This policy explains what information The Elephant Room LTD ("Elephant Room," "we," "us") collects through theelephantroomltd.com and our Indie Hollywood Social application at theelephantroomltd.com/indie-hollywood-social, how we use it, and the choices you have.
Who we are. The Elephant Room LTD is a South Carolina limited liability company. You can reach us at info@theelephantroomltd.com.
What we collect.
Indie Hollywood Social
Indie Hollywood Social is operated by The Elephant Room LTD Co and is covered by this policy. It is a separate application with its own member accounts, profiles, uploads, and messages. Following a link between the sites does not enroll you in a mailing list or merge your accounts with our other ventures.
Member information. We store email addresses, password hashes, account roles, profile details, uploaded photos and videos, reel links, posts, comments, follows, likes, casting opportunities, audition arrangements, private messages, reports, invitation permissions, and membership/payment references. We use this information to operate the community, connect actors and filmmakers, secure accounts, provide support, moderate content, and manage optional subscriptions.
Visibility. Profiles and approved feed content are visible to signed-in members and can be shared publicly. Anyone with a shared link, including social-media preview services, can view the selected post and its media or the profile’s name, role, bio, photo, and reel. Shared previews do not expose account emails, private messages, or audition files. Profile visits identify the visitor to the member once per day. Messages and private audition files are restricted to authorized participants. Scripts attached to published opportunities may be available to eligible signed-in members. Authorized operators may inspect records when needed for support, moderation, abuse investigation, or billing. Do not upload confidential production material without permission.
Security and providers. Essential secure cookies maintain sign-in and verification. Short-lived email codes verify accounts and password recovery. We use Microsoft Graph for account emails, Cloudflare/Sites for hosting and storage, Stripe for website payments, and Google Play for Android subscription payments. We retain encrypted Google purchase references and account identifiers to verify and restore memberships. The payment providers handle payment details; the social application does not store card numbers. Account verification is not marketing consent. Optional device notifications can be disabled in the app or browser.
Spam prevention and advertising. We use invitation controls, posting limits, duplicate-content checks, service-pitch filtering, member reports, and owner review to keep the community focused on film. We store moderation decisions and temporary abuse-prevention counters, including hashed network addresses for sign-in rate limits. Owner-approved film-related advertisements are labeled Sponsored. Campaign measurements count unique member impressions and clicks per day; advertisers do not receive members’ email addresses or private messages through those reports. Service selling is not allowed.
Retention and choices. Members can edit profiles, delete their own posts, block members, and manage notifications. Ask for an account export or deletion using Indie Hollywood Social Account help or the support email below. We verify ownership and review requests; deletion is not immediate. Billing, security, or dispute records may need to be retained for those purposes. Cancel a subscription with the provider used to purchase it (Stripe or Google Play) before closing the account. Indie Hollywood Social is open to actors and filmmakers aged 18 or older.
See the Indie Hollywood Social community terms for membership and participation rules.
Our other website services
Indie Hollywood. Guest progress and music preferences stay in your browser. We also record game opens, starts and chapter-completion events to understand use and improve the experience. These event records contain the milestone, free or full-game route, and time; they do not contain your email, access code, story choices or run identifier. They are counts of activity, not verified unique people. Full-game access uses a personal recovery code and a secure browser cookie. We store payment references, the email supplied at checkout, and saved progress; Stripe handles card details. Existing complimentary access keeps its original expiry. Existing account-based progress is retained. Contact us below to request deletion. Access emails are not automatically enrolled in marketing.
Earlier complimentary access requests. New access applications are closed. For earlier applications, we retain the supplied name, email address, optional filmmaking experience, status, and dates to manage existing access. A necessary browser cookie lets you check approval and enter after approval. Access secrets are stored as hashes. We may store a daily hash derived from your network address to limit repeated submissions. Requesting access does not subscribe you to marketing and does not automatically send an email. Contact us below to request correction or deletion.
Information you give us. If you fill out a form on this site or email us, we receive what you send — typically your name, email address, company or organization, project information, service interests, goals, project stage, timing, budget range, availability of publicity materials, links you choose to share, and whatever you write in the message. If you join an interest list for a program or class, we also receive the answers you select on that form. If you join The Color of Us Reader Circle, we record your name, email address, consent and subscription status, signup date, and limited referral details that tell us which book link or campaign brought you to the form.
Information collected automatically. Like most websites, our hosting provider records basic technical information when you visit, including your IP address, browser type, device type, referring page, and the pages you view. This is standard server activity used to operate and secure the site. We also record limited first-party form events—such as when an inquiry form is viewed, started, or successfully submitted—so we can understand whether the inquiry experience is working. Those event records do not contain the answers entered in the form.
How we use it. We use what you give us to review fit, recommend a project or campaign scope, answer your inquiry, track the business conversation internally, send you the information you asked for, and — if you asked to hear about a program — to send you details about that program. Reader Circle information is used to deliver the promised book-to-screen updates, reader materials, production milestones, and invitations, and to understand which outreach brings readers to the project. We use automatic information to keep the site working and secure.
We do not sell your information. We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information to anyone, and we do not share it with advertisers for their own marketing.
Who else touches it. Service providers that help us run the site and communicate with you — our website host and the service that delivers messages you send us — process information on our behalf. They are permitted to use it only to provide those services.
Our commercial portfolio displays video hosted by YouTube. When a page with video loads, YouTube's servers deliver the thumbnail images, which means Google receives your IP address and basic browser information. If you play a video, it opens in YouTube's privacy-enhanced player, which limits personalized advertising but still allows YouTube to receive information about your playback and to set or read identifiers during playback. That activity is governed by Google's privacy policy, not ours.
We may disclose information if required by law, or to protect our rights, safety, or property.
Email. If you join a list, every email we send includes an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing takes effect promptly. You can also email info@theelephantroomltd.com and ask to be removed.
Cookies. We use only the cookies necessary for this site to function.
YouTube may set or read its own identifiers when you play an embedded video, as described above. That is Google's technology operating under Google's policies. If you would rather not have YouTube receive anything from you, do not play the embedded videos, or block third-party cookies in your browser.
How long we keep it. We keep inquiries and list subscriptions until you ask us to delete them or until they are no longer needed for the purpose you gave them to us.
Your choices. You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email info@theelephantroomltd.com and we will respond within a reasonable time. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under state or national law; we will honor those rights where they apply.
Children. This site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has given us information, email us and we will delete it.
Security. We take reasonable measures to protect the information we hold. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Links to other sites. This site links to other websites we do not control, including sites operated by other organizations Demetris Jones is involved with. Indie Hollywood Social is covered by this policy as described above. Other independent sites have their own privacy practices; read their policies.
Changes. If we change this policy we will post the revised version here with a new effective date.
Contact. Questions about this policy: info@theelephantroomltd.com