Apply as a photographer in Dubai

A form for photographers only. It takes about ten minutes: have a portfolio link and four to ten of your own pictures ready, with no logo or watermark on them.

  • No fees, ever. Models Island never charges talent.
  • Paid fast. Within 7 days of the client paying or your job date, whichever is later.
  • Private. Your pictures go to clients on a private link only, never on our website or Instagram.

Applying as a model, dancer, DJ or creator? Use the talent form.

  1. You, current step
  2. Work permit
  3. Your work
  4. Languages
  5. Pictures
  6. Agreement
About you

About you

Never shown publicly.

As on your passport. Type a few letters and pick from the list.

Leave empty if it is the same as your mobile.

For people living in the UAE. Never shown publicly.

Your right to work

Optional. If you hold a UAE work permit or licence, add it here. You can apply without one.

Your photography

Tell us what you shoot and where we can see it. A client sees your pictures and your first name, never your contacts.

Your measurements

Clients book on numbers. Measure without shoes, over light clothing — honest numbers get you more work. Height is required. Models also need bust, waist and hips (men: chest and waist) — clients book on these.

Languages you speak
Your work

Four to ten of your best pictures. Your own work only, with no logo, watermark, name or contact details on them: clients see these exactly as you upload them. JPG, PNG or HEIC; we optimise them before upload.

    The agreement

    Please read these before you sign. Models Island never charges talent any fees.

    Models Island — Talent Termsv2.2

    Models Island — Talent Terms

    Document: model-terms · Version: 2.2 · Effective date: 4 November 2026 If you accepted an earlier version: that version still applies to you, not this one, until you accept this one (clause 1.4). Ask us for a copy at hello@modelsisland.com. Agency: Ravinaro L.L.C-FZ, trading as Models Island · Licence 2543079.01 · Meydan Grandstand, 6th Floor, Meydan Road, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE


    The short version

    These points are part of the Terms. The full clauses below apply if anything here is unclear.

    • Models Island never charges you any fee — no registration, portfolio, photo, training, commission or membership fee. Ever.
    • You are independent. You are free to accept or decline any job and to work with others. You are not our employee.
    • We are your booking agent. We conclude bookings on your behalf (only after you accept each offer) and collect your Talent Fee from the client for you. Our own agency fee is charged to the client separately — nothing is deducted from your fee.
    • You get paid within 7 days after the client's payment reaches us or after the job date, whichever is later (clause 6).
    • You must hold your own right to work in the UAE and keep it valid. We do not sponsor visas or arrange permits. A visit visa does not allow paid work. We can only quote and confirm a paid job with a right-to-work document on file that covers the last day of the job, and only accept a job you are legally allowed to do: an offer from us is not a confirmation that you may (clause 5).
    • Clients we introduce stay with us for 12 months. If a client we introduced contacts you directly, send them to us (clause 9). If you take that work around us, we can end your representation and claim our proven loss, up to 20% of what you were paid.
    • Your photos. You choose where your photos are shown: website, Instagram, both, or private. You can ask us to remove your profile at any time. It comes off the site at once and is erased after 7 days, unless it is tied to a job or quote (clause 10.4).
    • We use AI. Artificial intelligence reads and writes some of our messages, and helps match talent and pick photos. A person oversees it, and you can ask for one at any time (clause 12.5).
    • DJs, dancers and creators have extra terms on equipment, music, permits, disclosure and content (clauses 8A and 8B).
    • Be accurate and lawful. Your details must be true, and you must hold the right to work in the UAE for each job.
    • Under 18? A parent or legal guardian must register you, verify their identity and accept these Terms for you. Children's profiles are private and shared only with vetted clients (clause 13 and the Guardian Consent).

    1. About these Terms

    1.1 "Models Island" is a brand and service operated by Ravinaro L.L.C-FZ, a company licensed in the Meydan Free Zone, Dubai, UAE (licence no. 2543079.01), registered address Meydan Grandstand, 6th Floor, Meydan Road, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE ("Models Island", "we", "us"). Contact: hello@modelsisland.com · +971 58 941 0099.

    1.2 These Terms apply when you apply to join, and while you are represented by, Models Island as a model, dancer, DJ, or influencer or UGC creator ("Talent", "you"), once you have accepted this version. If you have more than one talent, these Terms apply to all of them. If your profile was added to our roster before you accepted these Terms, they apply only from when you accept them.

    1.3 Applying does not guarantee that we will accept you onto a roster, and being on a roster does not guarantee any work.

    1.4 You accept these Terms by ticking the acceptance box and typing your full name (and, where asked, drawing your signature). We record the version and fingerprint of these Terms, the date and time, your IP address, device/browser information and approximate location as evidence of your acceptance (clause 15). We may publish a new version for the future. A new version applies to you only once you have accepted that version in this way. Until then, the version you last accepted continues to apply. Accepting a Booking Offer or signing a release does not by itself accept a new version. Jobs you already accepted stay under the version that applied then.

    2. Definitions

    • Booking — a job a client has confirmed and paid for, for which you accepted our offer.
    • Booking Offer — our message offering you a job, stating the client (or a description if confidential), date, time, location, hours, brief, any Deliverables, your Talent Fee and the Agreed Usage.
    • Client — the person or business that books you through us.
    • Talent Fee — the amount payable to you for a Booking, as stated in the Booking Offer, including any usage fee due to you.
    • Agreed Usage — the media, territory, duration and any exclusivity for which the client may use images, recordings and content of you or by you from the Booking.
    • Introduced Client — any Client to whom we sent your profile, portfolio or a quote including you, or who booked you through us.

    3. No fees to Talent

    3.1 Models Island does not charge Talent any fee, deduction or commission for registration, representation, portfolio hosting, photos, castings, bookings or payments. Our income comes from the client.

    3.2 Nobody acting for Models Island is permitted to ask you for money. If anyone does, report it to hello@modelsisland.com. Correcting an overpayment (clause 6.6) or a claim for proven loss from a breach (clauses 9 and 11.3) is not a fee.

    3.3 Your own costs (travel to castings and jobs in Dubai unless the Booking Offer says otherwise, your own bank's charges, your licences, permits and visas, your own equipment and your own portfolio shoots) are yours.

    4. Your status: independent professional

    4.1 You are an independent contractor providing services on your own account. You are not an employee, worker or partner of Models Island or of any Client, and nothing in these Terms or any Booking creates an employment relationship.

    4.2 You decide whether to accept each Booking Offer. You may work for other agencies and clients, except where you accept a Booking with an exclusivity condition stated in the Booking Offer. You perform personally and may not send someone else in your place without our written approval.

    4.3 We do not set your working hours, supervise how you perform your craft, or provide you with equipment, a salary, a uniform, an email address or a title. The Client gives creative and safety direction for the job itself.

    4.4 You are responsible for your own tax (including registering and filing where the law requires it), social security (if any), insurance, licences and permits. We do not withhold, file or report tax for you unless the law requires us to, and we give no tax, immigration or legal advice. Models Island does not insure you or your equipment. We recommend you hold personal accident insurance and, if you bring equipment or create content for clients, equipment and professional liability insurance.

    4.5 We are your disclosed booking agent and collecting agent. You appoint Models Island, on a non-exclusive basis, to: promote you to clients; negotiate and issue quotes; conclude Bookings with clients in your name and on your behalf once you have accepted the Booking Offer; agree changes, cancellations and refunds under our Client Terms; collect your Talent Fee from the client as your collecting agent; and pay it to you. Clients are told that we act as your agent and that the Talent Fee is collected on your behalf. We will never commit you to a Booking without your acceptance.

    4.6 Our Agency Fee is paid by the client. Each client quote shows your Talent Fee separately from Models Island's Agency Fee. The Agency Fee is charged to the client for our own services; it is never deducted from your Talent Fee.

    4.7 We hold no separate trust or client account for Talent Fees unless we tell you otherwise, and we pay no interest on them. You have a contractual right to be paid under clause 6. A Talent Fee is due only once we have received the Client's cleared payment, and it stays subject to clauses 6.5A and 6.6 if that payment is reversed. Our payment to you of the amount due under clause 6 discharges our obligation to you.

    5. Right to work, permits and identity

    5.1 Your own right to work. You warrant that for every Booking you hold, in your own right, a valid UAE residence status and permission to carry out that work, being one of: (a) a freelance permit (MOHRE or free-zone freelance permit covering the work); (b) your own trade licence covering the work; (c) an employer NOC with a valid work permit (part-time or otherwise) allowing you to do the work; (d) a family-sponsored residence with a work permit; (e) a Golden Visa (or other long-term residence) with permission to work; (f) UAE nationality; or (g) another authorisation we have accepted in writing after review. A visit or tourist visa does not allow paid work in the UAE. Talent under 18 are subject to clause 13.

    5.2 What you give us. At registration and whenever it changes, you will provide your authorisation type, document number, issuing authority and expiry date and, when we ask, a copy of the document. You can update these details later. Copies are stored privately and seen only by authorised Models Island staff.

    5.3 Keep it valid. You must keep your authorisation valid while you are represented, notify us at least 30 days before it expires, upload the renewed document promptly, and tell us immediately if it is cancelled, suspended or changed in a way that affects the work you can do.

    5.4 Your responsibility on every job. You must not accept a Booking Offer unless you hold a valid right to do that work on the job date. If your authorisation is a visit visa, missing or expired, you may still be listed and be asked about a job, but a message from us about a job, or being shown to a client, is not a confirmation that you may legally do the work. Before we quote a client for you, and again before a paid Booking is confirmed, you must have a right-to-work document on our file, with an expiry date covering the last day of the job. You upload it yourself from your personal link. Talent under 18 are not asked for one; clause 13 applies instead. If you do not have one, you cannot be quoted or confirmed, and we may offer the job to another talent. We rely on what you give us; we do not review it or verify it with the authorities, and uploading it does not make it valid. We may at any time ask for proof, hide your profile, or refuse, cancel or withdraw a Booking. No Talent Fee is due to you for a Booking not confirmed or cancelled because you did not hold a valid right to work.

    5.5 Who bears the risk. You are responsible for the accuracy of your authorisation details. If you give false or out-of-date information, or accept a job without the right to do it, and we or a client are fined or suffer loss as a result, you are responsible for that loss (clause 11.3).

    5.6 Influencers and UGC creators. If you register as an influencer, you must provide your UAE National Media Authority advertiser permit number and expiry date (formerly the UAE Media Council). The permit is yours personally. If you are a visiting creator, you need a visitor permit obtained through a licensed agency; we do not arrange it. Without an unexpired permit on file you will not be booked to publish advertising on your own social-media accounts. You must meet the duties of a permit holder, including showing your permit number where the authority requires it, posting from your registered account and any reporting it requires, and you must comply with its content standards and advertising disclosure rules. If you do UGC work only, check with the authority whether you need a permit for the work you accept. Clause 5.3 applies to renewals.

    5.7 Identity verification. We may ask you to verify your identity, age and documents, including through a trusted third-party verification provider that compares a live selfie with your ID document (this involves biometric data). We will ask for your separate, explicit consent before doing so (see the Privacy Policy). If you do not consent we may be unable to represent you.

    6. Booking Offers, payment and cancellations

    6.1 Offers. We send you a Booking Offer, by email or WhatsApp. You accept or decline it through your Models Island link or by written reply. Your reply may be read by our automated tools (clause 12.5). If you do not reply in the time we give, the place may go to someone else. Once you accept and the Client pays, the Booking is confirmed and we send you the job details.

    6.2 When you are paid. We pay your Talent Fee by bank transfer to an account in your name (for Talent under 18, the guardian's account under clause 13) within 7 days after the later of (a) the date we receive the Client's cleared payment for the Booking and (b) the Job Date (for a multi-day job, the last day).

    6.3 Overtime and expenses. Overtime and approved expenses due to you are paid within 7 days after the Client pays them to us. We will chase unpaid overtime or expenses on your behalf. You must tell us the actual start and finish times by message on the day.

    6.4 Statements. With each payment we send a statement showing the Booking, your Talent Fee and the payment date.

    6.5 If the Client cancels. If a confirmed Booking is cancelled by the Client, your compensation for the reserved date is a share of the money we actually keep. Your share is your Talent Fee × the proportion of the Booking Fee we keep after the Client's refund. Under our current Client Terms this means:

    Client cancels We keep You receive
    More than 7 days before, Client takes the 50% cash refund 50% 50% of your Talent Fee
    More than 7 days before, Client takes a credit note nothing yet 50% of your Talent Fee only if the credit note expires unused (12 months)
    48 hours to 7 days before 75% 75% of your Talent Fee
    Less than 48 hours before, or Client no-show 100% 100% of your Talent Fee

    If we keep less than these amounts, for example because a court, a regulator or a card dispute reduces what we keep, or because the Job is cancelled for force majeure, your share reduces in the same proportion. If the Client re-books you for a new Job instead, you are paid for that new Job.

    6.5A When cancellation shares are paid. We pay your cancellation share 30 days after the cancellation, from cleared funds, so that card disputes can be resolved first. If the Client's payment is later reversed or charged back, we may deduct what we paid you from your future payments or ask you to repay it within 30 days.

    6.6 Adjustments. If you have been paid more than you are entitled to (for example a cancelled or shortened Booking, or a Booking you did not attend), we will tell you why and deduct the difference from your next payment or, if there is no further payment within 60 days, ask you to repay it within 30 days. We may also deduct an amount you owe us under clause 9.2 or 11.3 once you have agreed it or a court has decided it. This is not a fee.

    6.7 Client complaints. If a Client complains about your performance, we will tell you and hear your side before deciding anything. We will not reduce your Talent Fee unless you did not attend, arrived significantly late, or left early, in which case the fee is adjusted for the time not worked.

    6.8 Unpaid clients. Because clients pay in full before the job, you should not normally face non-payment. If a Client fails to pay overtime or expenses, we will pursue them at our own cost.

    7. If you need to cancel

    7.1 Once you accept a Booking Offer, please honour it. If you cannot attend because of illness, emergency or another good reason, tell us immediately by phone and message so we can find a replacement.

    7.2 Please give at least 7 days' notice of any planned unavailability once booked.

    7.3 We do not charge you penalties for cancelling. However, if you cancel without good reason, fail to attend, or repeatedly cancel late, we may suspend or end your representation, and you will not be paid for a Booking you did not perform. If we have to refund a Client because you failed to attend without good reason, we may stop offering you work.

    8. Professional conduct and safety

    8.1 You agree to: arrive on time and prepared; bring any wardrobe, kit or equipment listed in the job details; follow the brief and reasonable creative direction; behave professionally and respectfully towards the Client, guests and crew; comply with UAE law and the venue's rules; and not attend under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

    8.2 Your safety comes first. You are never required to do anything that is unsafe, unlawful, degrading, sexual, or outside the brief (including nudity, lingerie or swimwear not in the brief). If you feel unsafe, a required permit is missing, or you are asked to do something outside the brief, you may stop and contact us immediately on +971 58 941 0099. If you stop because the Client breached our safety terms, you will still be paid your full Talent Fee.

    8.3 Report any harassment, abuse or unsafe conditions to us as soon as you can. We will take reports seriously, support you, and not tolerate retaliation.

    8.4 Documents on set. Do not sign any release, contract or document a Client gives you on set unless we have approved it in writing. Release forms for Bookings are sent to you by Models Island after the Client pays (see the Release Form).

    8.5 Confidentiality and social media. Keep briefs, products, locations and unpublished campaigns confidential. Do not post images or behind-the-scenes content from a job until the Client has published the campaign, unless the Client agrees.

    8.6 Reputation. Do not act in a way that would bring Models Island or a Client into serious disrepute while on a Booking.

    8.7 Permits for the event. We do not arrange event, filming or venue permits; the Client, venue or organiser does. We may ask for your passport and other details for a specific job so the organiser can apply. Tell us at once if you are told no permit is in place.

    8A. Extra terms for DJs and dancers

    8A.1 Set and times. The Booking Offer states your call time and set or performance times. Be ready in time for any sound check. Extending a set is your choice and is overtime.

    8A.2 Equipment. Bring what the Booking Offer says you bring, in safe working order. Unless it says so, the venue provides decks or controller, mixer, monitors, sound and power. Tell us your technical needs before you accept. Your equipment is your own risk, subject to the Client's responsibility for damage at its venue. You must not agree extras directly with the venue.

    8A.3 Music. The venue or organiser holds the licence for public performance of music. You must play music you have lawfully obtained, and you promise you have the right to perform any original track, edit or remix you play. You give no rights in other people's music. Do not play anything unlawful or offensive, or that breaches UAE content standards or the venue's rules.

    8A.4 Recordings. You may not be recorded or streamed for commercial use, or record or stream the set yourself, unless the Booking Offer says so. Normal event coverage is allowed as stated in the Client Terms.

    8A.5 Costumes and floor. Costumes and performances must comply with UAE law, public decency standards and the venue's rules. You may refuse an unsafe surface, costume or move. Tell us at once.

    8B. Extra terms for influencers and UGC creators

    8B.1 Deliverables. You must deliver what the Booking Offer describes, on time, and post it from the agreed account for the agreed period. If no period is stated, keep posts live for 30 days. One round of reasonable revisions within the brief is included in your fee; we will arrange payment for anything more.

    8B.2 Disclosure. Mark paid content clearly as advertising and show the paid relationship, using the platform's paid-partnership tool and any label the law requires, even if a client asks you not to. Do not make claims you know are untrue or use fake engagement.

    8B.3 Your content. You keep copyright in what you create. You grant the Client, through us, a licence for the Agreed Usage once the Client has paid. You do not assign copyright unless the Booking Offer expressly says so. You promise your content is your own original work or cleared, and that it does not infringe anyone's rights. Do not use music you have no right to use in commercial content; platform libraries may not cover it.

    8B.4 Figures. Any audience figures you give must be accurate and not inflated. You must give us real statistics when asked.

    8B.5 Product and access. Do not share login access to your accounts. Giving a client paid-ad access (for example whitelisting or Spark Ads) is only allowed where the Booking Offer says so. If an authority or platform requires a post to come down, tell us at once.

    9. Introduced Clients (non-circumvention)

    9.1 For 12 months after we last introduced you to an Introduced Client, or after your last Booking with them (whichever is later), you agree to refer to Models Island any approach by that Introduced Client (or anyone acting for them) for work of the kind we offer, not to accept that work directly or through another agency without our written agreement, and not to give that client your contact details for that purpose.

    9.2 If you breach this clause we may end your representation and recover the loss we can prove it caused us, up to a maximum of 20% of the fees you were paid for that work. We may also pursue the Client under our Client Terms. You must tell us the fees if we ask. This is compensation for a breach, not a fee or commission on your work.

    9.3 This clause does not stop you working for anyone who was your client before we introduced them, if you tell us about that relationship when you join or within 5 working days of the Client first being proposed. It also does not apply where we have declined the work in writing.

    10. Your photos, profile and image

    10.1 Your submitted photos. You confirm that you have the right to give us every photo, video and other material you upload or send us, including the permission of the photographer or other copyright owner where needed, and that each shows you as you currently look (clause 11).

    10.2 Licence to promote you. You grant Models Island a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence, for as long as you are represented by us and for 30 days after, to use your name (first name, or stage name if you choose), photographs, video, measurements and the profile information you choose to make public to: (a) display your profile on the Models Island website and in roster pages; (b) send your portfolio and comp card to prospective clients; (c) use images from your Bookings for self-promotion as allowed in the Client Terms (after the Client has published them or 6 months after the job); and (d) feature you on Models Island's Instagram account and marketing, if you chose "Instagram" or "Website and Instagram" at "Where may we show your photos?". You can change this choice at any time by asking us. A person or our AI tools may choose the photos and write the caption. We remove a post at your request; we aim to do so within 48 hours.

    10.3 What we will not do. We will not sell your images, license them to clients outside a Booking, use them in advertising for a third party, or alter your face or body beyond standard retouching, or use your likeness or voice to train AI or create a digital replica of you, without your separate written consent for that specific use. Using AI tools to review, sort and select your photos, as described in the Privacy Policy, is not training or a digital replica for this purpose.

    10.4 Removal. You can ask us to remove your profile or any image at any time, by the Delete my profile page or by message. We may need to confirm the request came from you. Your profile comes off the website and client shortlists at once and is erased after 7 days, and you can undo the request before then. If your profile is tied to a job or client quote, it stays hidden rather than erased, because we must keep those records (see the Privacy Policy). We cannot recall materials already sent to clients or used in an agreed campaign.

    10.5 Images from Bookings. Each Client may use images of you only within the Agreed Usage set out in the Booking Offer and the Release Form you sign for that Booking.

    11. Accuracy warranty

    11.1 You confirm that the information you give us — name, date of birth, nationality, measurements, sizes, height, appearance, skills, languages, experience, social-media statistics and work authorisation — is true, complete and current, and that your photos are recent and show your current appearance.

    11.2 You will update us promptly about any change (for example haircut or colour, tattoos, measurements, pregnancy where it affects a Booking, or visa status). We may ask from time to time whether you are still available. If you do not answer, your profile may rank lower for jobs; you will not be removed without warning.

    11.2A Your personal update link. If we send you a personal link, whoever opens it can update your measurements and contact details. Most changes apply straight away, with a notice to your old contact and a way to undo them; unusual changes wait for a person. Keep the link private. New photos are reviewed before they go live. You are responsible for changes made through a link sent to you, unless you tell us it was not you.

    11.3 If information you gave us or a promise you made in clauses 5, 8A.3 or 8B.3 is materially false or out of date, or you do not meet the duties in clause 5.6, and we or a Client suffer loss, fines or claims as a result, we may cancel Bookings and end your representation, and you are responsible for that loss.

    12. Your personal data

    12.1 We process your personal data as described in our Privacy Policy (www.modelsisland.com/privacy-policy), which explains what we collect, why, who we share it with (including Clients, and our technology providers in other countries), how long we keep it and your rights.

    12.2 We rely on our contract with you to process the data needed to represent and pay you. We ask for your choice or separate consent for: (a) showing your profile publicly on our website; (b) featuring you on our Instagram and marketing; (c) identity verification involving biometric data; (d) any sensitive information you choose to give us; and (e) sending you marketing. You can withdraw any consent at any time (clause 12.4).

    12.3 We share the parts of your profile relevant to a job with prospective and booked Clients, and your contact details and call-sheet information with the Client and its production team for confirmed Bookings only.

    12.4 To withdraw consent or exercise your rights, email privacy@modelsisland.com. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing already carried out, and withdrawing consent to public display means we remove your public profile under clause 10.4.

    12.5 AI and automated messages. We use artificial intelligence and automated tools to read your messages and replies, draft and send some emails and WhatsApp messages (which may go out under a team member's name or our mailbox without saying they were prepared by AI), match and rank talent for jobs, and sort photos and help pick those we post. People decide who joins the roster. You can ask for a person at any time at hello@modelsisland.com, and tell us (for example by replying STOP to an availability message) if you do not want job and availability messages; a person will act on it if the automatic stop does not apply.

    12.6 Service messages. We contact you about your profile, availability and jobs by email and WhatsApp. These are part of representing you and are not marketing. We send marketing only if you opted in.

    13. Talent under 18

    13.1 If you are under 18, you can only be registered by your parent or legal guardian, who accepts these Terms and the Guardian Consent on your behalf, is responsible for your compliance with them, and must verify their own identity and their relationship to you (for example by uploading their ID and your passport or birth certificate) before you can be approved.

    13.2 Private roster. Children are never shown on the public Models Island website or in search engines. Approved children are placed on a private kids roster. We share a child's profile only with vetted clients through password-protected share links that expire (by default after 7 days), can be revoked at any time, and record every view.

    13.3 Every Booking for a Talent under 18 requires the guardian's separate acceptance of the Booking Offer and signature of the guardian Release Form. The guardian (or an adult chaperone the guardian authorises to us in writing in advance) must be with the child throughout every job.

    13.4 Under-15 protocol. Children under 15 are booked only for occasional, age-appropriate artistic participation (not regular work), with the guardian present throughout and within the hour limits in the Minors on Set rules of our Client Terms. We may decline any booking for a child under 15, and this protocol may be tightened following legal advice.

    13.5 For all children we follow the Minors on Set rules, including maximum hours, no work between 7 pm and 7 am, and no overtime. We will not accept Bookings that would amount to employment of a child prohibited by UAE law. Where a child is 15 to 17, the guardian confirms before each Booking that the child is medically fit for the work and that it does not interfere with schooling, and any permit the authorities require for the child must be in place.

    13.6 Talent Fees for a child are paid to the guardian's nominated bank account.

    14. Ending representation

    14.1 You may end your representation at any time by the Delete my profile page, by message or by emailing hello@modelsisland.com. We may end it, or decline to offer you work, at any time by notice to you, for any reason that is not unlawful or arbitrary.

    14.2 Bookings already accepted must still be honoured, unless both you and we agree otherwise. Clauses 6 (payments due), 8B.3, 9, 10.4, 10.5, 11.3 and 12 continue after representation ends.

    14.3 When representation ends, your public profile comes down at once and your data is handled as described in clause 10.4 and the Privacy Policy.

    15. Electronic signature and records

    15.1 You agree that these Terms, Booking Offers, release forms and other documents may be signed electronically, and that ticking a box, typing your name or drawing your signature has the same effect as a handwritten signature.

    15.2 We keep a secure record of each acceptance: document version and SHA-256 fingerprint, name, email, date and time, IP address, device/browser information, approximate location and the page used. You agree this record is evidence of your acceptance. We email you a copy of what you signed.

    16. Liability

    16.1 Nothing in these Terms limits liability for fraud, gross fault, wilful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or anything else that cannot be limited under UAE law.

    16.2 Subject to clause 16.1, our total liability to you in connection with any Booking is limited to the Talent Fee for that Booking, and we are not responsible for indirect loss or loss of other opportunities. Your liability to us for any one Booking, other than under clause 5.5, 8A.3, 8B.3 or 11.3, is limited to the Talent Fee for that Booking.

    16.3 Clients are responsible for the safety of their locations and for their own conduct, and venues and clients for their own equipment. We do not guarantee any amount of work. We will help you pursue any claim against a Client arising from a Booking.

    17. General

    17.1 These Terms, together with each Booking Offer and Release Form, are the entire agreement between you and us about representation. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest continues.

    17.2 You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms. We may transfer ours to a successor operating the Models Island business, on notice to you.

    17.3 These Terms are written in English. An Arabic translation is available on request; if they are translated, the English version prevails to the extent permitted by law.

    17.4 These Terms are governed by the laws of the United Arab Emirates as applied in Dubai. Any dispute will first be discussed in good faith for at least 14 days, and then may be brought before the Courts of Dubai (the competent courts of the Emirate of Dubai, including any amicable-settlement centre the law requires a claim to go through first).


    Ravinaro L.L.C-FZ · Meydan Free Zone, Dubai, UAE · Models Island is a brand and service operated by Ravinaro L.L.C-FZ · www.ravinaro.com

    Models Island — Privacy Policyv2.2

    Models Island — Privacy Policy

    Document: privacy-policy · Version: 2.2 · Effective date: 5 November 2026 Controller: Ravinaro L.L.C-FZ, trading as Models Island · Licence 2543079.01 · Meydan Grandstand, 6th Floor, Meydan Road, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE


    1. Who we are

    "Models Island" is a brand and service operated by Ravinaro L.L.C-FZ, a company licensed in the Meydan Free Zone, Dubai, UAE (licence no. 2543079.01), registered address Meydan Grandstand, 6th Floor, Meydan Road, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE ("we", "us"). We are the controller of the personal data described in this policy.

    Contact for privacy matters: privacy@modelsisland.com · +971 58 941 0099 Data protection contact: privacy@modelsisland.com

    We process personal data in line with the UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (the "PDPL") and other applicable UAE law. So far as we know, its Executive Regulations have not yet been published; when they are, we will update this policy.

    2. Who this policy covers

    • Visitors to www.modelsisland.com and its subdomains.
    • Applicants and Talent — models (including children, through their guardians), dancers, DJs, and influencers and UGC creators who apply to or are represented by us.
    • Parents and guardians of applicants and Talent under 18, and the children themselves (see section 10).
    • Clients — people and businesses who enquire, request quotes or book Talent, and their staff.
    • Newsletter subscribers and people who contact us.

    Our administrators' data is covered by a separate internal notice.

    3. What we collect

    Category Examples Source
    Identity and contact Name, stage name, email, phone, nationality, city/country of residence, date of birth, gender You (or your guardian)
    Talent profile Photos and videos, measurements, height, sizes, hair/eye colour, languages, skills, talents, experience, showreels, social-media handles and statistics, portfolio links, availability and months in Dubai, where you chose to show your photos You (or your guardian), and updates you make through a personal update link
    Look category An ethnicity or "look" category used for casting. You may provide it. If it is empty, our AI tools estimate it from your main photo, or we use the most common category for your stated nationality. This also applies to children's profiles. Ask us to correct or remove it at any time You, or estimated automatically
    Automated records The AI's reading of your messages, match rankings, your reply status for jobs and availability checks, photo sorting and scoring, and deletion requests detected in messages Automatically
    Work authorisation Authorisation type (freelance permit, trade licence, employer NOC/work permit, family-sponsored permit, Golden Visa with work permission, UAE national, other), document number, issuing authority, expiry date, an uploaded copy of the document; National Media Authority advertiser permit number and expiry for influencers You
    Guardian verification Guardian's ID document and evidence of relationship to the child (e.g. child's passport or birth certificate) Parent or guardian
    Kids share-link records Which client received a link to which children's profiles, link expiry and revocation, and each view (IP address, device/browser, time) Automatically, when a client opens a link
    Identity verification (when introduced) ID document images and data, a live selfie and the verification result (this involves biometric data) You, via our verification provider
    Booking and payment Booking requests, briefs, quotes, booking details, call sheets, Talent Fees, client payment status, bank details for Talent payouts (IBAN, account name), invoices, refunds and credit notes You, clients, our payment provider
    Card payments Card payments are processed by our payment processor. We receive limited information (for example the last four digits, card brand, payment status and risk signals). We do not receive or store full card numbers. Payment processor
    Consent and signature records Document name, version and SHA-256 fingerprint; time of acceptance; IP address; browser/device (user agent); approximate location derived from the IP address (country, city, network provider, time zone); browser language; page address; typed name; drawn signature image; a fingerprint of the information submitted Automatically, when you accept terms or sign
    Communications Emails, WhatsApp messages and media, Instagram direct messages, enquiries, complaints and our replies; delivery and read status You, our email and messaging providers
    Instagram posts Which photos of you we posted, captions, post links and how they perform Automatically, when we post with your choice on file
    Technical and usage IP address, device and browser type, pages visited, referring site, security and bot-protection signals; analytics data only if you accept analytics cookies Automatically (see the Cookie Policy)
    Advertising measurement Only if you accept marketing cookies: the ad click identifier you arrived from, advertising cookie identifiers, and when you enquire or pay, a scrambled (hashed) copy of your email and phone number, IP address, browser details and the amount paid. Kept for 90 days to link enquiries to payments Automatically and from your form (see the Cookie Policy)
    Marketing preferences Newsletter subscription, consent and unsubscribe records You

    We ask you not to send us information about your health, religion, political opinions, criminal record or ethnic origin, other than the optional look category above. If a booking genuinely requires health information (for example an allergy relevant to a food shoot), we will ask for it specifically and only with your explicit consent.

    4. Why we use your data and our legal basis

    The PDPL generally requires consent for processing, with specific exceptions. We rely on the following:

    Purpose Legal basis
    Assessing applications, creating and managing your Talent account, offering and managing bookings, paying Talent Performance of a contract with you, or steps you asked us to take before entering one
    Sharing relevant profile details with prospective and booked clients Contract (it is the service you ask us to provide)
    Showing your profile publicly on our website Your consent
    Featuring you on our social media and marketing Your consent, by your choice on the form
    Handling client enquiries, quotes, bookings, payments, refunds, credit notes and invoices Contract
    Sending service emails and WhatsApp messages (confirmations, booking offers, availability checks, release forms, receipts, reminders) Contract, or steps you asked us to take before entering one
    Using AI tools to read messages, draft and send replies, match and rank talent, sort and select photos Contract (it is how we provide the service), and your consent where you give it for optional uses
    Estimating a look category for casting Your consent when you apply, or your guardian's explicit consent. You can ask us to remove it
    Posting your photos on Instagram Your choice on the form ("Where may we show your photos?")
    Recording acceptances and signatures (consent records) and keeping booking records Contract, compliance with legal obligations, and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, including payment disputes
    Responding to chargebacks and payment disputes To establish, exercise or defend legal claims, and contract
    Recording work authorisation and permit details, and any checks we make Compliance with legal obligations under UAE law, and contract
    Verifying a guardian's identity and relationship to a child Compliance with legal obligations (child protection) and explicit consent of the guardian
    Sharing children's profiles through password-protected links and logging every view Explicit consent of the guardian, contract, and compliance with legal obligations (child protection)
    Identity and age verification involving biometric data (when introduced) Your explicit consent
    Processing data about children Explicit consent of the parent or guardian (and contract with the guardian)
    Keeping accounting and tax records Compliance with legal obligations
    Website security, bot protection, fraud prevention, strictly necessary cookies Contract (to provide the website and services securely) and compliance with legal obligations
    Analytics and advertising cookies Your consent (see the Cookie Policy)
    Newsletter and marketing emails Your consent
    Transfers outside the UAE where no other safeguard applies Your express consent, or where needed to perform a contract with you (see section 7)

    Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time (section 9). Withdrawal does not affect processing already carried out. If you withdraw consent to public display, we will remove your public profile; if you withdraw consent needed to represent you or your child, we may be unable to continue doing so.

    AI and automated decisions. People decide who joins the roster and whether an application is accepted or rejected. Some things are automated. Our AI tools read messages and can prepare or send replies, and a message may go out under a team member's name or our mailbox without saying that AI prepared it. A request to delete a profile, when detected from a verified sender's message or confirmed link, hides your profile straight away and starts the 7-day erase, which you can undo. Your replies affect your rank for jobs, and silence can free your place on a job. You can ask a person to review any of this, and you can object to a decision based only on automated processing, by emailing privacy@modelsisland.com.

    5. Who we share data with

    • Clients and their production teams — Talent profile details relevant to a job; for confirmed bookings, name, contact details and call-sheet information. Clients must use this only for the booking (Client Terms clause 20).
    • Service providers (processors) acting on our instructions:
    Provider Service Where data may be processed
    Cloudflare Website hosting, database, file storage, image processing, content delivery, security and bot protection (Turnstile) Global network, including the United States and the European Union
    Resend Sending service and newsletter emails United States
    Google (Gmail) Sending and receiving mailbox emails United States and other Google locations
    PA Forever Our WhatsApp messaging gateway: phone numbers, contact names, messages and media pass through it Outside the UAE, on the gateway provider's servers
    Meta (WhatsApp, Instagram) WhatsApp delivery; Instagram posting and direct messages United States, European Union and other Meta locations
    Anthropic AI: drafting messages and Instagram captions, and reading messages if our main provider is unavailable United States
    DeepSeek AI: reading briefs and replies, ranking matches, detecting deletion requests. Message text is sent to it, including messages from guardians China
    TypeSafe AI: classifying forms, inbox messages and images, including photos and any document photo an applicant sends us, and estimating the look category Outside the UAE
    Google (Analytics and Ads) Website analytics if you accept analytics cookies; measuring Google ads if you accept marketing cookies United States and other Google locations
    Microsoft (Clarity and Advertising) Heatmaps and session recordings if you accept analytics cookies; measuring Microsoft and Bing ads if you accept marketing cookies United States and other Microsoft locations
    Meta (Pixel and Conversions API) Measuring Facebook and Instagram ads if you accept marketing cookies United States, European Union and other Meta locations
    TikTok (Pixel and Events API) Measuring TikTok ads if you accept marketing cookies United States and other TikTok locations
    OpenAI (ads in ChatGPT: Pixel and Conversions API) Measuring ChatGPT ads if you accept marketing cookies United States and other OpenAI locations
    Stripe Card payment processing, fraud prevention and dispute handling United States, European Union and other Stripe locations
    Identity verification provider (when introduced) Identity and age verification European Union
    Other AI providers (only if we switch to them) The same AI tasks. We add them to this table when we do Their own locations
    Our bank Bank transfers and Talent payouts United Arab Emirates
    Professional advisers Lawyers, accountants, auditors United Arab Emirates
    • Card networks and card issuers — in a payment dispute, we may provide booking records, acceptance records and evidence of service to our payment processor, the card networks and the card issuer.
    • Authorities — where required by UAE law or a valid order of a competent court or authority.
    • A buyer or successor of the Models Island business, under confidentiality and only so it can continue the service.
    • The public, for what you chose to publish: your website profile and Instagram posts.

    We do not sell personal data.

    6. Publication of Talent profiles

    If you consent, your public profile shows your first name or stage name, reference number, photos, measurements and the profile details you choose. We never publish your contact details, date of birth, surname (unless it is your stage name), documents or bank details. Profiles of Talent under 18 are never published; they are shared only through password-protected links with vetted clients (section 10).

    7. International transfers

    Our technology providers store and process data outside the UAE (see section 5), including in the United States, the European Union and China, and the UAE has not published a list of countries with adequate protection that we could rely on. We therefore transfer personal data outside the UAE where the PDPL allows it: where the transfer is necessary to perform our contract with you (for example processing a payment, sending your booking email or handling your message), under contracts with providers that require protection of personal data, or with your express consent. People who apply or book are told of these transfers when they accept. You can ask us for more information about the safeguards for a particular provider, and ask us not to use a provider where we can reasonably avoid it.

    8. How long we keep data

    Data Retention
    Work-authorisation details and document copies While you are represented. Erased with your profile unless your profile is tied to a job or client quote (below)
    Guardian ID and relationship documents While the child is represented. Erased with the profile unless it is tied to a job or client quote (below)
    Kids share-link and view logs 24 months from the link's expiry, or longer if needed to investigate misuse
    Applications that are not accepted Until you ask us to delete them or we clear them out, and we review them to delete those no longer needed
    Talent profiles and photos While you are represented. When you ask to delete: hidden at once, erased after 7 days, with an undo until then. If your profile is tied to a job or a client quote, even one you were only asked about, it stays hidden and is not erased, with its photos and documents, because we need it for those records. You can ask us to review whether all of it is still needed
    Booking, payment, invoice and payout records 7 years from the end of the relevant tax period (UAE tax record-keeping). Advertiser-related booking records are kept at least 3 years in any event
    Consent, acceptance and signature records, signed releases and the documents accepted For the life of the relationship and 5 years after the last booking, or longer while a claim, dispute or usage period is ongoing. If a profile with no booking or quote is erased, its consent records are erased with it, and we keep only a short deletion record (reference, first name and post links)
    Release forms for a booking Until 5 years after the Agreed Usage period ends
    Identity-verification images and biometric data (when introduced) Deleted by the provider promptly after verification; we keep only the result (verified / not verified, date, document type and expiry)
    Client enquiries that do not lead to a booking Until you ask us to delete them or we clear them out. Message text in our inbox is removed after 12 months
    AI processing logs 90 days, and short-lived activity records 7 to 30 days
    WhatsApp text copies held for our systems 7 days. The messages stay in our WhatsApp account and inbox as above
    Newsletter subscription records Until you unsubscribe, then a suppression record (email only) so we do not contact you again
    Server and security logs Up to 90 days, unless needed to investigate an incident

    When data is no longer needed, we delete or anonymise it. Our automatic deletion covers the items marked with a period above; other items are deleted on request or by periodic review.

    9. Your rights

    Under the PDPL you have the right to:

    • be informed about the processing of your personal data and obtain a copy of it;
    • receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format and have it transferred (where technically feasible);
    • have inaccurate data corrected and incomplete data completed;
    • have your data erased where it is no longer needed, where you withdraw consent, or where processing is unlawful — subject to our legal obligations to keep certain records;
    • restrict processing in certain circumstances;
    • object to processing for direct marketing, and in other circumstances set by law;
    • object to decisions based solely on automated processing that have legal effects on you; and
    • withdraw consent at any time.

    To exercise a right, email privacy@modelsisland.com or use your account settings. We may ask you to verify your identity. We will respond without undue delay and within any period required by law. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the link in each email.

    If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the competent UAE data authority (the UAE Data Office, or the authority that has taken over its role).

    10. Children

    10.1 We represent children under 18 only through a parent or legal guardian, who is the account holder. Children cannot create accounts themselves. We apply the same protections to all under-18s, whatever their age.

    10.2 We process a child's personal data only with the explicit consent of the parent or guardian (Guardian Consent), and only for representing the child, sharing relevant details with clients for genuine booking purposes, managing bookings and payments, and complying with law.

    10.3 We do not use children's data for targeted advertising or marketing, no analytics or advertising tool loads on our kids or child-registration pages, nothing about a child or a booking of a child is sent to an advertising platform, we do not post children on Instagram, and we do not send marketing to children. Messages from guardians are read by our AI tools like any other message. The look category described in section 3 can be estimated from a child's main photo for casting by our team; it is never published, and a guardian can ask us to remove it at any time.

    10.4 Children's profiles are not shown on our public website or in search engines. They are kept on a private roster and shared only with vetted clients through password-protected links that expire (by default after 7 days), can be revoked, and log every view. Profiles show the first name only. We never disclose a child's surname, school, home area or contact details to clients.

    10.5 A guardian must verify their identity and relationship to the child before the child can be approved. These documents are stored privately and seen only by authorised staff.

    10.6 For children and parents, in plain words: We keep your child's photos and details safe and private. They are not on our website. We only show them, with a password, to people who might book your child for a job, and only when you say yes. You can ask us to delete them at any time by emailing privacy@modelsisland.com.

    11. Security

    We use technical and organisational measures to protect personal data, including encryption in transit, access controls with role-based permissions and two-factor authentication for administrators, audit logs of administrative actions, automatic compression and metadata (EXIF) stripping of uploaded images before storage, single-use links for release forms, confirmation of deletion requests through contacts on file, and bot protection. No system is completely secure; if a personal data breach occurs that may affect your privacy, we will notify the competent UAE data authority and, where required, you, in accordance with the PDPL.

    12. Cookies

    We use cookies and similar technologies as described in our Cookie Policy, which names each analytics and advertising tool. Non-essential cookies are used only with your consent, and you can withdraw it at any time in Cookie settings. Measurement sent from our servers follows the same choice.

    13. Changes

    We may update this policy, for example when Executive Regulations or guidance under the PDPL are issued. The current version and its effective date are always shown on this page, and earlier versions are kept on record. An update describes how we handle personal data; it does not change any contract terms you accepted, which stay at the version you accepted until you accept a new one. We will notify you of a change where the law requires it.


    Ravinaro L.L.C-FZ · Meydan Free Zone, Dubai, UAE · Models Island is a brand and service operated by Ravinaro L.L.C-FZ · www.ravinaro.com

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