Privacy

Privacy Policy

How information shared through this website is handled, and how to contact us about your privacy.

Information

The information we receive depends on how you use the site and what you choose to send us.

When you submit an enquiry, the form asks for your name, email address and a description of what you need. You may also provide an organisation, intended use, deadline, location or subject, budget category, expected deliverables, safety or access considerations, and technical requirements. Licensing and screening enquiries may ask for further details relevant to those requests.

If you contact YAW STUDIO by email, we receive the information and any attachments you choose to send. When you visit the website, technical information necessary to deliver the page, such as your IP address and request details, is processed by the website infrastructure. The precise server logs and their retention must be checked against the hosting setup.

Please avoid sending identity documents, medical details, information about children, or security-sensitive details about another person through the general enquiry form unless they are necessary for the request. We cannot accurately say that the form never receives sensitive information because its free-text fields allow visitors to include it.

Purpose

We use enquiry details to assess and respond to the request you send.

YAW STUDIO uses the information in an enquiry to understand the proposed work, assess feasibility and rights, reply to you, and discuss a practical next step. If the enquiry leads to a commission, licence or other professional relationship, relevant correspondence may also be used to organise and document that work.

Technical website information is used to deliver and maintain the site and to investigate security or operational problems. Sending an enquiry does not subscribe you to a marketing mailing list.

The legal basis for these activities, where a particular data protection law requires one, should be confirmed for the jurisdictions and services involved before publication.

Published work

Documentary work can involve identifiable people and sensitive circumstances.

Films, photographs and reports displayed on this website may show or describe individuals. Questions about how a particular work was made, credited or published may involve editorial decisions, contributor protection, publisher agreements and other rights or responsibilities. This website notice does not replace the arrangements that apply to an individual production.

If you are shown or identified in material on this site and have a privacy or safety concern, contact YAW STUDIO. Identify the work or page and explain the concern without sending additional sensitive details through the general form. We will review the request in its specific context.

Sharing

An enquiry may need to be handled by the services and people involved in operating the website or assessing the request.

  • Website hosting and email services may process information needed to deliver the site and correspondence. Information relevant to an enquiry may be reviewed by YAW STUDIO and, when necessary, a person assisting with the proposed work. We do not sell enquiry information.
  • We may also disclose information where a valid legal obligation requires it. Before publication, confirm the actual hosting, email, form-storage and other service providers, where they process information, and whether any external collaborators receive enquiries. This policy should describe those arrangements accurately.

Website technology

The separate Cookie Policy should identify the technologies actually used by this site.

Our Cookie Policy explains any cookies or similar technologies used on this website, their purposes, and the choices available to visitors. Following links to external video platforms, publishers or social networks takes you to services with their own privacy practices.

Storage

We keep information for the period needed to handle the enquiry and any resulting work or recordkeeping obligation.

  • Enquiry information is kept while a request is being considered. If it leads to work, relevant records may be kept for the duration of that relationship and for any applicable contractual, accounting or legal requirement. Enquiries that do not lead to work should be reviewed regularly and deleted when there is no continuing reason to retain them.
  • The website uses HTTPS for transmission. Access to enquiry records should be limited to people who need them for the stated purposes. Please do not send passwords, identity documents or highly sensitive files through the general contact form.

Your choices

You can contact YAW STUDIO about information relating to you or a concern about material displayed here.

  • You may ask what personal information we hold about you, request that inaccurate information be corrected, ask for deletion, or object to a particular use where applicable law provides those rights. Explain the information or page concerned so we can locate it. We may need to verify your identity before disclosing personal information, but please do not send identity documents through the general form unless we have agreed on a suitable method.
  • We will assess a request in light of applicable law and any relevant editorial, contractual or recordkeeping obligations. Where applicable law provides a right to complain to a data protection authority, you may also use that route.

Privacy questions or data requests?

Contact YAW STUDIO