Data Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes how Windlight Pictures GmbH (part of ITV Studios), including its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates and assigns (collectively, “Windlight”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collect, use and share your personal information in connection with your use of our website located at https://windlightpictures.com/de/ or any other websites, pages, features, mobile applications, content, or digital services that may link to this Notice (the “Services”). This Notice also describes the rights and choices you have in relation to our processing of your personal information.
We encourage you to read this Notice carefully to understand how we handle your personal information. By using our Services, you agree to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Notice, and you agree to the accompanying Terms of Use (“Terms”). Our Terms govern the use of our Services. If you disagree with any part of this Notice or our Terms, please discontinue access or use of our Services.
We may change this Notice from time to time and we will notify you by revising the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Notice. If we change this Notice in a way that we believe materially affects how we process your personal information, we will provide you with advance notice such as via email or by posting a notice on our Services, if applicable. Unless otherwise required by laws in your area of residence, your continued access or use of our Services after receiving the notice of changes constitutes your acknowledgment that you accept the updated Notice.
We may also provide “just-in-time” disclosure or additional information about our information collection, use, and sharing practices of specific Services. These notices may supplement or clarify our privacy practices or provide you with additional choices about how we process your personal information.
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may collect certain personal information about you and your use of our Services. Personal information is typically data that identifies an individual or relates to an identifiable individual, such as your name, email address, and phone number. The definition of personal information depends on the applicable law based on your physical location. Only the definition that applies to your physical location will apply to you under this Notice.
The personal information we collect from you in providing the Services falls into three primary categories: information you voluntarily provide to us, information we collect from you automatically, and information we collect from third parties.
Information you voluntarily provide to us. We, or service providers that assist us in providing, maintaining, and operating our Services, may collect the following types of personal information from you:
- Forms. We may collect your name, email, and phone number when you would like for us to contact you. If you provide contact information, we may contact you to clarify your comment or question, or to learn about your level of interest in, or satisfaction with our Services, if applicable.
- Information You Post on Our Services. Should you be able to post comments or other content to our Services, we may collect information which may include your username or screenname, comments, status, pictures, and references to your online presence.
- Your Correspondence and Your Feedback About Our Services. We collect information you provide when you contact us directly or directly provide to us feedback, comments, or suggestions on our Services.
- Information You Provide When You Do Business With Us. If you are a vendor, service provider, or business partner of Windlight, we may collect information about you and the services you provide, including your or your employees’ business contact information and other information you or your employees provide to us as part of the services you may provide and our agreement with you.
- Other information. We may also collect information that relates to or is capable of being associated with you, such as age, gender, and any other information you choose to provide.
- Career Information. When you apply to join our team, we may collect your first and last name, email address, phone number, home address, start date, and any employment-related information contained in your resume/CV or that you otherwise may submit to us.
Information we collect automatically
- Usage Data. When you browse our Services, we may automatically collect log data such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, domain names, referring and exit pages and URLs, pages viewed and the order of these page views, the date and time you access our servers, and other diagnostic data.
- Device Information. When you use your desktop or mobile devices to access our Services, we may be able to identify your device’s unique device identifier, MAC address, operating system, and your mobile device’s advertising ID.
- Location Information. When you use our Service, we may infer the generic physical location and geographic regions of your device from your Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other device settings. For example, your IP address may indicate your general geographic region. Upon your permission, we may collect your mobile device’s precise geo-location. You may choose not to share your location details with us by adjusting your mobile or desktop device’s location services settings. For instructions on changing the relevant settings, please contact your service provider or device manufacturer.
Information from third parties
From time to time, we may obtain information about you from third-party sources, including:
- Social Media Platforms and Networks. If you interact with us on social media or use features, such as plugins, widgets, or other tools made available by social media platforms or networks (including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, and Pinterest) in connection with our website or Apps, we collect information that you share with us, or that the social media platforms share with us. For more information about the privacy practices of those social media platforms, please review the privacy policies and settings of the social media platforms and networks that you use.
- From Other Sources. We may obtain information about you from other sources, such as data analytics providers, marketing or advertising service providers, vendors that provide services on our behalf, or publicly available sources.
This information helps us to update, expand and analyze trends, identify new customers, and provide content that may be of interest to you.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
- To Provide You With Our Services. We may use your information to complete the transactions you request and perform our contractual obligations with you or to ensure that our Services function properly.
- To Provide Customer Support or Respond to You. We collect any information that you provide to us when you contact us. Without your personal information, we cannot respond to you or ensure your continued use of the Services.
- To Maintain the Safety and Security of our Services. We may process your information to protect the rights and property of Windlight and others and to comply with our legal obligations, including to detect, investigate, and prevent fraud and other illegal activities and to enforce our agreements.
- To Improve Our Services. We may use your information to monitor and improve the operation, delivery, and general accessibility on our Services, identify popular areas or features, and optimize the Services. This may also include conducting internal research and development of our Services.
- To Maintain Legal and Regulatory Compliance. Our Services are subject to certain laws and regulations which may require us to process your personal information. For example, we process your personal information to ensure compliance with employment and recruitment laws or as necessary to manage risk as required under applicable law. Without processing your personal information for such purposes, we cannot perform the Services in accordance with our legal and regulatory requirements.
- To Enforce Compliance With Our Terms, Agreements, and Policies. When you access or use our Services, you are bound to our Terms. To ensure you comply with them, we process your personal information by actively monitoring, investigating, preventing, and mitigating any alleged or actual prohibited, illicit, or illegal activities on our Services. Subject to the applicable law, we may also process your personal information to investigate, prevent, or mitigate violations of our internal terms, agreements, or policies and enforce our agreements with third parties and business partners.
- To Facilitate Corporate Acquisitions, Mergers, and Transactions. We may process any information regarding your account and your use of our Services as is necessary in the context of corporate acquisitions, mergers, or other corporate transactions.
- With Your Consent. We may process or use your information for any other purpose to which you consent.
3. INFORMATION SHARING
We will only share your personal information with others as described in this Notice. We may provide your personal information to companies that help us in providing our Services, or that assist us in improving our products, content, services, or advertising. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services.
We may share your personal information:
- With ITV companies for the purposes described in section 2, above.
- With unaffiliated companies or individuals we may hire or work with that provide us with professional advice, business support, or perform services on our behalf, including customer support, web hosting, information technology, direct mail and email distribution, promotion administration, and analytics services. These service providers are allowed to use your information to help us provide our Services and not for any other purpose.
- With third parties, such as partners that may work with us on co-branded Services. Our partners use your personal information as described in their privacy policies.
- When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, or to comply with the applicable law or legal process, or to respond to legal claims.
- In connection with a corporate change including a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets
- To any other party with your prior consent to do so.
We may combine all the information we collect from or receive about you for the outlined purposes. We may aggregate or de-identify your information and may use, share, rent, or sell aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose, and such information is not subject to this Notice.
4. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
The security of your personal information is important to us. We maintain advisors, potential transactional partners, or other third parties designed to guard and prevent misuse of your personal information. Our security measures include generally accepted physical, technical, and administrative measures to prevent unauthorized access to or disclosure of your personal information, to maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of your personal information, and to otherwise safeguard your personal information.
Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases or the databases of the third parties with which we may share such information, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet. In particular, email sent to us may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at info@windlightpictures.com.
5. HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION
We will retain your information for as long as needed to provide our Services to you, to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements and policies. We will cease to retain your personal information or remove the means by which the information can be associated with you as soon as it is reasonable to assume that such retention no longer serves the purpose for which the personal information was collected and is no longer necessary for legal or business purposes.
6. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
Our Services may include links to other sites, products, or services that we do not own and are not operated by us, and whose privacy practices may differ from those of Windlight. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. If you submit personal information to any such third party sites or otherwise submit personal information to such third parties, your information is governed by the pertinent third party’s privacy policies. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services, and this Notice does not apply to your activities on any third-party sites or services or any information you otherwise disclose to any third parties. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy Policy/Notice of any site you visit.
7. CHILDREN
We do not knowingly collect or attempt to collect any personal information from children under the age of 16. If you are under 16, please do send any personal information about yourself to us. To the extent we are capable of identifying and become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will terminate the user’s access to our Services and take steps to delete such information from our systems, unless we have a legal obligation to keep it. If you feel that we have unknowingly collected information from someone under the age of 16, please contact us immediately so that we can take the necessary steps to remove this information.
8. YOUR CHOICES AND RIGHTS
You have certain choices and rights as to how we use your personal information.
If we process your personal data, you have the following rights vis-à-vis us:
- Right of access
- Right of rectification or erasure
- Right to restriction of processing
- Right of notification
- Right to object the processing
- Right to data protability
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in connection with the processing of your personal data by Us.
Access and Update Personal Information. We rely on you to access, update, and correct your personal information. You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information by emailing us at info@windlightpictures.com. Please note that we may keep historical information in our backup files as permitted by applicable law. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, including authenticating you through the email address you use to contact us. We may require further documentation such as a password and user ID before granting access to your information.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. We and our business partners use cookies and other technologies such as web beacons to keep track of your visits, and profile information. This information is used to make our Services easier to use, and provide you with a more personal and convenient experience. As described below, you have certain choices regarding cookie settings.
Browser Settings. You have the right to decide whether to accept cookies (which are not essential for the operation of the website). If you do not want us to deploy cookies in your browser, you may exercise your preference by modifying your web browser setting to either (1) refuse some or all cookies or (2) notify you and ask for your permission when a website tries to set a cookie. If you want to learn the correct way to modify your browser settings, please use the “Help,” “Tools”, or “Edit” menu in your browser or review the instructions provided by the following browsers:
If you disable or remove cookies, some parts of the Services may not function properly. Information may still be collected and used for other purposes, such as research, online services analytics or internal operations, and to remember your opt-out preferences.
Analytics Provider Opt-Outs: We and our third-party technology providers may use third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to evaluate your use of the Services, compile reports on activity, collect demographic data, analyze performance metrics, and collect and evaluate other information relating to the Services and Internet usage. These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help analyze and provide us the data. For more information on how to opt out of Google Analytics tracking see Google’s Privacy Policy/Notice and Google Analytics Opt-Out.
Mobile Settings. On many mobile devices, you can control interest-based advertising through your device’s settings. These options can include resetting your device’s advertising ID or selecting “Limit Ad Tracking” (for iOS devices) or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” (for Android devices) in your device settings.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Notice, our privacy practices, to provide feedback, or if you wish to exercise your rights related to your personal information you may email us at info@windlightpictures.com.
24.10.2024
