This Privacy Policy explains how Celebrating Cinema, a podcast produced by cinema LAB111 (in Amsterdam, the Netherlands), collects, uses, and protects your personal data when you visit celebratingcinema.com or interact with our content.
We take your privacy seriously. We only collect data we need, we never sell it, and we keep it as long as required and no longer.
1. Who We Are
Celebrating Cinema is an Amsterdam-based podcast produced under the LAB111 brand. Our website address is: https://celebratingcinema.com
Data controller: LAB111, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Contact: celebratingcinema(a)lab111.nl
2. What Data We Collect and Why
2.1 Newsletter signup
If you subscribe to the Celebrating Cinema newsletter, we collect your email address. We use this to send you new episode announcements, podcast updates, and occasional LAB111 programme information. We use Mailchimp to manage this service.
Legal basis: Consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)). You can withdraw consent and unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email.
2.2 Contact form
If you send us a message via the contact form on this website, we collect your name and email address in order to respond to your enquiry. We do not use this data for marketing purposes.
Legal basis: Legitimate interest (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)).
2.3 Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it — see Gravatar’s privacy policy at automattic.com/privacy. Once a comment is approved, your profile picture (if set via Gravatar) is visible to the public alongside your comment.
If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
Legal basis: Legitimate interest (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)).
2.4 Website analytics
This website may use analytics tools (such as Google Analytics or similar) to understand how visitors use the site — which pages are visited, how long visitors stay, and where they arrive from. This data is aggregated and anonymised where possible. We use it only to improve the website.
Legal basis: Legitimate interest (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). Where required by law, we request consent via our cookie banner.
2.5 Podcast platform embeds
This website embeds podcast players from Spotify. When you interact with a Spotify embed, Spotify may collect data in accordance with their own privacy policy. We do not control this data collection. You can review Spotify’s privacy policy at spotify.com/privacy.
2.6 Uploaded media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
3. Cookies
This website uses cookies. These may include:
- Essential cookies — required for the website to function (e.g. login session cookies, which last for two days; screen display cookies, which last for one year)
- Comment cookies — if you leave a comment and opt in, your name and email are saved for one year
- Analytics cookies — to understand how the site is used (only with your consent)
- Third-party cookies — set by embedded content from Spotify and other services
Embedded content from other websites (videos, podcast players, etc.) behaves as if you have visited that website directly. Those sites may collect data about you, use cookies, and track your interaction with their embedded content.
You can manage your cookie preferences via our cookie banner when you first visit the site.
4. How We Store and Protect Your Data
Your data is stored securely. We use Mailchimp (headquartered in the United States, operating under EU Standard Contractual Clauses) for newsletter management. We do not store newsletter data on our own servers.
We retain your email address for as long as you remain subscribed to the newsletter. Contact form enquiries are retained for a reasonable period sufficient to resolve your enquiry and no longer. Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to allow recognition and approval of follow-up comments.
In the event of a personal data breach that is likely to result in risk to your rights and freedoms, we will notify the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach, and will notify affected individuals without undue delay where required.
5. Your Rights Under GDPR
If you are located in the European Union or the European Economic Area, you have the following rights:
- Right to access — you can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
- Right to rectification — you can ask us to correct inaccurate data
- Right to erasure — you can ask us to delete your personal data
- Right to restrict processing — you can ask us to limit how we use your data
- Right to data portability — you can ask us to provide your data in a portable format
- Right to object — you can object to our processing of your data where we rely on legitimate interest
- Right to withdraw consent — where we process your data on the basis of consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of all personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, except data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at: celebratingcinema(a)lab111.nl
We will respond within 30 days.
6. Complaints
If you believe we have handled your personal data improperly, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Dutch data protection authority:
Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens Postbus 93374 2509 AJ Den Haag autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl
7. Third-Party Services
This website uses the following third-party services which may process personal data:
| Service | Purpose | Privacy Policy |
|---|---|---|
| Mailchimp (Intuit) | Newsletter management | mailchimp.com/legal/privacy |
| Spotify | Podcast embeds | spotify.com/privacy |
| Gravatar (Automattic) | Comment profile pictures | automattic.com/privacy |
| Google Analytics (if used) | Website analytics | policies.google.com/privacy |
| Hosting provider | Website infrastructure | (see your hosting provider’s policy) |
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. If we make significant changes, we will notify newsletter subscribers.
9. Contact
For any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data:
Email: celebratingcinema(a)lab111.nl Website: celebratingcinema.com