Plain terms.
Nothing hidden.

What this site collects

When you load a page, the server records the page address, the date and time, your IP address, the page or search that led you here, and your browser's basic identifying string. That is what a web server keeps in order to answer a request and stay healthy.

If you use the contact form, we receive what you type: your name, email address, a phone number if you give one, the date and type of project, and your message.

There is nothing else. No account is needed to browse, no advertising pixel is loaded, and no information about you is bought from or sold to anyone.

Why it is kept

• To keep the site online and spot abuse, spam, or a broken page
• To see which pages people actually find useful
• To reply to an enquiry and prepare a quote

Visitors are never profiled, advertising is never targeted, and the traffic figures are read by the studio owner rather than shared or published.

Cookies

The public site sets no cookies at all. The single exception is the admin sign-in, which needs a session cookie so the password does not have to be typed on every screen. The cookie policy page explains it in full.

Who else sees your data

• ipwho.is and ipapi.co are asked to turn an IP address into a country or city when a visitor is located from the admin panel
• i.ytimg.com serves the thumbnails in the latest videos section
• youtube-nocookie.com is contacted only when a video player appears on a page
• Our email provider delivers enquiry notifications and replies

Each of those services receives only the technical detail needed to answer that one request. Names, email addresses, and messages are never passed to them.

How long it stays

Traffic records are deleted after 12 months. Enquiries are kept while a project is live and for no longer than 24 months afterwards, so a conversation can be picked up where it stopped. Server backups roll off within a week.

Your choices

Browsers that send a Do Not Track signal are not logged at all. You can ask what is held about you, ask for a copy, or ask for it to be erased by writing to contact@straightjacketproductions.com. Nothing about browsing this site depends on accepting a cookie.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date above changes with it and the new wording takes effect when it is published. Last updated 7 November 2026.