Version 1.0 · Last updated: 24 July 2026 · In force from: 24 July 2026
This Privacy Policy explains what personal data LATENT (“we”) collects when you use www.latentworld.tv and its related services (the “Platform”), why we collect it, on what legal basis, with whom we share it, how long we keep it and what rights you have. The Platform is used worldwide, so this Policy is written to meet the standards of the strictest data protection regimes — in particular the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) — and applies to every user, wherever you live.
In short — a non-binding summary
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not pass it to anyone for their own marketing.
We collect what is needed to run the Service: your account details, what you upload, and how you use the Platform.
Your password is stored only as an irreversible hash, and access to our systems is restricted and logged.
You can view, correct, export or delete your data — see sections 13 and 14.
Advertising cookies are used only after you have consented, and only once advertising is enabled.
This box is a plain-language summary provided for convenience only. If it differs from the numbered sections below, the numbered sections prevail.
1. Scope and Data Controller
This Policy covers all processing of personal data carried out through the Platform. It does not cover third-party websites you reach through links, nor the services of the AI tool providers you use to create your work; those have their own policies.
The data controller is the operator of LATENT, contactable at [email protected]; the operator’s full establishment details are provided on request. If the Platform comes to be operated by an incorporated company, this section will be updated with that company’s registered details.
By using the Platform you confirm that you have read this Policy. Where processing requires your consent, that consent is collected separately and may be withdrawn at any time.
2. Definitions
Personal data: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing: any operation performed on personal data — collection, storage, use, disclosure, erasure and so on.
Controller: the person who determines the purposes and means of processing — here, LATENT.
Processor: a party that processes data on the controller’s instructions — for example our hosting, storage and email providers.
3. Data We Collect
a) Data you provide to us
Account data: username, email address, password (stored only as an irreversible hash) and your language preference.
Profile data: display name, avatar, channel banner, biography and links, where you choose to add them.
Content data: the videos, covers, posters, banners, subtitles, titles, descriptions and metadata you upload, and the comments you write.
Communication data: the content of messages you send us by email or through the support and reporting forms, including any attachments.
Verification data: where we are required to verify your age, identity or authority for a particular feature.
Membership data: the tier of a membership you take out, its start and renewal dates and the records of the related transactions. Card details are entered on and processed by our payment provider; we do not see or store your full card number.
b) Data collected automatically
Usage data: which videos you watch and for how long, your watch history, likes, follows, playlists, searches and the pages you visit.
Device and connection data: IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device type, screen resolution, language settings and referring page.
Security data: sign-in times, failed sign-in attempts, rate-limit records and abuse signals, held in server logs.
Performance data: playback errors, buffering events, upload failures and similar diagnostic records.
Listening data: which music tracks you play and for how long, and your playback preferences.
Advertising data: which advertisements were shown to you, whether they were watched to the end, skipped or clicked, and the technical records used to limit how often the same advertisement is repeated.
c) Data we receive from third parties
Delivery, bounce and spam-complaint reports from our email delivery provider.
Aggregated measurement reports from our measurement and advertising partners.
We do not knowingly collect special categories of data such as health, religious or political belief, or biometric data. Please do not include such information in your profile, descriptions or comments.
4. Legal Bases for Processing
We process personal data on one or more of the following legal bases:
Performance of a contract: creating your account, publishing your content, and running playback and recommendations (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b), and the equivalent ground under other applicable data protection laws).
Legal obligation: responding to authorities, handling infringement notices, and keeping the records required by law (GDPR Art. 6(1)(c), and equivalent grounds elsewhere).
Legitimate interests: keeping the Platform secure, preventing fraud and abuse, measuring and improving the Service, and defending legal claims — balanced against your rights and freedoms (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f), and equivalent grounds elsewhere).
Consent: non-essential cookies, personalised advertising and marketing emails. You may withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing already carried out (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a), and equivalent grounds elsewhere).
Establishment or defence of legal claims: where processing is necessary for legal proceedings or the enforcement of rights.
5. Purposes of Processing
Creating, verifying and securing your account.
Publishing your content, transcoding it, generating thumbnails and previews, and serving it to viewers.
Building your feed, recommendations, trending lists and search results.
Sending you notifications — in-platform notices such as follows, replies and likes, and transactional emails such as email verification, password reset and important service announcements.
Detecting and preventing spam, bot activity, fake engagement, fraud and security incidents.
Handling reports, complaints, infringement notices and moderation decisions.
Producing statistics and analytics, mainly in aggregated form, to understand and improve how the Platform is used.
Complying with legal obligations, and establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.
Once advertising is enabled, showing advertising and measuring its performance.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and equivalent technologies such as local storage and session storage, in the following categories:
Strictly necessary: your session token, sign-in state, and security and rate-limiting markers. These cannot be switched off without breaking the Service.
Preference: your language choice, volume and playback settings, and interface preferences.
Analytics: aggregated measurement of how the Platform is used and how it performs.
Advertising (only once advertising is enabled, and only with your consent): identifiers used to show and measure personalised advertising.
You can delete cookies and block them in your browser settings; blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent you from signing in. Where consent is required by law, non-essential cookies are set only after you give it, and your choice can be changed later through the cookie preferences panel.
The Platform does not currently respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals in a standardised way, because no common standard has been agreed for them.
7. Who We Share Data With
We never sell your personal data and never share it with third parties for their own independent marketing. We disclose data only in the following cases, and only to the extent necessary:
Infrastructure providers: server hosting, object storage and content delivery, database backup and email delivery providers, acting as our processors under contract.
Advertising: advertisements are served by LATENT’s own system on our servers. Where an external advertising partner is used, data is shared only in aggregated or pseudonymised form and only with consent.
Professional advisers: lawyers, accountants and auditors, bound by confidentiality.
Authorities and courts: where required by law, or in order to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
A rights holder who submits an infringement notice: where the notice-and-takedown process requires it, we may pass on the notice and the uploader’s response, which can contain identifying information.
An acquirer: in the event of a merger, restructuring or sale of the business, provided this Policy continues to apply.
Payment provider: the data needed to take a membership payment, to identify the transaction and to prevent fraud.
8. International Transfers
Our hosting, storage and email providers may operate servers outside your country — in particular within the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Where data is transferred across borders we rely on the safeguards required by the applicable data protection law: an adequacy decision, standard contractual clauses or equivalent contractual undertakings, or, where the law requires it, your explicit consent. You may ask us for information about the safeguards in place. We cannot be held liable for incidents occurring within a third-party provider’s own systems, provided we have selected and supervised that provider with reasonable care.
9. Retention Periods
We keep data only for as long as it is needed for the purpose for which it was collected, and thereafter for any period required by law:
Account and profile data: for as long as your account exists; deleted or anonymised within a reasonable period after you delete your account.
Published content: until you delete it or your account; backup copies are overwritten in the ordinary backup cycle.
Watch history and usage data: for as long as your account exists, or until you clear it, whichever comes first.
Server and security logs: typically for a period measured in months, as required to investigate incidents.
Infringement notices, complaints and moderation records: for as long as needed to defend legal claims, and for the applicable limitation period.
Data retained on legal grounds: until the obligation or the limitation period ends.
After deletion, some data may remain briefly in encrypted backups until those backups expire in the ordinary cycle. It is not used for any other purpose during that period.
10. Data Security
Passwords are stored only as irreversible hashes; we cannot read them.
Traffic between your browser and our servers is encrypted with TLS.
Access to servers and databases is restricted, authenticated and logged.
Rate limiting and abuse detection protect accounts against automated attacks.
Backups are taken regularly and stored separately, so that data can be restored after an incident.
Dependencies are monitored for known vulnerabilities and supply-chain risks.
No system can be completely secure. Where we have taken reasonable and appropriate security measures and have not been negligent, we cannot be held liable for unauthorised access, data breaches or similar incidents. You also have a part to play: use a strong, unique password and keep it confidential.
11. Information You Make Public
Some information is visible to everyone by design: your username and channel name, your avatar and banner, your biography and links, the content you publish and its metadata, your comments, your public playlists, and aggregate counts such as views, likes and followers.
Do not put anything into those fields that you would not want to be public. Content that has been published may have been copied or indexed by others before you delete it, and we cannot recall those copies.
12. Automated Processing and Recommendations
Feeds, recommendations, trending lists and search results are generated automatically from signals such as views, watch duration, likes, recency and genre. Automated systems also help detect spam and abusive behaviour.
These processes do not produce legal effects concerning you, nor similarly significantly affect you. Where an automated system nevertheless leads to a restriction on your account, you may ask for human review by writing to [email protected].
13. Your Rights
Subject to the conditions and exceptions of the law that applies to you, you have the right to:
learn whether your personal data is being processed, and obtain access to it;
be informed of the purposes of processing and whether the data is used in accordance with them;
know the third parties, in your country or abroad, to whom the data is disclosed;
have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected, and ask that the correction be notified to those recipients;
request erasure or destruction where the grounds for processing have ceased, and ask that this be notified to those recipients;
object to processing based on legitimate interests, and object to direct marketing at any time;
request restriction of processing in the cases provided for by law;
receive the data you provided in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, and have it transmitted to another controller where technically feasible;
withdraw a consent you have given, at any time;
object to a decision produced solely by automated analysis where it produces an adverse result for you;
claim compensation for damage suffered as a result of unlawful processing;
lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority of your own country, or with the authority competent for the operator of the Platform.
14. How to Exercise Your Rights
Send your request to [email protected] from the email address registered to your account, stating clearly which right you are exercising. Some requests can be handled directly from the Settings page: viewing and editing your data, clearing your watch history, and deleting your account.
We respond as soon as possible and in any event within the period required by the data protection law that applies to you, which is commonly one month. That period may be extended where a request is complex or where several requests are made together, in which case we will tell you and explain why.
We may ask for information to verify your identity, so that we do not disclose your data to someone else. Where we cannot verify your identity, or a legal exception applies, we may decline the request in whole or in part, giving reasons.
Requests are handled free of charge. Where a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because it is repetitive, we may decline to act on it within the limits set by law.
15. Children and Age Limits
The Platform is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. Where local law sets a higher minimum age for consent to online services, that age applies.
If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, write to [email protected]. We will delete the data promptly and close the account.
16. Data Breach Notification
If a personal data breach occurs that is likely to result in a risk to your rights and freedoms, we will notify the competent supervisory authority within the period required by the applicable law — 72 hours under the GDPR, and the equivalent period under comparable laws elsewhere. Where the risk is high we will also notify affected users directly, describing what happened, which data is involved, what we are doing about it and what you can do.
17. Third-Party Links and Embedded Content
Pages and content may contain links to third-party sites, and users may refer to external services in their descriptions. Those sites have their own privacy policies, over which we have no control. We do not embed third-party trackers into video playback.
18. Emails and Marketing
Transactional emails necessary to operate the Service — email verification, password reset, security notices, and important changes to these documents — are part of the contract and cannot be opted out of while your account remains open.
Promotional emails and newsletters are sent only with your consent, and every such message contains an unsubscribe link.
19. Rights Under Local Laws
European Economic Area and United Kingdom (GDPR / UK GDPR): the legal bases are set out in section 4, and you may lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority. We have not appointed a representative in the Union or the United Kingdom, as our processing does not currently meet the threshold requiring one; this will be reviewed if that changes.
United States (California and comparable state laws): we do not “sell” or “share” personal information as those terms are defined, and we offer no financial incentive in exchange for personal information. You may exercise the access and deletion rights described above without being discriminated against.
Other countries: where the law of your country grants comparable rights — for example Brazil (LGPD), Canada (PIPEDA), Switzerland (FADP), Türkiye (KVKK), Japan (APPI), South Korea (PIPA), India (DPDP Act) or Australia (Privacy Act) — we apply this Policy so as to honour those rights, and you may complain to the supervisory authority of your country.
20. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy, in particular when new features such as advertising are enabled, or when the law changes. The current version, its number and its date are always shown at the top of this page.
Where a change is material we give notice on the Platform or by email in advance. Continuing to use the Platform after a change takes effect means you have taken notice of the updated Policy; where the law requires consent, we ask for it separately.