1. INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Policy is provided by Immerse Studios, a company registered in England and Wales under company number: 07676150 with registered office 22 Great Chapel Street, London, England,W1F 8FR (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’) for use of our products and services including our website www.immerse-studios.com -Services.

We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data).

It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or the relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint. Our collection, storage, use and sharing of your personal data is regulated by law, including under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

We are the controller of personal data obtained via the Services, meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.

2. WHAT THIS POLICY APPLIES TO

This privacy policy relates to your use of the Services only. The Services may link to or rely on other apps, websites, APIs or services owned and operated by us or by certain trusted third parties to enable us to provide you with Services. These other apps, websites, APIs or services may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to these other apps, websites or services, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate. For more information see the section ‘Who we share your personal data with’ below.

3. PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through the Services. We will collect and use the following personal data about you:

CATEGORY OF DATA

Identify and account data you input into the Services

IN MORE DETAIL

  • Your name, email address, contact phone number

  • If we enter into an agreement with you, your home address

CATEGORY OF DATA

Data collected when you use specific functions in the Services

IN MORE DETAIL

  • Data you store online with us using the Services including your usage history or preferences (while such data may not always be personal data as defined at law in all cases we will assume it is and treat it in accordance with this policy as if it were)

  • Data you store online with us using the Services including your usage history or preferences (while such data may not always be personal data as defined at law in all cases we will assume it is and treat it in accordance with this policy as if it were)

CATEGORY OF DATA

Other data the Services collects automatically when you use it

IN MORE DETAIL

  • Your activities on, and use of, the Services which reveal your preferences, interests or manner of use of the Services and the times of use

If you do not provide personal data we ask for where it is required, it may prevent us from providing services and/or the Services to you.We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section ‘How and why we use your personal data’ below.

4. SENSITIVE DATA

Sensitive personal data (also known as special category data) means information related to personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or philosophical beliefs; trade union membership; genetic data; biometric data (where used for identification purposes); data concerning health; data concerning a person’s sex life; and data concerning a person’s sexual orientation.

Please note that we do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive personal data or information about criminal convictions from individuals and that you should not submit sensitive data to us.

If, however you do submit sensitive data to us, such as if you make this sensitive data available to other users of the Services (such as by publishing it through any forum feature we may make available from time to time) we will assume that you have purposefully made any such sensitive data manifestly public.

5. HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTED

We collect personal data from you directly when you sign up to the Services, contact us directly or reach out to us via social media, make submissions via the Services when a forum element is available, or indirectly, such as your activity while using the Services.

At this point in time, we do not collect any personal information about you using cookies or similar technologies. In the event that this were to change and if we were to decide to collect personal data about you using cookies, you would be notified of this change by means of in-app notification, with detailed information regarding our use of cookies and similar technologies to be made available in the relevant cookies policy.

6. HOW AND WHY WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, e.g.:

  1. where you have given consent

  2. to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

  3. for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, or

  4. for our legitimate interests or those of a third party

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).

What we use your personal data for and why:

WHAT WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

Create and manage your account with us

OUR REASONS

  • To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract

WHAT WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

Providing services and/or the functionalities of the Services to you

OUR REASONS

Depending on the circumstances:

  • to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract (in this case, the contract means the Terms and Conditions of Use which apply to the Services)

  • to respond to your enquiry via or for the Services.

WHAT WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

To enforce legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings

OUR REASONS

Depending on the circumstances:

  • to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

  • in other cases, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to protect our business, interests and rights or those of others

WHAT WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to theServices or service or other important notices

OUR REASONS

Depending on the circumstances:

  • to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

  • in other cases, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to provide the best service to you

WHAT WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

Protect the security of systems and data

OUR REASONS

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations we may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e.,to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or us

WHAT WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training, and quality control or to provide support to you

OUR REASONS

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you

WHAT WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g., in relation to our performance, customer base, app and functionalities and offerings or other efficiency measures

OUR REASONS

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you and improve and develop our app

WHAT WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

Updating and enhancing user records

OUR REASONS

Depending on the circumstances:

  • to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract (in this case, the contract means the Terms and Conditions of Use which apply to the Services)

  • to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

  • where neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, eg making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about their accounts and new products or functionalities related to the Services and our services

WHAT WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

Depending on the circumstances:

  • to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract (in this case, the contract means the Terms andConditions of Use which apply to theServices)

  • to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

  • where neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about their accounts and new products or functionalities related to the Services and our services

OUR REASONS

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

WHAT WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

To share your personal data with members of our group and third parties in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency.In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary

OUR REASONS

Depending on the circumstances:

  • to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

  • in other cases, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to protect, realise or grow the value in our business and assets

See ‘Who we share your personal data with’ for further information on the steps we will take to protect your personal data where we need to share it with others.

7. MARKETING

We intend to email marketing to inform you of our services such as promotions.

We will always ask you for your consent before doing sending you marketing communications, except where you have explicitly opted-in to receiving email marketing from us in the past or except where you were given the option to opt-out of email marketing when you initially signed up for your account with us and you did not do so.

You will have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by:

  • contacting us at info@studiomateri.com

  • using the ‘unsubscribe’ link included in all marketing emails you may received from us

We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organisations for marketing purposes.

For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see ‘Your rights’ below.

9. HOW LONG YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL BE KEPT

We will keep your personal data for as long as you have an active account with us and for a period of up to 6 years thereafter to comply with any accounting or legal obligations including in the event of the pursuit or defence of legal claims. Once you have closed your account with us, we will move your personal data to a separate database so that only key stakeholders in our business on a ‘need to know basis’ have access to such data.

Following the end of the of the aforementioned retention period, we will delete or anonymise your personal data.

10. TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL DATA OUT OF THE UK

At this point in time, we do not transfer your personal data outside of the UK. If this changes, we would comply with applicable UK laws designed to ensure the continued protection and privacy of your personal data. Any updated destinations to which we send your personal data, would be indicated in the present section and notified to you in accordance with the section on ‘Change to this privacy policy’ below

Furthermore, under UK data protection laws, we can only transfer your personal data to a country outside the UK where: the UK government has decided the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an ‘adequacy regulation’) further to Article 45 of theUK GDPR; there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for you; or a specific exception applies under relevant data protection law.
Accordingly, if we were to start transferring your personal data from the UK to:

  • The EEA: we would rely on the adequacy finding granted by the UK to the EU under theWithdrawal Agreement to do; for any transfers from the EU to the UK, we would rely on the adequacy regulation granted to the UK under the Adequacy Decision.

  • Any country located outside the UK/EEA: we would rely an appropriate safeguards under the UK GDPR, such as by including the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses in our data processing agreements

In the event we could not or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at anytime we would not transfer your personal data outside the UK unless we could do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by UK data protection law.

11. YOUR RIGHTS

You generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge. For more information regarding these rights, please visit the ICO website here.

Access to a copy of your personal data

  • The right to be provided with a copy of yourpersonal data.

Correction (also known as rectification)

  • The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data.

Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten)

  • The right to require us to delete your personal data—in certain situations.

Restriction of use

  • The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data.

Data portability

  • The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations.

The object to use

The right to object:

  • at any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling)

  • in certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, e.g. where we use your personal data for our legitimate interests.

Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement

  • The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling)that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects youWe do not make any such decisions based on data collected by the Services.

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they do and do not apply, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below). You may also find it helpful to refer to the guidance from the UK’s Information Commissioner on your rights under the UK GDPR.If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please complete a request form—available on our website or email , call or write to us—see below: ‘How to contact us’. When contacting us please:

  • provide enough information to identify yourself (e.g., your full name and username) and any additional identity information we may reasonably request from you, and

  • let us know which right(s) you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates

12. KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL DATA SECURE

We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to access it.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.

13. HOW TO COMPLAIN

Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your information (see below ‘How to contact us’). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at here or telephone: 0303 123 1113.

14. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your information (see below ‘How to contact us’). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at here or telephone: 0303 123 1113.

15. HOW TO CONTACT US

You can contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.

Our contact details are shown below:

  • 22 Great Chapel Street, London, England, W1F 8FR

  • info@immerse-studios.com

COOKIE POLICY

Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our Services. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy which set out who we are, how to contact us, what data is collected, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.

16. COOKIES

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. your smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our Services. When we use cookies on our Services, you will always be informed by a pop-up within the Services.Cookies help us to recognise you and your device and allow us to store some information about your preferences or past actions, including your location data (for more information, please see ourPrivacy Policy).For example, we may monitor how many times you use our Services, which parts of the Services you go to location data. This information helps us to understand use of the Services by our users.Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

17. CONSENT TO USE COOKIES AND CHANGING SETTINGS

We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested (e.g. to allow you to remain logged-in to the Services as you navigate within the Services and use the Services functionalities).

You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by using the tool made available to you within the Services itself. You can then adjust sliders or untick boxes as appropriate to reflect your choice. It may be necessary to refresh or restart the Services for the updated settings to take effect.

18. OUR USE OF COOKIES

Here is some more information about the cookies we use and why:

THE COOKIES WE USE

UniversalAnalytics (Google)

NAME

_ga

PURPOSE

This is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc which uses cookies to show us how visitors use our Services, and how we can enhance their experience. It tracks the following:

  • Users. A user is a unique or new visitor to the website.

  • Bounce rate. The percentage of visitors who viewed only a single page. These visitors only triggered a single request to the Google Analytics server.

  • Average session duration. How long on average each visitor stays on the site.

  • Percentage of new sessions. The percentage of website visits that are first-time visits.

  • Pages per session. The average number of page views per each session.

  • Goal completions. The number of times visitors complete a specified, desirable action. This is also known as a conversion.

  • Page views. Total number of pages viewed.

  • language;

  • browser type;

  • city and country;

  • models of devices; and

  • user age group

This cookie will remain no longer than 13 months before the cookie is refreshed.

Read how uses the cookies and the data generated by them where relevant here

19. HOW TO TURN OFF ALL COOKIES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DOING SO

If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your device settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our Services and of other Services you use on your device. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org orwww.allaboutcookies.org.

20. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

This policy was published on June 2024. We may change this cookies policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via the Services or by sending an email to the email address you provided when you signed up to the Services.