Our Privacy Policy
Effective Date: October 28, 2026
Last Updated: October 28, 2026
Liberty Lane Films, LLC (“Liberty Lane Films,” “LLF,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects the privacy of our website visitors, clients, customers, collaborators, subscribers, and members of our community.
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, protect, and retain personal information in connection with LibertyLaneFilms.com, StopTheRidePodcast.com, LibertyLane.digital, RelateOnPurpose.com, JustinSchuck.com, TheSisters.org, Howdily.com, and other websites or digital services operated by Liberty Lane Films, LLC (collectively, the “Websites”).
Our business includes independent film production, documentary and narrative filmmaking, creative production, Liberty Lane Digital services, merchandise, crowdfunding, newsletters, and other related activities.
We aim to collect only the information reasonably necessary to operate these activities and communicate with people who choose to engage with us.
1. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following categories of personal information.
A. Contact and identification information
This may include your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, organization, professional title, and other contact information voluntarily provided through forms, inquiries, purchases, or correspondence.
B. Project and business information
When you inquire about production or creative services, we may collect information about your organization, proposed project, budget range, timeline, objectives, creative needs, and communications with our team.
C. Commercial and transaction information
When you purchase merchandise, services, gift cards, or crowdfunding products, we may receive transaction details, amounts paid, products purchased, billing and delivery information, order identifiers, and transaction status.
Payments may be processed by third-party payment providers. We do not need to store complete payment-card information to fulfill ordinary website transactions.
D. Newsletter and communication information
When you subscribe to updates, we may collect your email address, subscription preferences, subscription status, and information relating to newsletter delivery or engagement.
E. Website activity and technical information
Our Websites and service providers may automatically process information such as IP address, browser and device characteristics, approximate geographic location inferred from technical information, referring pages, pages visited, timestamps, and website interactions.
Cookies and similar technologies may be used for essential website functionality, analytics, and other disclosed purposes.
F. Information you choose to provide
You may voluntarily provide additional information through correspondence, forms, surveys, creative submissions, or other communications.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through general inquiry forms unless it is necessary and an appropriate collection method has been established.
2. Sources of Personal Information
We may receive personal information:
Directly from you through forms, purchases, subscriptions, inquiries, and correspondence.
Automatically from devices and browsers accessing our Websites.
From service providers supporting payments, website hosting, email delivery, analytics, or customer communications.
From collaborators, business contacts, or publicly available professional sources when reasonably relevant to a legitimate business inquiry.
3. How We Use Information
We use personal information for purposes including:
Responding to inquiries and communicating with clients, collaborators, and prospective partners.
Developing proposals, contracts, and creative services.
Processing payments and fulfilling orders.
Administering film crowdfunding campaigns and associated supporter benefits.
Delivering newsletters and production updates to subscribers.
Maintaining customer service, purchase records, and business correspondence.
Improving website usability, reliability, performance, and accessibility.
Understanding website traffic and the effectiveness of our communications.
Protecting our Websites against fraud, misuse, and security threats.
Maintaining legally required financial and business records.
Complying with applicable law and enforcing legitimate contractual rights.
We do not use personal information collected through general inquiries for unrelated purposes without an appropriate basis or notice.
4. Disclosure of Information
We may disclose personal information to organizations that provide services necessary to operate our business, including:
Website hosting and e-commerce providers, including Squarespace.
Payment processing and transaction-service providers.
Email marketing and communications platforms.
Website analytics and technical service providers, including Google Analytics where enabled.
Professional service providers, such as accountants, legal advisers, and contracted business-support providers.
Shipping and merchandise fulfillment providers where necessary.
Authorities or other parties when disclosure is required by applicable law or reasonably necessary to protect legal rights.
These providers may process information under their own contractual terms and privacy policies.
We do not sell mailing lists or customer contact databases, and we do not intentionally disclose personal information to third parties for their independent marketing purposes.
We do not intend to sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. This statement depends on our actual website technologies and third-party configurations, which we review when adding or modifying services.
5. Data Retention
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for its stated purpose, legitimate business requirements, and applicable legal obligations.
Our intended retention practices vary depending on the type of information collected:
General Inquiries and Business Correspondence: Retained while an inquiry or business relationship remains active, followed by a reasonable administrative retention period.
Client Contracts and Project Records: Retained for the duration of the business relationship and any applicable contractual, legal, or record-keeping obligations.
Orders, Billing, and Financial Records: Generally retained for up to seven years under our business record-keeping policy, or longer where legally necessary.
Newsletter Subscriber Information: Retained until you unsubscribe, close your account, or request removal, subject to applicable legal and operational requirements.
Unsubscribed Email Addresses: A limited suppression record may be retained to prevent future unwanted promotional messages.
Website Analytics and Technical Information: Retained according to our configured analytics settings and the applicable retention controls of the platforms we use.
Security and Fraud-Prevention Records: Retained for a reasonable period necessary to investigate incidents, prevent misuse, and protect our Websites.
Legal Disputes and Compliance Records: Retained for as long as reasonably necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal rights.
We may delete, anonymize, or aggregate information when it is no longer needed.
Where practical, verified deletion requests will be processed promptly. Some information may need to be retained for accounting, fulfillment, security, legal compliance, or other permitted purposes.
6. Newsletters and Unsubscribing
We send promotional emails and newsletters to people who have subscribed or otherwise agreed to receive them under applicable law.
You can unsubscribe from promotional messages using the unsubscribe link included in those messages or by contacting info@libertylanefilms.com.
Following an unsubscribe request, we may retain a limited record of your email address on a suppression list to prevent future promotional messages.
Unsubscribing does not automatically cancel outstanding orders, resolve pending transactions, or prevent necessary transactional communications relating to an existing business relationship.
7. Cookies and Analytics
Our Websites may use cookies and similar technologies for essential operations, preferences, analytics, and website performance.
We use website analytics to understand aggregate visitor activity and improve our services.
Our separate Cookies Policy explains these technologies and available visitor controls.
Third-party platforms may have their own data processing and retention practices.
8. California Privacy Rights
California residents may have rights under applicable California privacy laws, including the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) and, where applicable, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).
Where those laws apply, eligible individuals may have the right to:
Request information about personal information collected and its use or disclosure.
Request access to personal information.
Request correction of inaccurate information.
Request deletion, subject to applicable exceptions.
Opt out of qualifying sales or sharing of personal information.
Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable.
Exercise privacy rights without unlawful discrimination or retaliation.
Not every right applies to every organization, type of information, or circumstance.
We will evaluate privacy requests under the laws applicable to Liberty Lane Films and the particular request.
Submitting a Privacy Request
Email info@libertylanefilms.com with the subject line Privacy Request.
You may also contact us through Contact Us.
Please describe your request and provide enough information for us to locate the relevant records.
We may request reasonable information to verify your identity before disclosing, correcting, or deleting personal information. Please do not send government identification documents or highly sensitive information unless specifically requested through an appropriate secure process.
Where the CCPA applies, we will follow its applicable acknowledgment, verification, and response requirements.
9. Sale, Sharing, and Browser Privacy Signals
Liberty Lane Films does not intend to sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
We distinguish ordinary operational disclosures to service providers from the legally defined sale or sharing of personal information.
We review relevant tracking technologies and browser privacy signals in accordance with applicable law. Where an opt-out mechanism is legally required, we will provide an appropriate method and honor applicable opt-out preference signals.
Browser-level Do Not Track signals and Global Privacy Control signals are not identical and may carry different legal requirements.
10. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information we maintain.
Our Websites rely on third-party hosting, payment, and communications platforms that provide their own security measures.
No transmission or electronic storage system is guaranteed to be completely secure.
If you believe your personal information has been compromised in connection with our Websites, please contact us.
11. Children's Privacy
Our general commercial Websites are not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 through these services.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information to us without appropriate authorization, please contact info@libertylanefilms.com.
12. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our Websites may link to film festivals, distribution platforms, crowdfunding partners, social media services, clients, and other external websites.
We do not control the privacy practices of independent third parties. Visitors should review the policies applicable to those services.
13. International Visitors
Liberty Lane Films operates from San Francisco, California, United States.
Information submitted through our Websites may be processed or stored in the United States or other locations used by our service providers.
Visitors located outside the United States may have additional privacy rights under applicable laws. We will evaluate those requests according to the laws governing the relevant processing activity.
14. Updates to This Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our services, technology, operational practices, or legal obligations.
We will publish the revised policy with an updated effective or revision date. Where required by law, we will provide additional notice.
We periodically review this policy to keep it accurate.
15. Contact Information
Liberty Lane Films, LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
Email: info@libertylanefilms.com
Website: https://libertylanefilms.com
Contact: https://libertylanefilms.com/contact-us
For company and legal disclosure information, see our Legal Notice (Impressum), when published.