Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Screen Culture International Film Festival (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses and protects personal data when you visit www.screenculture.uk (the “Site”). We are committed to handling your data lawfully, transparently and only for the purposes described here. This policy is written to comply with the UK GDPR and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Who we are

The data controller for this Site is Screen Culture International Film Festival, Cissbury Rd, London N15 5QA, United Kingdom.

For any privacy-related request or question, contact us at info@screenculture.uk.

2. What we collect, why, and our legal basis

Contact form

When you use the contact form on our Site, we collect your name, email address and the content of your message. We use this solely to read and respond to your enquiry. The information is delivered to our festival inbox (info@screenculture.uk).

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries we receive. We keep this correspondence only for as long as needed to handle your request and any reasonable follow-up.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect the email address (and any name) you provide, in order to send you festival news and updates. Subscription is optional and based on your active opt-in. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link included in every newsletter, or by emailing us.

Our newsletter is operated through Mailchimp (Intuit Inc.), which processes subscriber data on our behalf as a data processor.

Legal basis: your consent.

Website analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand, in aggregate, how the Site is used (for example total page views, visits, referring sources, country and device type). This tool is privacy-first: it does not use cookies, does not track individual visitors across sites, and does not collect personal data or build user profiles. Because it does not identify you, it is not used to single you out.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in measuring and improving the performance and reach of our Site, in a way designed to minimise any impact on your privacy.

Server logs

Our hosting provider may automatically record standard technical information in server logs, such as IP address, browser type, pages requested and timestamps. This is used for security, diagnostics and the prevention of abuse, and is retained only for a limited period.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the Site secure and operating correctly.

3. Cookies and local storage

We do not use tracking, profiling or advertising cookies — which is why this Site does not display a cookie consent banner.

The Site stores a single technical item in your browser’s local storage, named scff-theme, which simply remembers whether you have chosen the light or dark (“Day for Night”) appearance. It contains no personal data, is never transmitted to us or any third party, and you can remove it at any time through your browser settings.

4. Embedded content and external links

Videos on the Site are hosted on our own domain and do not set third-party cookies. The Site also links out to external services that have their own privacy policies, including FilmFreeway (for submissions), YouTube (our channel), IMDb, and Mailchimp (newsletter). When you follow those links, the privacy practices of those services apply, and we are not responsible for them.

5. Who we share data with

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only with service providers that help us run the Site and act on our instructions as processors — currently our hosting provider, Cloudflare (analytics and security) and Mailchimp (newsletter) — and only to the extent necessary for those services. We may also disclose information where required by law.

6. International data transfers

Some of our processors (for example Mailchimp/Intuit and Cloudflare) are based in, or may transfer data to, the United States. Where personal data is transferred outside the UK or the European Economic Area, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses and/or the UK–US and EU–US Data Privacy Framework.

7. How long we keep data

Contact enquiries: only as long as needed to handle them and any reasonable follow-up.
Newsletter: until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove you.
Server logs: a limited retention period for security and diagnostics.
Analytics: aggregate, non-identifying data retained according to Cloudflare’s retention policy.

8. Your rights

Under the UK GDPR and EU GDPR, you have the right to: access the personal data we hold about you; ask us to correct it; ask us to erase it; restrict or object to its processing; request portability; and, where processing is based on consent, withdraw that consent at any time (without affecting processing already carried out).

To exercise any of these rights, email info@screenculture.uk. We will respond within the timeframes required by law.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In the UK this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk). In Italy this is the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (garanteprivacy.it); other EU residents may contact their local data protection authority.

9. Security

The Site is served over an encrypted HTTPS connection, and we apply reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against loss, misuse or unauthorised access. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, but we take appropriate steps to safeguard the information you provide.

10. Children

The Site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will delete it.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

12. Contact

Questions about this policy or how we handle your data? Email info@screenculture.uk.