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PRIVACY POLICY
Carla Zeiss Models
("we" or "us") place great importance on visitor privacy and
the security of all guests visiting http://www.carlamodels.biz
(the "Website"). We are dedicated to protecting your
personal information and have notified the Information
Commissioner of our role as data processor under the Data
Protection Act 1998 (Registration Number: Z6822933). This
privacy policy (the "Policy") describes how we work to
maintain your trust.
1. Use of
the Website
By
accessing or using the Website, you agree to the terms of
this Policy. If you do not agree with any of these terms,
please do not use the Website. This 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 Policy at any time without notice. Any changes
to our 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 Policy for any
updates and/or changes to the Policy.
2.
Information We Collect
We
collect information about you in two ways. First, we
collect personal information provided to us directly by you,
such as when you apply to become a model; place a booking;
e-mail us; authenticate an order; or request information
from us. Second, we automatically receive information from
your browser, including but not limited to your internet
protocol (IP) address, information about your browser,
"cookie" and "web beacon" or "web bug" information.
3. Cookies
and Web Beacons/Web Bugs
3.1 A cookie is a very small file sent to your web
browser by a website’s server to process information more
efficiently. A cookie file can contain information such as
a user ID that the Website uses to track the pages you have
visited, however the only personal information a cookie can
contain is information you supply yourself. Cookies cannot
read data off your hard drive, destroy files, or send
viruses. Cookies basically avoid duplication of
information. For instance, by setting a cookie on the
Website, you would not have to log in a password more than
once and save time while visiting the Website. Cookies can
also enable us to track and target the interests of our
users to enhance their experience on our Website. You can
set your browser to reject a cookie. If you do so, you will
still be able to use the Website, but you may be limited in
some areas of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your
browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system
will issue cookies when you log on to our Website. For more
information about cookies and how to turn them off, please
visit the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s website at
http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
3.2 A web beacon or web bug is a file used to monitor
your journey around a single website or collection of
websites. They may be used in association with cookies to
understand how visitors interact with the pages and content
on the pages of a website. Being able to recognize you
enables us to make the Website more user friendly.
4. Use of
the Collected Information
4.1 We generally use information provided by you to
enhance your experience of the Website, to customize the
advertising and content you see, to fulfill your requests
for products or services, to improve our products and
services, to contact you, and to gather and review
statistical information.
4.2 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.
4.3 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.
5.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
5.1
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 section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985).
5.2 We may disclose your information to third parties
under the following circumstances:
5.2.1
where, in order for us to provide our products and services
to you, we may need to appoint other organizations to carry
out some of the processing activities on our behalf. These
will include, for example, delivery organizations and
mailing houses. In these circumstances, we will take all
steps reasonably necessary to endeavour that your
information will be used in a manner consistent with the
Policy;
5.2.2 in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal
proceedings, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or
defend against legal claims;
5.2.3 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; or
5.2.4 in connection with the sale, merger, joint
venture, acquisition, or reorganization 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.
5.3 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. They
may contact you by post, telephone or fax, as well as by
e-mail. If you change your mind about being contacted by
these companies in the future, please contact the Privacy
Policy manager to update your preferences at
office@carlamodels.biz.
5.4 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.
5.5 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.
6. Use of
Your Information Outside the European Economic Area ("EEA")
6.1 The information you provide to us will be held on
our computers and may be accessed by or given to our staff,
companies within our group or other third parties who may be
located outside the EEA. These parties act for us for the
purposes set out in the 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.
6.2 Countries outside the EEA and the USA do not
always have strong data protection laws. However, we will
always take reasonable steps to ensure that your information
is used by third parties in accordance with this Policy.
7. Security
and Data Retention
7.1 We endeavour to protect personal information
under our control in order to prevent the loss, misuse,
unauthorized access, disclosure or alteration of your
information.
7.2 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.
7.3 We will retain your information for a reasonable
period as long as the law requires.
8. 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.
9. 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. Parents are
encouraged to review their children’s e-mail and internet
activities to ensure that the Website is being used by their
child in accordance with parental consent and this Policy.
Should parents wish to access their children’s personal
information held by us, they should contact the Privacy
Policy Manager at
office@carlamodels.biz.
10. Accessing
and Updating
You
are entitled to see the information that we hold about you
or your child and you may ask us for a copy of such
information. We may charge you a small administration fee
of £10 for providing you with these details. 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
office@carlamodels.biz.
11. Your
Choice
You
may choose to stop receiving communications from us at any
time. To request removal from our mailing list, to access
your personal information or to ask us to remove your
personal information from our database, please send a
message with your request to the Privacy Policy Manager at
office@carlamodels.biz.
12. Questions
and Contacting Us
If
you have any comments, questions or suggestions relating to
our use of your information, the information collected or
your use of the Website please contact the Privacy Policy
Manager at
office@carlamodels.biz.
Website Terms and Conditions of Use
Welcome
to www.carlamodels.biz (the "Website"). Using the Website
confirms that you accept these terms (the "Terms")
regardless of whether or not you choose to register with the
Website. If you do not accept these Terms, do not use the
Website. Please note that the Terms are updated from time
to time and it is your responsibility to review these Terms
regularly.
1. Introduction
1.1 The Website is owned by Carla Zeiss Models
(the "Company"). The Company’s registered office is at
Auernheimerstrasse 39, 1220 Vienna, (telephone number: +44
20 7979 0603, e-mail:
office@carlamodels.biz).
1.2 You may access most areas of the Website
without registering your details. Certain areas of the
Website are only open to you if you register as a registered
user and use the Website in accordance with these Terms.
1.3 By accessing any part of the Website you shall
be deemed to have accepted these Terms in full. If you do
not accept these Terms in full, you must leave the Website
immediately.
2. Variation
The
Company shall have the right, at its sole discretion to
modify, add or remove any terms or conditions of these Terms
without notice or liability to you. You should regularly
check the Website to review the current Terms since they are
binding on you. Any changes to these Terms shall be
effective immediately following the posting of any such
changes on the Website. Please review these Terms regularly
to ensure that you are aware of any changes made by the
Company. Your continued use of the Website after changes
have been posted means you agree to be legally bound by the
Terms as updated and amended.
3. Ownership and Restrictions
3.1 Apart from images licensed for use by the
Company, including photographic images and content which is
licensed by the Company from photographers, fashion houses
and other third parties, the Website, its design and content
including all text, information, still and motion video,
audio and audio visual material, code and/or software and
all intellectual property rights relating to the same (the
"Material") are owned by the Company.
3.2 The Website may be used by you strictly for
your own personal use as provided in these Terms. No
element of the Website or the Material may be taken out of
context or presented in a misleading or discriminatory
manner.
3.3 You are strictly prohibited from accessing and
using any of the images found on the Website in any manner
unless you are an authorised licensed user and adhere
strictly to the terms of the separate licence terms
governing the valid and lawful use of such images.
3.4 You agree not to modify, copy, reproduce,
broadcast, modify, adapt, transmit, republish, sell, resell,
exploit, create derivative works or distribute in any way
any portion of the Website or the Material.
3.5 You are granted a personal, limited,
non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to access the
Website and print and download extracts from the Website
(which are clearly made available by the Company for you to
print and/or download and which excludes any other images)
for your own private personal use on the following basis:
3.5.1
no documents, images or related graphics on the Website are
modified in any way;
3.5.2
no graphics or images found on the Website are used
separately from the accompanying text;
3.5.3
no Material or any portion of the Website is used and/or
exploited to create an association or similar connection
with a business, person or corporate entity;
3.5.4
the Company’s copyright and trade mark notices and this
permission notice appear in all copies of any material from
the Website; and
3.5.5 you do not, and you do not allow any third
party, to modify or create a derivative work, reverse
engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code or
software available on the Website.
The grant
of this limited licence is conditional upon your agreement
to and compliance with all these Terms. The Company may
revoke this licence at any time in its absolute discretion.
3.6 Any use of extracts or images from the Website,
including without limitation the Material, other than in
accordance with paragraph 3.5 above for any purpose is
prohibited. If you breach any of the Terms, your permission
to use the Website automatically terminates and you must
immediately destroy or permanently erase from any computer
memory or storage device any downloaded or printed extracts
or images or documents from the Website including without
limitation the Material.
3.7 All copyrights, trade marks, intellectual
property rights and proprietary rights on the Website are
the property of or licensed to the Company unless otherwise
stated. Nothing shall be construed as conferring upon you
by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right
to use any trade mark, patent, registered design, design
right, copyright or other intellectual property right of the
Website.
4.
Website Access
4.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that the
Website is normally available 24 hours a day, the Company
shall not be liable if for any reason the Website is
unavailable at any time or for any period.
4.2
Access to the Website may be suspended temporarily
and without notice in the case of system failure,
maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the Company's
control.
5.
Visitor Material and Conduct
5.1 Other than personally identifiable information,
which is covered under our Privacy Policy, any
material you transmit or post to the Website shall be
considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company
shall have no obligation with respect to such material. The
Company and its designers shall be free to copy, disclose,
distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and
all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied
therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial
purposes.
5.2
You are prohibited from uploading, posting or
transmitting to or from the Website any material:
5.2.1
that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent,
unlawful, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive,
liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing,
scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of
confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause
annoyance or inconvenience; or
5.2.2
for which you have not obtained all necessary licences,
consents and/or approvals; or
5.2.3
which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be
considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability,
or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the
rights of any third party, in any country in the world; or
5.2.4
which is technically harmful (including, without limitation,
computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful
components, corrupted data or other malicious software or
harmful data).
5.3
You may not misuse the Website (including, without
limitation, by hacking) in a way which is contrary to the
Terms. In the event that you do misuse the Website or
breach any of the Terms, the Company reserves the right to
ask you to leave the Website immediately, and to prohibit
you from using the Website in the future.
5.4
The Company shall fully co-operate with any law
enforcement authorities or court order requesting or
directing the Company to disclose the identity or locate
anyone posting any material in breach of this
paragraph 5.
6.
Links To and From Other Websites
6.1 Links to third party websites on the Website are
provided solely for your convenience. If you use these
links, you leave the Website. The Company has not reviewed
all of these third party websites and does not control and
is not responsible for these websites or their content or
availability. As a result, the Company does not endorse or
make any representations about them, or any material found
there, or any results that may be obtained from using them.
If you decide to access any of the third party websites
linked to the Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.
6.2 Please note that we are not responsible for the
terms of use or data collection practices of any other
websites and we encourage you to read the privacy statements
and terms of use of those linked websites.
6.3 The Company does not permit the linking of the
Website from any third party websites unless it has provided
its express written consent to do so.
7.
Registration
7.1 When you submit your details to us via the
Website, you warrant that all the details you supply,
including without limitation, your name and e-mail address
are accurate, that you are authorised to use the e-mail
address that you provide and that you are at least sixteen
(16) years old. If you are below the age of sixteen (16),
please obtain the permission of your parent or guardian
before using the Website. The Company has no intention of
collecting any personal information from children below the
age of 16 without informed parental consent. Parents are
encouraged to review their children’s e-mail and Internet
activities to ensure that the Website is being used in
accordance with these Terms.
7.2 The Company takes your privacy seriously. Please
read the Company’s Privacy Policy for details about
what information the Company collects and how the Company
will use and protect it.
8.
Terms and Conditions of Business
8.1 Details of the
terms and conditions of business are available at
www.carlamodels.biz/terms.html.
Please review such terms and conditions carefully and
thoroughly as they will govern and apply to any supply of
the services by the Company and take precedence over and
supersede any other terms.
8.2 Any amendment or variation made to the terms and
conditions of business as supplied by the Company shall not
be valid or binding unless agreed to in advance by the
Company and confirmed by the Company by counter-signing such
amendment or variation on this booking confirmation form.
9. Disclaimer
Information on this WEBsite does not constitute an offer or
solicitation to conduct MODELLING business in any
jurisdiction. it is your responsibility to inform yourself
about and observe any applicable laws relating to MODELLING.
information on the Website has been obtained from sources
which we believe to be reliable and accurate. The company
is not responsible for the accuracy of the information
contained within the Website provided by third parties.
10. Accuracy
10.1
While the Company endeavours to ensure that the information
on the Website is correct, the Company does not warrant the
accuracy and completeness of the material on the Website.
The Company may make changes to the material on the
Website, at any time without notice. The material on the
Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no
commitment to update such material.
10.2
The material on the Website is provided "as is", without any
conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind.
Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the
Company provides you with the Website on the basis that the
Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions
and other terms, including, without limitation, the
conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness
for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill which,
but for these Terms, might have effect in relation to the
Website.
11. Liability
11.1 The Company, any other party (whether or not
involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering
the Website), and any of the Company's group companies and
the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents
of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for
any amount or any kind of loss or damage that may result to
you or a third party in connection with the Website in any
way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the
results of use of the Website, any websites linked to the
Website or the material on such websites, including but not
limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect
your computer equipment, software, data or other property on
account of your access to, use of, or browsing the Website
or your downloading of any material from the Website or any
websites linked to the Website (including without
limitation, any direct loss or DAMAGES of income, profits,
goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages
arising from or connected in any way to business
interruption, and whether in tort (including without
limitation negligence), contract or otherwise and ANY
indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages).
11.2
Nothing in these Terms shall exclude or limit the Company's
liability for:
(a)
death or personal injury caused by negligence (as
such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977);
or
(b)
fraud; or
(c) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited
under applicable law.
11.3
You assume all costs if your use of the Website results in
the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment,
software or data.
11.4
The Company does not warrant that functions contained in the
Website content will be uninterrupted or error free, that
defects will be corrected or that the Website’s server is
free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses or bugs.
12. Severance
If
any of these Terms shall be determined to be illegal,
invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of
any state or country in which these Terms are intended to be
effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in
which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it
shall be severed and deleted from these Terms and the
remaining Terms shall survive, remain in full force and
effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
13. No Waiver
No delay
or failure by the Company to exercise any powers, rights or
remedies under these Terms will operate as a waiver of them
nor will any single or partial exercise of any such powers,
rights or remedies preclude any other or further exercise of
them. Any waiver to be effective must be in writing and
signed by an authorised representative of the Company.
14. Entire Agreement
These
Terms including the documents or other sources referred to
in these Terms supersede all prior representations
understandings and agreements between you and the Company
relating to the use of this Website and sets forth the
entire agreement and understanding between you and the
Company for your use of this Website.
15. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with English law. Disputes arising in connection with these
Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
courts of England.
Issue
Date: 6 March 2009 |