Privacy Policy

About Us
Northwest Vision and Media is one of nine regional screen agencies that form part of 'Screen England'. Northwest Vision and Media plays a key role in developing and shaping a sustainable and dynamic film and television industry in England's Northwest.

Northwest Vision and Media takes the privacy of all its customers and website users very seriously and takes great care with customer and user information. This Privacy Policy outlines how your personal information will be treated. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced and you should check this page to see our most up to date policy.

What information do we collect?
In order to provide you with our services or process any application you make, we may collect personal information about you from our website, telephone conversations, emails, application forms and written communications. We may, for example, keep a record of your name, address, email address, telephone number and the nature of our contact.

We may supplement the information that you provide with other information that we receive from third parties. Please let us know if any of your personal information changes or is inaccurate by email or by writing to us at the address shown below so that we may keep our records up to date.

Vision and Media is registered by The Information Commissioners Office to hold personal data. Our registration number is Z1049506.

How do we use your information?
Any personal data relating to you will be used and recorded by us in accordance with current data protection legislation and this Privacy Policy. We may use your personal information to process any order or request for information and to process any application you make. We will also use the information we hold to communicate with you, for example in the event that any goods or services you have requested are unavailable, for record keeping purposes, in aggregate for market research and to improve the quality of our service. We would also like to keep you informed about the Northwest Development Agency and its activities and of particular goods, services, events and special offers that may be of interest to you.

Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your information to:

Government Office for the Northwest
North West Development Agency
Local authorities
UK Film Council
Manchester Enterprises

each of which may use your information for statistical/report purposes.

Cookies
In common with many other website operators, we may use standard technology called 'cookies' on this site. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Our cookies enable us to increase the speed at which we can download information for you. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent cookies being stored, however if you do turn cookies off this may limit the service that we are able to provide to you.

Security
We take the security of your Information seriously. We have security procedures in place to protect our customer database from loss and misuse, and only allow access to it when absolutely necessary, and then under strict guidelines as to what use may be made of the personal information contained within it.This website contains links to other websites. We are only responsible for the privacy practices on this site. We recommend that you check the privacy and security policies and procedures of each and every other website that you visit.

Your rights to access your personal information
You have the right to receive information about the Information we hold about you. We may charge a small fee towards the cost of administering any request you make.

Contact us
If you would like any further information or have any comments about our privacy policy or any other aspect of our website or service, please contact our Communications Director by either of the methods shown below:

Email: info@visionandmedia.co.uk

Mail:
Communications Director
Northwest Vision and Media
BBC, Oxford Road
Manchester
M60 1SJ