What this site collects, and what it doesn’t.

Brown Melon is a one-person film studio in the East Midlands. This site sells nothing, has no accounts and no login. Two kinds of statistic are collected, and one of them waits for your permission.

Visitor numbers

Counted with Umami, which runs on the studio’s own server. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device and does not follow you to other sites. It records the page you opened, the site that sent you, your country, and roughly what browser and device you used. None of that identifies you, and it is not combined with anything else. The lawful basis is legitimate interests: knowing whether anyone is reading.

Google Analytics

Loads only if you accept. Until then it is not on the page at all, and if you refuse it never arrives. It sets the cookies listed below and sends what it collects to Google, which may process it outside the UK. The lawful basis is your consent, and you can take it back at any time using the control at the bottom of this page. Google explains its own handling at policies.google.com/privacy.

The enquiry form

It opens your own email app with the message filled in. Nothing you type there reaches a server belonging to this site, because there isn’t one — the enquiry is an ordinary email, and it is kept as long as it takes to answer you and to keep a record of work discussed.

The films

Films play from YouTube in privacy-enhanced mode, and the player is only loaded once you press play. Until then YouTube is not contacted and sets nothing. Press play and Google’s terms apply to that playback.

Your rights

You can ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, object to it being used, or ask for a copy. Write to [email protected] and you will get an answer within a month. If the answer is unsatisfactory you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.