Transforming Film Privacy Policy
Our contact details:
Name: Transforming Film
Address: Transforming Film, Unit 1, Harland Works, 70 John Street, Sheffield, S2 4QU, UK.
E-mail: info@transformingfilm.com
Website: www.transformingfilm.com
We may update this privacy notice from time to time.
This version was last updated on 23rd May 2023.
The type of personal information we collect:
We currently collect and process the following information:
Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics. For example, name, pronouns and contact details.
‘Online identifiers’ including IP addresses and cookie identifiers which may be personal data. (See Squarespace and Cookie policy below)
Further information on Squarespace:
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
· Information about your browser, network and device
· Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
· Web pages you view while on this website
· Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
How we get the personal information and why we have it:
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
You have filled out the contact form on our website.
You have filled out a form, survey or questionnaire.
You have contacted us by e-mail, telephone, in writing or otherwise.
You have purchased or requested services from us.
We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:
Website, Device and Technical Information from third parties such as analytics providers like Squarespace which hosts our website.
We may also receive Website, Device and Technical Information automatically from technologies such as cookies which are installed on our website. To find out more about these please see our cookie policy which is available below.
We use the information that you have given us in order to:
Answer your enquiry from the online contact form.
Answer any communication you have sent to us (i.e. email, telephone, writing or otherwise)
Provide services that you have requested.
We may share this information with:
Our advisors: such as lawyers, accountants, auditors, insurance companies
Squarespace, the platform that hosts this website. (see above)
We do not sell or trade any of the personal information which you have provided to us.
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
(a) Your consent: this is where you have given us your consent to use your personal information for a specific reason or specific reasons.
You are able to remove your consent at any time.
You can do this by contacting info@transformingfilm.com
So that we are able to provide you with services, we will need your personal information. If you do not provide us with the required personal information, we may be prevented from supplying the services to you.
Where we rely on consent for a specific purpose as the legal reason for processing your personal information, you have the right under data protection law to withdraw your consent at any time. If you do wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us using the details set out at the beginning of this notice. If we receive a request from you withdrawing your consent to a specific purpose, we will stop processing your personal information for that purpose, unless we have another legal reason for processing your personal information, in which case, we will confirm that reason to you.
How we store your personal information:
Your information is securely stored.
We will only hold your personal data for as long as is necessary. How long is necessary will depend upon the purposes for which we collected the personal information and whether we are under any legal obligation to keep the personal information (such as in relation to accounting or auditing records or for tax reasons). We may also need to keep personal information in case of any legal claims.
Under Article 17 of the UK GDPR individuals have the right to have personal data erased. This is also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’.
We will then dispose of your information by erasing appropriate data from our systems; including emails. And any paper copies where appropriate.
Your data protection rights:
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at info@transformingfilm.com if you wish to make a request.
How to complain:
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at info@transformingfilm.com
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
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