1. Who are we
LALA Music Supervision Limited (“we”, “us”, “our”) provides full-service, end to end Music Supervision Services include but are not limited to: Custom/Bespoke composition, re-records (covers), clearance and licensing, music search, music consultation, score supervision, sonic branding, music research, Dolby Atmos mixing, VO/live (small ensemble) recording at 179 Studios, audio post/sound design and publishing.
We are based in in heart of London’s West End and are incorporated in England under company number 17281842, our registered office is 23 Stockwood Business Park, Stockwood, Redditch,
We are committed to protecting and respecting the personal data that we hold. We collect, store, transfer, and use personal data for various purposes, and our policy is to be transparent about why and how we do this. We process personal data provided to us for the purposes described in this privacy statement and in accordance with relevant data protection laws.
We have implemented appropriate measures and safeguards to ensure that your personal information is kept safe and secure. We will only share personal data with others when we are legally permitted to do so, and we will always seek your explicit consent where necessary. Individuals have certain rights over their personal data, and if you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at team@lalamusic.co and title any correspondence “Privacy Statement”
2. Data Controller and contact information
We are responsible for the processing of personal data and are a data controller for the purposes of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament, the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) and Data Protection Act 2018.
We are committed to protecting and respecting the personal data that we hold. We collect, store, transfer, and use personal data for various purposes, and our policy is to be transparent about why and how we do this. We process personal data provided to us for the purposes described in this privacy statement and in accordance with relevant data protection laws.
If you have any concerns or issues you wish to raise concerning our use of personal data, please contact us at team@lalamusic.co and we will do our best to address. Alternatively, you may or lodge a complaint with the UK data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office.
https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/data-complaints-complaints/check-if-you-can-complain/
3. What is Personal Data?
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person. When collecting and using personal data, our policy is to be transparent about why and how we collect, process, store, and transfer personal data.
We collect, process, store, and transfer personal data for numerous purposes. The means of collection, lawful basis of processing, use, disclosure, and retention periods for each purpose are outlined in detail in our relevant sections. Personal data may be obtained directly from the individual it relates to, from a third party acting on behalf of that individual, or from publicly available sources such as press articles, social media profiles, or online searches. Where necessary, we always make sure to inform the individual of the necessary information regarding the use of their data, and reference may be made to this privacy statement.
4. Data that we hold:
The data we process will depend on our interaction with you. We process data for the purposes of running our business, production and licensing of music catalogues, all writer and employment agreements, other commercial agreements, access to the catalogue via our website with a professional/account login, marketing, and direct inbound inquiries.
(a) Terminology Explained
“personal data” is information relating to you that identifies you and includes not only facts about you but also intentions and opinions about you.
Personal Data includes information held on, or relating to the use of, a computer, laptop, mobile phone, or similar device. It covers data derived from equipment such as access passes within a building, data on the use of vehicles, and sound and image data such as CCTV. It also covers video, audio, and images captured as part of a production.
“Processing” means doing anything with the data, for example, it includes collecting it, holding it, disclosing it, and deleting it.
“special category data” is Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, health, sexual orientation, sex life, trade union membership, and genetic and biometric data are subject to special protection and considered by EU privacy law to be “special category data”.
If we process special category data about you, we will only carry this out for one of the permitted reasons under Schedule 8 of the Data Protection Act 2018, including where it is necessary at law or where there is a substantial public interest in doing so.
(b) Who sees the data?
Internal use: Your personal data may be disclosed to our employees working on any matter relating to you, including (by illustrative example), downloading or licensing of our music catalogue(s) and/or your engagement by us as a writer for original compositions to be included within our music catalogue(s).
External use: We will only disclose your personal data outside our company if the disclosure is consistent with a ground for processing on which we rely and doing so is lawful and fair to you. We may disclose your data if it is necessary for our legitimate interests as an organisation or the interests of a third party (but we will not do this if these interests are overridden by your interests and rights in particular to privacy).
Specific circumstances in which your personal data may be disclosed include:
Disclosure to external recipients of electronic communications (such as emails) which contain your personal data.
Disclosure of aggregated and anonymised diversity data to relevant regulators as part of a formal request.
(c) Why would we need to process your data?
We may professionally process personal data for various purposes, including:
Operating and managing our business efficiently and compliantly including operation of internal systems for this;
Responding to queries from clients (actual or potential) in a timely and professional manner;
Evaluating the suitability of individuals to contribute to our business, music catalogues and servicing the requirements of our clients;
Producing, exploiting, distributing and licensing our music catalogues through any media (now known or hereafter invented) throughout the world in a professional and lawful manner;
Making payments to individuals in a secure and timely manner.
(d) What data is processed by us?
The data we capture and the lawful way in which it is processed is dependent on the way in which we obtained the data and who we received it from:
Members of the Public who contact us by phone, e-mail, website, or otherwise in writing:
your name, contact details, and handwriting – to correspond with you and for administrative purposes (with such processing being necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests).
Prospective Employees, Freelancers, Writers and any other such contributors:
your name, contact details, and handwriting – to correspond with you and for administrative purposes (with such processing being necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests and for the performance of our contract with you or steps taken prior to entering into it);
your image and the other information in your passport, driving license, and other official documents – to verify your identity and to ensure compliance with relevant laws including (by illustrative example), right to work in the United Kingdon. All our data processing being necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests and/or for the performance of our contract with you or any steps taken prior to entering into it;
information about your work history, qualifications, and experiences and only where relevant, your physical and mental health – to assess your suitability to work with us or take part in our programs and/or to comply with contractual and regulatory obligations (with such processing being necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests);
information about any criminal convictions or cautions you have or any criminal activity or proceedings you have been involved in – to assess your suitability to work with us or take part in our productions and/or to comply with contractual and regulatory obligations (with such processing being necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests and/or for the performance of our contract with you or steps taken prior to entering into it – and undertaken with your consent);
your financial details including your bank details – to pay or reimburse pre-approved costs or expenses (with such processing being necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests and for the performance of our contract with you or steps taken prior to entering into it); and
your age, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, and sexual orientation – for diversity analysis monitoring (with such processing being necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests and undertaken with your explicit consent).
(e) Retaining your data.
Although there is no specific period for which we will keep your personal data, we will not keep it for longer than is necessary for the intended purpose for which it was collected.
In considering how long to keep it, we will take into account its relevance to our business and your participation either as a record or in the event of a legal claim. Some data, such as writer information and authorship of musical compositions, will be kept indefinitely as we have an ongoing legitimate interest in retaining this data.
5. Access to your Personal data and rights
We try to be as open as we reasonably can about the personal data that we process. If you would like specific information, just ask us. Under GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 you have the following rights:
ACCESS – You have the right to access your personal data (a Data Subject Access Request). You will need to prove your identity to us in order for us to provide you access to the personal data we are processing. If you exercise this right and we hold personal data about you, we are required to provide you with information on it, including”
Giving you a description and copy of the personal data
Telling you why we are processing it
RECTIFCATION – If your personal data is accurate, you have the right to have it rectified.
ERASURE – Under certain conditions you have the right to have your personal data erased from our database (right ‘to be forgotten’).
RESTRICTION - You can potentially suppress the processing of your personal data where you do not object to our holding such data but wish to regulate how it is processed.
RIGHT TO OBJECT – Where a data controller processes your personal data because they have legitimate interests to process it and where your consent has not been obtained, you may object to that processing.
DATA PROCESSING - If you provided us with your personal data directly, and we are processing that data in a digital format, based on your consent or under a contract between us, you have the right to request a machine-readable copy of the personal data we are processing.
AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING OR PROFILING – You have the right to not be subject to decision based solely on automated processing and/or AI.
We have implemented appropriate measures and safeguards to ensure that your personal information is kept safe and secure. We will only share personal data with others when we are legally permitted to do so, and we will always seek your explicit consent where necessary.
As mentioned Individuals have certain rights over their personal data, and if you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at: team@lalamusic.co
We hope that you won’t ever need to, but if you do want to complain about our use of personal data, please contact us at team@lalamusic.co or lodge a complaint with the UK data protection regulator:
https://ico.org.uk/
6. Security
We take the security of all the data we hold very seriously. To ensure that your personal information is kept safe and secure, we have implemented a range of measures and safeguards. Our staff has been trained on data protection, confidentiality, and security, and we have a framework of policies and procedures to ensure that our security measures are regularly reviewed and we ensure that all information provided by you is securely stored and protected by relevant data access control measures.
While we do our best to protect your personal data, the transmission of information via the Internet is not 100% secure and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we employ procedures and security measures to try to prevent any unauthorised access.
7. Who do we share personal data with?
As we have previously stipulated we will only share your personal data when we legally need to, and when doing so we will ensure that either contractual arrangements or security mechanisms are in place to ensure we are compliant with our data protection and security standards.
At times your personal data may be processed by our staff and all forms of employees, including third-party external support providers. A list of those included:
Insurance Companies
Legal representatives
Health & Safety advisors
IT Services
Regulatory authorities
Accountancy services who are supporting us with providing their services
PRS and other applicable Performing Rights Societies
Clients
Others – There may be occasions where we have the need to share your data with additional third parties not listed above. We will only do as per the legitimate requirements of our business and its operation.
8. Does my data go outside of the UK?
We may transfer your personal data outside the UK and EEA where we have a foreign server storage provider and/or arising from licensing of our music catalogues outside the UK and EEA.
9. Changes to our privacy statement
We may update or amend this privacy statement from time to time and any updates to this privacy policy will appear on this website. This privacy statement was last updated on 27th July 2026.
