Privacy

Last updated 15 October 2026

This site collects very little: your email address if you sign up for updates or write to us, and the basic records any web server keeps. Here is what happens to each.

Questions about your data go to [email protected].

Email sign-up

If you use the "Follow the series" form, we store your email address and the date and time you signed up.

• What it's used for: only to email you when a new Erne film is released. Nothing else, and no other mailing lists.
• Legal basis: your consent, given when you submit the form. You can withdraw it at any time.
• Where it's kept: on a server the project runs itself, in the UK. It is not sold, shared or given to anyone else.
• How long: until you unsubscribe or ask to be removed, or until the project ends, whichever comes first.
• Unsubscribing: every email will include a way to unsubscribe, or you can email us. We'll remove you promptly, and always within one month.

If the project later uses a mailing service to send emails, this page will be updated to name it before your address is moved there.

Emailing us

If you email the project, for example through the contact page, your email address and message are used only to reply and to follow up on what you asked about, such as arranging an interview. They are not added to the mailing list unless you ask, and they are deleted once they are no longer needed.

Server records

The site is delivered through Cloudflare, which carries each visit between your browser and our server. Cloudflare sees your IP address and handles it under its own privacy policy.

Our server keeps a short technical record of each request, such as the page asked for and your browser type. These records are used only to keep the site running and secure, and are deleted within 14 days. To stop abuse of the sign-up form, your IP address is also held in memory for up to an hour; it is not saved.

Fonts and links

The site's typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts, so your browser sends your IP address to Google when you open a page. See Google's privacy policy.

Links to YouTube take you to a site run by Google, under its own privacy policy.

Cookies

This site sets no cookies and uses no analytics or tracking.

People who appear in the films

If you are interviewed for a film, how your recordings and details are handled is explained on the release form you are given before filming.

Your rights

You have the right to ask for a copy of the data held about you, to have it corrected, and to have it deleted. Email [email protected] and you'll get a reply within one month.

If you're unhappy with how your data has been handled, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's data protection regulator.

Who is responsible

The Erne Project is an independent project, not a company. Under data protection law, the person responsible for your data (the data controller) is its maker, Mark Bolger, based in Northern Ireland. All contact goes through [email protected].