Privacy policy

1. Who we are

This website, brickell-wild-life.co.uk, showcases James Brickell’s wildlife filmmaking work, professional experience and public speaking services.

For the purposes of applicable data protection legislation, the data controller is James Brickell.

If you have any questions about this policy or how your personal data is handled, you can contact us at:

Email: james@brickell-wild.life

2. What information we collect

We may collect and process the following information when you use this website:

• Contact and booking enquiries: your name, email address, telephone number, organisation, and any information you include in a message about a potential speaking engagement.
• Website technical information: information that may be recorded by our website hosting provider or security tools, such as IP addresses, browser information, access times and server logs.
• Correspondence: information contained in communications between you and us when discussing enquiries, proposals or bookings.

Please avoid submitting confidential or sensitive personal information through the website’s contact form unless it is necessary and appropriate.

3. How we use your information

We use personal information for the following purposes:

• Responding to contact messages and speaking enquiries.
• Discussing availability, fees, event requirements and potential bookings.
• Arranging and managing speaking engagements.
• Maintaining website security, preventing spam and investigating technical issues.
• Meeting applicable legal and regulatory obligations.

We do not currently use Google Analytics to track visitors to this website.

4. Our lawful bases for processing

Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for processing personal data.

Depending on the circumstances, we rely on the following bases:

• Legitimate interests: responding to general enquiries, managing communications and maintaining website security, where our interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.
• Steps before entering a contract: handling enquiries and taking steps at your request before entering into a speaking engagement agreement.
• Legal obligation: processing information where required to comply with applicable legal obligations.

Where we rely on legitimate interests, we consider the impact on individuals and their rights.

5. Contact forms and storage of enquiries

When you submit an enquiry through our website, the information you provide is sent to James and stored within the website’s WordPress system.

Access to this information is restricted to those who need it to manage enquiries and website operations.

We may also process this information through our website hosting provider, email provider or other technical service providers where necessary to operate the website and respond to enquiries.

We retain enquiry information only for as long as reasonably necessary for its intended purpose, including managing potential bookings, maintaining relevant correspondence and meeting applicable legal obligations.

6. Website hosting and security

Our website is built using WordPress and relies on third-party hosting and technical services.

These providers may process certain technical information to deliver the website, maintain its security, prevent abuse and troubleshoot technical problems.

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, alteration or disclosure. However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

7. Embedded YouTube videos

This website includes videos hosted by YouTube, a service provided by Google.

When you visit a page containing an embedded video, your browser may connect to YouTube or Google and transmit technical information, including your IP address and information about your browser and device. YouTube may use cookies or similar technologies, depending on the embedding configuration and your interaction with the player.

Where available, we aim to use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced embedding mode and configure videos to minimise data collection before you choose to play them.

When you play an embedded video, YouTube may collect information about your viewing activity and process it in accordance with its own privacy policies.

For further information, please consult Google’s Privacy Policy and YouTube’s terms and policies.

8. Search engines, AI systems and public website content

This website is publicly accessible and may be discovered, accessed and indexed by search engines, including Google and Bing, and other web crawlers.

Publicly available pages may also be accessed by automated systems operated by artificial intelligence (AI) providers and other third parties. Depending on the provider and its practices, content may be used to retrieve information, generate search results or responses, or develop and improve AI systems.

We do not control how independent search engines, AI providers or other third parties process content they access from this website. Their subsequent use of publicly available content is subject to their own policies and practices.

We may use technical measures, including crawler access rules, to manage access to website content. These measures do not guarantee that all third parties will comply with our preferences or that publicly available content will not be accessed, reproduced or referenced elsewhere.

The publication of information on this website does not remove any applicable legal protections relating to personal data, copyright or other rights.

9. Sharing your information

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share information with service providers where necessary to operate the website, store enquiry submissions, deliver communications, maintain security or manage bookings.

We may also disclose information where required by law or where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

10. International transfers

Some third-party service providers, including providers of embedded content, may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where applicable data protection law requires safeguards for international transfers of personal data, we will take appropriate steps to ensure those transfers are lawful.

11. How long we keep information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.

Enquiry records are reviewed periodically and deleted when no longer required, unless we need to retain them for a legitimate business purpose or legal obligation.

Technical logs and records held by service providers may be retained in accordance with their own retention arrangements.

12. Your data protection rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:

• Request access to personal information we hold about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Request erasure of your personal information.
• Request restriction of processing.
• Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Request the transfer of certain personal information to you or another organisation.
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

These rights are subject to applicable legal conditions and exemptions.

To exercise your rights, please contact us using the details in section 1.

You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are concerned about how your personal information is handled. Further information is available at ico.org.uk.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes to the website, our practices or applicable legal requirements.

The latest version will be published on this page, together with its revision date.