Privacy Policy

We collect personal details that you voluntarily submit to us, including your name, email address, and message content when submitting festival inquiries or feedback through our contact forms.

When you subscribe to the IMEFF newsletter, we collect your email address to provide festival updates, screening schedules, and announcements.

We gather standard web analytics and log data when you browse our virtual festival platform. This includes anonymized IP addresses, browser types, referring pages, device operating systems, and session timestamps to help maintain platform stability and improve festival access.

Your data is used strictly for non-profit cultural purposes: communicating festival programming, processing registrations for virtual screenings, responding directly to your inquiries, and sending requested newsletters.

Aggregated, non-identifiable usage statistics help us report audience reach to cultural grant providers and improve digital streaming performance across different regions.

IMEFF does not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. As an independent non-profit cultural initiative, we share data solely with trusted service providers essential to festival operations (such as secure email distribution systems, virtual streaming hosts, and core infrastructure providers).

All third-party service providers are contractually required to maintain strict confidentiality and process your information only in accordance with our instructions.

We use essential cookies necessary for the basic operation of the website and virtual screening player. These enable you to navigate the programme, save session preferences, and access scheduled streams.

We may use privacy-respecting analytics cookies to assess aggregate visitor numbers and stream loading metrics. You can adjust your browser settings at any time to decline non-essential cookies.

We keep your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy or to comply with statutory obligations. Contact form records are periodically reviewed and purged. Newsletter subscribers may unsubscribe at any time via the link in every bulletin, which prompts immediate removal of their address from our active mailing lists.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you, request corrections to inaccurate records, request deletion of your data, or withdraw consent previously granted for communications.

To exercise any of these statutory rights, please send a written request through our festival contact channels.