Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice

USAWTV.com Operated by Vartan Vartanyan Current operating location: California, United States Email: usawtv@gmail.com Telephone: +1 818-213-6603 Last updated: June 7, 2026

1. About This Privacy Notice

USAWTV.com respects the privacy of website visitors, clients, artists, performers, cultural organizations, collaborators, and other individuals who contact or work with us.

This Privacy Notice explains what personal information we collect, why we collect it, how it may be used, how long it may be retained, and what choices and rights are available to individuals.

USAWTV.com currently operates in the United States. A new one-person cultural and artistic visual-media practice is planned in Flanders, Belgium. The Belgian activity will begin only after the required authorizations and registrations have been completed.

Where European Union, European Economic Area, or Belgian data-protection law applies, personal data will be processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable Belgian and European rules.

2. Data Controller

The person responsible for the processing of personal information through this website is:

Vartan Vartanyan, operating as USAWTV.com, Current mailing address: 18375 Ventura Boulevard, PMB 1058, Tarzana, California 91356 United States

Email: usawtv@gmail.com Telephone: +1 818-213-6603

After the planned Belgian activity has been legally registered, the Belgian establishment address, enterprise number, VAT number, where applicable, and other legally required business details will be added to this notice.

3. Information We May Collect

Depending on how you use the website or communicate with us, we may collect:

Contact and inquiry information

• Name
• Organization or artistic      affiliation
• Professional position
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Country, city, or project      location
• Preferred method of communication

Project information

• Type and purpose of the proposed      project
• Cultural, artistic, documentary,      exhibition, performance, or heritage subject
• Proposed production date and      location
• Requested photography,      filmmaking, editing, subtitles, exhibition content, or archiving services
• Expected deliverables
• Estimated budget
• Venue, access, scheduling, and      technical information
• Messages, attachments, reference      images, scripts, briefs, or other materials you provide

Contract and transaction information

For confirmed U.S. projects, or future Belgian projects after lawful registration, we may collect:

• Billing address
• Quotation and contract details
• Invoice and payment records
• Tax or business-identification      information where legally required
• Records of deposits, balances,      refunds, or other transactions

Payment-card information may be handled directly by an independent payment processor. USAWTV.com does not intentionally store complete payment-card details unless expressly required and lawfully permitted.

Photography, video, and audio material

When necessary for an agreed project, we may process:

• Photographs
• Video recordings
• Audio recordings
• Interviews
• Names, biographies, captions,      credits, and artistic information
• Model, performer, participant, or      location-release information
• Editing notes, subtitle files,      and archival metadata

The permitted use, publication, licensing, and retention of identifiable photographs or recordings will be addressed in the applicable quotation, service agreement, release, consent form, or project instructions.

Website and technical information

The website and its service providers may automatically process limited technical information, including:

• IP address
• Browser and device type
• Operating system
• Approximate location derived from      the IP address
• Pages visited
• Date and time of access
• Referring website
• Website errors and security logs
• Cookie and consent preferences

Non-essential analytics, advertising, or similar cookies will be used for European visitors only where the required consent has been obtained.

4. Why We Process Personal Information

Personal information may be used to:

• Respond to inquiries
• Discuss possible cultural or artistic projects.
• Prepare project proposals,      quotations, or conditional letters of intent.
• Take the steps requested before entering a contract.
• Perform an agreed contract.
• Plan and produce photography,      film, interviews   , editing, subtitles, exhibition, or archival work
• Deliver completed project materials.
• Maintain client and project communications.
• Process invoices, payments,      accounting, and tax records
• Protect websites, businesses, clients,      and project security.
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• Comply with applicable legal and administrative obligations.
• Send professional updates or marketing communications when the recipient has consented or when otherwise lawfully permitted.
• Improve website functionality and      understand general website use where legally permitted

5. Legal Bases for Processing

Where the GDPR applies, processing will rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

• Pre-contractual steps: responding to a request,      discussing a project, or preparing a quotation
• Performance of a contract: producing and delivering agreed      services
• Legal obligation: maintaining invoices, tax      records, accounting documents, or legally required business records
• Legitimate interests: operating and securing the      business, responding to professional inquiries, maintaining records,      preventing fraud, and protecting legal rights, provided those interests do      not override individual rights
• Consent: marketing subscriptions,      optional portfolio publication, non-essential cookies, or another activity      for which consent is required

Consent may be withdrawn at any time without affecting processing that occurred lawfully before withdrawal.

6. Photographs, Recordings, and Portfolio Use

The creation of photographs, films, interviews, or audio recordings will be based on an agreed project, appropriate permission, contractual authorization, or another valid legal basis.

USAWTV.com will not automatically publish identifiable client photographs, interviews, or recordings merely because the material was created during a project.

Use of project material in the USAWTV.com portfolio, website, social media, exhibitions, promotional materials, or Professional Card evidence will require permission where permission is legally or contractually required.

For projects involving minors, an authorized parent or legal guardian must provide the required permission.

Cultural organizations and event organizers are responsible for informing USAWTV.com about applicable venue rules, participant restrictions, image-right requirements, confidential material, and areas in which photography or filming is prohibited.

7. Sharing of Information

Personal information may be shared only where reasonably necessary with:

• Website-hosting and      technical-service providers
• Email, cloud-storage,      file-transfer, gallery, and project-management providers
• Payment processors and financial      institutions
• Accountants, insurers, legal      advisers, and business-registration professionals
• Authorized photographers, camera      operators, editors, translators, subtitle specialists, sound      professionals, or other project-based contractors
• Cultural organizations, venues,      or project partners were required for the agreed project.
• Government authorities, courts,      regulators, or law-enforcement bodies where disclosure is legally required
• A successor business entity if      the business is lawfully transferred, subject to applicable privacy      requirements

Service providers and contractors may receive only the information reasonably necessary for their role and must process it under appropriate confidentiality or data-protection obligations.

USAWTV.com does not sell personal information.

8. International Data Transfers

USAWTV.com currently operates from the United States, and information submitted through the website may therefore be processed or stored in the United States.

After the planned Belgian activity begins, information may be processed in Belgium, elsewhere in the European Economic Area, or by service providers operating in other countries.

Where European data-protection law applies to international transfer, USAWTV.com will use an available lawful transfer mechanism, contractual safeguard, adequacy decision, or another legally recognized basis where required.

9. Data Retention

Personal information will be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Generally:

• Unsuccessful project inquiries may be retained for up to 24 months after the last meaningful communication.
• Active project records will be retained during the project and for a reasonable period afterward.
• Contracts, invoices, accounting records, and transaction evidence will be retained for the period required by applicable tax, accounting, and legal rules.
• Finished project files and working media will be retained according to the applicable service agreement and production requirements.
• Portfolio materials authorized for public use may remain published until permission is withdrawn, the agreed period expires, or continued publication is no longer appropriate.
• Website logs and cookie information will be retained according to the relevant security,      analytics, and cookie settings.

Longer retention may be necessary when information is required to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

10. Your Rights

Depending on the law applicable to you, you may have the right to:

• Request access to personal      information
• Request correction of inaccurate      or incomplete information
• Request deletion where legally      applicable
• Request restriction of processing
• Object to certain processing
• Withdraw consent
• Request data portability where      applicable
• Object to any time to direct      marketing
• Lodge a complaint with a      competent data-protection authority

European or Belgian individuals may lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority or with the supervisory authority in their country of habitual residence, employment, or the location of the alleged infringement.

Requests may be sent to usawtv@gmail.com. Reasonable identity verification may be required before a request is completed.

11. Marketing Communications

Marketing emails will be sent only where legally permitted.

You may unsubscribe by using the link provided in an email or by contacting usawtv@gmail.com. Unsubscribing from marketing will not prevent necessary communications about an inquiry, quotation, contract, payment, or active project.

12. Cookies

The website may use:

• Strictly necessary cookies      required for website operation and security
• Preference cookies
• Analytics cookies
• Advertising or social-media      cookies, if such tools are enabled

For visitors protected by European cookie rules, non-essential cookies will not be activated before the required consent is obtained.

The cookie interface should allow visitors to:

• Accept all cookies
• Reject non-essential cookies
• Manage individual preferences
• Change or withdraw cookie choices later.

Additional information should be provided in a separate Cookie Policy.

13. Security

USAWTV.com uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information from accidental loss, unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, or disclosure.

No online system is completely secure. Visitors should therefore avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive information through an ordinary website contact form.

14. Children and Minors

The website is not directed toward children.

USAWTV.com does not knowingly collect personal information directly from minors without appropriate authorization. Photography or filming involving minors requires the necessary authorization from a parent, guardian, organization, school, venue, or other responsible party, as applicable.

15. Third-Party Websites

The website may contain links to IMDb, YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, LinkedIn, cultural organizations, project pages, or other independent websites.

USAWTV.com is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or terms of independent third-party services. Visitors should review the applicable third-party policies before submitting information.

16. Changes to This Notice

This Privacy Notice may be updated when the business, website tools, service providers, legal requirements, or planned Belgian activity changes.

The updated version will be posted on the website with a revised date. Material changes may also be communicated through an additional website notice where appropriate.

17. Contact

Questions, privacy requests, objections, or complaints may be directed to:

Vartan Vartanyan / USAWTV.com Email: usawtv@gmail.com Telephone: +1 818-213-6603 Current location: California, United States