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CELEBRATING THE INNOVATION, INTIMACY & DIVERSITY OF SMARTPHONE FILMMAKING

PRIVACY POLICY

Who we are

SMART is an international festival for the best of Smartphone Filmmaking based in London. Our website address is: www.smartfilmfest.net

Comments

If visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

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Cookies

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If you visit our log-in page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your log-in information and your screen display choices. Log-in cookies last for 2 days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your log-in will persist for 2 weeks. If you log out of your account, the log-in cookies will be removed.
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Embedded content from other websites

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These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We share your data with third party companies who help us in processing the data in hosting the website and companies who process payments on our behalf. We make sure they adhere to the same standards of data protection that we do. Personal data is never sold to third parties.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, security or legal purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.