People we may contact about our work
Last updated: 8 July 2026Sensible Spark Ltd ("Sensible Spark", "we", "us") is a company registered in England and Wales (number 15813619), with its registered office on file at Companies House. This notice explains how we use personal data when we identify people who may be interested in working with us on a film or television project, before we contact them. It supplements our main privacy policy; where the two differ, this notice governs this activity. If you have received an introductory message from us, this tells you what we did with your information beforehand.
1 What we use and where it comes from
We use publicly available information, such as name, country of residence, professional background, and material published by or about people who may be interested in working with us on a film or television project. We obtain it only from publicly available and lawfully licensed sources: public registers, freely available published content, and professional platforms or licensed data providers, used within their terms. We do not use special-category data, and we do not scrape platforms or use people-search, scraped, or breach data.
2 Why we use it and our lawful basis
We use this information only to identify people who may be interested in working with us, so that a member of our team can decide whether to make contact. We also consider whether someone is likely to have the financial standing to engage us on a high-value film or television project. Our lawful basis is legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR, and the equivalent EU GDPR provision); our legitimate interest is identifying people who may be interested in working with us on a film or television project, and we have carried out a legitimate-interests assessment for it. Automated processing helps us shortlist, but a person at Sensible Spark always makes the decision to contact, and you can object at any time. Before contacting anyone, we also screen their name against published sanctions lists, and a match stops us proceeding.
4 How long we keep it
We keep this information for up to 36 months from when we collect or last refresh it, and for up to 24 months from our last meaningful contact where someone does not go on to work with us, after which we delete it.
5 Your rights
You can ask us to access, correct, delete, restrict, or transfer your information, and you can object to our use of it (including profiling) at any time, because we rely on legitimate interests. To exercise any right, or for any data-protection question, email compliance@sensiblespark.com; we normally reply within one month. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk) or, if you are in the EU, your local data-protection authority.
