Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") applies to openindustrystudios.com, and Open Industry Studios ("Company") and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to the Company include openindustrystudios.com. The Company's website is an online creative collaboration platform that allows users to build profiles, form teams, upload project materials, document contributions and credits, and collaborate on film, media, and AI-assisted creative projects. By using the Company website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") and California Privacy Rights Act ("CPRA"):

• Right to Know. You may request details on what personal data we collect, use, and share.
• Right to Delete. You can request deletion of personal data, subject to certain legal exceptions.
• Right to Correct. You may request corrections to inaccurate personal information.
• Right to Opt-Out. You can opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data for advertising.
• Right to Restrict Sensitive Data Use. You may limit the use of sensitive personal information.
• Right Against Retaliation. The Company will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, the Company may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

• First and last name
• Email address
• Job title
• Experience, creative profile, portfolio, social media accounts

If you purchase the Company's products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.

The Company may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

• Age
• Gender

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the Company's public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or nonpersonal information in the future.

The Company may also collect project, workspace, and collaboration information that you choose to provide through the platform, including project files, comments, contribution logs, credits, timestamps, approvals, version history, and other documentation relating to creative development and collaboration. Where the platform includes provenance or AI-assisted documentation features, the Company may also collect information you provide regarding the creation process, including AI tools used, prompt authorship, human editing disclosures, reference material disclosures, upload history, file metadata, and related project documentation. If you create, join, manage, or collaborate in a workspace or project, information you provide in that workspace or project may be visible to other authorized participants in accordance with the permissions and sharing settings for that workspace or project.

Use of your Personal Information

The Company collects and uses your personal information in the following ways:

• to operate and deliver the services you have requested
• to operate project workspaces, collaboration features, contribution logs, credits, provenance records, and related documentation tools
• to process, store, and display project materials and related metadata, including timestamps, version history, and other workflow information
• to provide, support, secure, and improve AI-assisted or documentation-related features, where offered
• to investigate suspected infringement, misuse, fraud, security incidents, or violations of our Terms or policies
• to enforce project, platform, moderation, and intellectual property rules
• to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us
• to provide you with notices about your account
• to carry out the Company's obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered between you and us, including for billing and collection
• to notify you about changes to openindustrystudios.com or any products or services we offer or provide through it
• in any other way we may describe when you provide the information
• for any other purpose with your consent.

The Company may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the Company and its affiliates.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

The Company does not sell or rent your personal information. The Company may share your personal information with service providers, vendors, and contractors that help us operate the website and provide our services, including hosting, storage, analytics, payment processing, customer support, email delivery, security, moderation, and similar operational services.

The Company may also share information with third parties: (i) where you direct or authorize us to do so; (ii) where such sharing is necessary to provide a product, service, integration, or functionality you request; (iii) in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar corporate transaction; or (iv) where required by law, legal process, or to protect the rights, safety, or property of the Company, our users, or others.

If the Company offers optional partner programs, opportunities, or promotions in the future, and such offering involves sharing your information with a third party for that purpose, the Company will do so only as described at the time of collection, with your consent where required by applicable law.

California Privacy Rights; Sale/Sharing Opt-Out

If you are a California resident, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, subject to applicable exceptions and verification requirements.

The Company does not sell personal information for monetary gain. However, certain cookie, pixel, analytics, or advertising technologies may be considered "sharing" or "selling" under California law when used for targeted advertising or similar purposes. If the Company engages in such activities, California residents may exercise their opt-out rights by contacting us at contact@openindustrystudios.com and/or through any "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link or cookie preference tool made available on the Site.

Where required by applicable law, the Company will also honor legally recognized browser-based opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, with respect to qualifying browser and/or device activity.

Tracking User Behavior

The Company may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within the Company, in order to determine what the Company services are the most popular. This information may be collected directly by the Company or through cookies, pixels, analytics tools, SDKs, and similar technologies used to understand site usage, improve the user experience, measure performance, maintain security, and, where applicable, support advertising or marketing activities.

Automatically Collected Information

The Company may automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Company's website.

Use of Cookies

The Company's website may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to operate and improve the Site, remember preferences, maintain account sessions, understand how users interact with the Site, and, where applicable, support analytics and advertising. Some cookies are necessary for the Site to function, while others help us measure usage or tailor content and communications. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the Company's pages, or register with Company's site or services, a cookie helps the Company to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Company's features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Depending on your location and the technologies in use, the Company may provide a cookie banner, preference center, or other mechanism that allows you to manage cookie settings. You can also control certain cookies through your browser settings, although disabling some cookies may affect Site functionality.

Data Retention

The Company retains personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Site and services, maintain accounts and project workspaces, preserve collaboration and provenance records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud or abuse, and protect the security and integrity of the platform. Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the nature of the service, and applicable legal requirements.

Security of your Personal Information

The Company secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Company uses the following methods for this purpose:

• SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet that are beyond our control; and (b) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

• Delete your personal information from our records; and
• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Under the CCPA and CPRA, you have the right to request that the Company, and any third parties with whom your personal information is sold or shared, delete any personal information that has been collected about you.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, and provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen

The Company does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Disconnecting your Company's Account from Third Party Websites

You will be able to connect your Company's account to third-party accounts. BY CONNECTING YOUR COMPANY'S ACCOUNT TO YOUR THIRD-PARTY ACCOUNT, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THE CONTINUOUS RELEASE OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU TO OTHERS (IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS ON THOSE THIRD-PARTY SITES). IF YOU DO NOT WANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU, INCLUDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION, TO BE SHARED IN THIS MANNER, DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE. You may disconnect your account from a third-party account at any time.

Opt Out and Unsubscribe from Third-Party Communications

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt out of receiving any or all communications from third-party partners of the Company by contacting us at:

Email: optout@openindustrystudios.com

Email Communications

From time to time, the Company may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to This Statement

The Company reserves the right to change this Policy from time to time. For example, when there are changes in our services, changes in our data protection practices, or changes in the law. When changes to this Policy are significant, we will inform you. You may receive a notice by sending an email to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our Open Industry Studios, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

The Company welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Policy. If you would like to exercise your privacy rights, submit a request, or contact us regarding this Policy, please contact us at:

privacy@openindustrystudios.com