Privacy Policy

Who we are

This website belongs to Augmented Films SRL, a film production company in Bucharest, Romania. We are the controller of the personal data described in this policy. That means we decide how it is used and we are responsible for it under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Our US sister company, Noetic Ark LLC, handles international sales. It is a separate company. The section “Who receives it” explains when Noetic Ark may see your details.

To reach us about your data, use our contact form and start your message with “Privacy request.”

What we collect

We collect only what you choose to send us, plus the basic technical data that every website receives.

When you contact us

Your name, your email address, the topic you are writing about, and your message. If you add them, your company or organization and your country.

When you request an invitation

Your name, your email address, your role, and what you would like to attend. If you add them, your company or organization and a message.

When you sign up for slate updates

Your email address. Slate updates is our newsletter about the slate, from development to premiere.

When you visit the site

Our host’s servers record each request: your IP address, the date and time, the page you asked for, the page that sent you, and your browser and device type. We use this only to keep the site running and secure.

When you send a form, our website host, Netlify, stores it with your IP address, your browser type, and the page you sent it from.

To keep spam out, our forms include a field that people can’t see and automated programs tend to fill in. Netlify also checks every form with an automated spam filter, Akismet.

Please don’t send us sensitive information, such as health details, through the forms. We don’t need it. This site is meant for film professionals and is not directed at children.

How we use it

The GDPR asks us to name a legal basis for each use of your data. These are ours.

• Replying to your message and handling your request, including arranging a meeting

  Legal basis Steps you ask us to take before a possible agreement, or our legitimate interest in answering questions about our slate and our work. Art. 6(1)(b), (f)

• Sending you slate updates, our newsletter

  Legal basis Your consent. You can withdraw it at any time by writing to us, or with the unsubscribe link in any slate updates email. Art. 6(1)(a)

• Keeping the site running, secure, and free of spam

  Legal basis Our legitimate interest in a safe, working website. Art. 6(1)(f)

• Remembering your cookie choice and display preferences, and running the transitions between pages

  Legal basis Strictly necessary for the site you are using, so no consent is needed. ePrivacy Directive Art. 5(3), Romanian Law 506/2004

• Keeping records when a conversation leads to an agreement

  Legal basis Our legal obligations, for example under Romanian accounting and tax law. Art. 6(1)(c)

• Establishing or defending legal claims

  Legal basis Our legitimate interest in protecting our rights. Art. 6(1)(f)

Where we rely on our legitimate interests, you can object at any time (see Your rights). We don’t make automated decisions about you and we don’t build profiles.

How long we keep it

We keep your details only as long as we need them for the reason you sent them, or as long as the law requires.

Messages and invitation requests

As long as we need them to answer you and follow up. When a conversation has ended, we delete it from our email and from our host’s form records, unless it led to an agreement. Then we keep what the law requires.

Slate updates sign-ups

Until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove you.

Records the law requires

For the periods Romanian law sets, for example for accounting documents.

Server logs and spam checks

For the short period our host and its spam filter need, then deleted.

Entries in your browser

See Cookies and browser storage.

Who receives it

Your details are read by the people at Augmented Films who handle your request. A few companies help us run the site and our email. They process your data on our behalf and only to provide their service to us.

We may also share data with our advisers, such as our accountant or lawyer, or with public authorities, when the law requires it or to protect our rights.

We don’t sell, rent, or trade your personal data, and we don’t share it with anyone for advertising.

Transfers outside Europe

Some of the companies above are based in the United States, including our sister company Noetic Ark LLC and our website host, Netlify, Inc. If your data goes to a country outside the European Economic Area, we make sure the transfer is covered by a safeguard the GDPR recognizes. That can be a European Commission adequacy decision, such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework where the recipient takes part in it, or the Commission’s standard contractual clauses. You can ask us which safeguard applies.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask us to do the following with the personal data we hold about you.

Access Art. 15

Get a copy of your data and know how we use it.

Correction Art. 16

Fix data that is wrong or incomplete.

Deletion Art. 17

Delete your data when we no longer need it or have no legal basis to keep it.

Restriction Art. 18

Pause the use of your data while a question about it is settled.

Portability Art. 20

Receive the data you gave us in a common format, or have it sent to someone else.

Objection Art. 21

Object to uses based on our legitimate interests, and to direct marketing at any time.

Withdrawing consent Art. 7(3)

Take back a consent you gave, such as for slate updates. What we did before stays lawful.

No automated decisions Art. 22

Not be subject to decisions made only by automated means. We make none.

When we correct or delete data, we also tell anyone we shared it with, unless that is impossible. To use any of these rights, write to us through the contact form and start your message with “Privacy request.” We answer within one month, free of charge, and may first ask you to confirm who you are.

If you are not satisfied

You can complain to the Romanian data protection authority, or to the authority in the EU country where you live or work. We would appreciate the chance to sort it out with you first.

Cookies and browser storage

This website sets no cookies. It keeps up to three small entries in your browser’s storage. They make the site work the way you asked, never leave your browser, and contain nothing that identifies you.

Analytics and marketing tools would run only if you turned them on under Cookie Settings. The site currently uses none. If we add one, we will name it here and ask for your consent first.

Fonts, scripts, images, and videos load from this website’s own server, so browsing the site sends no requests to other services. Trailers and streaming services are plain links that take you to those services.

The site doesn’t track you across other websites, so a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal from your browser has nothing to switch off.

Other websites

Our pages link to streaming services, festivals, IMDb, YouTube, Facebook, and other sites. When you follow a link, that site’s own privacy policy and cookies apply. We don’t control how those sites handle your data.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page when our practices change, for example when we add a new tool or provider, and change the date at the top. This version is effective October 22, 2026.