Privacy Policy

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This Privacy Notice for The Stage ("we," "us," or "our") describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your personal information when you use our Services.

Last updated: July 13, 2026

This Privacy Notice for The Stage ("we," "us," or "our"), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your personal information when you use our services ("Services"), including when you:

Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at privacy@thestage.actor.

Summary of Key Points

This summary provides key points from our Privacy Notice, but you can find more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using the table of contents below.

What personal information do we process?
When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.
Do we process any sensitive personal information?
Some information may be considered "special" or "sensitive" in certain jurisdictions: for example racial or ethnic origin, health, sexual orientation, and religious beliefs. We do not ask for or process this kind of sensitive data. Your headshots and voice recordings are stored as ordinary content and are never used to identify you biometrically.
Do we collect any information from third parties?
The only information we receive from a third party is what you choose to connect: if you link Google Calendar or YouTube, we receive your Google account email and a list of your own recent uploads, used only for that feature. You can disconnect anytime.
Do we share your information with third parties?
We share your information with our service providers (such as our hosting, database, and authentication providers) so we can operate the Services. On our marketing website we also share limited technical information with advertising partners to measure how our ads perform, and when you create an account our server tells those partners that a sign-up happened (identified only by a scrambled version of your email, never for users under 16, and never including anything you have made in the app). Both count as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising under some US state laws. We do not sell your information, and there is no advertising code inside The Stage app. You can opt out at any time: see Your Privacy Choices.
How do we process your information?
We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
How do we keep your information safe?
We have organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission or storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
What are your rights?
Depending on where you are located geographically, applicable privacy law may give you certain rights regarding your personal information.
How do you exercise your rights?
The fastest way is right in the app: you can export or delete your data yourself in Settings at any time. You can also email us, and we will act on any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

1. What Information Do We Collect?

Personal information you disclose to us

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.

Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:

Sensitive Information. We do not ask for or process special-category (sensitive) data such as race, ethnicity, health, religion, or biometric identifiers. Your headshots and voice recordings are stored as ordinary content and are never used to identify you biometrically.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

Information automatically collected

In Short: Some information, such as your device and usage data, is collected automatically when you visit or use our Services.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not directly reveal your identity (such as your name) but may include device and usage data, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, referring URLs, pages viewed, and similar technical information. We collect this through first-party analytics and similar technologies (see "Cookies and similar technologies" below) to understand how the Services are used, maintain security, and improve the product.

Advertising measurement on our marketing website. On our marketing website (thestage.actor) we also use advertising and measurement technologies provided by advertising partners, so we can tell which of our ads brought someone to us. This is the only place advertising technologies run. There is no advertising or measurement code inside The Stage app itself (app.thestage.actor and our mobile apps) — though our server does report the fact of a sign-up, which we describe in full below, and we do not share your profile, career, or craft content, your headshots, self-tapes, or voice recordings with advertising partners. You can opt out of advertising cookies at any time: see Your Privacy Choices. We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal automatically, we do not run usage analytics for users under 16, and we do not set analytics or advertising cookies for visitors in the EU, UK, or EEA.

Cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies and similar storage (such as local storage) for three purposes:

Where advertising technologies are not used. We do not use advertising or measurement cookies inside The Stage app (app.thestage.actor and our mobile apps). The content you keep in the app, including your profile, career and craft content, headshots, self-tapes, notes, and voice recordings, is not shared with advertising partners.

The one thing we do send from the app, stated plainly. There is a single exception to the paragraph above, and we would rather spell it out than let you discover it. When you create an account, our server tells our advertising partners that a sign-up happened. This is how we tell which of our ads brought us a real actor rather than a passing click. We think it is worth being exact about what that does and does not involve:

EU, UK, and EEA visitors. We do not set analytics or advertising cookies for visitors we identify as being in the EU, UK, or EEA. Where the law requires your consent before non-essential cookies are set, we will ask for that consent and will not set those cookies unless you agree.

Your controls. You can turn usage analytics and advertising cookies off at any time, in your account settings or from the "Your Privacy Choices" link in our website footer, and we honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals automatically (see Section 8). We do not run usage analytics for users under 16.

2. How Do We Process Your Information?

In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

The legal bases we rely on (for EU, UK, and EEA users). When we process the personal information needed to deliver the product you signed up for, such as your account, profile, career and craft content, and calendar, we rely on the performance of a contract with you: we need that information to provide the Service, so it does not require separate consent. For first-party usage analytics, which are not strictly necessary to run the product, we rely on our legitimate interest in understanding and improving the Service. We do not ask for separate opt-in consent for analytics, but you stay in control: you can turn usage analytics off at any time in Settings, and we automatically honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. For any marketing email, we rely on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. As an added safeguard, we do not send marketing to, or run usage analytics for, users under 16, and we do not set analytics or advertising cookies for visitors in the EU, UK, or EEA at all. Where the law requires your consent before non-essential cookies or advertising technologies are used, we will ask for it and will not set those cookies unless you agree. We also process limited information where we have a legal obligation (for example, retaining billing records) or a legitimate interest in keeping the Service secure.

3. When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?

In Short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties.

We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

Service Providers. We may share your information with third-party vendors and service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We use service providers in the following categories:

Advertising partners (marketing website only). Separately from the service providers above, we share limited technical information with advertising partners so we can measure how our advertising performs. These partners are not acting solely on our behalf, which is why we describe this as "sharing" rather than as a service-provider disclosure. On our marketing website (thestage.actor) the information involved is limited to things like your IP address, browser and device characteristics, the pages you viewed, and whether you arrived from one of our ads. Separately, when you create an account, our server sends these partners a single message saying that a sign-up happened, identified only by a scrambled, one-way version of your email address and the identifier of the ad you clicked. We do not send that message for users under 16. In neither case does the information include your profile, career, or craft content, your headshots, self-tapes, notes, or voice recordings, and in neither case is there any advertising code running inside The Stage app. You can opt out at any time (see Your Privacy Choices), we honor the Global Privacy Control signal automatically, and we do not set these technologies for visitors in the EU, UK, or EEA.

Our AI, speech, and handwriting-processing providers process your content solely to perform the task you requested and, per their terms, do not use it to train their models or sell or share it. Any copy we send to a provider to run that task is deleted from their servers shortly after it completes; the original stays saved in your own account, where you chose to keep it. We maintain a current list of the specific providers we use and will provide it on request at privacy@thestage.actor.

We work only with established service providers, and we require them to use your personal information solely to provide services to us, in line with their own privacy and security commitments and any data-processing agreement we have in place with them. We do not permit them to use your personal information for their own purposes or to share it with anyone other than us.

Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

3a. Connected Google Services (Calendar & YouTube)

In Short: When you connect Google Calendar or YouTube, The Stage uses narrowly-scoped OAuth permissions only for the user-facing features you tap into. We never share Google API data with third parties.

The Stage offers two optional integrations with Google services. Both are opt-in. You initiate the connection in Settings, you can disconnect anytime, and you can use the entire app without ever connecting either.

Google Calendar

When you connect Google Calendar, we create a dedicated calendar named "The Stage" in your Google account and push your auditions, bookings, and classes to it as events. We never read, modify, or delete events on any other calendar in your account. When you disconnect, you can opt to delete this calendar entirely (which removes all the events we created in one operation).

We request these scopes:

YouTube

When you connect YouTube, The Stage can upload self-tape videos you record in-app directly to your YouTube channel as unlisted videos, and the "Pick from your library" feature can list your recent uploads so you can attach an existing video to a scene without copy-pasting URLs.

We request these scopes:

OAuth tokens & security

The OAuth access and refresh tokens we receive from Google are stored encrypted at rest in our database. Decryption only ever happens on our servers, never on your device. When you disconnect a Google service, we call Google's token revocation endpoint to invalidate the tokens upstream, then delete our stored copy, so a copy of our database alone would be useless to an attacker.

Limited Use disclosure

The Stage's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

4. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

In Short: We keep your information for as long as you have an account. You can deactivate or permanently delete your account yourself at any time, right inside the app.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

Deactivating or deleting your account

You are in control of both of these, and you can do them yourself in the app with no need to contact us:

When you delete, we:

Residual copies may persist for up to 30 days in our infrastructure providers' routine encrypted backups before being purged on their normal rotation. After that window, no copy of your data remains in our systems. If you would rather we handle it for you, you can also email us at privacy@thestage.actor.

5. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?

In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect your personal information: your data is stored in private, access-controlled storage, and media is served only over expiring, signed links. Like every online service, we cannot guarantee that any method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we work hard to protect your information and to keep these safeguards current.

International users. The Stage is operated from the United States, and your information is stored and processed in the United States and in other countries where our service providers operate, which may have data-protection laws different from your own. If you use the Services from the EU, UK, EEA, or elsewhere outside the United States, you understand that your information will be transferred to the United States, and we take steps to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place for those transfers. You can contact us at privacy@thestage.actor for more information.

6. Do We Collect Information From Minors?

In Short: You must be 13 or older to use The Stage, and we do not knowingly collect data from children under 13. This marketing website never asks for your name, your email, or your age. The app does know your age, from sign-up. While you are under 16 we switch usage tracking off, keep you off our marketing list, and never tell an advertising partner that you signed up. While you are under 18, your location stays off your public profile.

We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 13 years of age, nor do we knowingly sell such personal information. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 13 years old. If you are 13 to 17, you represent that a parent or guardian is aware of and permits your use. If we learn that personal information from users less than 13 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under 13, please contact us at privacy@thestage.actor.

If you're 13 to 17, here's a plain-language summary for younger actors. The Stage is private by default. Nothing you make is public until you choose to publish it, and even then your profile is only reachable through the link you share. It is never listed in a search engine or a public directory. While you're under 18, we automatically do a few extra things to keep you safer:

We only use the information we do collect to run the parts of The Stage you signed up to use, such as storing your headshots, scenes, auditions, and calendar. We do not use a minor's information for anything that is not part of running the product itself.

7. What Are Your Privacy Rights?

In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time, depending on your country, province, or state of residence.

Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided in the section "How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?" below.

However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

EU, UK, and EEA residents. If you are located in the EU, UK, or EEA, you have the right to access your personal data, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to its processing, and receive a portable copy of it. You can exercise most of these rights yourself in the app (data export and account deletion are self-serve in Settings), or by emailing us at privacy@thestage.actor. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection supervisory authority. The controller of your personal data is The Stage LLC.

Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send, or by contacting us using the details provided in the section "How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?" below. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you. For example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.

Account Information

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms, and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at privacy@thestage.actor.

8. Your Privacy Choices, and Controls For Do-Not-Track and Global Privacy Control (GPC) Signals

In Short: You can turn off usage analytics and advertising cookies at any time, and we honor the Global Privacy Control signal automatically.

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information. On our marketing website (thestage.actor) we do share limited technical information (such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, and the pages you viewed) with advertising partners so we can measure how our advertising performs. Under California and several other US state privacy laws, that counts as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising, and you have the right to opt out.

You can opt out in any of these ways, and you do not need an account to do it:

We do not use advertising or measurement technologies inside The Stage app, and we do not share your profile, career, or craft content, your headshots, self-tapes, notes, or voice recordings with advertising partners. We do not knowingly share the personal information of users under 16 for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Global Privacy Control (GPC)

We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. If your browser or a browser extension sends a GPC signal, we treat it as a request to opt out, and we turn usage analytics and advertising cookies off automatically on that browser. You do not need to do anything else.

Do-Not-Track (DNT)

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. Because no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized, we do not respond to legacy DNT browser signals. We do honor GPC, which is the signal that carries legal weight in California and several other states.

9. Do United States Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?

In Short: If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal information.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

The table below shows the categories of personal information we have collected in the past twelve (12) months. The examples in each row are broad, illustrative descriptions of that legal category, not the specific data we hold. For exactly what we collect, see the section "What Information Do We Collect?" above.

CategoryExamplesCollected
A. IdentifiersEmail address, optional first name, account name, and IP address. We do not collect your phone number or mailing address.YES
B. Personal info under California Customer Records statuteName, contact info, education, employment, financial informationYES
C. Protected classification characteristicsBirth month and year only (never the exact day), collected once at sign-up to verify age and apply safety protections for users under 18YES
D. Commercial informationSubscription status (to unlock Pro); plus income/expense entries only if you opt in to the Receipts bookkeeping featureYES
E. Biometric informationFingerprints, voiceprintsNO
F. Internet / network activityIn-app usage / interaction, used to improve the app (first-party; off for under-16 and whenever you opt out or send GPC). On our marketing website only, browsing and ad-referral data shared with advertising partners to measure ad performance (off whenever you opt out or send GPC, and never set for EU/UK/EEA visitors)YES
G. Geolocation dataPrecise device or GPS location. Any city you type into your profile is optional and self-entered, and it is hidden on public profiles for users under 18.NO
H. Audio, electronic, sensory informationHeadshots and images, self-tape video, and voice recordings you make of yourself. We do not record phone calls.YES
I. Professional / employment-relatedActing credits, training, and roles you optionally add to build and share your public profileYES
J. Education InformationStudent records, directory informationNO
K. Inferences drawn from collected infoProfile or summary about preferences and characteristicsNO
L. Sensitive personal informationNoneNO

We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of: receiving help through our customer support channels; participation in customer surveys or contests; and facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.

Sources of Personal Information

Learn more about the sources of personal information we collect in "What Information Do We Collect?"

How We Use and Share Personal Information

Learn more about how we use your personal information in the section "How Do We Process Your Information?"

Will your information be shared with anyone else?

We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Learn more about how we disclose personal information in the section "When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?"

We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be "selling" of your personal information.

We disclose personal information to our service providers for the business purposes described above (for example, hosting, media storage, and email delivery), under terms that bar them from using it for their own purposes.

We do not sell your personal information. We do share limited technical information (such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, and the pages you viewed on our marketing website) with advertising partners in order to measure the performance of our advertising. Under California and several other US state privacy laws, this counts as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising, and you have the right to opt out at any time (see Your Privacy Choices).

This sharing happens only on our marketing website (thestage.actor). It does not happen inside The Stage app, and it never includes your profile, career, or craft content, your headshots, self-tapes, notes, or voice recordings. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of users under 16.

Your Rights

You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law. These rights include:

Depending upon the state where you live, you may also have the following rights:

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise these rights, you can contact us by emailing us at privacy@thestage.actor, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document.

Under certain US state data protection laws, you can designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with applicable laws.

Request Verification

Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.

If you submit the request through an authorized agent, we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity before processing your request and the agent will need to provide a written and signed permission from you to submit such request on your behalf.

Appeals

Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing us at privacy@thestage.actor. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.

California "Shine The Light" Law

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us by using the contact details provided in the section "How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?"

10. Do We Make Updates to This Notice?

In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

11. How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at privacy@thestage.actor or contact us by post at:

The Stage LLC
1170 Nuuanu Ave #37364
Honolulu, HI 96837
United States

12. How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect From You?

Based on the applicable laws of your country or state of residence in the US, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please contact us at privacy@thestage.actor.