Terms of use

1. General terms

1.1. Modelbook.lv is a single portal for aspiring and established beauty masters where clients can get beauty procedures FREE or at a much lower price. For aspiring masters it is a chance to stop stressing about finding models and to find clients more easily and conveniently than before.

1.2. The Modelbook.lv portal is operated and administered by SIA Login Grupa, reg. no. 40103638267, registered address: Ogre, Vidus prospekts 20/31, hereinafter the Portal.

1.3. Anyone interested in beauty care may register on the Portal, i.e. clients or models who wish to attend beauty procedures, aspiring beauty professionals, beauty masters or beauty salons, and beauty schools that offer their services.

1.4. Paid and/or free procedures may be available on the Portal. Procedures may be added both by professional masters and by masters who are still in training. The Portal accepts no liability for the quality of these procedures.

1.5. Three types of profile can be registered on the Portal: client, master, student.

1.6. The Portal has an internal beauty school system that makes the work of schools easier: it helps keep student records, track contract deadlines and class schedules, find models for students, etc. 

1.7. Before using the Portal, the user must read the General Terms and comply with them. www.modelbook.lv has the right to amend and supplement the Terms at any time. Such changes take effect once they are published on the Portal.

1.8. If a Portal user uses the Portal or performs any activity on the Portal, that user is deemed to have read the Terms in force at the time of use and to comply with them. Every Portal user must reread the Terms regularly to stay informed in good time of any changes made to them. If the user does not agree with the Terms, the user is prohibited from using the Portal.

1.9. Every registered Portal user must not disclose their Portal access details to other persons.

1.10. It is prohibited to perform actions on the Portal or to post information on it (including photos, video and audio material) that:

1.11.1. infringes or violates the intellectual property rights (copyright, etc.) of third parties;

1.11.2. offends the honour and dignity of a person;

1.11.3. calls for violence or any other unlawful action or omission;

1.11.4. is aimed at inciting hatred or discord on the grounds of a person's national, ethnic, racial or religious affiliation, gender, age, disability or any other characteristic;

1.11.5. is vulgar, abusive or offensive in any other way;

1.11.6. contains computer viruses or is designed to harm the operation (security) of computer or electronic communications software;

1.11.7. is unsolicited advertising, chain letters, spam, etc.;

1.11.8. is pornographic or excessively erotic in nature, or advertises video chat or offers work in video chat;

1.11.9. is any other kind of information that affects or may affect the operation and security of the Portal;

1.11.10. advertises financial services for which no licence to provide financial services in the Republic of Latvia has been issued in accordance with the procedure laid down in laws and regulations;

1.11.11. advertises or promotes unauthorised competitions, pyramid schemes, or methods based on recruiting sellers;

1.11.12. violates laws and regulations, or is false, discriminatory, malicious or unlawful.

1.12. All materials published on modelbook.lv are the property of the Portal and its users and are objects of copyright, protected in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Latvia.

1.13. The Portal administration accepts no liability for information posted by users or for the consequences (including legal consequences) arising from posting such information. By creating a profile on modelbook.lv, masters and schools confirm that the contact information they provide is true. 

1.14. Users are responsible for the truthfulness and appropriateness of the procedures and content they post.

1.15. The administration may, at its own discretion, delete profiles and other information if they contain unsolicited advertising or slogans, or if other Portal terms of use are not observed in them. 

1.16. Users registered on the Portal agree that advertisements may be published on the modelbook.lv portal and that registered users may be sent advertising e-mails from modelbook.lv.

1.17. Portal users are prohibited from automatically collecting and processing the profile data of other Portal users.

2. Personal data confidentiality/Privacy policy

2.1. www.modelbook.lv, an information portal for the beauty industry, highly values the trust of its clients, so protecting your personal data is very important to us. We protect your confidentiality in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable EU and Latvian laws. Your personal data will never be misused in any way.

 2.2. These terms set out how the Portal processes the personal data of its users and what rights Portal users have. 
2.3. These terms apply if a Portal user uses, has used or has expressed a wish to use the services provided by the Portal.
2.4. The Portal's privacy terms apply to the services offered by the Portal, but they do not apply to services offered by other companies or natural persons registered on the portal, or to products or websites that may include or advertise modelbook.lv services.

2.5. Information about the data controller:

SIA Login Grupa, reg. no. 40103638267, registered address: Ogre, Vidus prospekts 20/31, hereinafter the Portal.

2.6. Information processed by the Portal.

2.6.1. Providing personal data is a prerequisite for creating a profile and receiving the Portal's services.
2.6.2. The Portal collects certain information in order to provide users with better services and so that clients and masters can communicate with each other.
2.6.3. Users can register with either a Facebook.com or a draugiem.lv “pase” account. When registering, you must provide information about yourself: first name, last name, e-mail address, phone number. 
2.6.4. After creating a profile, users may add further information, such as a profile picture, description, services and their prices, speciality, workplace, portfolio images, education and other information.
2.6.5. The Portal collects information about which services clients book and which procedures clients sign up for.

2.6.6. The Portal collects student and school programmes and class schedules.
2.6.6. The Portal collects access-related information about the devices you use to access the Portal (for example, device type, operating system, web browser, IP address, device location, time and duration of connection). 
2.6.7. The Portal may collect and process information about your actual location. The Portal uses location technologies based on the IP address. 
2.6.8. When you pay for Portal services, the Portal may collect and process information about your bank account number and bank. 
2.6.9. When visiting the Portal, the user is shown a notice that cookies are used. By closing this notice, the user of the device confirms that they have read and agree to the information about cookies. Cookies can be controlled and deleted if you wish. Some browsers can be set to block cookies from being placed on the device. In that case the user has to adjust the settings manually every time the Portal is visited, and some services and features may not work.
2.6.10. When personalised advertisements are shown to users, identifiers from cookies or similar technologies are not associated with sensitive categories, such as categories related to race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or health.

2.6. Purposes for which the Portal processes information:

2.6.1. The Portal uses the information it collects to provide, maintain, protect and improve existing services, to develop new services, to protect modelbook.lv users, e.g. to verify identity and prevent unlawful use of profiles, to ensure the proper functioning of the Portal and the timely prevention of information technology security threats, and to overcome such threats and eliminate their consequences. 
2.6.2. The information collected is used to help you communicate with other users, to make sharing the Portal with others faster and simpler, and to offer Portal users personalised content and advertising.

2.7. Ways in which others may access user information:

2.7.1. The Portal may process your data where this is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation applicable to the Portal, for example a request received in accordance with laws and regulations to disclose your personal data to public administration or law enforcement authorities, or to report unlawful conduct.
2.7.2. The Portal offers a search function. Users can view the procedures in other users' profiles and, when signing up for a procedure, the content posted by masters and aspiring masters (students).
2.7.3. Content published in a Portal user's profile can be viewed both on computers and on smart devices, so it may be possible to save such content on those devices using the features offered by the Portal, the browser or the device. Users must only post content that other users may see.
2.7.4. Personal information can only be accessed by Portal employees, contractors and representatives who need to know it in order to process it on behalf of the Portal and who must comply with strict contractual confidentiality requirements.

2.8. How the Portal processes personal data:

2.8.1. Your personal data may also be transferred to other persons or processed in other cases if we have received your consent.

2.8.2. A student's data is transferred to the beauty school at which the student registers through the portal.
2.8.3. The Portal may process non-personalised information, for example the number of established and aspiring masters and of clients, the number of bookings made, and similar statistics. 
2.8.4. We recognise that personal data is of value to you, and we will process it in compliance with confidentiality requirements and with care for the security of your personal data in our possession. 
2.8.5. Your data may be transferred to third parties we work with in order to provide and improve the operation of the Portal (for example, data hosting and maintenance, data and portal security, payment processing, risk and fraud prevention and detection, data analysis, e-mail delivery, legal and other services). Data may be transferred to such third parties only to the minimum extent necessary for us to provide our services, and only if they have undertaken appropriate confidentiality obligations.
2.8.6. Third-party advertisements may be placed on the Portal and shown or sent to you. We never pass information about users or their personal data to advertisers, but by using this data advertisers may be able to define their advertising audience.

2.9. Data retention period:
2.9.1. Your data will be stored for as long as you use the Portal's services and/or are registered on the Portal and have not been deleted or deleted your account yourself. 
2.9.2. The Portal undertakes to delete, at your request, the personal data of natural persons obtained from you.
2.9.3. Users have the right to delete their personal data themselves by sending a request to the Portal e-mail address [email protected]. Access to the profile is blocked and the user's information is deleted from the Portal database within one year. This waiting period is needed to prevent unauthorised actions by third parties using the user's access details. 
2.9.4. After a profile is closed, personal data may be processed if laws and regulations provide for or require it.

2.10 Your rights. As a data subject, you have specific rights in relation to your personal data.

2.10.1. Right to erasure and restriction of processing. In the “Settings” section of the Portal, users can manage, correct and delete their information.

2.10.2. A Portal user may suspend and close their profile at any time by sending a request to the Portal e-mail address [email protected] . After a profile is closed, the profile information is no longer publicly available, but it remains registered in the database and can be restored within one year of closure. 
2.10.4. In accordance with Article 13 of REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL, a natural person has the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority about a possible personal data protection
breach.

2.11. Amendments to the terms:

2.11.1. We reserve the right to review, modify and update this privacy notice from time to time. If we make such changes, the date on which this privacy notice was amended or modified will be recorded. Please review this privacy notice regularly, especially before submitting personal data to us. If this privacy notice is updated, we will not notify our users of every update; however, if there are very important changes to the privacy notice or to how we use your information, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to give you appropriate notice.

2.12. Contact us

2.13.1. If you have any questions about these terms or the processing of your personal data, you can contact us by writing to the e-mail address [email protected].
2.13.2. When you contact the Portal, your correspondence is stored. We may use your e-mail address to inform you about our services or changes.

4. By visiting modelbook.lv, you agree to the modelbook.lv terms of use and undertake to comply with them.
5. These terms of use may change; they take effect from the moment they are published on the modelbook.lv portal;