The SHARE Studio

SHARE Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 13, 2025

Company: Share Studios, Inc. (“SHARE,” “we,” “us,” “our”)

Contact: support@thesharestudio.com

This Privacy Policy explains how SHARE collects, uses, stores, and discloses information when you use our websites, apps, and services (the “Services”). By creating an Account or accessing or using the Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must not use the Services.

1. Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of information:

  • Account Information: Name, email, password, and any optional profile content you upload (e.g., headshot, bio, resume, links, reels).
  • Payment Information: payment method details processed through third-party payment providers. We do not store credit card, bank account, routing, W-9 or tax forms, though we may facilitate payments and escrow through third-party vendors.
  • Technical Information: IP address, device identifiers, and geolocation data, collected for security, compliance, and fraud-prevention purposes.
  • Project & Crew Information: Information about Projects you upload, Crew names, emails, and profit-participation.
  • Communications: messages, invitations, notifications, and marketing communications you choose to receive.

2. How We Use Information

We use your personal information based on legitimate business interests, to fulfill a contract, compliance with legal obligations, your consent, or as follows:

  • • Provide and improve the Services (hosting Projects, tracking Crew profit-participation, calculating allocations).
  • • Process payments and distribute profit-participation.
  • • Identification to authenticate you as the owner of your account. We may also use your data to verify your identity when using our Services.
  • • Enforce our Terms of Service and compliance requirements.
  • • Send you transactional communications, notifications, and optional marketing.
  • • Monitor and secure the Services, including fraud detection.
  • • Comply with legal obligations, including DMCA and audit requests.
  • • Customizing your experience, which may include remembering your preferences or settings. This may also include restricting access to certain features or content.
  • • Where appropriate, we may anonymize, backup, and delete certain data.

3. Sharing of Information

We may share your information in the following circumstances:

  • • With Crew and Project Participants: as required to maintain the SHARE Points Calculator and facilitate payments.
  • • With Social Media Platforms: if you choose to link accounts or promote Projects.
  • • With Legal Authorities: as required by law, regulation, or legal process (e.g., DMCA).
  • • In Business Transfers: if SHARE undergoes a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
  • • As you instruct: We may make your profile and videos available to others as you instruct in using our services. We may share your data with persons to whom you have granted account-level access.
  • • With your consent: We may share your data with third parties where we have obtained your express consent to do so.
  • • Authorized vendors: We may share your data with third-party vendors that help us operate and improve our Services and comply with your instructions and our contractual obligations. This includes payment processors, cloud-based hosting services, monitoring services, email service providers, quality assurance and testing vendors, fraud and abuse prevention vendors, customer relations management (CRM) vendors, chatbot providers, and payment processors, escrow companies, and as necessary to provide services you request.
  • • Advertising: We may share your data with advertising companies to display relevant ads to you, and to measure the effectiveness of those ads.
  • • Analytics: We may share your data with analytics providers which help us understand how customers are using our services.
  • • Affiliates and advisors: We may share your data with our auditors and advisors for planning, financial reporting, accounting, auditing, tax filings, and legal compliance. We may share your data with our affiliates to the extent necessary to provide you with the Services.
  • • Aggregated or anonymized information: We may publicly disclose non-personal aggregated or anonymized information such as our number of visitors and registered Users.

4. Marketplace & Third-Party Vendors

Transactions with Marketplace vendors are solely between you and the vendor. SHARE may facilitate introductions or service connections, but SHARE does not control or guarantee vendors' practices. Please review Third-Party Vendor policies before engaging them. We use reasonable efforts to vet vendors for their privacy and data security practices. We require that all vendors agree to protect the data we share.

When you interact with our social media pages or accounts, please note that your interactions are subject to the privacy policies and terms of use of the respective social media platforms. We encourage users to review the privacy settings and policies of these platforms. We reserve the right to delete or moderate any posts appearing on its social media platforms.

5. Cookies and Tracking

We may use cookies, analytics tools, and similar technologies (e.g., Google Analytics) to operate and improve the Services. Users may control cookie preferences through browser settings.

6. Data Storage and Security

We use cloud-based hosting and third-party providers to store and process data. Data may be stored in the U.S. or other jurisdictions.

We use encryption and commercially reasonable safeguards to protect information, but we cannot guarantee absolute security.

We do not commit to a specific retention period but may retain data for as long as necessary to operate the Services, comply with legal obligations, or enforce agreements.

We retain your data for as long as you have an account. When you close an account, we will delete your data. We may retain logs of automatically collected information (for internal analytics and security purposes); your email address; your tax information; communications with you; and your transactional information (for auditing, tax, and financial purposes). When we no longer have a business reason for retaining your data, we will delete or anonymize it.

We retain deleted Content on our servers for a short period in case you wish to reverse deletion. Once we delete Content, we may not be able to recover it. If you have previously made Content public, it may continue to be discoverable in a search engine's cache for a time.

If we receive legal process pertaining to your account, we will retain your data for as long as we in good faith believe is necessary to comply with the legal process. Similarly, if we believe that your account has been involved in wrongdoing, we may preserve your data to defend or assert our rights.

7. Your Rights & Content

Depending on your location, you may have the right to:

  • • Access, update, or correct your information. You can request information about the personal data we hold about you.
  • • Request deletion of your account and personal data (subject to retention obligations).
  • • Request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
  • • Opt out of marketing communications and request a limitation on how we use your data.
  • • Request to receive a copy of your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable portable format

CCPA

SHARE is committed to compliance with California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) in its operation and management of this website. We respect the privacy rights of California residents and have implemented measures to ensure the protection and rights of personal information under the CCPA.

As part of our commitment to data privacy and protection, we provide the following rights to California residents:

  • • Right to Know: California residents have the right to request information about the personal data collected, disclosed, or sold by our website, as well as the purpose for which the information was used.
  • • Right to Deletion: California residents have the right to request the deletion of their personal information collected by our website.
  • • Right to Opt-Out: California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information.
  • • Non-Discrimination: We do not discriminate against California residents who exercise their rights under the CCPA.

GDPR

If you access the Services from outside the United States, please note that your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States and other countries where our servers, databases, or service providers are located. These countries may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country. Where required by law, SHARE uses Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, or other appropriate safeguards, to protect your personal information when it is transferred internationally.

For users located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the following additional provisions apply in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

Lawful Bases for Processing

We process personal data under the following lawful bases as provided in Article 6 GDPR:

  • • Contractual Necessity: to provide the Services under our Terms of Service, including account registration, hosting Projects, administering Crew profit-participation, and processing payments.
  • • Consent: where you have given consent, including for marketing communications, newsletters, and the use of cookies and similar technologies.
  • • Legal Obligations: where processing is required to comply with legal requirements, including tax, anti-money laundering, accounting, and DMCA compliance.
  • • Legitimate Interests: where processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests, including fraud detection, service improvement, platform security, and dispute resolution, provided such interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms.

International Transfers and Safeguards

Your personal data may be transferred outside of the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, including to the United States, where data protection laws may not provide the same level of protection.

Where required, such transfers are made under the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) or the UK Information Commissioner's Office International Data Transfer Addendum, or other appropriate safeguards permitted under Articles 46–49 GDPR.

In the absence of an adequacy decision or recognized safeguard, you acknowledge that there may be risks associated with such transfers, including reduced ability to enforce data subject rights.

Data Retention

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide the Services and fulfill the purposes described in this Policy. Where specific retention periods cannot be defined, we apply criteria such as the type of data, its sensitivity, and our legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations. When personal data is no longer required, it will be deleted or anonymized.

Data Subject Rights

In addition to the rights already described in this Policy, under GDPR you have the following rights:

  • • Right to access your personal data and receive a copy.
  • • Right to rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • • Right to erasure of your personal data (“right to be forgotten”).
  • • Right to restrict processing of your data in certain circumstances.
  • • Right to data portability, allowing you to obtain and reuse your data across different services.
  • • Right to object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.
  • • Right to withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on your consent.
  • • Right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, where such decisions have legal or similarly significant effects.
  • • Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the Member State of your residence, place of work, or where an alleged infringement occurred.

Contact for GDPR Inquiries

Share Studios, Inc. is the data controller for personal data processed under this Policy. If you are an EU, UK, or Swiss resident and have questions, or wish to exercise your GDPR rights, please contact us at: privacy@thesharestudio.com

If required under Article 27 GDPR and the UK GDPR, SHARE has appointed representatives in the European Union and the United Kingdom to act as a point of contact for supervisory authorities and data subjects. Contact details for such representatives will be made available upon request by contacting privacy@thesharestudio.com. If required, you may also contact our designated EU/UK representative (details will be made available upon request).

Content You Submit

You may upload and post Content such as videos, text, photographs, and artwork. Your account profile may display information about you and your activities. This information may be accessed by others. Your Content may be viewed and otherwise accessed by others, and associated metadata (e.g., titles, closed captions, descriptions, tags, etc.) may be viewable by others. You may choose to limit the availability of your profile and Content.

You may submit data to us for limited purposes, such as requesting customer support; participating in a study or survey; entering contests or promotions; applying for a job; or signing up to receive communications from us or another User.

You may receive other people's data in using our Service. If you receive information from other Users, you must process that information in compliance with your obligations to other User and all applicable laws, including those concerning privacy, data security, and online marketing.

8. Children's Data

The Services are not intended for anyone under 18 years of age. We rely on user self-certification of age. We do not knowingly collect information from individuals under 18.

9. International Transfers

If you are located outside the United States, your information may be transferred to the United States or other jurisdictions where privacy laws may not provide equivalent protection. We will take reasonable steps to protect your information consistent with this Policy.

10. Special Financial Information

For Projects involving Crew profit-participation, financial data (banking details, backend-points, or allocation percentages) may be shared with third-party escrow and payment service providers. SHARE itself does not directly store W-9 or tax forms, but these may be required by third-party processors.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may modify the Services and this Privacy Policy from time to time (e.g., for legal, security, or operational reasons). We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy, such as through a notice on the Service or by other means. You should check such notices and review these Terms regularly to stay informed of our latest practices. Changes are effective upon posting unless a later date is stated. By continuing to use the Services after updates become effective, you agree to the revised Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the updated Privacy Policy, you must stop accessing or using the Services.

12. Contact Information

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at:

Email: support@thesharestudio.com

Mail: SHARE Studios, Inc., 19528 Ventura Blvd Suite 101, Tarzana, CA 91356