Where our creator information comes from
Last updated: 27 August 2026
This page is for the directors, studios, animators and designers credited in the Motion Index library. It explains what we hold about you, where we got it, why, and how to have it changed or removed.
It is our notice under Article 14 of the GDPR, which applies when personal data is collected from somewhere other than the person it describes — and why you are reading this rather than an email.
1. Why we do this at all
Motion Index is a reference library of product films, brand films and motion design. A reference without a credit is a worse reference — knowing which studio made a shot is often the whole reason someone is looking at it — and in this industry attribution is how people get hired.
So we credit the work, and we link the credit to the places you have chosen to publish that work. That is the entire purpose.
2. What we hold
For a credited creator or studio, up to:
- Name, as credited on the film
- Links to your professional presence — your website, Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Behance, X, LinkedIn
- City (for example, "London, UK")
- A short professional bio
That is all of it. We do not hold your email address or phone number. We do not track you, score you, or record anything about your behaviour. We hold no private-life information and nothing we have inferred about you — only the professional credit and where it leads.
3. Where it came from
- The credits on the films themselves, including on-screen credits and the description published with the film
- Uploader and channel information from the platform hosting the film, such as Vimeo or YouTube
- Your own public professional pages, for the links and the short bio
We do not buy data, and we do not take anything from a private or restricted source.
To read credits off a large number of films we use an automated tool (Anthropic's Claude) to extract the names and roles written in a film's credits and description. It reads text off the film; it makes no judgement about any person. Extracted credits are stored for attribution and can be corrected or removed.
4. The legal basis
We rely on legitimate interests — Article 6(1)(f), the basis explained in full in the Privacy Policy — the interest being crediting the people who made the work, which is also the reason those credits and professional links were published in the first place.
We have written that assessment down and you are welcome to ask for it. The short version: the data is minimal and professional, the purpose matches the reason it was published, and you can have it removed at any time by asking.
We do not rely on "it was publicly available" as a justification in itself. Public availability is one factor in the balance, not a licence.
5. Who sees it
Creator credits are public on Motion Index — that is the point of a credit. They appear on the film pages and on creator pages.
The information is stored on our infrastructure in the EU (Frankfurt) and is not sold, licensed or shared with advertisers. Ever.
6. How long we keep it
For as long as the film is in the library and the credit is accurate, or until you ask us to remove it.
7. Your rights
You can, at any time and without giving a reason — these are the same rights set out in the Privacy Policy:
- Ask what we hold about you (Article 15)
- Have it corrected if a credit is wrong (Article 16) — please do tell us, a wrong credit is a bug in our product as well
- Have it erased (Article 17)
- Object to it entirely (Article 21)
To do any of these, email hello@motionindex.io. Say which creator page you mean and what you would like changed. You do not need to explain why.
When you ask to be removed, you stay removed. We record the removal so that our automated import cannot recreate your profile the next time it runs, and your name is stripped from the underlying film records at the same time, so it does not reappear through the back door. This is one action, not two — we tested it.
We aim to respond within a few days, and we are required to respond within one month.
You also have the right to complain to your data protection authority. Ours is the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet).
8. Why we did not email you individually
Article 14 normally expects us to contact people directly. We have not, for a reason worth stating: we do not hold your email address, and we would have had to go and find contact details for thousands of people in order to send them a message. Article 14(5)(b) recognises that case and asks for a public notice instead. This page is it.
If you would rather we had contacted you, we take the point — and the fastest route is now the same one either way: email us and we will act on it.
Contact
Motion Index is operated by CINESUIT AS (organisation number 931 200 909, Rådhusgata 5, 0151 Oslo, Norway), which is the data controller for the credits described here. See the Privacy Policy for everything else we process and the full account of your rights.