposes of picking a winner. If you have opted-in to receiving information from us about our products and services (e.g. receiving subscriptions offers, event invitations, signing up for editorial newsletters etc.) then we will use the information you provide to make sure we offer you relevant products and services (based on where you live, your age, gender, tastes, preferences etc.) If you have opted-in to receive news and offers from any competition sponsors, we will share your information with them.
Further details about this is outlined in the “who do we share information with” with section.
Partnerships programs
We work with our partners from the world of luxury goods, fashion, travel and retail so that we can present you with some outstanding offers and opportunities by either email or post. You will only ever receive partner messages from us if you have actively given permission. We won’t disclose your personal information to anyone, the messages will come from us and you can unsubscribe at any time from these messages.
Customer queries and complaints
We process any information you provide when dealing with any complaints or enquiries made by you or legally on your behalf.
The law on data protection sets out several different reasons why a company may collect and process your personal data and it is one of our duties to make sure you understand which of these lawful bases we are using to process your data.
Consent
In specific situations, we can collect and process your data with your consent:
Legitimate interest
In specific situations, we require your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and which does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests:
We will only use legitimate interest after we have properly evaluated the data processing and conducted a necessary balancing test. We will also give data subjects the right to object to the processing at any time.
Contractual obligations
In certain circumstances, we need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligations.
For example, when you purchase a print subscription to a magazine, we will keep your name and address to fulfil your subscription.
Legal compliance
If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data.
For example, we can pass on details of people involved in fraud or other criminal activity affecting us to law enforcement.
Models Culture Limited and its products
We may share your personal information:
Service providers
We work with service providers to perform some tasks on our behalf. This might include: analysis, payments, marketing, etc. and including tagging and blending non-personal site user data to provide aggregate demographics on our audiences. We may share your personal data with these providers to perform the necessary tasks. However, they are obliged not to disclose or use it for any other purposes. Any third-party processing of your data on our behalf will be subject to security and confidentiality obligations consistent with this privacy notice and applicable law.
Customer research & insight
We may disclose de-personalized data (such as aggregated statistics) about the audience of our products and services and/or research participants to describe our sales, customers, traffic patterns and other information to prospective partners, advertisers, investors and other reputable third parties, and for other lawful purposes. These statistics will never include identifiable personal information.
Law enforcement organizations
Under certain circumstances we may occasionally be required by law, court order or governmental authority to disclose certain types of personal information and we reserve the right to comply with any such legally binding request.
Marketing partners
With your explicit permission, we may share your information with other companies we are working with, such as competition sponsors. Whenever we share your information with another company, we will always ask for your permission, will name the company and will always be clear that your information will be shared with another organization.
We do not knowingly collect and process information from children (anyone under the age of 14). The products and services we offer are generally aimed at people aged 18 and over.
If you are under the age of 14, we ask that you do not give us any information about you or use our websites.
If you are a parent or guardian of a child under 14 and you if you think that your child has used our websites or subscribed to a newsletter or provided their information to us without your consent, please contact us at info@modelsculture.com and we will delete and/or stop processing your child’s personal information within a reasonable time.
If you are aged between 14 and 18, we request that you seek your parent or guardian’s permission before providing us with your information or using our websites or apps.
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the individual service/s you have requested, while taking into account any legal requirements and tax and accounting rules. We do not store customer data for longer than 6 years after the last purchase.
Where you sign up to receive email marketing from us we will retain your e-mail address after you ‘opt-out’ of receiving emails to ensure that we continue to honor and respect that request. To unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time, please click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing email and update your account preferences.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see ‘Your rights’ Item 10 below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
We may sometimes use the data you share with us, and that we collect about you when browsing our websites and products, to personalize our services and to tailor marketing content. For example, we may use information you have provided to send you information about products we think you may be interested in. If you do not want to receive this material, you can unsubscribe at any point.
We make sure that we have appropriate security measures to protect your information and make sure that, when we ask another organization to provide a service for us, they have appropriate security measures and follow the same high standards of security and data protection as we do.
If we or our service providers transfer any information out of the European Economic Area (EEA), it will only be done with the relevant protection (stated under UK law) being in place.
Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organizations. This privacy policy applies only to Models Culture websites‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on any other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you have accessed them using links from our websites.
We receive commission on some of the links to third party websites offering products and services that we feature on our websites. We work with a third party to help us attribute e-commerce traffic. You can find out more in our Cookie Policy.
As a consumer, you have rights when it comes to your data:
If you are unhappy with the way we have collected and are using your personal data please do not hesitate to contact us, using the contact details below or by contacting our happiest team support on support@modelsculture.com
You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. In the UK this is the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us to understand more about our privacy policy or wish to contact us concerning any matter relating to individual rights and your personal information, then please email or write to us at:
Email: info@modelsculture.com
Founding Director
Models Culture Ltd,
71-75 Shelton Street,
Covent Garden,
London, United Kingdom
WC2H 9JQ