Privacy Policy

Last Updated: February 22nd, 2023

WHO WE ARE

Thank you for visiting Black Letter Films. We’re pleased to provide you products and services which may be branded as Black Letter, Black Letter Films, Black Letter Music, Black Letter Productions, or any other brand owned by Black Letter Films, S.R.L. (“Black Letter“). This Privacy Policy explains how Black Letter collect, use, and share personal information from when you use our websites and services.

Collection and Use Of Personal Information

Black Letter may collect different types of information during your interactions with our sites and media across the Internet. This information includes data that can be used to contact or identify a single person, technical information and usage information. We collectively refer to all of this information as personal information. You are not required to provide the personal information that we have requested, but, if you chose not to do so, in many cases we will not be able to provide you with some of our services or respond to any queries you may have.


Here are some examples of the personal information Black Letter may collect:

What personal information we collect

  • When you register an user, purchase a product, download a product, contact us, fill any other type of form or participate in an online survey, we may collect personal information such as your name, address, phone number, email address, subjects, messages, contact preferences, device identifiers, IP address, location information, the type of device, browser, browser language, and operating system you are using, certain Site usage information and credit card information.
  • When you post or share personal information or content, such as photos, letters, videos, or any other form of comments on our sites, or when you interact with our sites through social media, depending on your privacy settings this personal information and your username may become public on the Internet or within a community of users. We cannot prevent further use of this personal information once it is made public.

How we use the information

We may use your personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy with your consent.


  • Communicating with you: We may use your personal information to respond to your requests or inquiries and to provide you technical support. From time to time, we may use your personal information to send critical notices, such as communications about purchases and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies. Because this information is important to your interaction with Black Letter, you may not opt out of receiving these communications.
  • Newsletter: The personal information we collect allows us to keep you posted on Black Letter’s latest announcements, films, products, albums and upcoming deals. If you don’t want to be on our mailing list, you can opt out anytime by updating your preferences.
  • Publishing your comments: If you choose to submit content for the comments sections on any of our sites, we may publish your screen name and other personal information you have provided to us on our sites.
  • Compliance and fraud prevention: We may use your personal information to detect, investigate, and prevent activities on our sites that may violate our terms of use, could be fraudulent, violate copyright, or other rules or that may be otherwise illegal, and to protect our rights and the rights and safety of our users and others.
  • Internal uses: We may also use technical and usage information to improve the design, functionality and content of our sites, auditing, data analysis, research to improve Black Letter’s products and services, and perform analytics.
  • Contests: If you enter into a contest, sweepstake or similar promotion, we may use the information you provide to administer those programs.

DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES

At times, Black Letter may share and disclose certain personal information in the following ways:

  • Legal and law enforcement: We may disclose Information in response to legal process, a court order, a subpoena, or in response to a law enforcement agency’s request if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our rights and the rights and safety of others.
  • Change of control: In the event of a sale, merger, business reorganization or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, we may transfer any or all Information we collected to the relevant third party.

COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

Black Letter’s websites, online services and advertisements may use “cookies” and other technologies as web beacons and pixel tags to understand user behavior, their online experiences on our sites and the effectiveness of our advertisements. We treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personal for the purpose of this Privacy Policy, as they can not be traced back to the user.

 

We gather some information automatically with the use of cookies and other technologies and store it in log files. This information includes IP addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit websites and applications, operating system, date/time stamp, and click stream data.

 

We use this information to understand and analyze trends, to administer the sites, to learn about user behavior on the sites, to improve our services, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Black Letter may use this information in marketing and advertising strategies and campaigns of any kind.

 

Ads that are delivered on some of Black Letter’s sites are provided by a third party platform, Google AdSense. You can find out more information about Google AdSense cookies here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

 

All of our sites use Google Analytics to analyze traffic. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage. To opt-out of Google Analytics relating to your use of our sites, you can download and install the Browser Plugin available via this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

 

You may adjust your browser to reject cookies from us or from any other website. Controlling cookies via browser controls may not limit our use of other technologies. Please consult your browser’s settings for more information. Please note that certain features of our websites will not be available once cookies are disabled.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Black Letter’s online services protect your personal information during transit using encryption such as Transport Layer Security (TLS) and we have put in place reasonable controls to help protect the personal information we collect via our sites. However, please be aware that no security solutions are perfect or infallible and we cannot assure you that personal information that we collect will never be accessed or used in an unauthorized way.

 

When you use some of Black Letter’s services, or comment on one of our sites, or social media sites, the personal information and content you share is visible to other users and can be read, collected, or used by them. You are responsible for the personal information you choose to share or submit in these instances. For example, if you list your name and email address in a forum posting, that information is public.

CHILDREN AND MINORS UNDER 18

We understand the importance of protecting the privacy and safety of children. Most of Black Letter’s Services are intended for users of all ages. Children under the age of 13, or equivalent minimum age in the relevant jurisdiction, are not permitted to use any of Black Letter’s services or sites.

 

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child under 13 has provided us with personal information without consent, please contact us at privacy@blackletterfilms.com. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under 13, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

 

Minors under 18 years old, or their parents, may request the removal of information that they posted to Black Letter’s sites by contacting privacy@blackletterfilms.com. Upon such request, Black Letter will anonymize, or remove any content posted by a minor, unless required by law to retain such content or information.

THIRD PARTY SITES AND SERVICES

Black Letter’s websites, products, and services may contain links to third-party websites, products, and services. Our products and services may also use or offer products or services from third parties − for example, the use of PayPal for checkout in the Black Letter Store.

 

Information collected by third parties, which may include such things as location data or contact details, is governed by their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of those third parties.

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

 

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube video, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

 

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

 

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

 

Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://policies.google.com/privacy

VIMEO

Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

 

If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo video, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.

 

If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.

 

For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

 

For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

 

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

 

Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

PRIVACY QUESTIONS

Black Letter may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, we will post a notice on our sites. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always know our current privacy practices.

 

The date at the top of the Privacy Policy tells you when it was last updated. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when the revised Privacy Policy is posted. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or any changes we make, please do not continue to use any of Black Letter’s Services.

 

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about this Privacy Policy or Black Letter’s data processing, please contact us at privacy@blackletterfilms.com.