Your personal contact details
By joining Spotlight you consent for your personal details to be held on our database. Spotlight will need to contact you and / or your agent from time to time with information relating to your Spotlight membership and Spotlight publications, plus information relating to casting opportunities. Your personal contact details will not be made available to third parties without your permission.
Once you are a Spotlight member, you can update your contact preferences at any time by logging into our website using your UPDATE PIN. Alternatively you can email info@spotlight.com or send a letter to Spotlight at the usual address, for the attention of the Data Controller.
Your email address
Spotlight uses email as its main method of communicating with its members. Information emailed to you may contain confidential information about you – for example, we may ask you to verify personal contact details. It is your responsibility to keep your email address secure and ensure that the relevant usernames / passwords are not known to anyone else.
Professional contact details
Please note that Spotlight does not publish personal contact details on our website or in our directories. If you do not have an agent, you will appear in Spotlight as “c/o Spotlight”, which means that Spotlight will handle casting enquiries on your behalf, free of charge. Casting professionals will be able to contact you or your agent directly by email or SMS via our website, but your personal contact details will remain anonymous to them unless you choose to share them in your response.
Your casting information
Spotlight reserves the right to edit the information you supply, if more than sufficient for suitable display, or to amend or refuse or substitute any information tendered if reasonably considered unsuitable or inconsistent with the general standard, appearance or policy of Spotlight.
Our publications
Whilst every care is taken in the compilation of our directories, Spotlight cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions in the publication or reproduction of any matter supplied.
Spotlight, whilst using every endeavour to publish punctually on the dates announced, is not to be liable for any delay in publication arising from any cause beyond its control.
Professional training / experience
Please note that Spotlight membership is only open to professionally trained or experienced performers. Your membership may be refused based on these criteria, in which case you will be notified and a full refund will be made.
Your professional name
We recommend that every performer uses one unique, professional name across the industry, to avoid confusion with another performer. We reserve the right to refuse membership if your name is not sufficiently different from another Spotlight member. You may be asked to change your name if it is already being used, or a refund will be given for your membership.
Please see www.spotlight.com/artists/names for further information and ideas on how to change your name if it clashes with another performer.
Voice-clips, showreels and photography
It is the responsibility of the Spotlight member to ensure that they have full copyright clearance for all photography, voice-clips and showreels featured as part of their Spotlight membership.
Photographs
You must give us the name of the photographer for all photographs submitted to Spotlight. Photographers must be credited, according to copyright law. We reserve the right to refuse any photograph which we consider unsuitable or inappropriate.
Showreels and voice-clips
Copyright is a legal right which exists in literary, dramatic, artistic and musical works. If you are taking a clip from previous professional work, in most cases the producers of that work will either have rights assigned to them or at least, a licence to the rights. Producers normally grant permission for you to use short clips completely free of charge – but you must check with them first and get their permission in writing.
If you are recording a clip from scratch especially for your showreel / voice-clips, remember that most 20th century scripts are still subject to copyright, and you should seek permission from the publisher.
Under Spotlight's terms you have the responsibility for clearing any material that you decide to use for your showreel or voice-clip. If there is any sort of dispute, Spotlight will take your material offline until you clear the right to use the material.
Spotlight reserves the right not to broadcast any material which it deems inappropriate.
Cooling off period
You may cancel your Spotlight membership at any time within ten days of submitting your application, without incurring any fee or penalty. No refund can be offered on your annual Spotlight membership after this ten day period.
Please note that your initial Spotlight membership fee will not be taken (cheque cashed or account debited) until seven days after your application is submitted.
Continuing your membership
You will be invited to continue your Spotlight membership a couple of months before the next book edition is published. We will contact you by post, email and / or SMS to remind you. If we do not receive your renewal by the given deadline, we will presume that you wish to cancel your membership.
Other information
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