This Privacy Statement applies to all processing of personal data referred to herein by Talpa Studios Holding BV and its affiliates Talpa Studios Netherlands BV and Talpa Studios Concepts BV, whereby Talpa Studios Holding BV is the controller. Talpa Studios Holding BV has its registered office at Bergweg 70, 1217 SC Hilversum and is registered in the Trade Register under number 77937376 (hereinafter: “Talpa Studios“, “us” or “we“).
If you sign up and/or participate as an audience in one or more programs of Talpa Studios and/or you have signed up for the Talpa Studios newsletter, privacy-sensitive data (hereinafter: “personal data” or “data“) of you will be processed. By processing we mean all the use of your personal data, such as storing, modifying, forwarding, recording in the recordings belonging to the program in question, or (partially) deleting this data.
Are you younger than 18 years old? Then unfortunately you cannot attend our program as an audience. For programs where – in exceptional cases – this is allowed you may only provide personal data to us if your parents or legal guardians have read this Privacy Statement and have given permission to do so. This only applies if consent is also the basis for the processing (see section 6 below ‘Grounds for processing’). We may use a variety of ways to verify your age. Taking into account the available means, we will make reasonable efforts to verify that your parents or legal guardians have given their consent. For example, we may ask you for the email address or telephone number of your parents or legal guardians so that we can contact them to verify that they have given their consent to register you with the relevant program and the associated provision and further processing of data. We can also ask them to sign a written declaration of consent.
We use the following basic information for the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Statement:
It is not the case that we always use all of your data. Often this is only limited to some of the above types of data. Which data we use depends on the purpose for which we process the data (see also section 5 below “Purposes for processing”) and this in turn depends on the (subject of the) respective program.
We ask you not to provide us with any unnecessary (special) personal data or (special) personal data that we have not requested, for example via open input fields on our websites.
The primary way we obtain information is by requesting it from you. You have the choice whether you want to provide this data to us or not. For example, the requested information you can fill in yourself on one of our program application forms. If we are unable to process your application without all the requested information, you can always choose to inform us that you no longer wish to be an audience member for the program and thereby cancel your application. You can also withdraw your consent or request deletion (see also point 11 below ‘Rights of data subject’). Any data already provided will then be destroyed immediately.
We use your data for the following purposes:
We will not use your data for purposes other than those described above, unless this is compatible with the original and stated processing purpose.
We always process your personal data on the basis of one of the following legal bases.
Your data can be exchanged within Talpa Studios. In addition, we may share your data with a limited number of third parties. Think of the following parties:
Where possible, we require these third parties to act in the capacity of processors. This means that we determine the purpose and means for this processing and that the processor may only handle your data in accordance with our instructions and our (security) standards. We record these agreements with each processor in a so-called processing agreement. Some of these processors are located outside the EU. Because the same level of privacy protection is not guaranteed outside the EU, we have made (additional) agreements with these parties. We conclude an approved model contract from the European Commission (also known as standard contractual clauses) with these processors.
If a party receives your data from us as a (separate or joint) controller, we will inform you about this and state the Privacy Statement of that party.
We do not use automated decision-making based on profiling.
We do not store your personal data longer than necessary. How long that is depends on the purpose for which your data is processed. There is no fixed retention period that we can give to all types of data; We determine this for each processing.
We will usually delete your data within three (3) months at the latest, after the recording of the program in which you are part of the audience. Exceptions to this retention period and deletion concern personal data included in agreements with you in which the transfer of rights, waiver of personality rights, licenses and exploitation permissions with regard to the program are arranged.
In addition, please note that data about you that ends up in recordings for the program will be processed and made public as part of the program by the end users of the program, such as TV channels via publication (e.g. linear broadcast on TV) or via online provision (e.g. posting on a public platform).
Upon your permission, we will use your e-mail address to send a general newsletter about the (future) programs of Talpa Studios. We will process your e-mail address for sending you these e-mails until you indicate that you no longer wish to receive this newsletter (see point 11 below ‘Rights of data subject’).
We do our utmost to secure personal data as well as possible. We do this by implementing organizational and technical security measures that, in accordance with current technical market standards, try to prevent anyone from gaining unauthorized access to the data, modifying it, making it public or causing the loss of the data.
If we engage so-called processors, we oblige them to handle your data in accordance with our instructions and our (security) standards. See also point 7 above ‘Sharing of data’.
You have the right to access, correct, delete or transfer your personal data, or in some cases to withdraw a previously given consent. In addition, you have the right to restrict and object to the processing.
You can send your request to exercise your rights to privacy@talpastudios.com. In your request, please specify which right you want to exercise. We will process your request within one month. If the processing of your request is not possible within one month, for example because the request is very complex, we will inform you within one month of your request about the extension of our response period (by a maximum of two months).
If we cannot (fully) carry out your request for deletion, because we still have a purpose or legal obligation to (partially) store your data, we will inform you about this. In addition, please note that Dutch privacy legislation only applies to a limited extent when we process personal data for journalistic or artistic purposes. In that case, you cannot claim the aforementioned rights. We will also inform you about this in that case.
Finally, we would like to point out the right to file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority.
Questions or complaints in the field of privacy can be asked via privacy@talpastudios.com.
We may unilaterally change this Privacy Statement. We therefore recommend that you regularly check this Privacy Statement for changes. If we make any major changes, we’ll let you know.
Last modified: March 30, 2026