PRIVACY NOTICE

Introduction & Our Details

Dark Dunes Productions is a company incorporated in Abu Dhabi in the UAE.  For data protection purposes we are the ‘data controller’ of the personal data that you give us.
Our address is: Al Darmaki Building, Sheikh Rashed Road, P.O.Box 323, Abu Dhabi

Our contact details are: info@ darkdunesproductions.com

Our Commitment to You

We are committed to protecting your privacy and to complying with the data protection laws in the UK.  In consequence, we collect the minimum amount of information about you that is commensurate with providing you with a satisfactory service.

What is the purpose and legal basis for us to collect and process your personal data?

The main purpose is to send opted-in email newsletters and other information as requested. Personal data is also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds.

In addition, so long as you freely give us your consent, we will send you by email, newsletters and information concerning our productions including release dates, information on viewing or purchasing our films.

What personal data will be collected and processed?

Depending on the type of transaction you enter into, this may include your name, address, telephone number, and email address, together with data about your use of the website.  This will be retained and used (processed) for the purposes referred to above.

Who will receive your personal data?

We will receive your personal data on our website which is kept on a secure server in the US where all personal data is encrypted.

If you give consent to receive communications from us, we use a marketing automation and email marketing service, MailChimp, to communicate with you.  Their privacy policy can be read here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.  You will be free to unsubscribe from those messages at any time.

The server of MailChimp. is located outside the EU, in the USA, and we are satisfied that the organization has appropriate safeguards in place to protect your data.

We do not give anyone else access to personal data unless we are required to by law or the access is for our own team performing their services for our website, all of whom are subject to confidentiality obligations.  If we wish to process your personal data for purposes other than those specified in this notice, we will notify you with relevant information and, if necessary, seek your consent.

We may from time to time provide information of a general nature to third parties – for example, the number of individuals visiting our website, but this information will be anonymized so that those individuals cannot be identified (except in the case of testimonials on our website where the individual has given consent).

How long will we keep your personal data?

We do not store any personal data on our website.  For email newsletter subscribers, until you ask us in writing to delete your personal data, we will keep it to enable us to contact you as mentioned earlier in this notice.

What are your rights?

You have the right to:

• ask us in writing for details of the personal data that we hold on you
• require us to rectify any errors
• have your personal data deleted if there is no reason for its continued storage and processing
• lodge a complaint about the data controller with the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office).

Further details about your rights under data protection legislation can be found on the ICO’s website at https://ico.org.uk/.

Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Our website uses these “cookies” to collection information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Technologies such as: cookies, tags, pixels and scripts may be used by our site, our affiliates, and analytics service(s), such as Google Analytics https://privacy.google.com/businesses/compliance/, to improve and provide site features, functions, and quality experience. These technologies and services are used during and for the purpose of analyzing trends, site administration, determine the popularity of certain content, and to gather demographic information about our audience. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

Opting out: Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

Cookies are unique text files websites can send to your computer when you browse a site. We may use cookies as a means of learning about our user base and improving our site(s). Most web browsers can either alert you to the use of cookies or refuse to accept cookies entirely.

Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms
We use a contact form to send us email contact contact submissions. These submissions are access through our email account and kept for a certain period for customer service purposes, but you do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.

Comments
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year.

If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Internet-Based Advertising
We may collaborate with a third party site in order to display advertising on the Site. Our collaborative third party may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on the Site and other sites for the purpose of advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

Any changes to this Notice will be placed here and will supersede this version.  We will take reasonable steps to draw your attention to any changes in our policy.  However, to be on the safe side, we suggest that you read this document each time you use the website to ensure that it still meets with your approval.

How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, or if you want to know what information we have collected about you, please contact us here.

Last Edited 25 May, 2018