Privacy

Purpose of this Privacy Policy
Merbis Studios respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Important Information
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Merbis Studios collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you subscribe, purchase a product or service, or take part in a competition.

This website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

Contact Details
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us in the following ways:

Full name of legal entity: Merbis Studios (Future of Filmmaking)
Email address: info@futureoffilmmaking.online
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). However, we appreciate the chance to address your concerns first, so please contact us in the first instance.

We Collect the Following Information

Information you provide to us directly:
When you register for an account via email, we collect your full name, password, and email address.

Technical information we collect:
Any use of Merbis Studios’ website and/or software may result in the collection of technical information, such as your computer’s IP address, mobile device identifier, metadata, operating system, browser name/version, and the referring webpage. This information helps us understand overall usage patterns of our website and software.

We also use third-party analytics tools to measure how you use our website. These tools collect information sent by your device or our service, including usage patterns, which can help us improve our service.

Merbis Studios may invite you to provide information through feedback on features on our website or software; we may send out emails inviting feedback or offering products and services; or we may ask you for information concerning support of our products or services. Responding to these communications may require you to submit personal information and opinions.

How We Use Your Information
We may use information we receive to:

Help you efficiently access your information after you sign in.
Remember information, so you do not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit.
Provide personalized content and information to you, including online ads or other forms of marketing.
Provide, improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of our service.
Develop and test new products and features.
Monitor metrics, such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns.
Diagnose or fix technology problems.
Automatically update Merbis Studios’ application on your device.
We have outlined below descriptions of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, along with the legal basis we rely on. Our legitimate interests are also identified where appropriate.

Please note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground, depending on the specific purpose for which we use your data. Contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we rely on for processing your data where more than one ground has been set out below.

Social Media Follow-Up

By providing your email address, you consent to us using publicly available information to connect with you on social media platforms, such as Instagram, when relevant. This may include searching for your name or email handle to send a follow-up message related to our services and offerings. We will only reach out in a professional capacity and respect your preferences regarding social media engagement. If you prefer not to be contacted in this way, please let us know by emailing info@futureoffilmmaking.online.

Purpose/Activity

To register you as a new customer.
To process and deliver your order, including managing payments, fees, and charges and collecting and recovering money owed to us.
To manage our relationship with you, which includes notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy and asking you to leave a review or take a survey.
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition, or survey.
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
To make suggestions and recommendations about goods or services that may be of interest to you.
Types of Data

Identity, contact, transaction, marketing and communications, profile, usage, technical.
Lawful Basis for Processing

Performance of a contract with you.
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us).
Necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services, develop them, and grow our business).
Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, providing administration and IT services, ensuring network security, preventing fraud, and in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise).
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, develop them, grow our business, and inform our marketing strategy).
Purpose of Using Your Information

Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.

Promotional Offers from Us
We may use your identity, contact, technical, usage, and profile data to form a view on what we think you may want or need or what may interest you. This is how we decide which products, services, and offers may be relevant to you (we call this marketing).

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us and have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Third-Party Marketing
We will obtain your express opt-in consent before sharing your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.



Opting Out
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience, or other transactions.

Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Change of Purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.

If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Sharing Your Information
We will not rent or sell your information to third parties outside of Merbis Studios without your consent, except as noted in this policy.

Parties with whom we may share your information:
We may share User Content (not personal information) with potential business partners or service providers to improve our service and provide relevant content. This will be done under confidentiality terms.

We may remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with other parties. We may also combine your information with other information so that it is no longer associated with you and share that aggregated information.

How We Store Your Information
We use commercially reasonable precautions to help keep your personal information safe and stored securely. However, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to Merbis Studios or guarantee that information on the service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.

Please do your part to help us. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to emails between you and Merbis Studios at all times.

Your privacy settings may also be affected by changes to the social media services with which you connect. We are not responsible for the functionality, privacy, or security measures of any other organization.

Following termination or deactivation of your account, Merbis Studios, its Affiliates, or its Service Providers may retain information (including your profile information) and User Content for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and/or audit purposes.

Email our support team at info@futureoffilmmaking.online to learn about deleting your account.

Children's Privacy
Merbis Studios does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register for the service. The service and its content are not directed at children under the age of 13.

In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe we might have information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.

Other Websites And Services
We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from our service, including the information or content contained within them. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our service to another website or service, our Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party websites or services.

Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website or service, including those that have a link on our website/software or are accessed through our web/in-app browser, are subject to that third party's own rules and policies.

In addition, you agree that we are not responsible and do not have control over any third parties that you authorize to access your User Content.

Your Data Protection Rights Under The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the EEA or the UK, you have the following data protection rights:

You can access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information at any time by emailing us at info@futureoffilmmaking.online.
You can object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information, or request portability of your personal information.
You have the right to opt out of marketing communications by following the "unsubscribe" or "opt-out" link in our marketing emails. To opt-out of other forms of marketing, please contact us by email.
Similarly, if we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

Questions
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the service, please find the appropriate support channel in the website settings or contact us at info@futureoffilmmaking.online.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy
Merbis Studios may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please review it periodically. We may provide you additional forms of notice of modifications or updates as appropriate under the circumstances.

​Your continued use of the website or the service after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification.