Your privacy.

Who we are

Amicus Horror is a British Horror Studio publication. For privacy questions or editorial enquiries, contact letters@britishhorrorstudio.com.

The magazine & email updates

With your consent, we use your email address to send the free quarterly British Horror Studio film magazine and occasional film announcements, Kickstarter news and special offers on Blu-rays and digital downloads. You choose to join and confirm your address through an email link.

Brevo handles the signup and email delivery for us. It records your email address, signup source, confirmation, subscription preferences and delivery information. Email reports can also record opens and link clicks, helping us understand which announcements interest readers. These signals are not always accurate, because email software can load images or check links automatically.

You can withdraw consent using the unsubscribe link in an email or by contacting us. Unsubscribing stops future marketing messages; it does not undo processing that was lawful before you withdrew consent. Joining the mailing list is separate from joining Patreon or buying a film.

Letters, submissions & enquiries

If you email us, we receive your address, name if supplied, message and any attachments. We use these to reply, assess submissions, check information and maintain relevant editorial records. Our basis for this is our legitimate interest in running the publication and dealing with correspondence.

Editorial material may be handled with AI-assisted tools, including OpenAI tools used by the studio to organise and summarise submissions. Editorial decisions remain with the editors. Please agree arrangements with us before sending confidential or particularly sensitive material.

Writing to us does not add you to the mailing list. Please tell us whether a letter is offered for publication or intended for the editors alone.

Website information & browser storage

The public Amicus Horror website is hosted by Netlify. Requests to load pages can generate technical information such as an IP address, browser details, requested page and time of access. Hosting providers process this information to deliver the site, diagnose faults and prevent abuse. We rely on our legitimate interest in keeping the publication available and secure.

The site remembers when you dismiss its newsletter invitation: a browser preference suppresses the invitation for seven days, and a session preference avoids repeated displays during the same browsing session. These preferences do not contain your email address. You can clear them through your browser settings.

Our signup form uses Brevo resources. Loading or submitting it connects your browser to Brevo and may provide technical information needed to operate the form. Articles may also load embedded video from YouTube or Vimeo. Those providers receive connection information when their players load and may use cookies or similar technologies under their own policies.

The public site does not offer visitor accounts, public comment forms or visitor uploads. We have not added advertising trackers to Amicus Horror pages.

Services that handle information

We use Brevo for mailing-list administration and delivery, Google Workspace for correspondence, Netlify for hosting, and OpenAI tools for assisted handling of editorial messages. These services process information needed for their respective functions. Links to the studio shop, Patreon, Kickstarter and social networks take you to separate services with their own privacy arrangements.

Some providers process information outside the United Kingdom. Their data-processing terms describe the applicable safeguards, which may include adequacy arrangements or contractual protections. You can ask us for information about the safeguards relevant to your data.

Provider information: Brevo, Netlify, Google, OpenAI and Vimeo.

Optional audience measurement

If you choose “Accept analytics”, we use Google Analytics to understand page visits, referral sources and broad device and location information. Google receives technical connection information and sets analytics cookies to distinguish visits. We do not load Google Analytics until you accept, and we keep its advertising signals and advertising personalisation disabled.

You can decline without affecting access to the publication, or change your choice at any time through “Analytics preferences” in the footer. We remember your choice in this browser for six months. Withdrawing consent stops future measurement in this browser; it does not automatically delete information already processed. Our page-address reporting omits query strings and fragments.

Amicus Horror and British Horror Chronicle use the studio’s existing shared Analytics property; reports can distinguish the websites by hostname. Google may process information outside the UK. See Google’s privacy policy for information about its processing and safeguards. For questions or requests about your information, write to letters@britishhorrorstudio.com.

How long information is kept

Mailing-list information is kept while your subscription is active. Unsubscribing does not automatically erase the contact record: a record of consent and your opt-out may be retained to demonstrate your choice and prevent further unwanted messages. You can also request deletion.

For correspondence, the relevant considerations are whether an enquiry is still open, whether material supports a published article or continuing editorial work, and whether records are needed to resolve a complaint or legal claim. Technical and delivery records are subject to the retention arrangements of the services that process them. Contact us for details about a particular record.

Your choices & rights

Depending on the circumstances, you can ask for access to your personal information, correction, deletion, restriction of use or a portable copy. You can object to processing based on legitimate interests and withdraw consent to marketing at any time. Some rights have exceptions, including where information must be retained for legal or journalistic purposes.

Write to letters@britishhorrorstudio.com to raise a concern or exercise a right. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK data-protection regulator.