Privacy

Please be assured that Storymix Media values the privacy of its members and other visitors to its web site (“the Site”). To ensure your privacy Storymix Media does not sell, license, or rent any individually identifiable information about its visitors to any third party and uses its best efforts to protect any individually identifiable information that its visitors provide to us.

Storymix Media may collect and store aggregate or anonymous information about your access to and use of the Site including but not limited to such information as the number of visitors and visits to the Site. Storymix Media uses and collects this information for a variety of purposes. These include making our site better, internally, to improve our product and service offerings and marketing efforts, to identify who our visitors are and to provide you with information about our products and services. Note that, if required to do so by a court or government agency as a result of an administrative order, law, regulation, search warrant or subpoena, we may disclose information which we have about you. Also, in the event that all or substantially all of our stock and/or assets are transferred or sold to another entity, we may transfer our information to the acquiring entity. If, as a result of such a business transition, your information will be used in a materially different manner, you will be notified of such a change.

If you don’t want Storymix Media to provide you with information about its products or services or if you want us to delete information that we have about you from our web site and database or if you want to update that information, you should contact us by e-mail at the “Contact Us” page on the Site or write or fax us at our address and fax number.

We may change these terms at any time by posting revisions to the Site. By using the Site, you accept these terms. If you do not agree to these terms, please exit the Site immediately.

In the future we may require you to register with Storymix Media in order to give you the opportunity to use certain enhanced services, which may include the ability to download to us over the Internet your personal videos for editing and other modification, including the addition to them of original content by us. You will be required to register with Storymix Media to utilize those services on the Storymix Media, Inc. web site. Our Registration Terms follow.

If you send us creative suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, or other information (collectively, the “Submissions”), the Submissions shall be deemed, and shall remain, the property of Storymix Media. None of the Submissions shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Storymix Media, and Storymix Media shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Submissions. Without limitation of the foregoing, Storymix Media shall exclusively own all now known or hereafter existing rights to the Submissions of every kind and nature throughout the universe and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of the Submissions for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the provider of the Submissions.

Cookies are small text files that a web site can send to a user’s browser for storage on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can make use of the web easier by saving and administering status, application, preferences and other user information. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies but users can change the setting to refuse cookies or to be alerted when cookies are being sent. For instructions on how to change cookie settings, look in the Help menu on your Internet browser. Although refusal of cookies will not interfere with the ability to interact with the Site, users may need to accept cookies in order to use certain features provided at the Site. We may use cookies (sometimes in conjunction with other technology) (i) to keep track of and administer user status, preferences, and other information provided by a user, (ii) for security purposes, and (iii) to understand visitor or member usage of the Site on an anonymous basis.

For users with accounts located in Europe, all processing of Personal Data is performed in accordance with privacy rights and regulations following the EU Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 (the Directive), and the implementations of the Directive in local legislation. From May 25th, 2018, the Directive and local legislation based on the Directive will be replaced by the Regulations (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and Storymix’s processing will take place in accordance with the GDPR.

Storymix processes Personal Data both as a Processor and as a Controller, as defined in this page and the GDPR:

The Storymix entity which you as a User entered an agreement with when using Storymix’s platform, will be the Controller for User data.
For Respondent data, the user will be the Controller in accordance with Directive and GDPR, and Storymix will be the Processor.
Storymix adheres to the Directive of 1995 and the GDPR from May 25th, 2018. Consequently, Storymix processes all data provided by its users with accounts inthe European Economic Area (EEA) only.

All data collected by Storymix users will be stored exclusively  in accordance with the highest security regulations. All transfers of data internally in the EEA is done in accordance with this data processing agreement.

REGISTRATION AND MEMBERSHIP TERMS

Some pages found on the Storymix Media site (“the Site”) may only be viewed by those customers of Storymix Media who have registered with us. By registering with Storymix Media you represent that you are (a) 18 years of age or over, (b) that you are registering on behalf of yourself personally or on behalf of a company, partnership or other entity that you have identified on the Site and that you are an agent of that entity and have authority to act on behalf of that entity, and (c) that the information that you supply to Storymix Media is complete and accurate. Please contact us either at the “Contact Us” page on the Site or write or fax us at our address and fax number to update that information if it changes. Storymix Media reserves the right to accept or reject registration. When you register, you will be provided a User Name and Password. Your registration information and your User Name and Password are subject to our privacy policy which is set forth in our Privacy Statement.

NOTE THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING YOUR PASSWORD AND USER NAME SECRET AND THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL USES OF YOUR PASSWORD AND USER NAME TO ACCESS YOUR ACCOUNT WITH US, EVEN UNAUTHORIZED USES. PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU SUSPECT THAT SUCH UNAUTHORIZED USE HAS OCCURRED OR THAT SUCH UNAUTHORIZED USE MAY OCCUR SO THAT WE CAN MODIFY YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION, PASSWORD AND USER NAME.

RELEASE AND GRANT OF RIGHTS

Note that in consideration of the time and resources Storymix Media (the owner of the site and hereafter “Storymix Media”), will expend in evaluating and editing the videotape or other form of media incorporating images taken of me and/or the minor(s) named below on whose behalf I am signing this release and grant that I am submitting to Storymix Media (hereafter “the footage”), and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which is hereby acknowledged, I irrevocably grant to Storymix Media, and their respective employees, agents, heirs, legal representatives, licensees, successors and assigns, the non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, perpetual right and permission, with respect to the footage, to include the footage, including selections and stills taken therefrom, in advertising, publicity, and promotion for Storymix Media, which may take, but shall not be limited to, the form of videotapes, video disks, photographs, newspaper advertising, magazine advertising, leaflet and handout advertising, point-of-sale displays, radio and television advertising, including broadcast, cable and satellite radio and television, Internet web site advertising and trade show advertising. This includes the right to use my appearance (if any), and my voice and likeness as well as the appearance, voice and likeness of any minor(s) named below on whose behalf I am signing this release and grant in advertising, publicity, and promotion for Storymix Media in all means and media, whether now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe in perpetuity.

I acknowledge that Storymix Media is under no obligation to use the footage and the footage may be cut, edited and/or added to for any reason and in any manner which Storymix Media may in its sole discretion determine and may, to the extent decided by Storymix Media in its sole discretion, have sound effects, music, voiceovers and/or other elements added thereto.

I represent and warrant (1) that I am the sole and exclusive owner of the footage and any images and content contained therein and have the full right and authority to enter into this agreement and to grant the rights granted herein, (2) that Storymix Media’s use of the footage will not violate or infringe the rights of any party, (3) that no element of the footage is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, contains content that portrays graphic violence, illegal activity or other acts resulting in serious injury or death, contains personal information not my own and/or posted without permission or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, gives rise to civil liability, violates any law, or is otherwise inappropriate, (4) I have the legal right and licenses to any music or song files I provide to Storymix Media for their inclusion into a video edit,  (5) that I and the minor(s) named below are not member(s) of the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, or any like theatrical, motion picture or television union and (6) that for myself and the minor(s) named below, I hereby waive any right to privacy or publicity arising from the use by Storymix Media of the footage.

I hereby release, discharge and agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Storymix Media and their respective employees, agents, heirs, legal representatives, licensees, successor and assigns against any and all losses, claims, debts, demands, liabilities, attorneys’ fees and all other damages or costs arising from or related to any breach of any of the above representations or warranties or the falsity of any of these representations or warranties. This Release will be governed by and construed under and in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois. I hereby consent and agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal and state courts of the State of Illinois located in the County of Cook in connection with any lawsuit, action or proceeding arising out of or related to this agreement, the use of the footage, and/or to any rights granted hereunder.

This agreement constitutes the entire understanding between Storymix Media and me relating to the subject matter thereof, and cannot be modified except by a writing signed by Storymix Media and me. Any waiver of any term of this agreement in a particular instance shall not be a waiver of such term for the future. In the event that any paragraph or provision is determined to be ineffective or is limited in any manner for any reason, all of the other remaining terms and conditions shall remain in full force and effect.