Privacy and data protection
Privacy Policy
This policy describes how Film Critique handles information when you browse our film reviews, editorial features, release coverage, and cinema guides or contact our team. We aim to collect only the information needed to operate the website, maintain its security, and respond to reader enquiries.
Information this website may receive
| Data | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Basic server and access logs | Maintaining website security, diagnosing technical faults, preventing misuse, and monitoring service reliability |
| Email address and message details you provide directly | Responding to editorial questions, film suggestions, correction requests, copyright notices, and other reader correspondence |
| Local cookie notice preference | Remembering that you dismissed the notice so it does not repeatedly appear during later visits in the same browser |
Server logs may contain technical information such as the time of a request, the requested page, browser type, device details, and network address. This information is used for operational and security purposes rather than to create personal profiles of readers. The website does not require an account to access its editorial content.
Messages and direct enquiries
Messages sent to [email protected] are used to understand and respond to the subject of your enquiry. This may include questions about a published review, requests to correct factual information, suggestions for future coverage, feedback about the website, or copyright-related correspondence.
Please provide only information relevant to your message. Avoid sending sensitive personal details, identity documents, financial information, passwords, or other confidential material that is not necessary for us to address your request. If you include information about a film, publication, or rights claim, ensure that you are entitled to share it with us.
We do not use reader correspondence to create advertising profiles or sell personal information. Contact details are not added to a marketing mailing list merely because you have sent an editorial enquiry.
Data retention and your rights
Enquiry messages and related correspondence are retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the request, maintain relevant editorial records, resolve disputes, or meet applicable legal obligations. Technical logs are retained according to operational and security requirements and are not kept longer than reasonably needed for those purposes.
Depending on the laws applicable to you, you may have the right to request access to personal information we hold about you, ask for inaccurate details to be corrected, request deletion, object to certain processing, or seek restrictions on how information is used. You may also have the right to raise a concern with a relevant data protection authority.
To make a privacy-related request, contact us using the address below and describe the information or correspondence involved. We may need to verify the request before disclosing, changing, or deleting information. Some records may need to be retained where a legal obligation or legitimate operational requirement applies.
Privacy questions and requests: [email protected] .