Your data.
No nonsense.

Screaming Cat Studios Ltd is the controller responsible for the personal data described here.

Company number: 14627660
Registered office: 22 Sykes Walk, Batley, England, WF17 0PR
Privacy contact: privacy@screamingcatstudios.com

This notice covers our public website, project and support enquiries, clients and suppliers, business contacts and prospects, recruitment, and people who work with us. A game, application, client project or third-party platform may provide a separate notice where it handles additional data.

Depending on how you deal with us, we may hold:

• your name, organisation, role and business contact details;
• messages, meeting notes, enquiries, project or support information and files you choose to send;
• contracts, invoices, payment records and other business-administration information;
• application or contractor information where you apply to or work with us; and
• basic website, access and security logs such as IP address, browser, requested page, time and error information.

We receive information from you, your organisation, public company websites, professional profiles and directories, referrals, clients, and service providers. We do not intentionally seek sensitive personal information, so please do not send it unless it is necessary and agreed with us.

You do not have to provide optional information, but without details needed for an enquiry, support request, contract, payment or legal obligation, we may be unable to deal with that matter.

We use personal data only where we have a lawful reason:

Enquiries, support and projects

To respond, scope work, provide support and perform or prepare a contract. We rely on steps requested by you, contract and legitimate interests as appropriate.

Running the business

To manage relationships, accounts, payments, records, security, disputes and service quality. We rely on legitimate interests and legal obligations.

Relevant B2B outreach

To introduce services to suitable organisations. We normally rely on legitimate interests and always provide a clear way to object.

Optional activity

Where consent is required, such as non-essential cookies or optional direct marketing, we ask first and you may withdraw consent.

We do not use personal data to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

We may use limited professional information from public business sources to contact people at organisations where we reasonably believe our services may be relevant. We identify Screaming Cat Studios, keep contact proportionate and provide an easy way to object.

We normally restrict unsolicited outreach to corporate and institutional contacts. Any other outreach is carried out only where the law permits it. You can stop direct marketing at any time by replying to the message or emailing privacy@screamingcatstudios.com.

When you object, we stop. We may retain the minimum contact information needed to make sure you are not contacted again.

Our current public website is static and does not use advertising cookies or behavioural tracking. We do not set non-essential cookies on this site.

Our hosting and security providers may process basic technical logs needed to deliver and protect the site, including IP address, browser or device information, requested pages, timestamps and error or security events.

If we introduce non-essential analytics or similar technology, we will update this notice and ask for consent where required. Links to external services such as social networks are controlled by those services after you follow the link.

We share personal data only where reasonably necessary with:

• authorised staff, self-employed consultants and contractors who need it for their work;
• providers supporting hosting, email, CRM, cloud storage, communications, accounting, payment administration and security;
• clients, project partners, professional advisers, insurers or authorities where the work or law requires it; and
• a buyer or successor if the relevant business is reorganised or sold.

We do not sell personal data. Where a provider processes data outside the UK, we use a recognised lawful transfer route, such as an adequacy regulation or appropriate contractual safeguards, and assess whether the protection remains appropriate.

We keep identifiable information only for as long as it serves the purpose for which it was collected, including legal, accounting, security and dispute needs. Our normal starting points are:

Unconverted business prospects

12 months after the last meaningful activity.

General enquiries and support

While active and usually up to 24 months after closure, unless linked to a contract, licence, complaint or dispute.

Clients, suppliers and financial records

Usually six years after the relevant relationship, transaction or financial year, and longer only where legally necessary.

Unsuccessful applications

Usually six months after the process ends, unless you agree to longer retention or a legal issue requires it.

Suppression, security and legal records

For as long as reasonably needed to honour an objection, protect systems or manage a legal claim.

When the reason for keeping data ends, we delete or anonymise it. Backup copies disappear through the normal backup cycle.

Depending on the circumstances, you may ask us to provide a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, restrict its use, transfer it, or explain how it is used. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests and may withdraw consent where consent is the basis.

You have an absolute right to object to direct marketing. Some other rights are conditional, and we may need to verify your identity before acting.

We use proportionate controls such as access restrictions, multi-factor authentication where available, encryption, data minimisation, secure providers and incident procedures. No system is risk-free, but we work to prevent unauthorised access, loss and misuse.

To ask a question or exercise a right, email privacy@screamingcatstudios.com. You may also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

We may update this notice when our services, suppliers or legal duties change. Material changes will be made clear before a new use begins where required.