PRIVACY POLICY
Black AI Film Festival
Effective Date: June 2, 2026
Black AI Film Festival respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your information when you visit our website, register for events, submit forms, sign up for updates, watch livestreams, participate in festival programming, or engage with our digital content.
By using our website or registering for any Black AI Film Festival event, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Who We Are
Black AI Film Festival is a platform celebrating the intersection of Black culture, artificial intelligence, cinema, storytelling, innovation, and digital resistance.
Our website address is: www.blackaifilmfest.com
For questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at: info@thereferralstore.com
Information We Collect
When you interact with Black AI Film Festival, we may collect information you voluntarily provide to us, including but not limited to:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number, if provided
- City, state, or country
- Event registration details
- Livestream registration information
- Film submission information
- Creator, artist, filmmaker, or organization details
- Survey responses
- Contact form submissions
- Comments, messages, or other feedback
- Purchase or donation information, if applicable
We collect this information when you register for events, sign up for livestream access, request updates, submit a film, download resources, complete a form, purchase a ticket, participate in surveys, or communicate with us directly.
Information We Collect Automatically
When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device, browser, and website activity. This may include:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Referral sources
- Website traffic patterns
- General location data
- Interactions with forms, buttons, videos, or embedded content
We may use tools such as Google Analytics, social media pixels, server logs, and similar technologies to better understand how visitors use our website and to improve our digital experience.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Register you for Black AI Film Festival events
- Send livestream links and event access details
- Deliver exclusive generative art drops, digital content, or festival updates
- Communicate important event information
- Provide customer support
- Process film submissions or creator applications
- Improve our website, programming, and user experience
- Send newsletters, announcements, promotions, or future event invitations
- Share information about Black AI Film Festival programs, partners, opportunities, or related events
- Analyze audience engagement and website performance
- Protect the security and integrity of our website
- Comply with legal obligations
When you register for a free event, livestream, resource, festival program, or digital experience, we may add you to our email list so we can send relevant updates. You may unsubscribe at any time.
Email Communications
When you provide your email address, you may receive communications from Black AI Film Festival related to:
- Event confirmations
- Livestream access links
- Schedule updates
- Generative art drops
- Festival announcements
- Creator spotlights
- Partner updates
- Future Black AI Film Festival programming
- Promotional offers or opportunities
We are committed to keeping your email address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our email list to third parties.
Every marketing email will include an unsubscribe link at the bottom. You may opt out of promotional emails at any time. Please note that even if you unsubscribe from marketing emails, we may still send transactional or event-related emails connected to your registration, purchase, submission, or participation.
Cookies, Pixels, and Tracking Technologies
Our website may use cookies, pixels, web beacons, server logs, and similar technologies to understand how visitors interact with our website and digital content.
These technologies may collect information such as:
- Date and time of visits
- Pages viewed
- Links clicked
- Time spent on the website
- Referring websites
- IP address
- Device and browser information
- Engagement with ads, videos, or registration forms
We may also use social media pixels and advertising tools to deliver relevant content, measure campaign performance, and understand audience engagement across platforms.
You can adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies or alert you when cookies are being used. Some website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.
Third-Party Services
Black AI Film Festival may use trusted third-party platforms and service providers to operate our website, manage registrations, host livestreams, deliver emails, process payments, collect analytics, manage submissions, or support marketing campaigns.
These providers may include, but are not limited to:
- Email marketing platforms
- Registration or ticketing platforms
- Payment processors
- Livestream or video hosting platforms
- Analytics providers
- Website hosting providers
- Social media platforms
- Advertising networks
- Film submission platforms
These third-party providers are only authorized to use your information as necessary to provide services to Black AI Film Festival or as otherwise permitted by their own privacy policies.
We do not control third-party websites, platforms, or tracking technologies. When you interact with third-party links, embedded content, or external services, their privacy policies apply.
Film Submissions, Media, and Uploaded Content
If you submit films, images, artwork, videos, bios, headshots, descriptions, or other creative materials to Black AI Film Festival, we may collect and store the information included in your submission.
By submitting media or creative materials, you understand that certain information may be used for festival review, programming, promotion, event listings, screening schedules, social media, press materials, or public-facing festival content, depending on the permissions and terms connected to your submission.
If you upload images or media files, avoid including embedded location data, such as EXIF GPS information, unless you intentionally want that information included.
How We Share Your Information
As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, or lease your personal information.
We may share your information with:
- Service providers who help us operate the website, livestream, email system, registration process, or festival programming
- Festival partners or collaborators, when necessary to deliver a specific event, benefit, prize, opportunity, or program you registered for
- Payment processors, if purchases or donations are processed
- Legal, accounting, or professional advisors
- Government authorities, if required by law
- Successor organizations in the event of a merger, restructuring, transfer, or sale of assets
We may also disclose information when we believe it is necessary to protect our legal rights, enforce our terms, prevent fraud, protect users, or comply with applicable law.
How We Protect Your Information
We use commercially reasonable safeguards to protect the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically. This may include secure website protocols, reputable third-party vendors, access controls, and standard data protection practices.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure. Email is not considered a fully secure method of communication. Please do not send sensitive personal information, financial information, or confidential materials through email unless you understand and accept the risk.
Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Provide services you requested
- Manage event registrations
- Deliver livestream access
- Maintain festival records
- Communicate with you
- Comply with legal obligations
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce agreements
- Improve our programming and operations
You may request that we delete your personal information by contacting us at: info@thereferralstore.com
We may retain certain information when required by law, for legitimate business purposes, or to maintain accurate records.
Your Rights and Choices
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- Request access to the personal information we have about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of your personal information
- Request restriction of processing
- Object to certain uses of your information
- Request data portability
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Opt out of marketing communications
To make a request, contact us at: info@thereferralstore.com
We may need to verify your identity before completing your request.
GDPR Rights for European Union Visitors
If you are located in the European Union, you may have additional rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, including the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to processing, request data portability, withdraw consent, and lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
If you are in the European Union, we will only add you to promotional email communications when you have affirmatively consented or when otherwise permitted by applicable law.
Children’s Privacy
Black AI Film Festival does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may include links to third-party websites, platforms, livestream pages, sponsors, partners, filmmakers, creators, or social media pages. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or policies of those third-party websites.
Review their privacy policies before providing personal information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make updates, we will revise the effective date at the top of this page.
Your continued use of our website, registration forms, livestreams, or services after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
For questions, concerns, or requests related to this Privacy Policy, contact:
Black AI Film Festival
Website: www.blackaifilmfest.com
Contact Email: info@thereferralstore.com