Legal Information and Company Details

Last updated: 2 November 2026

1. About This Legal Notice

This page contains the statutory and regulatory information that flashryne publishes about itself, together with a plain-English explanation of the rules that apply when you use this website. It is written for visitors, prospective clients, production companies, freelancers and suppliers who work with us, as well as for anyone who reads our material on live television production. Nothing here is marketing copy: it is the formal notice that identifies who we are, how you can check our registration details, what you may and may not do with our content, and what your rights are if something goes wrong.

The website is operated from the United Kingdom and is aimed principally at a United Kingdom audience. This notice should be read together with our Privacy Policy, our Cookie Policy, our Terms and Conditions and our Payment and Refund Policy, each of which forms part of the terms on which this website is made available. Where those documents deal with a topic in greater detail, they take precedence over the summary given here.

2. Identity of the Website Operator and Our Role

This website is owned and operated by flashryne, a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. Our role is that of publisher and controller of the site: we decide what appears here, we maintain the technical infrastructure, and we are the organisation you are dealing with when you read our material, send an enquiry through the contact form, or agree a contract with us for production-related services, equipment hire or technical support.

When you contract with us, the organisation you are contracting with is the company named on your quotation, order confirmation or invoice, and not any informal trading style. If we ever use a brand or trading style that differs from our registered name, we will make that relationship clear on the page or document on which the trading style appears, so that you always know which legal entity is responsible.

We do not practise a regulated profession and we are not supervised by a professional regulator. We do not hold ourselves out as supplying legal, accountancy, insurance, medical or broadcasting-licensing advice, and nothing published on this website is a substitute for advice from a suitably qualified professional engaged for your own production.

3. Legal Form, Registration Details, Tax Identifiers and Licences

The Companies Act 2006, the Provision of Services Regulations 2009 and the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 require businesses such as ours to disclose certain identification details to anyone who visits their website, receives their business correspondence or orders services from them. Those details are set out below. You can verify them free of charge on the public register maintained by Companies House.

Registered company name: flashryne
Legal form: private company limited by shares, incorporated in the United Kingdom
Company registration number: 13033970
Place of registration: England and Wales
Registered office address: MediaCityUK B4, Orange Tower, Salford Quays, Salford M50 2HE, United Kingdom
VAT registration number: 494089156
Principal business activity: supply, hire and technical support of camera, lighting and studio equipment, together with related production and integration services for film, television and live media production

Where any document we issue discloses share capital, the reference is to paid-up share capital. Where the name of a director appears in a business letter, order form or similar document otherwise than in the body text or as a signatory, we disclose the names of every director, as required by the Companies Act 2006. Our VAT number appears on quotations, invoices and order confirmations whenever VAT is chargeable, and prices are shown exclusive of VAT unless we state otherwise.

We are not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority or any comparable body, and we do not operate under any statutory authorisation scheme, trade register or professional body membership that must be disclosed to you before you contract with us. Where insurance is required for studio, location or on-site work, evidence of cover can be supplied on request as part of a tender pack. Where an organisation of our size is within the scope of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, we make the required statement available on this website; where we fall outside its turnover threshold, we still expect our suppliers to meet equivalent ethical standards. Information required by the Provision of Services Regulations 2009, including pre-contract price information and the main features of a service, is provided before any service contract is concluded.

4. Registered Office and How to Contact Us

Our registered office, which is also the address at which formal notices and documents may be served on the company, is MediaCityUK B4, Orange Tower, Salford Quays, Salford M50 2HE, United Kingdom. Correspondence that is not a formal legal notice can also be sent there, although email is usually faster.

You can reach us by email at Christine@christinepykemedia.com or by telephone on 0161 295 0100. A contact form is also available on the Contacts page of this website if you prefer to write to us in that way. When you use the contact form we ask for your own name, email address and message so that we can reply to you and keep a record of the enquiry; we never publish those details.

The Provision of Services Regulations 2009 require us to give you a route for complaints and requests for information. Please use the email address above for both, marking your message clearly as a complaint if that is what it is. We aim to acknowledge complaints within five working days and to give a substantive response within twenty working days. If we cannot resolve a matter between us, United Kingdom consumers can obtain free, independent advice from Citizens Advice or their local Trading Standards service, and in some circumstances enforcement bodies may act under the Enterprise Act 2002 where a breach harms the collective interests of consumers.

5. Purpose, Scope and Intended Audience of This Website

This website is a professional hub for live television production. Its purpose is to share working-level guidance and reference material on studio equipment integration, dynamic camera techniques and movement, acoustic optimisation for studio and temporary spaces, lighting setups for multi-camera environments, and reliable production processes for news output, interviews, panel discussions and live shows. We aim to describe practical methods that have been used in real control rooms and studios rather than to promote any single manufacturer or supplier.

The intended audience is made up of professionals and serious students of television production, including producers, directors, vision mixers, camera operators, sound engineers, lighting directors, studio managers, facility operators and the technical teams who support them. The content assumes a reasonable level of familiarity with production terminology and is not designed for general consumer entertainment.

This website is not directed at children. If you are under 16, please do not send personal information to us through the contact form or by email. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children, and if we learn that we have done so we will delete it promptly.

6. Access to the Website and Acceptable Use

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to access and read the pages of this website for your own professional or personal information. You may print or download individual pages for your own internal reference, provided you do not remove or obscure any copyright, attribution or status notice.

You must not do any of the following, and any breach may result in your access being withdrawn and, where appropriate, in legal action:

copy, republish, sell, rent, sublicense, distribute or systematically extract content from this website for commercial purposes without our written permission;
use automated scripts, crawlers, scrapers or similar tools to harvest content or to place unreasonable load on our servers;
attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the website, its hosting environment or any connected system, or to probe, scan or test its vulnerability;
introduce viruses, malware, denial-of-service code or any other harmful material, or interfere with the proper working of the site;
use the site to harass, threaten, defame or discriminate against any person, or to publish material that is unlawful, obscene or misleading;
misrepresent your identity, qualifications or affiliation with any organisation, including ours;
use the site in breach of any applicable law, including broadcasting, advertising, consumer protection, data protection, export control or sanctions rules.

We may suspend, withdraw or restrict all or part of the website, and may block access from particular networks or addresses, where we consider it necessary to protect the site, our users or our legal position. We will not normally give notice of such action where it is taken for security or legal reasons.

7. Intellectual Property: Content, Marks and Permitted Use

All copyright, database rights, design rights, trade mark rights and other intellectual property rights in this website and in its content, including written explanations, diagrams, illustrations, checklists, layout, typography and underlying code, belong to flashryne or are used by us under licence from their owners. The compilation of the site as a whole is protected as a collection, and nothing on this page transfers any of those rights to you.

Our company name, any logo we use, and any service names we adopt are trade marks or unregistered marks of flashryne or of their respective owners. You may not use them in a way that suggests partnership, sponsorship or endorsement without our prior written permission.

You may quote short extracts of our text for the purposes of review, commentary, teaching or internal training, provided the use is fair, is accompanied by clear attribution to flashryne and the page from which it was taken, and does not misrepresent our view. Systematic copying, translation, resale or incorporation of our material into a competing training product or paid course is not permitted.

If you believe that content published on this website infringes your own intellectual property rights, please write to Christine@christinepykemedia.com with enough detail to identify the material, the right relied on and your contact details. We will investigate promptly and will remove or amend material where a valid claim is made out.

8. Accuracy, Availability and Proportionate Limits on Our Liability

The content of this website is provided for general professional information. Production practice varies considerably with venue, budget, crew size, equipment generation and legal context, and a method that works in one studio may be unsuitable in another. We take reasonable care to keep our material accurate and up to date, but we cannot promise that every page is complete, current or appropriate for your particular project, and we may change, move or remove content at any time without notice.

Nothing in this legal notice excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Subject to that, and to the extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for loss of profit, loss of business, loss of contracts or opportunities, loss of anticipated savings, loss of or corruption of data, and any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of, or inability to use, this website or reliance on its content.

Where you use this website as a business, our total aggregate liability to you in connection with the website (as distinct from any separate contract we may have with you) is limited to one hundred pounds. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and related legislation are unaffected, and no term of this notice is intended to remove them.

We do not guarantee that the website will be available uninterrupted or error-free. Maintenance, software upgrades, failures at our hosting provider and faults in public telecommunications networks may make the site temporarily unavailable, and we accept no liability for such interruptions, including where they delay your access to reference material at a critical moment.

9. External Links and Third-Party Content

From time to time this website may refer to or link to resources operated by third parties, such as equipment manufacturers, standards and industry bodies, training providers, hosting and video delivery platforms. Those resources are owned and operated by others and are governed by their own terms of use, privacy notices and cookie practices.

We do not control third-party resources and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, security or the way they handle personal data. A link or reference is provided for convenience and does not amount to an endorsement of the third party, its products or its views. When you follow a link you leave our website, and you should read the terms and privacy notice of the site you are visiting before relying on it or submitting information to it.

Where third-party content is embedded in one of our pages, the third party may set cookies or collect device information directly. Please see our Cookie Policy for an explanation of how such embedded content interacts with your cookie preferences.

10. Privacy, Cookies and Data Protection

flashryne is the data controller for personal data processed through this website. We handle that data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR). Our Privacy Policy explains in full what we collect, why we collect it and how long we keep it.

Consistent with the transparency requirements of Article 13 of the UK GDPR, at the point we collect your personal data we tell you: the name and contact details of our organisation and, where applicable, of our representative and data protection contact; the purposes and lawful basis of the processing; the categories of recipients of the data; any transfers outside the United Kingdom and the safeguards applied; the retention period; and your rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object, port data and withdraw consent, together with the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

When you submit the contact form or email us, we process your name, contact details and message content on the basis of our legitimate interests in responding to enquiries and, where relevant, taking steps at your request before entering into a contract. Enquiry records are retained for as long as is necessary to deal with the matter and then deleted or archived in line with our retention schedule. We do not sell personal data, and we share it only with suppliers who help us run the website or our business and who are bound by written confidentiality and data protection terms.

Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website in line with PECR. A cookie banner is shown on your first visit and non-essential cookies, such as analytics or marketing cookies, are set only if you consent. Cookies that are strictly necessary to deliver the site or to remember your cookie choices do not require consent. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through the banner or your browser settings, and blocking cookies may affect how parts of the site behave. The Cookie Policy lists the cookies we use, their purpose and their lifespan.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data, please contact us first at Christine@christinepykemedia.com so that we have the opportunity to put matters right. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the ICO, which is the United Kingdom supervisory authority for data protection.

11. Contracts, Pricing, Cancellations and Refunds

Information published on this website, including descriptions of services, technical recommendations and any indicative pricing, is an invitation to treat rather than a binding offer. A contract between you and flashryne comes into existence only when we confirm it in writing, whether by email, order confirmation or signed hire agreement. Prices are quoted in pounds sterling and exclude VAT unless we state otherwise, and they may change before a contract is concluded.

If you are a consumer, the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 give you a right to cancel distance contracts for services and digital content within fourteen days of entering into them, although that right can be lost once a service has been fully performed with your agreement or where digital content has already been supplied with your consent. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 requires services to be carried out with reasonable care and skill, and digital content to be of satisfactory quality and fit for purpose.

Our Terms and Conditions set out the commercial terms that apply to hire, supply, installation and support arrangements, including delivery, risk, insurance, liability caps and cancellation charges. Our Payment and Refund Policy explains accepted payment methods, deposit requirements, invoicing, late payment interest, and how cancellations, returns and refunds are handled. Nothing in this legal notice restricts any statutory right you have as a consumer, and any contractual term that purported to do so would not be enforceable against you.

12. Governing Law, Courts and Consumer Dispute Rights

This legal notice, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with your use of this website, is governed by the law of England and Wales. Subject to the paragraph below, the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute.

If you are a consumer resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may bring proceedings in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which you live, and we will only bring proceedings against you in that part. If you live outside the United Kingdom, the mandatory consumer protection rules of your country of residence continue to apply to you to the extent that they cannot be excluded by agreement, and nothing in this notice affects them.

We are not obliged to participate in alternative dispute resolution and do not currently commit to a particular ADR scheme, but we will always try to resolve a disagreement directly and informally before anyone resorts to formal proceedings. Consumers in the United Kingdom can seek free advice from Citizens Advice and, where a business has breached consumer law in a way that harms the collective interests of consumers, from Trading Standards or another qualifying body entitled to act under the Enterprise Act 2002.

13. Accessibility, Equality and Ethical Statements

We want this website to be usable by as many people as possible, including people who rely on screen readers, keyboard navigation, magnification or captions. We aim to follow recognised accessibility guidance, to use clear language and sufficient contrast, and to keep navigation consistent across pages. If you encounter a barrier, please tell us at Christine@christinepykemedia.com and we will try to provide the information you need in another format.

We are committed to treating visitors, clients suppliers and crew fairly and without discrimination, and to complying with equality legislation applicable to our business. Where our size or turnover brings us within the scope of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, we publish a slavery and human trafficking statement describing the steps taken in our own business and supply chains, and we encourage suppliers to adopt equivalent standards. Copies of our ethical, sustainability and modern slavery statements are available on request through the contact details below.

14. Changes to This Notice, Contact Route and Final Points

We review this page whenever our corporate details, services or the applicable law change. The version published here is the version in force, and the date at the top of the page shows when it was last reviewed. Where a change materially affects how we use personal data, we will notify you through the website or by email, or ask for your consent again where the law requires it. Continuing to use the website after a change takes effect means that you accept the updated notice.

If any part of this notice is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining parts continue in full force and effect. Any delay or failure by us to enforce a provision is not a waiver of that provision or of any other. Together with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms and Conditions and Payment and Refund Policy, this notice forms the whole agreement between you and us in relation to your use of the website.

Questions about this page, requests for our company information, VAT details, insurance certificates or our policy statements, and any formal notice to the company should be directed to Christine@christinepykemedia.com, by telephone on 0161 295 0100, or by post to MediaCityUK B4, Orange Tower, Salford Quays, Salford M50 2HE, United Kingdom. We will respond as quickly as we reasonably can, and normally within five working days.