Screamfest Privacy

Screamfest Horror Film Festival is a not-for-profit organization that produces and maintains this Website. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

The Information We Collect:

You can visit and enjoy our Website without disclosing any personal information about yourself. However, we offer some special services, and for these services to work properly we will need you to share with us certain, limited personal information about yourself.

We collect information from you when you place an order through our site, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form.

The Way We Use Information:

We use the information you provide about yourself to complete purchases. We do not share this information with outside parties.

We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive and/or to share festival information with you. These emails are not shared with outside parties.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Cookies

We do not put cookies on your computer if you are only visiting the site, nor do we work with any advertising tracking service which may use cookies. A cookie is placed on your computer if you become a user with a login and password. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a Website’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies operate in the background, and you can turn them off if you wish.

Our Commitment To Data Security

We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway provider’s (Paypal) database, where it is only accessible to those authorized with special access rights to such systems. The payment service provider (Paypal)is required to keep the information confidential.
After a transaction, your credit card information will not be stored on our servers.

Links to Third Party Websites

Our Website contains links to other websites associated with Screamfest, such as our event sponsors and partners and websites operated by unrelated third parties such as Paypal and Eventbrite. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of third party websites. We encourage you to be aware of this when your leave our Website and to read the privacy policies of every website that collects personally identifiable information from you. This Privacy Policy applies only to this Website.

Facebook (Visitor Action Pixel)

We use the “visitor action pixels” from Facebook Inc (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or, if you are based in the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”)) on our website.
This allows user behavior to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This enables us to measure the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. The data collected in this way is anonymous to us, i.e. we do not see the personal data of individual users. However, this data is stored and processed by Facebook, which is why we are informing you, based on our knowledge of the situation. Facebook may link this information to your Facebook account and also use it for its own promotional purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy (FACEBOOK (VISITOR ACTION PIXEL) We use the “visitor action pixels” from Facebook Inc (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or, if you are based in the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”)) on our website.

This allows user behavior to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This enables us to measure the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. The data collected in this way is anonymous to us, i.e. we do not see the personal data of individual users. However, this data is stored and processed by Facebook, which is why we are informing you, based on our knowledge of the situation. Facebook may link this information to your Facebook account and also use it for its own promotional purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.

You can allow Facebook and its partners to place ads on and off Facebook. A cookie may also be stored on your computer for these purposes. The legal basis for the use of this service is Art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR. You can object to the collection of your data by Facebook pixel, or to the use of your data for the purpose of displaying Facebook ads by contacting the following address:

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads

Facebook is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus guarantees compliance with European data protection legislation:

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant? id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

You can allow Facebook and its partners to place ads on and off Facebook. A cookie may also be stored on your computer for these purposes.
The legal basis for the use of this service is Art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR. You can object to the collection of your data by Facebook pixel, or to the use of your data for the purpose of displaying Facebook ads by contacting the following address:

https://www.facebook.com/settings? tab=ads

Facebook is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus guarantees compliance with European data protection legislation:

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active.