Emails & Comms Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to The British Independent Film Awards C.I.C. (BIFA). This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that BIFA collects, and the ways in which BIFA uses that personal information.

Personal information collection

BIFA may collect and use your personal contact information and any other information that you send to BIFA.

We collect this information to allow us to carry out our main activities of supporting and promoting British independent film.

Using personal information

BIFA may use your personal information to contact you about our plans and activities.

Where BIFA discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, BIFA may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

Securing of your data

BIFA will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

BIFA will store all the personal information you provide on secure servers.

Cross-border data transfers

Information that BIFA collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which BIFA operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.

You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

Your rights

BIFA has a Legitimate Interest in the retention of your personal information in order to carry out its business activities and will retain your personal information until you ask us to delete it. You may ask for your data to be deleted at any time by emailing hello@bifa.film. You also have the right to complain about our handling of your data by contacting the Information Commissioner’s Office