You keep ownership of your content.
Talents and clients retain ownership of submitted photos, videos, and portfolio materials unless otherwise agreed in writing.
SAM Studio protects the personal data, portfolios, media, booking details, and creative submissions of clients, talents, freelancers, creators, and visitors using our website and services.
Talents and clients retain ownership of submitted photos, videos, and portfolio materials unless otherwise agreed in writing.
Your personal data is used to operate SAM Studio services, manage bookings, review profiles, and improve platform experience.
Users may request access, correction, or deletion of personal data, subject to legal, accounting, or operational requirements.
This Privacy Policy applies to samstudio.ae and all related SAM Studio services, including photography, videography, studio rental, talent registration, casting, booking requests, freelancer profiles, portfolio submissions, and creative production services.
SAM Studio operates as a photography studio, creative production service, talent management platform, modeling agency, and freelancer network based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Website: https://samstudio.ae
Services: Photography, videography, talent profiles, casting, bookings, studio rental, creative production, workshops, and event support.
We collect information required to operate SAM Studio safely, professionally, and effectively. This may include:
Name, email, phone number, date of birth, gender, nationality, location, account login data, and communication preferences.
Photos, videos, portfolio files, measurements, appearance details, skills, experience, language, availability, rates, and social links.
Project details, booking requests, service preferences, shoot requirements, talent selections, invoices, and communication records.
IP address, device type, browser, cookies, login activity, website usage, and analytics information.
We use collected information to provide and improve our services, including:
If you register as a talent, model, influencer, stylist, trainer, performer, freelancer, or service provider, you may upload photos, videos, portfolio files, social links, and professional information.
You remain responsible for ensuring that uploaded content is accurate, lawful, and belongs to you or that you have permission to submit it.
By submitting media to SAM Studio, you allow us to display it on your profile, present it to potential clients, use it for booking/casting review, and promote your SAM Studio profile or our platform unless you request otherwise or unless a separate agreement applies.
We do not sell your portfolio media as standalone content to third parties without your consent.
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal data. We may share limited data only when necessary:
Relevant profile, portfolio, availability, and booking information may be shared for casting or project purposes.
Hosting, payment processors, email tools, analytics, security, CRM, booking, and website service providers.
Authorities, regulators, or legal advisors where required by law, dispute resolution, security, or fraud prevention.
Project-related partners such as makeup artists, stylists, photographers, videographers, venues, or coordinators when needed.
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.
No online platform is completely risk-free. Users should protect their passwords and avoid uploading files or personal information they do not want to share publicly.
Our website may use cookies to support login sessions, remember preferences, improve performance, analyze traffic, secure forms, and support embedded content such as videos, maps, social posts, or third-party tools.
Embedded content from third-party websites may collect data according to their own privacy policies. You may manage cookies through your browser settings.
You may request to:
Some information may be retained where required for legal, accounting, security, dispute, or operational purposes.
We retain personal data only for as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required for legal, tax, accounting, safety, or dispute-resolution purposes.
Talent profiles: retained while the profile/account remains active or under review.
Booking data: retained for business records, dispute handling, financial records, and project history.
Media submissions: retained while associated with an active profile, application, project, or agreement.
For privacy questions, data requests, corrections, or deletion requests, contact SAM Studio.