Liberation DocFest Bangladesh (“Liberation DocFest Bangladesh”, “the Festival”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide when you visit or use our website, register for festival activities, submit a film, apply for accreditation or volunteering, contact us, or otherwise interact with the Festival.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we use it, when we may share it, and the choices available to you.
By using the Liberation DocFest Bangladesh website or submitting information to us, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy.
Liberation DocFest Bangladesh is an international documentary film festival organized by the Liberation War Museum as a cultural and educational initiative.
The Festival website provides information about the festival, film submissions, screenings, programmes, workshops, volunteering, accreditation, festival news and other related activities.
We may collect information you provide when you interact with the Festival, including:
When you visit our website, we may also automatically collect basic technical information such as your IP address, browser and device type, pages visited, and date and time of access.
We may use cookies and similar technologies to help operate and improve our website.
We may use your information to:
We use your information only for legitimate festival, administrative and communication purposes.
Film submission information may be collected directly by the Festival or through third-party submission platforms used by the Festival.
Information submitted as part of a film entry may include filmmaker, producer and production information, contact details, film information, screening materials and other information required for the submission and selection process.
Where a third-party platform is used for submissions, that platform’s own privacy policy and terms may also apply.
The Festival will use submission information for purposes including film evaluation, selection, programming, communication with filmmakers and administration of the festival.
If your film is selected, we may use information about the film and its participating filmmakers for festival-related purposes, including:
Such information may include the film title, director’s name, producer’s name, country of production, synopsis, still photographs, trailer or other promotional materials provided to the Festival.
We will use such materials in accordance with the permissions, agreements and submission terms applicable to the Festival.
The Festival and its authorized photographers, videographers, media partners and representatives may take photographs, video recordings or audio recordings during festival activities for documentation, archival, editorial and promotional purposes.
By attending a public festival event, you may appear incidentally in photographs or recordings of the event.
Journalists, reporters, stringers and freelance photographers may be required to register with the Festival and provide information about their professional role for accreditation and event-management purposes.
Information provided by media representatives may be used to:
Media accreditation information will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the Festival’s applicable accreditation procedures.
Information submitted through volunteer applications may be used to:
Volunteer positions at Liberation DocFest Bangladesh are unpaid.
The Festival website may use cookies and similar technologies to make the website function properly, understand how visitors use the website, improve website performance and remember certain preferences.
Cookies may include:
Essential cookies:
These may be necessary for basic website functionality.
Analytics cookies:
These may help us understand website traffic and usage patterns.
Third-party cookies:
Some embedded content, analytics services, social-media features or other third-party services may place their own cookies.
You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of some parts of the website.
The Festival may use third-party platforms and service providers to operate specific parts of its activities, such as:
Where a third-party service processes your personal information, that service may have its own terms and privacy policy.
We encourage users to review the privacy policies of third-party services before submitting personal information through those platforms.
We may share personal information when reasonably necessary for festival operations, including with:
We will seek to limit information shared with third parties to what is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
Some service providers used by the Festival may operate or store information on servers located outside Bangladesh.
Where personal information is transferred to another country or processed by an international service provider, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that the information is handled securely and in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
We take reasonable administrative, technical and organizational measures to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure or destruction.
However, no website, electronic transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by us.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including administrative, legal, archival and operational requirements.
Different types of information may be retained for different periods.
For example, festival submission and participation records may need to be retained for longer periods for festival administration, historical documentation and archival purposes, while temporary registration or enquiry information may be deleted when it is no longer required.
Where appropriate, information may be anonymized so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify an individual.
We may use your contact information to send essential communications relating to your registration, film submission, accreditation, volunteering or participation in the Festival.
Where we send newsletters or promotional communications based on consent or subscription, you may unsubscribe using the method provided in the communication.
Unsubscribing from promotional communications will not necessarily stop essential administrative communications relating to your participation in the Festival.
The Festival website may contain links to websites operated by third parties.
These websites are not controlled by Liberation DocFest Bangladesh, and we are not responsible for their privacy practices, security or content.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any external website you visit.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our activities, website features, third-party services, operational practices or applicable laws and regulations.
When changes are made, the updated policy will be published on this website and the “Last Updated” date will be revised accordingly.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.