Last updated August 5th 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how London Screenwriters Festival Ltd (company number 10369656), of Ealing Studios, Ealing Green, London, W5 5EP ("we", "us") collects, uses, shares, and protects personal data when you use Talent Circle (the "Service"). We are the controller of your personal data. We are registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office under registration number ZB019894.
This policy is written to meet the UK and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA, and it took effect on August 5th 2026.
Account and profile data (such as your name or handle, email address, and anything you add to your profile); content you create or upload; purchase and billing data for paid courses (handled by our payment processors, who share limited transaction data with us); communications you send us; and technical data (such as IP address, device and browser information, and usage logs) collected automatically, including via cookies.
If you join a circle that offers a health journey and choose to use it, we also collect health data. Because that is a special category under the GDPR, it is covered separately in section 3 and is only ever collected with your explicit consent.
To provide the Service and your account, and to fulfil paid courses — on the basis of performing our contract with you. To secure the Service, prevent abuse, understand usage, and improve what we offer — on the basis of our legitimate interests, balanced against your rights. To send service messages — contract or legitimate interests; to send optional marketing — on the basis of your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. To meet legal, tax, and accounting obligations — on the basis of legal obligation.
Some circles run an optional health journey — a private space for members supporting each other through a treatment or medication. If you join one and choose to use it, we store what you enter there: your weight and goal, the medication and dose you record, and the notes and answers you write in your weekly check-in.
Health data is a special category under the GDPR, so we rely on your explicit consent — and only your explicit consent — to hold it. We ask for that consent on a dedicated screen before anything is stored, and we record the date and the version of the wording you agreed to. You can withdraw it at any time.
Only you can see your weigh-in history, your medication record and your check-in answers. Not other members, not the person hosting the circle, and not our administrators — there is no admin screen for it. The one exception is the sharing dial in your settings, which is set to private by default: if you turn it up, other members of that circle see the limited summary it describes, and nothing beyond it.
We do not use health data for analytics, marketing or automated decisions, we never send it to an AI model, and we do not share it with any third party. You can delete all of it from your journey settings without closing your account, and closing your account deletes it too.
We share personal data with service providers who process it on our behalf under contract — including hosting, email delivery, and payment processing. Our Sub-processors document lists the categories we use. We may also disclose data where the law requires it, to establish or defend legal claims, or as part of a business transfer. We do not sell your personal data.
Some providers are located outside your country, including outside the UK/EEA. Where we transfer personal data internationally we rely on an adequacy decision or on appropriate safeguards such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
We keep personal data for as long as your account is active and for a reasonable period afterwards, then delete or anonymise it — except where we must keep certain records longer to meet legal, tax, or accounting obligations, or to resolve disputes.
In practice that means one thing survives closing your account: the record of any payment you made — the amount, date, what it was for, and the email address you bought with — which we must keep for tax and accounting. Everything else goes: your profile, posts, messages, photos, uploaded files and any scripts or deposits, along with the files themselves. Entries in our security and moderation logs may name a deleted account where we need them to investigate abuse.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access your personal data; to correct or delete it; to restrict or object to processing; to data portability; and to withdraw consent. Under the GDPR you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Under the CCPA/CPRA, California residents may request access, deletion, and correction, may opt out of "sharing" for cross-context advertising (which we do not do), and will not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
To exercise any right, contact chris@londonswf.com. We will verify your request and respond within the time the law allows.
We use cookies and similar technologies as described in our Cookie Policy, which explains the categories we use and how to control them.
The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact chris@londonswf.com and we will delete it.
We use technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk, including encryption in transit, hashed passwords, and access controls. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work to protect your data and to notify you and any regulator of a breach where the law requires.
You can reach our data-protection contact at chris@londonswf.com. If you are in the UK and are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk); if you are in the EEA, you may complain to your local supervisory authority.