Privacy Policy
This page explains what happens to your data when you visit this website.
This website is operated by Lowe Frequency Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 12089042, trading as The Bob Godfrey Collection.
Analytics
We use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics service, to see how many people visit the site and which pages (including BG Player) they use. Plausible doesn't use cookies and doesn't collect or store any personal data. It can't identify you individually, and there's no profile or record kept of your visit.
We do not collect email addresses through analytics, and we do not sell or share any data with third parties for advertising.
Anonymous donation reference
The site generates a random ID stored in your browser using local storage rather than a cookie, so that, if you choose to donate using a Stripe button on BG Player or the Support page, the resulting payment can be tagged with that ID in our Stripe account. The thank you page then uses the same ID to find your donation so you can choose how it is shown. This is separate from Plausible, which never sees this ID. It isn't personally identifiable on its own. It is kept with your donation record on this site (described below), but never with your email address or payment details.
Donations and how your name and amount are shown
When you donate, Stripe tells this website the amount, the date and a payment reference. We keep those, together with the random ID above, in the site's own data. We never receive or keep your card details or email address for donations.
Donations are listed publicly on the Support page, or on the BG Player donations page for BG Player donations. Your amount can appear straight away as an anonymous entry. After you donate, a thank you page invites you to add your name and to choose whether your name and the amount you gave are shown. Both boxes are ticked to begin with, and you can untick either one, or hide both. If you give a name, it may also be credited under films added to BG Player after your donation, and at public screenings.
You can ask us at any time to hide or remove your name or your amount by emailing the address in the footer of this site, and we will do it promptly. Donations recorded by us by hand, for example by cheque or in cash, are handled the same way.
Watch count cookie
BG Player keeps a simple count of how many films you've watched, so it can occasionally show a message about donating to help cover the cost of running the video server. This count is stored in a plain first-party cookie as well as in local storage, purely so that clearing one on its own doesn't lose the count. It isn't used to identify you, isn't shared with anyone, and isn't used for advertising or tracking you across other websites. Clearing your browser's cookies and site data together, as normal, resets it.
Payments
Donations and Store purchases are paid through Stripe, our payment provider, inside a payment form on this site. Your card details go straight to Stripe and never reach this website. When you pay, you're providing your card and contact details to them, governed by their own privacy policies:
For Store orders we receive and keep what we need to post your order and answer questions about it: your name, delivery address, email address, what you bought and, for orders sent abroad, a phone number. Stripe passes these to us when you pay. We use them only to fulfil and support your order, and we keep the order record for as long as our accounting and any insurance claim require. We do not sell them or use them for marketing. For donations we still receive only the amount, the date and a payment reference, as described above. In our Stripe dashboard we can also see limited details of each payment, such as the card type and the last four digits of the card.
Cookies and local storage
This site does not use cookies for advertising, or for tracking you across other websites. The only cookie we set is the watch count cookie described above. We also use local storage for the donation reference ID. Your Store cart is kept in your browser's local storage until you check out, and Stripe may set its own cookies while you pay, which are covered by Stripe's privacy policy linked above.
Mailing list
If you join our mailing list, we keep your email address, the name you give (if any) and the date you signed up, and use them only to send you news from The Bob Godfrey Collection. We never pass them on. Every email can be unsubscribed from by replying to it, and we will then remove you.
Watching films
Films on BG Player play in the video player provided by our video host, Bunny Stream (bunny.net), which handles playback, casting to a TV and AirPlay. It is covered by Bunny's own privacy policy.
Your rights
You can ask us what information, if any, we hold about you, and ask us to delete it, by emailing us using the address in the footer of this site. Because we collect so little personal data in the first place, in most cases we'll have nothing to give you beyond what's described on this page.
A note on this page
This policy is a plain-language summary written for a small, independent website, not a substitute for professional legal advice. If you have specific compliance concerns, we'd recommend having it reviewed by a solicitor familiar with UK data protection law.
Last updated: 3 November 2026.