terms & policies

Terms & Policies

Last Updated: March 2024

1. Introduction

Welcome to St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (SJIWFF) ("we," "our," or "us"). This Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding collecting, using, and disclosing personal information when you use our website WomensFilmFestival.com (the "Website").

2. Information We Collect

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited before coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace and Google Analytics, our website analytics providers, to learn about site traffic and activity.

We collect personal information directly from you when you visit our Website, subscribe to our newsletter, fill out a form, or otherwise interact with us. The types of personal information we may collect include:

  • Contact information (name, email address, phone number)

  • Demographic information

  • Usage data (browsing history, IP address, device information)

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use the collected information for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Website

  • To personalize your experience

  • To send periodic emails (if you subscribe to our newsletter)

  • To respond to your inquiries or requests

4. Consent

By using our Website, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

5. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information:

  • To third-party service providers who assist us in operating our Website and conducting our business.

  • When required by law or to protect our rights.

6. Security

We employ industry-standard security measures to safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses and Google Analytics’ cookies policy.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allows Squarespace, our hosting platform, to serve this website to you securely. 

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

8. Customer Data

When you buy something on this website, we collect your personal information to fulfil the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

Our payment processor(s) may also collect payment information from you. You can read their privacy policy below. As you checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to improve your checkout experience.

If we use Squarespace as our payment processor: 

When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.

Sift - fraud monitoring and detection services. You can read Sift’s privacy policy at https://sift.com/service-privacy.

9. Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace and Google Analytics, our website analytics providers, to learn about site traffic and activity.

10. Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

Information about your browser, network, or device

Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

Your IP address

8. Links to Third-Party Websites

Our Website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for these third-party sites' privacy practices or content.

9. Your Rights

You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us using the information in the "Contact Us" section below.

10. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on our Website with the effective date.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@womensfilmfestival.com.