Aniventure Privacy Policy

Aniventure Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Thanks for visiting the Aniventure website. At Aniventure, we are committed to protecting your privacy online. We comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection egulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) [pre GDPR enforcement] and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) and take the handling and protection of your personal information seriously. This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA PECR are adhered to. Additionally, it will explain the use of cookies or software, the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we and this website interacts with you and your computer / device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.

The DPA & GDPR May 2018

We and this website complies to the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and complies with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

What Data We Collect

Personal Data

When you contact us through this website — for example, by completing our enquiries form — you do so voluntarily. By submitting your details, you provide us with certain personal data such as your identity data (e.g. name) and contact data (e.g. email address, telephone number).

We process this information solely for the purpose of responding to your enquiry, managing our communications with you, and providing any information or services you have requested. The lawful basis for this processing is our legitimate interests (to respond to and manage enquiries) and, where relevant, your consent.

All personal data you submit is kept confidential, stored securely, and processed in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. We retain this information only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law.

If you have provided express consent to receive marketing materials or product/service information, we may use your contact details to send you such communications via our mailing list system. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us directly at info@aniventure.com

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users’ experience. As required by legislation, where applicable this website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of /saving of cookies on their computer / device.

What are cookies? Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions with and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide the users with a tailored experience.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computer’s hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website or use the cookie control system, if available upon their first visit.

Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required for core website functionality (e.g. enabling navigation or access to secure areas).

Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our site so we can improve performance and content.

Third Party Cookies: We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, to help us analyse website traffic and usage. This may involve transferring anonymised usage data (such as your IP address and browsing behaviour) to Google servers, which may be located outside the UK or EEA. We ensure appropriate safeguards, including Standard Contractual Clauses, are in place for any such transfers. Google processes this data only on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions.

Script Submissions and Unsolicited Materials

Please be advised that Aniventure does not accept, read, consider or review, any unsolicited literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works via email. Any Unsolicited Materials received by Aniventure are deemed non-confidential and Aniventure assumes no liability, obligation or responsibility of any nature whatsoever in respect thereof (and we assume no obligation to return any Unsolicited Materials to the sender). The purpose of this policy is to avoid potential misunderstandings or disputes where Aniventure’s existing audio-visual projects or other proprietary works might bear similarities to materials submitted to Aniventure.

Aniventure Limited, its affiliates, licensors, employees, consultants or other representatives (“Aniventure”) does not accept or consider unsolicited material, ideas or suggestions of any nature (“Submission Materials”). Should you nevertheless submit Submission Materials via email, you acknowledge that your submission will be deemed non-confidential and may contain ideas which are the same or similar to ideas that have already been developed, or may be developed in the future, by Aniventure or other third parties without use of your Submission Materials. It is Aniventure’s policy not to read or view any Submission Materials and Aniventure shall have no obligation or liability with respect thereto. If you would like to submit Submission Materials, please do so via your agent

Aniventure has a dedicated online portal through which it reviews script submissions and unsolicited materials.  This process incorporates legal agreements which protect both applicants and Aniventure from potential misunderstandings or disputes.

Website Visitor Tracking

We use website analytics and tracking technologies to help us understand how visitors use and interact with our site. This information enables us to improve the functionality, content, and overall user experience of our website.

The data collected through tracking tools may include technical data (such as your IP address, browser type, device information, and operating system) and usage data (such as pages visited, time spent on pages, and navigation paths). This information is generally collected through the use of cookies or similar technologies, and in most cases, it is aggregated and anonymised so that it does not directly identify you.

The lawful basis for processing this data is our legitimate interests – specifically, our interest in monitoring website performance, improving our services, and ensuring the security and integrity of our site. Where cookies or similar technologies are used for analytics or marketing purposes, we will seek your consent before such tracking is activated, via a cookie consent banner.

You can manage or withdraw your consent for non-essential cookies at any time using the cookie preference tool on our website or by adjusting your browser settings. For more information about the types of cookies we use and how to control them, please see the Cookies section of this policy.

We do not use analytics technologies to collect sensitive personal data, and we do not attempt to identify individual visitors unless required to do so by law or for security reasons. Data collected through website tracking is retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described above, after which it is securely deleted.

Our Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data only where we have a lawful basis under the UK GDPR. These bases include:

  • Consent: when you have given clear permission for us to process your data (e.g. non-essential cookies).
  • Contract: when processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps before entering into a contract.
  • Legal Obligation: when we must process your data to comply with a legal or regulatory requirement.
  • Legitimate Interests: when processing is necessary for our legitimate business purposes (e.g. responding to enquiries, improving our website, ensuring security) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

Data retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected. For example:

  • Inquiries Form data: retained for up to 12 months after the last interaction.
  • Mailing list data: retained until you withdraw consent.
  • Analytics data: retained for up to 26 months in aggregate form.

External Website Links

Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of text / banner / image links to other websites. Shortened URL’s; URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URL’s (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and looks similar to this (example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding. We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Third Parties

We may use Google Analytics to collect anonymised information about how visitors use our website. This helps us monitor traffic and improve site performance.

Your Personal Data Rights

Under data protection law, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • Rectification: You can request correction of any inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Erasure: You can request that we delete your personal data under certain circumstances (‘right to be forgotten’).
  • Restriction: You can request we limit the processing of your data in certain cases.
  • Portability: You can request we provide your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
  • Objection: You can object to the processing of your data where we rely on legitimate interests or for direct marketing.
  • Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us by emailing info@aniventure.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you believe we have not complied with data protection law.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and where appropriate, notified to you by email. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.

Aniventure Ltd

Registered Office: 10 Little Portland Street, London, W1W 7JG.

Company registration # 08524103