Legal Matters

Ah, contracts and legalese. These explain some of how we work with you and how you work with us at My Visual Pitch .com. Nobody much enjoys these things, but you may as well get used to it: there's a lot of paperwork in Hollywood and Nashville.

Privacy Statement

Security

In order to ensure the security of the work of those Artists participating in the My Visual Pitch .com community, we personally verify all Industry Professionals registering for access to the site.

Any time an Artist’s Visual Pitch is viewed by an Industry Professional, My Visual Pitch .com date stamps the particulars of the visit (including Industry Professional name, time of visit, project(s) viewed, number of views, etc.), stores this information in the site database, and makes some of this information available to the Artist.

Industry Professionals seeking further information from an Artist regarding a particular project (including screenplays, treatments, mp3s, biographical information, etc.) are asked to contact the Artist directly, as My Visual Pitch .com is not responsible for the release and dissemination of an Artist's material. Cookies

My Visual Pitch .com uses cookies to store and retrieve some member information, including a session id and the member's name and email address, to enable your convenient use of the site. Enabling cookies is required to use My Visual Pitch .com. Links

The Site contains links to third-party web sites. The linked sites are not under the control of My Visual Pitch .com, and the site is not responsible for the contents or policies of any linked site. My Visual Pitch .com provides these links as a convenience only. A link does not imply endorsement of, sponsorship of, or affiliation with the linked site by this site. Links to merchants or advertisers are owned and operated by independent retailers or service providers, and therefore, My Visual Pitch .com cannot ensure that you will be satisfied with their products, services or practices. You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any transaction with any of these third parties.

Indemnification

Users of My Visual Pitch .com agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless My Visual Pitch .com, its affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, agents, contractors and employees, from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs, made by any third party due to, arising from or out of: (a) your use of the Site and/or Services; (b) your breach or alleged breach of any representation, warranty or other obligation; (c) your violation or alleged violation of any federal, state, international or local law and any and all regulations, rules or ordinances; (d) the negligence or willful misconduct by you or your employees or agents; (e) any violation of the Terms or Privacy Policy; (f) your infringement of any intellectual property or other legal right of any person or entity; or (g) your advertising, marketing, promotion, sale, or distribution of any products or services. In the event you cause fines and/or penalties to be charged to Company by the Credit Card Associations or any other entity, you agree to reimburse Company immediately for said fines and/or penalties.

Information Collection and Use

My Visual Pitch .com collects personally identifiable information when you register for an account on the site. During registration, we ask for your contact information (such as your name, street address and e-mail address), as well as certain information pertaining to your business, along with billing information such as a bank account and/or credit card number.

In the course of processing a payment transaction, we typically receive from the merchant or a financial institution information related to the transaction. This normally includes information about the payment that a consumer has furnished the merchant or financial institution in placing the order. We do not acquire any information directly from consumers through My Visual Pitch .com Web site.

My Visual Pitch .com uses this information to to process payment transactions and to facilitate billing. We may also send industry-related announcements, newsletters, and periodic notices about specials and new products. Personally identifiable consumer information is used to process payment transactions and for no other purpose.

My Visual Pitch .com does not offer services or sell products to children and does not request or knowingly collect personally identifiable contact information from anyone under the age of 13. Information Sharing and Disclosure

Protecting personally identifiable information about Artists and Industry Professionals in the My Visual Pitch .com community is an important part of our business. We share and disclose such information only as described below.

My Visual Pitch .com will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when: 1) we have your consent to share the information; 2) we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; 3) we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of My Visual Pitch .com to provide a product or service to you (unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide them beyond what is necessary to assist us).

Personally identifiable consumer information is shared with third parties (such as banks and credit card processors) to the extent necessary for My Visual Pitch .com to deliver payment processing services.

We also may release personally identifiable information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of My Visual Pitch .com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and risk reduction. Information Security

Information security is critical to our business. We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information. The information gathered on secure computers is stored in a locked down data center. The number of employees involved in the management of the data center that have physical access to these computers is limited. We use firewalls and other security technology and implement the highest industry standard security practices to prevent our computers from being accessed by unauthorized persons.

We also require that any personally identifiable consumer information sent to us by you be encrypted using SSL encryption.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your login ID/password, other sensitive account data and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer and otherwise safeguard the password used to access any and all MyVisuaPitch.com services. Choice/Opt-Out

An Artist or Industry Professional’s contact information will be used to get in touch with the member when necessary, especially in instances where information pertinent to a member’s subscription (including credit card transactions, etc.) must be conveyed. Members may not opt out of this type of correspondence.

However, from time to time, My Visual Pitch .com may send industry-related information, special offers, or service updates to our registered Artists and Industry Professionals. Members may opt-out of receiving these types mailings by emailing the site administrator.

My Visual Pitch .com does not give out, sell, broker or otherwise distribute mailing lists, contact information or personal demographics information to third party companies or non-members. Correct/Update

This site allows users to update and modify information previously provided, such as biographical data, member contact information, as well as information pertaining to an Artist’s creative material, such as synopses, treatments, scripts/books, mp3s, demo discs, albums, etc.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your dealings with this website, please email us.

User Protocol

Members Only

My Visual Pitch .com is for the use of Artist and Industry Professional members only. To protect an Artist's creative material, members are prohibited from sharing their username and password.

Protect Your Creative Material

All Artists wishing to upload Visual Pitch(es) of screenplays, teleplays, music videos, and other creative content are strongly encouraged to first register their material through the National Creative Registry, the Writers Guild of America, or the United States Copyright Office, as applicable. Proof of registration, if supplied, will be displayed along with the Artist's profile each time a Visual Pitch is viewed.

Removal of Creative Material

My Visual Pitch .com requests that all Artist material uploaded to the site conform to MPAA PG-13 rating standards and that Artists refrain from use of excessive violence or graphic imagery. Visual Pitches designed to promote pornographic material of any nature are strictly prohibited from the site. My Visual Pitch .com may remove any and all content it deems pornographic in nature. No refund will be issued for material removed from the site.

Artist/Industry Professional Correspondence

Industry Professionals using My Visual Pitch .com expect their privacy to be protected and respected. For this reason, Artists are prohibited from contacting an Industry Professional who may have viewed a Visual Pitch or visited their Artist Page. It is the Industry Professional's sole discretion whether or not to initiate contact with an Artist whose material he or she has viewed if the Industry Professional feels the creative material is right for them.

My Visual Pitch .com provides daily updates regarding viewing activity on an Artist's Page as a courtesy and a form of protection only. Artists who violate an Industry Professional's privacy by initiating contact regarding a viewed Visual Pitch, whether by phone, email, or regular mail, will be removed from My Visual Pitch .com without refund. Industry Professionals are asked to immediately report an Artist who violates this guideline.

By posting a Visual Pitch, Artist agrees to pay My Visual Pitch .com a finders fee of 2.5% of all gross compensation that Artist is able to generate through the posted Visual Pitch, including, without limitation, compensation from options, acquisitions, licensing and any other transactions derived from or related to the Visual Pitch posted by Artist.

My Visual Pitch .com reserves the right to change this User Protocol at its discretion and without notification.


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