Terms of Service & Platform Governance

These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you (whether an individual actor, screenwriter, casting director, talent agent, studio representative, or production company) and AUDITIONY Inc. ("AUDITIONY," "Platform," "we," "us," or "our").

By accessing, registering an account, uploading scripts or media, browsing casting calls, or executing digital deal memos on AUDITIONY, you unconditionally accept and agree to comply with these Terms, our Privacy Policy, Community Standards, and any applicable project-specific Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs).

If you represent a corporate entity, production house, or talent agency, you expressly warrant and represent that you possess the requisite legal authority and corporate power to bind such organization to these Terms.

AUDITIONY operates exclusively as an online communications network, workflow tool, and technology infrastructure provider for the entertainment and performing arts industries. We connect independent professionals, including screenwriters, actors, casting directors, talent agencies, and production studios.

EXPLICIT DISCLAIMER OF AGENCY & EMPLOYMENT: AUDITIONY IS NOT A TALENT AGENCY, TALENT SCOUT, LABOR CONTRACTOR, CASTING AGENCY, OR EMPLOYER. We do not solicit employment, broker commissions, procure auditions on behalf of specific individuals, or act as an employer under any labor code or collective bargaining agreement (including SAG-AFTRA, equity unions, or regional cinema guilds).

All casting decisions, talent selections, audition invitations, salary negotiations, script acquisitions, and engagements are determined exclusively and independently by the respective users without platform intervention, endorsement, or liability.

All users must provide accurate, current, and verifiable registration information. Impersonation of industry professionals, historical figures, or other creators is strictly prohibited and constitutes grounds for immediate termination.

INDUSTRY VETTING PROTOCOL: Accounts registered under Director, Casting Director, Producer, Talent Agency, or Studio designations are subject to mandatory manual review by our Trust & Integrity Board. We reserve the right to demand official company registration documents, commercial registries, tax identification, past filmography credits, and union/guild accreditation prior to granting access to casting call publication tools or talent contact directories.

You are solely responsible for safeguarding your login credentials, two-factor authentication tokens, and API access keys. You agree to notify AUDITIONY immediately at security@auditiony.com upon any suspected unauthorized access or compromise of your account.

AUDITIONY was founded on the fundamental principle that talent must be protected before it is served. We strictly enforce a zero-tolerance policy against financial extortion, abusive audition practices, and predatory behavior.

ABSOLUTE BAN ON SUBMISSION FEES: No Producer, Casting Director, or Agency may charge talents or actors any submission fee, audition toll, evaluation charge, or application fee of any kind for submitting to or attending a casting call. Mandating paid coaching classes, headshot packages, or agency representation as a prerequisite for casting consideration is strictly prohibited.

SAFETY IN AUDITION MATERIALS: Casting breakdowns and audition prompts must not require nudity, partial nudity, or sexually explicit actions in self-tape submissions or remote callback sessions unless accompanied by a verified union contract, an approved intimacy coordinator protocol, and advance written consent. Private physical measurements and sizing specifications submitted by talents are confidential and accessible solely for genuine wardrobe and production requirements under authorized projects.

TALENT & AUTHOR OWNERSHIP: Users retain 100% of their intellectual property rights, copyrights, trademarks, and moral rights in all original screenplays, pitch bibles, treatments, headshots, showreels, self-tapes, and audition submissions uploaded to AUDITIONY.

TECHNICAL PROCESSING & THIRD-PARTY MEDIA HOSTING: By submitting content, you grant AUDITIONY a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, process, transcode, store, and display your media strictly in accordance with your privacy settings. You acknowledge that certain video streams and media assets may be processed or hosted via authorized enterprise cloud services and third-party media infrastructure (including YouTube API Services and secure cloud storage) subject to their respective terms and data policies.

PUBLIC FEED SPOTLIGHT & PROMOTIONAL RIGHTS: For content, videos, and showreels that you voluntarily publish as 'Public' in the open platform feed or public profile portfolio, you grant AUDITIONY an additional non-exclusive, royalty-free license to feature, excerpt, or cross-post such public media across AUDITIONY's official social media channels (e.g., YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn) solely for the purpose of talent discovery and community spotlighting, subject to mandatory attribution to your creator profile. This promotional license expressly excludes unlisted materials, direct audition submissions, private self-tapes, confidential deal memos, and screenplays registered under Script Guardian™.

SCREENPLAY GUARDIAN™ & FORENSIC WATERMARKING: Full screenplay drafts uploaded to the Script Vault are locked by default. Full read access is contingent upon explicit author approval. When granted, AUDITIONY applies dynamic cryptographic watermarking stamping the reader’s full name, production organization, IP address, exact UTC timestamp, and unique audit token across all pages.

WARRANTY OF ORIGINALITY: You warrant and represent that you own or have obtained all necessary licenses, releases, and permissions for any materials you submit, and that your submissions do not infringe upon the copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, privacy rights, or contractual commitments of any third party.

AUDITIONY provides standardized deal memo templates, offer letter generators, and electronic signature workflows to assist parties in memorializing agreed terms, compensation, hold periods, and agency commissions.

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIP: All deal memos, option contracts, talent releases, and agreements executed via the Platform are direct legal contracts strictly between the participating users (e.g., between Actor and Production Company, or Agency and Studio). AUDITIONY is NOT a party to, guarantor of, or escrow agent for any such agreement.

NO FINANCIAL OR PERFORMANCE GUARANTEE: We do not guarantee that any party will honor payment schedules, show up on set, adhere to call sheets, deliver completed scripts, or fulfill contractual commitments. Users are strongly encouraged to engage independent legal and entertainment industry counsel prior to executing binding agreements.

AUDITIONY enforces rigorous safeguards for performers under the legal age of majority (under 18 years of age or the applicable statutory age in the user’s jurisdiction).

PARENTAL OR LEGAL GUARDIAN MANDATE: Minors are strictly prohibited from creating or managing unmonitored independent accounts. All minor profiles must be created, managed, or co-signed by a verified parent or legal guardian.

CHAPERONED AUDITIONS & COMMUNICATION: Direct messaging between adult industry decision-makers and minor talents without the verified parent or guardian copied on all correspondence is strictly prohibited. Live callback video sessions involving minors must be accompanied by the parent, guardian, or an accredited child chaperone.

COMPLIANCE WITH CHILD LABOR LAWS: Production entities engaging child performers must strictly abide by all statutory child labor laws, schooling hours, trust account requirements (e.g., Coogan Law or regional equivalents), and working permits.

COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE SECURITY: AUDITIONY implements and maintains enterprise-grade administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of user data, showreels, and confidential deal memos. These include TLS 1.3 cryptographic transport protocols, signed expiring storage URLs, and continuous vulnerability monitoring.

FULL COOPERATION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, AUDITIONY maintains an absolute policy of zero harbor for cyber criminals. In the event of extortion, unauthorized access, copyright theft, child safety violations, predatory grooming, fraud, or threats of violence, AUDITIONY will proactively cooperate with competent local, national, and international law enforcement agencies.

We reserve the right to disclose relevant IP logs, session records, identity credentials, and communication logs to judicial authorities pursuant to valid court orders, subpoenas, or emergency life-safety requests.

AUDITIONY respects the intellectual property rights of all artists and maintains a swift notice-and-takedown procedure in compliance with international safe harbor frameworks (including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512, and regional equivalents).

FILING AN INFRINGEMENT NOTICE: If you believe that your copyrighted work, screenplay, image, or performance has been copied or uploaded in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please deliver a formal written notice to our Designated Copyright Agent at legal@auditiony.com with the following particulars:

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES: EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH HEREIN, THE PLATFORM, SERVICES, SCRIPT VAULT, AND MATCHING TOOLS ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. AUDITIONY SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

NO PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES: WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT CASTING CALLS WILL RESULT IN HIRES, THAT SHOWREELS WILL BE REVIEWED BY PRODUCERS, THAT SCRIPTS WILL SECURE OPTION DEALS, OR THAT THE PLATFORM WILL OPERATE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.

ENFORCEABLE LIABILITY CAP: TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL AUDITIONY, ITS DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF PRODUCTION BUDGETS, LOSS OF DATA, OR REPUTATIONAL HARM).

AGGREGATE MONETARY CEILING: AUDITIONY’S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM SHALL BE STRICTLY CAPPED AT AND LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF: (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO AUDITIONY IN SUBSCRIPTION FEES DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE CLAIM; OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100.00 USD).

STATUTORY CARVE-OUTS: NOTHING IN THESE TERMS EXCLUDES OR LIMITS LIABILITY FOR FRAUD, WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, GROSS NEGLIGENCE, OR DEATH/PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE WHERE SUCH EXCLUSIONS ARE PROHIBITED BY MANDATORY LOCAL LAW.

MANDATORY INFORMAL NEGOTIATIONS: In the event of any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms, the parties agree to first attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for a period of at least thirty (30) days by delivering written notice to legal@auditiony.com.

BINDING ARBITRATION & FORUM SELECTION: If unresolved informally, any dispute shall be submitted to and finally resolved by binding arbitration under the rules of an accredited commercial arbitration institution (or competent commercial courts of the designated jurisdictional seat). Each party waives the right to participate in class actions or representative lawsuits to the extent permitted by law.

PREVAILING LANGUAGE CLAUSE: These Terms are officially executed in English and Arabic. Both versions are drafted with equal precision to reflect the identical commercial and legal intent. In the event of any legal divergence, translation ambiguity, or dispute regarding textual interpretation in formal judicial proceedings, the English language text shall serve as the primary prevailing reference.

MODIFICATIONS: AUDITIONY reserves the right to amend these Terms from time to time to reflect regulatory developments, security standards, or product improvements. We will provide prominent notice of material changes via email or dashboard notification at least fourteen (14) days prior to the effective date.

TERMINATION: You may terminate your account at any time via your account settings. AUDITIONY reserves the right to suspend or terminate accounts that breach professional safety guidelines, harass other creators, or violate intellectual property rights without prior notice.

SEVERABILITY: If any provision of these Terms is deemed unlawful, void, or unenforceable by an arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction, that provision shall be severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.