PRIVACY NOTICE

PRIVACY NOTICE FOR THE CONTENT WORKS (A trading name of want some media ltd)

The Content Works takes the protection of your privacy very seriously. We will only use your personal information to deliver the products and services you have requested from us, and to meet our legal responsibilities.

How do we collect information from you?

We obtain information about you when you engage us to deliver our production services and when you use our website, for example, when you contact us about the services we offer.

What type of information from you?

The personal information we collect from you will vary depending on which services you engage us to deliver. The personal information we collect might include your name, address, telephone number, email address, your IP address, which pages you may have visited on our website and when you accessed them.

How is your information used?

In general terms, and depending on which services you engage us to deliver, as part of providing our agreed services we may use your information to:

  • contact you by post, email or telephone
  • understand your needs and how they may be met
  • maintain our records in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory obligations
  • confirm consent to be filmed in a specific production

Who has access to your information?

We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.

We will not share your information with any third parties for marketing purposes.

Any staff with access to your information have a duty of confidentiality.

Third Party Service Providers working on our behalf

We may pass your information to our third-party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf, for example a freelancer that has been contracted by us to work as an editor. However, when we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own purposes.

Please be assured that we will not release your information to third parties unless you have requested that we do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention and detection of crime, fraud or corruption.

How you can access and update your information

Keeping your information up to date and accurate is important to us. We commit to regularly review and correct where necessary, the information that we hold about you. If any of your information changes, please email or write to us, or call us using the ‘Contact information’ noted below.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information The Content Works holds about you.

Security procautions in place to protect the loss, missuse or alteration of your information

Whilst we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. Where we have given, or where you have chosen, a password which enables you to access information, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Your data will usually be processed in our offices in the UK. However, to allow us to operate efficient digital processes, we sometimes need to store information in servers located outside the UK, but within the European Economic Area (EEA). We take the security of your data seriously and so all our systems have appropriate security in place that complies with all applicable legislative and regulatory requirements.

Your choices

We may occasionally contact you by email / telephone / post with updates about our recent work or about our services from The Content Works which we believe are of legitimate interest to you or your business. All emails will have a clear “unsubscribe” call to action at the bottom of the emails. Another way to unsubscribe if you would prefer to not receive any marketing from us, is to please write an email to info@thecontentworks.com with the subject line “UNSUBSCRIBE” and we will immediately stop sending you anything.

YOUR RIGHTS

Access to your information:

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information about you that we hold.

Correcting your information:

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate, complete and up to date and you may ask us to correct any personal information about you that you believe does not meet these standards.

Deletion of your information:

 You have the right to ask us to delete personal information about you where:

  • you consider that we no longer require the information for the purposes for which it was obtained
  • you have validly objected to our use of your personal information – see ‘Objecting to how we may use your information’ below
  • our use of your personal information is contrary to law or our other legal obligations

Restricting how we may use your information:

 In some cases, you may ask us to restrict how we use your personal information. This right might apply, for example, where we are checking the accuracy of personal information about you. The right might also apply where there is no longer a basis for using your personal information, but you do not want us to delete the data. Where this right is validly exercised, we may only use the relevant personal information with your consent, for legal claims or where there are other public interest grounds to do so.

Objecting to how we may use your information:

Where we use your personal information to perform tasks carried out in the public interest then, if you ask us to, we will stop using that personal information unless there are overriding legitimate grounds to continue.

Please contact us in any of the ways set out in ‘Contact information’ below if you wish to exercise any of these rights.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE.

We keep this privacy notice under regular review and will place any updates on our website. Paper copies of the privacy notice may also be obtained by writing to us at the address below.

CONTACT INFO.

The Content Works
5th Floor
167-169 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 5PF

Website: www.thecontentworks.com

COMPLAINTS

We seek to resolve directly all complaints about how we handle your personal information, but you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office at

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Telephone – 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745

Website: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

This privacy notice was last updated in September 2021