Privacy

Hollywood Signal is published by Project Brazen. In this policy, "we" means Project Brazen Pte. Ltd., a company registered in Singapore and the company responsible for the personal data described here. You can reach us at bradley@projectbrazen.com.

This page covers hollywoodsignal.com, our email newsletter and the Buyer Database at database.hollywoodsignal.com.

What we collect from readers

When you subscribe. Your email address, and your name if you give it. We keep a record of which newsletters you receive, whether you are a free or paying member, and when you signed up.

When you pay. Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number. Stripe tells us your plan, your payment status and the country of your card.

When you read our emails. Our email system records whether an email was delivered and opened, and which links were clicked. We use this to see which stories readers find useful.

When you visit the website. We count page views to see which stories people read. The site also remembers in your browser which page brought you to us, so we can tell whether a signup came from a newsletter, a link or a search. That record stays in your browser.

When you use the Buyer Database. Signing in sets one cookie, which keeps you signed in for up to 12 hours. It holds a random session number and your membership level. It does not hold your email address. Our server logs record each request, its time and whether it worked. They do not record your email address, what you searched for, or the contents of any page. To protect the service from abuse, we briefly hold your IP address in memory to limit how many requests one address can make. It is not written to disk. We count searches in aggregate, such as how many searches returned no results, to improve search. We do not keep a record of what any one person searched for.

Why we use it

• To send you the newsletter you asked for and run your membership. This is our contract with you.
• To take payment for paid plans. This is also our contract with you.
• To understand which stories and features are useful and to keep the service secure. These are our legitimate interests, and we keep them light: counts and aggregates, not profiles.

We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for advertising.

Who processes it for us

• Ghost (Ghost Foundation) runs the website, memberships and email.
• Stripe handles payments.
• Render hosts the Buyer Database.
• jsDelivr serves some of the site's scripts.

Some of these companies store data outside the UK, including in the United States. Where they do, they rely on the UK's approved safeguards for international transfers.

How long we keep it

We keep your member record for as long as you are subscribed. If you unsubscribe or delete your account, we remove your member record within 30 days, except where we must keep payment records for tax and accounting, usually six years. Buyer Database server logs are kept for no more than 30 days.

Your rights

You can ask to see the data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or object to how we use it. You can unsubscribe from any email with the link at its foot, and manage or delete your account from the account page. Email bradley@projectbrazen.com for anything else. If you are unhappy with our answer, you can complain to your local data protection authority. In the UK that is the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk); in Singapore it is the Personal Data Protection Commission (pdpc.gov.sg).

People named in our journalism

Hollywood Signal and the Buyer Database report what television and film executives have said in public about what they commission, with links to the sources. Names and job titles are personal data. We publish them as journalism, in the public interest, and rely on the journalism exemptions in data protection law, including the special purposes exemption in the UK Data Protection Act 2018. We do not publish private contact details. If you are named and believe something is wrong or out of date, email bradley@projectbrazen.com and we will check it against the source.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update this page and the date below. If the change is significant, we will tell members by email.

Last updated: 13 November 2026