Our Privacy Policy

The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival site is made by The Image Farm and Gorilla Web Studio using WordPress. This privacy policy will explain how WordPress and our organization use the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.

What data do we collect?

MNFF collects the following data:

• Personal information such as your name, email address, city, state/province, and country when you subscribe to the MNFF newsletter or contact us.
• Your name, billing/shipping address, email address, telephone number, and credit card information, including card number, card type, cardholder name and expiration date, when you donate or purchase products from us such as festival passes or tickets.
• Other information entered on our site such as contact information, survey responses, or polls.

WordPress also automatically collects the following data:

Information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available about visitors to a Site, such as the IP address, browser type, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.

How will we use your data?

MNFF collects your data so that we can:

• Provide services to you, inform you of promotions and events, bill you when you make a purchase through our website, receive donations from you, and contact you when appropriate.
• For marketing purposes, we may use your contact information to send you promotions, surveys, contests, programming updates and other marketing information. Promotional emails are intended to inform you of opportunities, events or special deals available to you from MNFF. You can opt not to receive emails by either clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of any email.

WordPress may also share data collected from site visitors under limited circumstances. For more information, please see WordPress’s full privacy policy.

What are your data protection rights?

MNFF would like to ensure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request MNFF for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that MNFF correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that MNFF erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that MNFF restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to MNFF’s processing of your personal data.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that MNFF transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please email us at caitlin@middfilmfest.org.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a Site stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the Site each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on Sites. WordPress uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help identify and track visitors. For more information about our use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how visitors can control the use of cookies, please see WordPress’s full cookie policy.

How to manage cookies – You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy policies of other websites

MNFF’s website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

MNFF keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on April 8th, 2025.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about MNFF’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at caitlin@middfilmfest.org.