Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 1, 2023

WHO WE ARE

The data controller and operator of this website is William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC dba WME Books of 11 Madison Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, New York 10010. We have appointed William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (U.K.) Limited of 100 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1HB as our representative in the EU. References to WME used in this policy include all members of the WME group of companies (WME Group Companies) which is comprised of affiliates, wholly owned subsidiaries, joint venture partners, parent or holding companies. Each of our websites will refer to the primary WME company responsible for providing services to you. WME (“WME”, "we", "us", "our") as used in this policy refers to WME and the WME Group Companies.

WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS ABOUT

This Privacy Policy (together with our Terms of Use, Cookie Policy and any other documents referred to therein) provides information on the data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, through this website ("Website") and how we process it. Please read this policy carefully before you provide us with your personal information. This policy provides detailed information about when and why we collect your personal information, how we may use it, and how we keep it secure. This policy works in conjunction with the Cookie Policy and Terms of Use. It covers what we collect from you or your use of the Website, it does not apply to information that you provide or have provided to other websites or social media or that has come from public sources. This policy also provides information about your privacy rights and how to request and enforce them.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any person(s) with whom we have entered into a representation agreement.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect your personal information at the point you decide to interact with us. This may include signing up online, submitting materials in seeking representation by WME, subscribing to newsletters, event updates, products and services, contacting customer service, asking a question or making a comment. We also may use certain cookies and other technologies to understand how you interact with our Website.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone / mobile number. We may also collect information from you that you choose to provide for example when you send us a resume or CV through our approved channels, such as the careers page or contact section indicated on our website.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM OTHER SOURCES

We may process your personal information if you use any of our other websites operated by our WME Group Companies including purchase history, browsing habits and user experience. We may also receive and display information and content which you make publicly available on your social media platforms.

We also work closely with third parties (including, for example, our suppliers, advertising networks, analytics providers and ad-tech companies) and we may receive information about you from them.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use your information you give us to:

  • Consider your submissions for representation;
  • Help us respond to your queries;
  • Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts we enter with you to provide you with information, products and services you've requested for us;
  • Send you our newsletter, email updates, services we feel may interest you and other subscriptions with your consent;
  • Provide you with information about other, similar goods and services we offer based on what you’ve recently purchased or enquired about;
  • If you are not in the EEA or any other jurisdiction that prohibits it, we can provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services that may interest you;
  • Notify you about changes to our services; and
  • Comply with legal and regulatory requirements.

We use information we collect about you to:

  • Improve our Website to present content to you and your computer in an effective manner;
  • Allow you to participate in interactive features of our services, when you choose to do so as part of our efforts to keep our Website safe and secure;
  • Measure or understand the effectiveness of our advertising, and to deliver relevant advertising to you; and
  • Provide or permit third parties to provide targeted advertising via websites you visit about goods or services that you may find interesting (see Ad Tech section and Cookie Policy)

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may share your personal information with WME Group Companies and with selected third parties including:

  • Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you in order to provide you with a product or service;
  • Except for EEA or other jurisdictions that prohibit it, we may share your personal information with business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors to provide you with unsolicited direct marketing information about promotions and offers without asking for your consent;
  • Non-personal, aggregated, anonymized or other data to advertisers, advertising networks and social networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others.
  • We may also use aggregated information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target;
  • Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of the Website;
  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, we may disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets or transfer personal information held where it is one of the transferred assets;
  • We may share your personal information if we are under a duty to disclose or share your data in order to comply with any legal obligation;
  • In the event of an emergency;
  • In order to enforce or apply our Submission Terms & Conditions, Terms of Use and other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of WME, our customers, clients or individuals; or
  • If you consent to allow us to share your information.

STORAGE AND TRANSFER OF INFORMATION

All the information you provide, including your personal information, may be processed and stored, transferred or accessed by entities around the world. Specifically, the information and personal information that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") or United Kingdom (UK), including the United States. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA/UK who work for us or for one of our WME Group companies or your information may be processed outside the EEA/UK by our suppliers (permitted third parties) who have entered into a processing agreement.

When we, or our permitted third parties transfer your information outside the EEA/UK, we or they will impose obligations on the recipients of that information to protect the information to the standard required in the EEA/UK or otherwise require the recipient to subscribe to international frameworks intended to provide secure data sharing. In the case of transfers to us, in line with EEA and UK data protection laws, the transfer of this information is governed by a contract including Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission and the UK Government.

Once we have received your personal information, we will use strict procedures and security features to protect your information from unauthorized access.

COOKIES AND TECHNICAL DATA

This Website uses cookies to help us recognize you and provide you with a good user experience when you browse this Website. We also use cookies and other similar technology to improve this Website. You may have set your consent for recurring and non-recurring cookies through the link in our Cookie Policy and you can change your consent and other preferences for Cookies by following the guidelines there. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy.

ADVERTISING AND SOCIAL MEDIA

We, and/or our WME Group Companies, engage in on-line advertising that appears on third party websites to keep you aware of our brands, events, products and services. We do this using a variety of digital marketing networks and a variety of advertising technologies like pixels, ad tags, cookies and mobile identifiers as well as service providers such as Google and Facebook. The banners and ads you see will be based on information we hold about you, from what you’ve bought or responded to in the past or your customer journey on our websites. We encourage you to become familiar with our Cookie Policy. We are not responsible for the data and information treatment employed by other third party websites where our advertising is displayed (our Privacy Policy only refers to our websites), so please always read the privacy policy on third party websites.

CHILDREN

We do not knowingly collect information from children who are under 13 years old. If you are a parent or guardian of a child who is 13-16 years old and using our Website, please send us an email at dataprivacy@wmeagency.com to opt in to the use of your personal information or request deletion of any personal information we may have collected about the child. If you are a parent or guardian of a child who is under 13 years old and using our Website, please contact us to arrange for deletion of any personal information we may have collected about the child.

PROFILING

Individuals have the right not to be subject to automated processing, including profiling. We do not engage in automated processing for any reason. We are engaged in the process of decision-making at all levels every day, but all of our decisions and processing are done on a personalized basis. Should we ever institute automated processing or profiling we will make you aware of this and provide a means for you to contact us to discuss the automated process and the decision to implement it.

PRIVACY RIGHTS

Depending on your jurisdiction you may have the following rights in connection to your data, including:

  • Access. You may have the right to access personal information we hold about you and ask us for other information such as purposes of processing, categories of personal information and recipients of the information.
  • Portability. You may have the right to request a copy of personal information about you and request that we transfer it to a third party (with certain exceptions).
  • Correction. You may be entitled to request correction of any personal information about you which is incomplete or inaccurate.
  • Erasure. In certain circumstances, you have the right to request deletion or erasure of the personal information we hold about you.
  • Restriction of processing to storage only. You may have the right to require us to stop processing the personal information we hold about you other than for storage purposes in certain circumstances.
  • Objection. Where we are processing personal information about you on the basis of legitimate interests, you may have the right to object to our processing of personal information about you.
  • Withdrawl of Consent. Where we rely on consent to process personal information about you, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time by contacting us.
  • Appeal. Where applicable, you may have the right to appeal actions regarding your privacy request.
  • Complaint. You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority should you feel unsatisfied with our treatment of your personal information.

If you want to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at: dataprivacy@wmeagency.com

We will retain your personal information for as long as needed to provide you with services you have requested. We will retain and use your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

If you are a California resident you may have the following rights regarding personal information about you, subject to our ability to verify your request and certain other limitations:

  • Right to Know: You have the right to submit a verifiable request for copies of specific pieces of your personal information collected in the preceding 12 months or at your option since January 1, 2022;
  • Right to Delete: You have the right to submit a verifiable request for the deletion of personal information that you have provided to us. Certain information that we hold about you may not be deleted. We are not permitted to delete information that we need to operate our business, administer our employees, protect our legal obligations and rights, or to provide security for our employees, our systems and our company;
  • Right to Correct: You have the right to submit a verifiable request for the correction of inaccurate personal information maintained by us, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of processing the personal information;
  • Right to Opt Out of Sale and Sharing: You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information and the disclosure of your personal information for cross-context advertising;
  • Right to Limit Processing of Sensitive Personal Information: You have the right to tell us not to process sensitive personal information except for the purpose for which it was originally collected; and
  • Non-Disctrimination: California law prohibits discrimination against you for exercising your privacy rights.

If you want to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at dataprivacy@wmeagency.com or 1- 866-98 -0571.

VERIFICATION PROCESS AND REQUIRED INFORMATION

All requests must be verified. Some requests, including receiving a copy of your data or requests made by an agent claiming to be acting on your behalf, are subject to heightened requirements. If we cannot verify your identity based on the information provided, a request for a copy of your data shall be treated as a request for information and if we cannot verify your identity, a request to delete personal information may be treated as a request to opt out of the sale of personal information.

AUTHORIZED AGENT

You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. An Authorized Agent must have written documentation of their authority to act on your behalf, such as a Power of Attorney.

DO NOT TRACK

You may have the opportunity to receive certain communications from us related to the Website. If you provide us with your email address in order to receive communications, you can opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe links at the bottom of our emails. Some browsers support a “Do Not Track” feature, which is intended to be a signal to websites that you do not wish to be tracked across different websites you visit. Certain legal obligations require that we disclose how websites we operate react to Do Not Track signals. The Website does not currently change the way it operates based upon detection of a Do Not Track or similar signal. Please note that we cannot control how third party websites or online services you visit through Website respond to Do Not Track signals. Check the privacy policies of those third parties for information on their privacy practices.

SECURITY

We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational procedures and measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure such as firewalls and encryption. In addition, we limit access to your information to only those employees, agents, contractors, suppliers and authorized third parties who have a business need to know. Note : the internet is an open system and even with safeguards, we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant the security of any information that you transmit on or through our Website and any transmission of your information is at your own risk.

Our Website, our newsletters, email updates and other communications may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of others, including our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree or consent to these updates or changes, do not continue to use the Website

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy should be addressed to dataprivacy@wmeagency.com.