We ask that you read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
MITmodels International Limited trading as MITmodels collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws. We use a website hosting operator to host the website, but we still remain responsible for your personal information as the host is only a data processor.
2.1 Information collected by us and how we use it
We collect the personal information when you provide it to us (the website does not automatically collect the personal information)
2.2 Cookies
To make this website work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the website or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
A number of our pages use cookies to remember:
Also, some videos embedded in our pages use a cookie to anonymously gather statistics on how you got there and what videos you visited.
Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this website may not work as intended.
The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described in our cookie notice
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish - for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a website and some services and functionalities may not work.
You can easily accept or reject the cookies on this website by choosing one of the following links: I accept cookies / I refuse cookies.
2.3 Information collected from other sources
We also obtain personal information from other sources as follows:
2.4 Data processing in connection with competitions:
If you participate in a competition, we process the information you provide to us (which will include your photo(s), your answers to the competition questions and your contact information (together “Competition Data”) for the purposes of administering the competition. We need to carry out this processing in order to properly administer the competition and fulfil our contractual obligations to you.
Information provided by you is also used by us to optimise your MITmodels profile and for marketing purposes (in this case, marketing you: allocation of your profile to interest, age and other marketing relevant target groups and the evaluation of customer interests). We need to carry out this processing in order to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.
We will also use your information to allow us to send you offers (of our own and those of our specially selected partners) tailored to your interests (“Marketing Processing”). We carry out this processing on the basis of your express consent.
Recipient of the data: We will not normally transfer your data to third parties unless you have consented to the transfer but it is understood, however, that part of the competition may involve us promoting your profile and pictures on our social media channels. Once on social media the privacy policies of the individual social media channels will apply.
In general, your data will be stored by us only for as long as necessary, as per section 4 of our privacy policy. Where you have won a prize, particularly a monetary prize, we will be required to keep your details, and details of the prize, on file for 6 years, even if you revoke your consent to processing or request its erasure. In these circumstances, your data will not be processed for any reason other than our obligations to keep records.
Necessity of the processing: The processing of Competition Data is necessary for the administration of the competition. If you do not provide us with this data, you will not be able to participate. You may opt-out of Marketing Processing at any time, as per section 4 of our privacy policy.
2.5 Data processing in the presentation of users:
Purposes of processing: If you request that we introduce you as a model or client or partner to MITmodels, or you are otherwise taking part in a promotion that we are running, we process the contact and profile information you provide, including your uploaded photo, your bio, etc. (“Profile Information”) for the purpose of administering your account and subscription or your participation in the promotion. We need to carry out this processing in order to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.
Information provided by you is also used by us to optimise your MITmodels profile, where applicable, and for marketing purposes (in this case, marketing you: allocation of your profile to interest, age and other marketing relevant target groups and the evaluation of customer interests). We need to carry out this processing in order to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.
We will also use your information to allow us to send you offers (of our own and those of our specially selected partners) tailored to your interests (“Marketing Processing”). We carry out this processing on the basis of your express consent.
Recipient of the data: We will not normally transfer your data to third parties unless you have consented to the transfer but it is understood, however, that part of our service may involve us promoting your company, profile and/or pictures on our social media channels. Once on social media the privacy policies of the individual social media channels will apply.
Duration of storage: In general, your data will be stored by us only for as long as necessary, as per section 4 of our privacy policy. In some circumstances, we may be required to keep your details on file for 6 years, even if you revoke your consent to processing or request its erasure. In these circumstances, your data will not be processed for any reason other than our obligations to keep records.
Necessity of processing: The processing of Profile Information is necessary for us to provide our service to you. You may opt-out of Marketing Processing at any time, as per section 4 of our privacy policy.
Some of those third-party recipients may be based outside the European Economic Area — for further information including on how we safeguard your personal data when this occurs, see ‘Transfer of your information out of the EEA’. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Please also note that other users of the MITmodels platform will see the contents of your MITmodels profile.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Your rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
If you would like to unsubscribe from any email newsletter you can also click on the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of the email newsletter.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses, and many other online problems.
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time when we do we will inform you via email
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