Privacy Policy

Faux Face Models Ltd ("we” or “us") place great importance and are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.  Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

1. WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

By accessing or using the Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any of these terms, please do not use the Website.

This Privacy Policy only applies to data collected on the Website, and does not apply to websites of affiliated companies. We reserve the right to modify the Privacy Policy at any time without notice.

Any changes to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on the Website and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Privacy Policy for any updates and/or changes to the Privacy Policy.

The information you provide to us will be held on our secured servers and may be accessed by or given to our staff, companies within our group or other third parties who may be located outside the European Economic Area (EEA). These parties act for us for the purposes set out in the Privacy Policy or for other purposes approved by you. Please note that if you submit your data to us, you will be giving your consent to the data being transferred outside the EEA. 

Any payment transactions will be encrypted.  Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect information about you in two ways:

1. We collect personal information provided to us directly by you, such as when you apply to become a model; place and authenticate a booking; e-mail us; or request information from us. We may also use your information when you report a problem, complete surveys and enter competitions, make transactions, details from your visits to our site and the resources that you access.

2. We collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.  For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. 

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.  Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our Website.

3. USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We generally use information provided by you to:

*   enhance your experience of the Website

*   to customise the advertising and content you see

*   to fulfil your requests for services, to improve our services, to contact you, and to gather and review statistical information.

*   by providing us with your details, you agree that we may send you marketing and promotional material or other information about our products and services. We may also send you surveys or market research questionnaires which you may or may not choose to participate in

*   we may use tracking information that is automatically sent to us to determine which areas of our Website are most (and least) popular based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page of the Website performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for our users

*   to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes

*   to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us

*   to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so

*   to notify you about changes to our service

*   we may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by (post or telephone)

4. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, (as defined in 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006)

We may disclose your information to third parties under the following circumstances:

*   for us to provide our products and services to you, we may need to appoint other organisations to carry out some of the processing activities on our behalf

*   in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal proceedings, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; where it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, potential threats, violations of our terms and conditions, or as otherwise required by law

*   in connection with the sale, merger, joint venture, acquisition, or reorganisation of us or any of our subsidiaries or parent companies and their respective assets, where we may have to disclose your information to our new business partners or owners

*   where you have consented by "opting in" when providing us with details, we may also allow carefully selected third parties, including in particular, our commercial sponsors, to contact you occasionally about products and services which may be of interest to you.

We may also pass aggregate information on the usage of the Website to third parties but this will not include information that can be used to identify you.

Unless required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent.

If Faux Face Models Ltd or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.  You can exercise your right at any time by contacting us.

5. SECURITY & DATA RETENTION

We endeavour to protect personal information under our control in order to prevent the loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure or alteration of your information.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will take reasonable steps to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

We will retain your information for a reasonable period as long as the law requires.

6. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

The Website may contain links to other websites that are owned and operated by third parties. Even if the third party is affiliated with us, we have no control over these linked websites, all of which have separate privacy and data collection practices. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee or be responsible for the data collection practices of such other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements for those linked websites.

7. PRIVACY OF CHILDREN

The Website is not designed for, or directed to children. As such, we do not intend to collect and will not knowingly collect any personal information from children below the age of 16 without parental consent. If you are under 16, you must ask your parent or guardian before you send any information to us or ask us to e-mail anything to you. By sending us any information or asking us to send you information you are confirming that you have received the informed consent of your parent or guardian.

8. ACCESS TO INFORMATION

The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Data Protection Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.  If you believe that any of the data we hold about you or your child has changed or is incorrect, please ask us to change or update such data by contacting, the Privacy Policy Manager at info@faux-face.com 

9. CONTACT

If you have any comments, questions or wish to be removed from our database, please contact the Privacy Policy Manager at info@faux-face.com.  For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is Faux Face Models Ltd.