Privacy notice
This explains what personal data Laughing Boy Artists collects through this website and by email, why, and what your rights are. It is short because we collect very little.
Who we are
Laughing Boy Artists Ltd ("we", "us") is a talent agency and a subsidiary of The Unseen Group Ltd. We are the controller of the personal data described here.
Laughing Boy Artists LtdCompany number 17385623, registered in England and Wales
Registered office: 25 Friern Barnet Lane, London N11 3LP
Correspondence: Brulimar House, Jubilee Rd, Middleton, Manchester M24 2LX
For anything about your data, contact Lucy Mogilner at lucyolivia@theunseen.co.uk.
This notice covers the website and people who contact us or send us work. Actors we represent receive a separate client data protection notice with their onboarding pack.
What we collect and why
| What | Why and our legal basis | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|
| Submissions and emails you send us. Usually your name, contact details, headshot, CV, showreel or self-tape links, playing age, location and training, plus anything else you choose to include. | To consider you for representation and reply to you. You have approached us, so our legal basis is our legitimate interest in considering people who contact us. | If we do not take a submission forward, we delete it within 6 months of our decision, and in any case within 12 months of receiving it. Anyone we take on is covered by the client notice. |
| Basic technical data when you visit the site, such as your IP address, browser and device type, and the pages requested. | Our hosting provider records this to deliver and secure the website. Legitimate interests. | In the provider's server logs, for their normal log cycle. |
We do not ask for sensitive information such as health or ethnicity in submissions. Please leave it out unless it matters to the work. If you include it, we use it only to deal with your submission.
Cookies and tracking
This website does not use advertising, analytics or other tracking cookies, so there is no cookie banner. If that changes we will update this notice first and ask for your consent where the law requires it.
The Tapelab link takes you to a separate service run by The Unseen Group Ltd, which has its own privacy notice and may use its own cookies.
Who we share data with
We do not sell your data. We share it only with the companies that help us run the website and our email, such as our hosting and email providers, who may only use it on our instructions, and with The Unseen Group Ltd for shared administration. If you are taken on as a client, the client notice explains who else may see your details. We may also share data where the law requires it.
Some of our providers may process data outside the UK. Where they do, we rely on the safeguards the UK GDPR allows, such as the UK adequacy regulations or the ICO's standard contract terms.
People under 18
Our submissions address is for adults. If you are under 18, please ask a parent or guardian to contact us for you. We may delete a submission that appears to come from a child without a parent or guardian involved, and ask them to get in touch.
Your rights
You can ask us to give you a copy of your personal data, correct it, delete it, restrict how we use it, or stop using it where we rely on legitimate interests. You can withdraw consent at any time, and you can ask us to stop any marketing, though we do not send marketing emails to people who simply submit work. To use any of these rights, email lucyolivia@theunseen.co.uk. We reply within one month and do not charge.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, please tell us first so we can put it right. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113.
Changes
If we change this notice we will update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use data you have already given us, we will tell you.
See also our website terms.