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SAM Studio operates as a photography studio, creative production service, talent management platform, modeling agency, freelancer and professional network, and digital platform based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

We collect only information reasonably required to operate SAM Studio, provide requested services, protect users and the platform, meet contractual and legal obligations, and improve the experience. Depending on how you use SAM, this may include:

We use collected information only for legitimate SAM Studio purposes, including:

• Creating, securing, authenticating, and managing user accounts, workspaces, and talent or professional profiles.
• Reviewing talent, model, creator, stylist, influencer, trainer, performer, crew, and service-provider applications.
• Operating discovery, matching, shortlisting, casting, opportunities, availability, booking, production, studio, rental, training, and professional-service workflows.
• Processing project requests, invoices, payment status, refunds, payouts, confirmations, contracts, rights, usage grants, and support or resolution cases.
• Delivering requested service notifications and push notifications such as casting matches, booking changes, messages, media review results, verification updates, payment events, training activity, and account-security events.
• Operating community features such as Pulse, follows, appreciations, sharing, referrals, rewards, competitions, and professional reputation.
• Moderating user-generated content, handling reports and blocks, preventing abuse or fraud, protecting minors, and enforcing SAM policies and agreements.
• Providing profile intelligence, readiness, rate guidance, recommendations, and other professional tools using information and evidence available within SAM. We do not treat an unknown value as a confirmed fact.
• Improving app and website performance, reliability, accessibility, security, and user experience using permitted diagnostics and analytics.
• Sending marketing communications only where permitted by your choices and applicable law. Transactional or service-critical communications may still be sent when necessary to operate your account or booking.

If you register as talent, a model, influencer, stylist, trainer, performer, freelancer, creator, or service provider, you may upload photos, videos, portfolio files, professional information, community posts, evidence, or other creative material.

By submitting media to SAM Studio, you allow SAM to process and display it for the purpose for which you submitted it, such as your profile, casting or booking review, a project, training or readiness evidence, a competition, community publishing, or promotion of your SAM profile or the SAM platform. Separate booking, campaign, model-release, usage-rights, or written agreements may grant additional rights and will control where they apply.

User-generated content may be reviewed or moderated. SAM may restrict, hide, reject, or remove content, or restrict an account, where necessary to enforce our Terms, Community Guidelines, safety standards, legal obligations, rights requirements, or platform integrity.

We do not sell your portfolio media as standalone content to third parties without your permission or another valid contractual or legal basis.

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal data. We may share only the information reasonably necessary to provide, secure, support, or legally operate a SAM service.

We use technical and organizational measures intended to protect personal data against unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.

• Encrypted HTTPS/TLS transmission for supported web and API traffic.
• Role-based and workspace-aware access controls for registered users and staff.
• Secure session handling and protected mobile credential storage where supported by the device.
• Optional device biometric app locking without SAM receiving the biometric template.
• Rate limiting, abuse controls, audit records, security monitoring, moderation, and trust-and-safety workflows.
• Governed access to private media, verification documents, guardian information, rights records, financial records, and evidence.
• Backup, recovery, reliability, and incident-handling practices where applicable.

No online platform can guarantee absolute security. Protect your password and device, use biometric or device security where available, and contact SAM promptly if you suspect unauthorized account access.

Our website may use cookies and similar storage to support login sessions, remember preferences, improve performance, analyze permitted traffic, secure forms, and support embedded services.

The SAM mobile app may use secure device storage, local cache, image cache, and similar technologies to preserve sessions, preferences, recently loaded content, and performance. Private cached data is managed in connection with the signed-in account and should be cleared or invalidated when the relevant session is ended or replaced.

Where analytics or crash diagnostics are enabled, we may process limited technical events such as app version, device/OS type, screen or feature events, error information, and performance data. We use these signals to operate, secure, and improve SAM and not to sell personal data.

Embedded or external services may process information under their own privacy policies. We will request operating-system permissions where required and will not use camera, photo, notification, or other permissions for unrelated purposes.

Subject to applicable law, contracts, safety obligations, and legitimate record-keeping requirements, you may request or perform actions including:

• Accessing or exporting personal data associated with your account.
• Correcting inaccurate or incomplete account, profile, or professional information.
• Updating or removing portfolio and community content where the product and applicable rights allow.
• Managing notification and communication preferences, including disabling push notifications in the app or device settings.
• Withdrawing certain consents or usage permissions where withdrawal is legally and contractually available.
• Blocking users and reporting content or conduct through available SAM safety tools.
• Requesting deletion of your SAM account and associated personal data.

Account deletion may be initiated from within the SAM mobile app and through our public account deletion page. Some information may remain where required or reasonably necessary for legal, tax, accounting, fraud-prevention, safeguarding, dispute, contractual-rights, security, or regulatory purposes. Where data cannot immediately be deleted, access will be limited to the purpose requiring retention.

We keep personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the service or purpose for which it was collected, and for any additional period required by law, tax or accounting rules, safety, contractual rights, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or legitimate business records.

For privacy questions, account or data requests, consent concerns, safety reports, corrections, or deletion requests, contact SAM Studio. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain privacy or account requests.