Privacy

Who we are

Returning Sands Community Interest Company (company no. 17311689, registered office 5 Brayford Square, London E1 0SG) runs this website and is the data controller for the information described here.

What we collect and why

Mailing list: if you join, we keep your email address and the date and wording of your consent so we can send occasional updates about events, the film and how donations are used. The form is processed by Web3Forms, which forwards your submission to our inbox. You can unsubscribe at any time by replying to any email or writing to the address below.

Donations: card payments are handled by Stripe and US donations by PayPal on behalf of our fiscal sponsor, SIMA Studios. We receive your name, email address, donation amount and, if you choose, your mailing list preference. We do not see or store card details. Stripe and PayPal process your data under their own privacy policies.

Bank transfers: if you donate by bank transfer we see the name and reference that your bank sends with the payment.

Email: if you write to us, we keep the correspondence for as long as needed to deal with it.

Cookies and analytics

This site uses Vercel Analytics, which counts visits without cookies or personal identifiers. Links to Instagram and LinkedIn take you to those sites, which have their own privacy policies. No other tracking is used.

Legal basis and retention

We rely on your consent for the mailing list, on our legitimate interests in running the organisation for donation records and correspondence, and on legal obligation for financial records, which we keep for six years as required by UK law. Mailing list data is deleted when you unsubscribe.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can ask to see, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you, and object to or restrict how we use it. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.