Call Sheet Media, LLC Privacy Policy - Updated June 19, 2026
1. Introduction
Call Sheet Media, LLC, including its affiliates, representatives, contractors, agents, service providers, successors, and assigns, referred to in this Privacy Policy as "Call Sheet Media," "CSM," "we," "us," or "our," respects your privacy.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information when you visit our website, contact us, submit information, apply to a program, make a payment, schedule a consultation, participate in a program, subscribe to communications, or otherwise interact with us.
This Privacy Policy applies to our website, webpages, applications, program pages, payment pages, consultation scheduling pages, communications, services, and related offerings, collectively referred to as the "Site" or "Services."
By using the Site or Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site or Services.
2. Who We Are
Call Sheet Media, LLC is a film production, screenplay development, mentorship, script evaluation, project-positioning, publicity, and entertainment-services company.
Our services may include, without limitation:
• RISE ABOVE THE NOISE program services
• Program applications and consultations
• Script coverage
• Screenplay evaluation
• Screenplay mentorship
• Script development guidance
• Publicity and press release services
• IMDb and IMDbPro positioning support where applicable
• Poster, trailer, pitch deck, one-sheet, and project presentation services
• Writer and project positioning
• General business, customer service, and program communications
3. Information We Collect
We may collect personal information directly from you, automatically when you use our Site, from third-party service providers, from public sources, or from other sources permitted by law.
The categories of information we may collect include the following.
3.1 Contact Information
We may collect your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, city, state, country, and other contact details.
3.2 Application and Program Information
If you apply for or participate in a program, we may collect information such as:
• Project title
• Project type
• Genre
• Target audience
• Development stage
• Writing goals
• Industry experience
• Prior credits
• IMDb or IMDbPro links
• Availability
• Consultation preferences
• Program tier selected
• Payment option selected
• Information you provide during a consultation or interview
• Any other information you choose to provide in connection with an application or program
3.3 Payment and Billing Information
If you make a payment, purchase a service, use a payment plan, or request flexible payment options, we may collect billing-related information such as your name, email address, billing address, payment status, payment amount, transaction date, payment plan status, invoice records, and payment history.
Payments may be processed by third-party payment processors. We generally do not receive or store full payment card numbers, bank account numbers, or full payment credentials unless specifically stated by the payment processor or otherwise required for a particular transaction.
3.4 Consultation and Scheduling Information
If you schedule a consultation or interview, we may collect scheduling details, meeting preferences, availability, time zone, calendar information, meeting links, attendance status, and notes related to the consultation.
3.5 Communications Information
If you contact us by email, phone, web form, text, social media, or other channels, we may collect the content of your communication, contact details, message history, support requests, attachments, and related information.
3.6 Marketing and Newsletter Information
If you subscribe to updates, newsletters, announcements, program information, or other communications, we may collect your name, email address, communication preferences, subscription status, email engagement information, and related marketing records.
3.7 Website and Device Information
When you visit the Site, we may automatically collect information such as:
• IP address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Referring pages
• Pages viewed
• Links clicked
• Time spent on pages
• Approximate location derived from IP address
• Date and time of visit
• Cookie identifiers
• Analytics data
• Interaction data
• Other technical information
3.8 Cookies, Pixels, and Tracking Technologies
We may use cookies, pixels, tags, web beacons, analytics tools, embedded content, social media tools, and similar technologies to operate the Site, understand visitor behavior, measure performance, improve services, remember preferences, support marketing, and evaluate communications.
3.9 Creative Project Information
If you submit creative materials through an authorized process, we may collect project-related information and materials, such as:
• Screenplays
• Treatments
• Loglines
• Synopses
• Pitch decks
• Character summaries
• Writer bios
• Headshots
• Project artwork
• Posters
• Trailers
• Concept materials
• Public reference links
• IMDb or IMDbPro links
• Registration information
• Rights documentation
• Notes, revisions, and related communications
Creative materials may contain personal information about you, co-writers, collaborators, real people, or others.
3.10 Publicly Available Information
We may collect or review publicly available information relevant to our services, such as IMDb pages, public websites, press articles, public social media profiles, public project pages, public credits, festival listings, public reviews, and other publicly available references.
3.11 Sensitive Personal Information
We do not intentionally request sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for a specific lawful purpose, voluntarily provided by you, or included in materials you choose to submit.
Sensitive personal information may include certain government identifiers, financial account information, precise geolocation, health information, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, sexual orientation, or other information considered sensitive under applicable law.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information unless requested or necessary for a specific service.
4. Sources of Information
We may collect information from:
• You directly
• Website forms
• Program applications
• Payment pages
• Scheduling pages
• Email communications
• Phone calls
• Video consultations
• Newsletter signups
• Social media interactions
• Third-party service providers
• Payment processors
• Scheduling tools
• Email marketing platforms
• Analytics providers
• Press release platforms
• Public websites
• Public industry databases
• Public social media pages
• IMDb, IMDbPro, and other public entertainment-industry resources
• Other sources permitted by law
5. How We Use Information
We may use information for the following purposes:
5.1 To Provide Services
We use information to process applications, schedule consultations, evaluate program fit, provide mentorship, prepare script coverage, conduct project evaluations, provide publicity services, support IMDb-related positioning, create posters, trailers, pitch decks, one-sheets, and other deliverables, and otherwise perform requested services.
5.2 To Process Payments
We use payment and billing information to process payments, manage payment plans, send receipts, verify transactions, handle failed payments, manage refunds, prevent fraud, and maintain financial records.
5.3 To Communicate With You
We use information to respond to inquiries, send confirmations, provide scheduling instructions, deliver program updates, answer questions, send administrative notices, provide customer support, and communicate about your application, purchase, or program participation.
5.4 To Evaluate Program Fit
We may use application, consultation, and project information to determine whether a selected program tier is appropriate for you, whether your project appears suitable for the selected services, and whether additional information or a different tier may be recommended.
5.5 To Provide Publicity and Project Positioning Services
If your selected services include publicity, press releases, IMDb positioning support, posters, trailers, pitch decks, or public-facing materials, we may use approved information to prepare and distribute those materials.
5.6 To Work With Service Providers
We may use information to coordinate with third-party service providers that help us operate the Site, process payments, schedule meetings, send emails, distribute press releases, host files, create assets, provide analytics, support communications, or perform other business functions.
5.7 To Improve Our Services
We may use information to understand visitor behavior, improve the Site, refine program offerings, evaluate user experience, analyze performance, improve communications, and develop new services.
5.8 To Send Marketing Communications
We may use your contact information to send newsletters, program updates, writer opportunities, service announcements, project news, promotional offers, or other marketing communications. You may unsubscribe from marketing communications as described below.
5.9 To Protect Rights and Prevent Misuse
We may use information to detect, prevent, investigate, or respond to fraud, payment disputes, chargebacks, unauthorized submissions, misuse of the Site, intellectual property claims, security incidents, legal claims, violations of our Terms, or other improper activity.
5.10 To Comply With Legal Obligations
We may use information to comply with legal, tax, accounting, regulatory, contractual, and recordkeeping obligations; respond to lawful requests; enforce our agreements; and protect our legal rights.
6. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information for money. We may share information as described below.
6.1 Service Providers
We may share information with vendors, contractors, consultants, platforms, and service providers that help us operate our business, such as:
• Website hosting providers
• Payment processors
• Scheduling tools
• Email marketing platforms
• Analytics providers
• Cloud storage providers
• Customer service tools
• Press release distribution services
• Creative contractors
• Editors, designers, trailer producers, consultants, and program representatives
• Technology and security providers
• Professional advisors
• Other vendors needed to provide the Services
6.2 Payment Processors
If you make a payment, your payment information may be collected and processed by third-party payment processors. Those processors may collect, use, and retain payment information under their own privacy policies and terms.
6.3 Scheduling and Communication Tools
If you schedule a consultation, receive emails, join a video meeting, or communicate through a third-party platform, those platforms may collect information under their own privacy policies.
6.4 Press Release and Publicity Services
If you purchase or participate in services involving press releases, publicity, project announcements, media distribution, IMDb support, or public-facing materials, we may share approved information with press release distribution services, media outlets, public websites, industry databases, public platforms, or other relevant third parties.
6.5 IMDb, IMDbPro, and Industry Platforms
If you request IMDb or IMDbPro positioning support, we may use or share project information, metadata, public references, credits, posters, trailers, images, or other approved materials as needed to support submission or positioning efforts.
IMDb, IMDbPro, and similar third-party platforms control their own privacy practices, eligibility rules, editorial decisions, and data processing.
6.6 Creative Contractors and Industry Professionals
Depending on the selected services, we may share authorized project materials with mentors, reviewers, analysts, writers, editors, designers, trailer producers, consultants, program representatives, or other industry professionals working with or on behalf of Call Sheet Media.
6.7 Legal, Safety, and Compliance
We may disclose information if we believe it is reasonably necessary to:
• Comply with law
• Respond to subpoenas, court orders, government requests, or legal process
• Enforce our Terms and agreements
• Protect our rights, property, safety, business, or reputation
• Prevent fraud or misuse
• Investigate payment disputes or chargebacks
• Protect users, clients, applicants, participants, service providers, or the public
6.8 Business Transfers
If Call Sheet Media is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or similar transaction, information may be disclosed or transferred as part of that transaction.
6.9 With Your Consent
We may share information with your consent or at your direction.
7. Creative Materials and Authorized Submissions
Call Sheet Media may receive, review, and process creative materials only through authorized program, service, or submission channels.
Authorized creative materials may include screenplays, treatments, loglines, synopses, pitch decks, project descriptions, bios, headshots, posters, trailers, concept art, project links, rights documentation, and related materials.
We may use authorized creative materials to:
• Evaluate program fit
• Provide script coverage
• Provide mentorship
• Prepare development notes
• Create publicity materials
• Prepare IMDb-related submission support
• Create posters, trailers, pitch decks, or one-sheets
• Develop project positioning
• Communicate with you about the project
• Provide the selected services
• Maintain business, legal, and program records
Creative materials may be shared with Call Sheet Media representatives, contractors, reviewers, consultants, and service providers as needed to provide the selected services.
Unless separately agreed in writing, submitting creative materials through an authorized process does not transfer ownership of your original materials to Call Sheet Media.
8. Unsolicited Submissions
Please do not send unsolicited scripts, story ideas, treatments, loglines, synopses, pitches, pitch decks, manuscripts, videos, music, artwork, character descriptions, concepts, or other creative materials to Call Sheet Media outside the official program process.
Unsolicited creative submissions will not be reviewed, considered, or returned.
If you send unsolicited materials despite this policy, we may delete, discard, archive, or ignore them without reviewing them. We are not responsible for protecting, maintaining, returning, or responding to unsolicited creative materials.
This Privacy Policy does not create any confidential, fiduciary, contractual, or special relationship with respect to unsolicited materials.
9. Payment Information
Payments may be processed by third-party payment processors. We may receive transaction information, payment status, customer name, email address, billing details, payment plan status, and related records.
We generally do not store full payment card numbers or complete financial account credentials. Those details are usually handled directly by the payment processor.
Payment processors may use your information under their own privacy policies and terms. You should review the privacy policy of the payment processor before making a payment.
10. Email Marketing, Newsletters, and Program Updates
If you subscribe to receive updates or provide your email address in connection with our Services, we may send you:
• Program announcements
• Writer opportunities
• Company news
• Project updates
• Service information
• Educational content
• Promotional communications
• Transactional or administrative emails
• Payment and scheduling confirmations
• Program-related communications
You may opt out of marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us.
Even if you opt out of marketing emails, we may still send transactional, administrative, legal, payment, security, or program-related communications.
11. Cookies, Analytics, and Tracking Technologies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the Site, remember preferences, understand website traffic, analyze visitor behavior, measure marketing performance, improve user experience, and support communications.
Cookies may be placed by us or by third-party providers.
Types of technologies we may use include:
• Essential cookies
• Analytics cookies
• Performance cookies
• Functional cookies
• Advertising or marketing cookies, if applicable
• Pixels or tags, if applicable
• Embedded video or social media technologies, if applicable
You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings or device settings. Blocking cookies may affect Site functionality.
12. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Controls
Some browsers offer "Do Not Track" signals. Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to Do Not Track signals, our Site may not respond to all such signals.
Where required by applicable law and technically feasible, we will honor legally recognized opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, for users in jurisdictions where such signals must be honored.
Call Sheet Media should confirm its current cookie, analytics, advertising, and tracking technologies before publishing this section.
13. Do Not Sell or Share Personal Information
Call Sheet Media does not sell personal information for money.
However, some privacy laws define "sale," "sharing," or "targeted advertising" broadly. Depending on the cookies, analytics tools, advertising tools, pixels, or marketing technologies used on the Site, certain disclosures to third-party advertising or analytics providers may be considered a "sale," "sharing," or processing for targeted advertising under some laws.
If Call Sheet Media engages in activity that legally constitutes a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising, users may have the right to opt out.
Call Sheet Media should confirm whether it uses advertising pixels, retargeting, cross-context behavioral advertising, or similar tools before publishing this section.
14. Sensitive Personal Information
We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information for purposes of inferring characteristics unless disclosed in a specific notice or required for a specific service.
If you voluntarily provide sensitive personal information in communications, applications, consultations, project materials, or creative submissions, we may process it only as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was provided, to provide the Services, to comply with legal obligations, or as otherwise permitted by law.
Please do not provide sensitive personal information unless necessary.
15. Applicant, Client, and Program Participant Information
If you apply for, purchase, or participate in a Call Sheet Media program or service, we may collect and use information to:
• Evaluate your application
• Schedule your consultation or interview
• Determine program fit
• Process payment
• Assign a program representative where applicable
• Provide onboarding instructions
• Provide program services
• Maintain records of participation
• Communicate about deadlines, deliverables, payments, or updates
• Handle refunds or payment disputes
• Protect legal rights and enforce program terms
16. Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide services, maintain business records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud, and protect our rights.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information.
Examples include:
• Contact inquiries may be retained for a reasonable business period.
• Application records may be retained for program review, business, legal, and reapplication purposes.
• Payment records may be retained for tax, accounting, refund, chargeback, and legal purposes.
• Program records may be retained to document services provided.
• Creative materials submitted through authorized processes may be retained while services are active and for a reasonable period afterward for recordkeeping, dispute resolution, legal, or business purposes.
• Press releases and public-facing materials may remain publicly available after publication.
• Email marketing preferences may be retained to honor opt-out requests.
• Legal records may be retained as long as necessary to protect rights or comply with obligations.
We may delete, de-identify, aggregate, archive, or securely retain information when it is no longer actively needed.
17. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information.
However, no method of transmission over the Internet, email, website, payment platform, cloud storage system, or electronic communication system is completely secure.
We cannot guarantee that information will be completely secure or immune from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or disclosure.
You are responsible for using secure devices, protecting your email account, and avoiding the transmission of sensitive information through unsecured channels.
18. Third-Party Links and Platforms
The Site may include links to third-party websites, platforms, payment processors, social media pages, video platforms, scheduling tools, email platforms, IMDb, IMDbPro, press release services, or other outside services.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third parties.
You should review the privacy policies of any third-party sites or services you use.
19. Social Media and Public Platforms
If you interact with Call Sheet Media through social media platforms or public websites, those platforms may collect and process your information under their own privacy policies.
Information you post publicly may be visible to others. Please use caution when sharing personal or project information on public platforms.
20. Testimonials, Reviews, Press, and Publicity
With your consent or where otherwise permitted, we may use your name, image, likeness, review, testimonial, project information, biography, press release, or public-facing materials for marketing, publicity, or promotional purposes.
If you purchase or participate in services that are intended to create public-facing materials, such as press releases, IMDb positioning support, posters, trailers, or project announcements, information you approve may become public and may be indexed, copied, archived, syndicated, or redistributed by third parties.
Once information is made public through press release distribution, media publication, IMDb submission, social media, public websites, or other public channels, we may not be able to control or remove all copies.
21. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.
These may include the right to:
• Request access to personal information we hold about you
• Request a copy of certain personal information
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion of personal information
• Object to certain processing
• Restrict certain processing
• Opt out of certain marketing communications
• Opt out of sale or sharing of personal information where applicable
• Opt out of targeted advertising where applicable
• Limit the use or disclosure of sensitive personal information where applicable
• Request information about how we collect, use, disclose, or share personal information
• Not be discriminated against for exercising applicable privacy rights
Your rights may vary depending on your location and the law that applies.
22. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may have rights under California privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended.
Depending on whether Call Sheet Media is subject to the applicable legal thresholds and depending on the type of information involved, California residents may have the right to:
• Know what categories of personal information we collect
• Know the sources of personal information
• Know the purposes for collecting, using, disclosing, selling, or sharing personal information
• Know the categories of third parties to whom information is disclosed
• Request access to specific pieces of personal information
• Request deletion of personal information, subject to exceptions
• Request correction of inaccurate personal information
• Opt out of sale or sharing of personal information, where applicable
• Limit the use or disclosure of sensitive personal information, where applicable
• Not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights
23. Notice at Collection for California Residents
We may collect the categories of personal information described in this Privacy Policy for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
We collect information to provide the Site and Services, process applications, schedule consultations, process payments, provide program services, communicate with you, send marketing communications, improve our business, prevent fraud, comply with legal obligations, and protect our rights.
We retain information as described in the Data Retention section.
Call Sheet Media does not sell personal information for money. If Call Sheet Media uses technologies that may be considered "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising under applicable law, users may have opt-out rights.
Call Sheet Media should confirm current analytics, advertising, and cookie practices before publication.
24. How to Exercise Privacy Rights
To submit a privacy request, contact us at:
Email: projects@callsheetmedia.com
Mail:
Call Sheet Media, LLC
1800 Vine Street
Hollywood, California 90028
USA
Please include:
• Your name
• Email address
• Your relationship to Call Sheet Media
• The request you are making
• Information reasonably necessary for us to verify your identity
• Any relevant details needed to process the request
We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.
We may deny or limit requests where permitted by law, including when information is needed to complete a transaction, provide services, comply with legal obligations, maintain business records, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, protect rights, or where another exception applies.
25. Authorized Agents
Where permitted by law, you may designate an authorized agent to submit a privacy request on your behalf.
We may require proof that you authorized the agent to act for you, and we may also require you to verify your identity directly with us.
26. Marketing Opt-Out
You may opt out of marketing emails by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email or contacting us at projects@callsheetmedia.com.
We will process marketing opt-out requests as required by applicable law.
You may still receive transactional or administrative communications, including payment notices, scheduling communications, program updates, legal notices, security notices, and service-related emails.
27. Children's Privacy
The Site and Services are not directed to children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Applicants generally must be at least 18 years old unless express written consent from a parent or legal guardian and prior written approval from Call Sheet Media are provided.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without required consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us.
28. International Users
Call Sheet Media is based in the United States.
If you access the Site or Services from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be collected, processed, stored, and transferred in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.
Privacy laws in the United States may differ from those in your country.
By using the Site or Services, you acknowledge that your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States.
29. Users in the EEA, UK, or Similar Jurisdictions
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction with similar privacy laws, you may have additional rights, including rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to processing, data portability, and withdraw consent.
Where applicable, our legal bases for processing may include:
• Performance of a contract
• Taking steps before entering into a contract
• Consent
• Legitimate business interests
• Compliance with legal obligations
• Protection of legal claims
You may contact us to exercise applicable rights.
Call Sheet Media should consult legal counsel before determining whether it is subject to GDPR, UK GDPR, or other international privacy laws.
30. Data Accuracy
You are responsible for providing accurate and current information.
If your information changes, please contact us so we may update our records where appropriate.
31. Data Deletion and Limits
Deletion requests may be limited where information is needed to:
• Complete a transaction
• Provide services
• Maintain business records
• Comply with legal obligations
• Resolve disputes
• Enforce agreements
• Prevent fraud
• Protect rights
• Maintain security
• Retain public-facing press or published materials
• Maintain records of creative submissions, payments, or program participation
We may retain de-identified, aggregated, archived, or backup information as permitted by law.
32. Security Incident Notice
If we determine that a data security incident requires notice under applicable law, we will provide notice in the manner required by applicable law.
33. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
When we update the policy, we will revise the "Last Updated" date.
If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice through the Site, email, or other reasonable means.
Your continued use of the Site or Services after changes are posted means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.
34. Contact Information
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to submit a privacy request, contact us at:
Call Sheet Media, LLC
1800 Vine Street
Hollywood, California 90028
USA
Email: projects@callsheetmedia.com
Phone: +1 (213) 441-6001
Please do not send scripts, story ideas, treatments, loglines, synopses, pitches, or other creative materials through general contact channels unless requested through the official program process.