Privacy Policy & Data Security Policy
Introduction
The team at GFM Animation respects your privacy and complies with the requirements of the GDPR regulations. As such, we are committed to keeping all your personal data secure. If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us at general@gfmanimation.com
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it. By continuing to use this site, you acknowledge our collection, storage and use of your personal information as described below.
Cookies
Certain ‘cookies’ (small text files) may be sent to your device when you access and use our site.
Information we may collect from you
We use cookies & other analytics to track select information about visitors to our website. This enables us to track which pages people visit, the way they navigate our site, which links they click, and the way they experience the site. We do this so we can improve our website to enhance the users’ experience. Cookies also ensure the correct behaviour of the site and enable certain features such as allowing you to remain logged-in.
If you have signed up to our mailing lists by opting-in using our online form, you have given consent for us to process your personal information and to contact you.
We do not rent or sell your information to other organisations. We may share your information with certain service providers for the sole purpose of them delivering a service to us, for example Mailchimp, Survey Monkey, Vimeo or DropBox. This is not an exhaustive list and may be added to or amended from time to time. These third-party providers are not allowed to use your information for any purpose other than delivering the specific service to us which we have provisioned from them.
Children
We do not seek to collect personal data from children.
How to unsubscribe
You may alter your contact preferences at any time. You may unsubscribe from any of our mailing lists by clicking the link in the email or by emailing us on general@gfmanimation.com to request that we refrain from sending you email.
Processing of your personal data
However we use your data, we make sure that our use complies with lawful bases for using or processing your personal data. We may rely on one or more of these bases when we process your personal data, including where:
- we need to process your personal data to perform our contractual obligations to you;
we have obtained your consent;
we need to process your personal data to discharge our legal & regulatory obligations;
we need to process your personal data to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights or the purpose of legal proceedings; or
the use of your personal data is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as: allowing us to manage & administer the operation of our business effectively; or monitoring the use of our copyrighted materials; or enabling quick access to information on our products, content and services.
We will never share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes unless you have specifically consented for us to do so in advance.
How long we hold your personal data will vary and will be determined by: the purpose for which we are using it; and legal obligations – laws or regulations may set a minimum period for which we have to keep your personal data. In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
You are entitled to see the personal information we hold about you & request that we correct any inaccuracies or delete all the information entirely. You may do this by emailing general@gfmanimation.com.
Marketing
If you have given permission, we may contact you by email about our content, products and feature films. If you prefer not to receive any direct marketing communications from us, you are free to decline, or if you give permission and change your mind later, you can opt out at any time.
Changes to our Privacy Policy & Cookies Policy
Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy & Cookies Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.
Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy & Cookies Policy.
Last modified: 7 July 2025