Legal Information — writevio

This legal notice explains who operates this website, how the site may be used, and where responsibility sits between us and you. It applies to every visitor, whether you are browsing as a professional in the audiovisual industry, as a student, or simply reading our material.

Last updated: 6 November 2026

1. About this legal notice

This page is the statutory and general legal notice for this website. It sits alongside, and should be read together with, our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms and Conditions and Payment and Refund Policy. Where those documents deal with a subject in more detail, the more specific document takes priority over the summary given here.

Nothing in this notice reduces or removes any right you have under the law of England and Wales, or under the consumer law of the part of the United Kingdom in which you live. If any provision of this notice is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, that provision will be treated as removed and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

By accessing, browsing or otherwise using this website you confirm that you accept this notice. If you do not accept it, you should stop using the site.

2. Who we are and the role we play

2.1 Legal identity and legal form

This website is published and operated by writevio. The operator is a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales. Its legal form is a company limited by shares, which means that the liability of its shareholders is limited to the amount unpaid on their shares.

Company name: writevio
Company Registration Number: 03555097
Place of registration: England and Wales
Register of companies: Companies House, Cardiff

The company registration number above is the unique identifier assigned by the registrar of companies. It can be used to check the company's public record, including its filing history, its directors and its registered office, on the public register maintained by Companies House.

2.2 Tax identifiers

The operator is registered for Value Added Tax in the United Kingdom. Our VAT Registration Number is 477222243. Where prices, fees or charges are shown on this website, they are stated in pounds sterling and, unless expressly stated otherwise, are inclusive of VAT at the prevailing rate. Where a supply is made to a business customer in another jurisdiction, the VAT treatment is confirmed on the invoice issued for that supply.

2.3 Responsible representatives and editorial control

Ultimate responsibility for the content published on this website and for compliance with this notice rests with the board of directors of writevio. Day-to-day editorial control over technical material is exercised by our content and technical editorial team, which checks subject matter for accuracy before publication and reviews it periodically.

We do not carry on a regulated profession. No professional body supervises the publication of this website and no licence, authorisation or registration with a regulator is required for the activity of publishing technical information about audiovisual production. Where we describe equipment, standards or working practices, we do so as an independent publisher of information and not as a manufacturer, supplier, installer, certifier or insurer of the equipment concerned.

2.4 Our role in relation to third-party goods and services

Descriptions of products, studios, venues, systems or services on this website are provided for information and comparison only. Unless we expressly say otherwise in writing, we are not the seller, manufacturer or supplier of those goods or services, and we do not act as an agent for the organisations mentioned. Any contract you enter into for goods, services, hire or installation will be with the organisation concerned, on its own terms.

3. Registered office and how to reach us

Our registered office is the address recorded on the public register at Companies House and is the address at which formal documents and notices may validly be served on the company:

Registered office: 70 Kensington Way, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1LQ, United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 8953 5963

General enquiries, editorial corrections, permission requests and complaints are best sent by email, because that gives both sides a written record. Our Contact page also provides a form, and messages sent through it reach the same team. We aim to acknowledge written enquiries within five working days and to give a substantive reply within twenty working days. Complex technical or rights-related questions may take longer; where that is the case we will tell you and give an indication of when to expect a full answer.

Telephone lines are staffed during normal office hours in the United Kingdom. Calls may be recorded for training and quality purposes. Please note that legal service of proceedings, statutory notices and formal complaints should be sent in writing to the registered office rather than by telephone.

4. Purpose, scope and intended audience

This website is an information resource dedicated to audiovisual production excellence. Its content covers broadcast studio design, camera control systems, professional lighting arrangements, sound engineering, and the workflows that allow television networks and live event producers to run reliable, repeatable productions.

The material is intended for working professionals, technical crews, production managers, systems integrators, educators and students in the audiovisual sector, together with organisations that commission or operate production facilities. It is written in English and is aimed principally at a United Kingdom audience, although we welcome readers from elsewhere; local standards, regulations and electrical practice may differ in your country and must be checked locally.

Our content is general technical information, not bespoke professional advice. Studio design, rigging, electrical installation, radio spectrum use and health and safety planning all depend on the specific site, equipment and applicable standards. You should not rely on a general description on this website in place of a site-specific risk assessment, structural calculation or competent professional assessment. No adviser-client, designer-client or consultant-client relationship is created by your use of the site.

The website is operated on a commercial basis. It may carry advertising, sponsorship, affiliate arrangements or commissioned content. Where content is paid for or materially influenced by a commercial partner, that is indicated clearly in the relevant place. Commercial relationships never determine the technical judgements we express in editorial material.

5. Access to the website and acceptable use

5.1 Access

Access to the public areas of this website is free of charge and does not require an account. We do not guarantee that the site, or any part of it, will always be available or uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw, restrict or change all or any part of the site without notice, including for maintenance, security or legal reasons. You are responsible for the equipment, software and connectivity needed to reach the site, and for ensuring that anyone who accesses it through your connection complies with this notice.

5.2 Acceptable use

You may use this website only for lawful purposes. In particular, you must not:

use the site in any way that breaches applicable local, national or international law or regulation, including computer misuse and data protection legislation;
gain, or attempt to gain, unauthorised access to the site, the server on which it is stored, or any connected database, system or network;
introduce viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, ransomware or any other harmful material, or attack the site by denial-of-service or distributed denial-of-service means;
use automated means to harvest, scrape, crawl or systematically extract content, contact details or data from the site, except for ordinary search engine indexing carried out in accordance with our technical instructions;
send unsolicited commercial communications, chain messages or bulk mail through the contact form or any address published on the site;
impersonate any person, misrepresent an affiliation with any organisation, or submit knowingly false or misleading information through our forms;
upload or transmit content that is defamatory, obscene, threatening, harassing, discriminatory or that infringes the rights of any third party.

We may suspend or block access, remove material and report conduct to the relevant authorities where we reasonably believe that this section has been breached. We co-operate with law enforcement and with rights holders who report genuine infringements.

5.3 Accessibility and technical compatibility

We aim to keep the site usable with current versions of the major browsers, with keyboard navigation and with common assistive technologies. If you encounter a page or a feature that you cannot use, please tell us using the contact details in section 3 and we will try to provide the information in another format or to fix the problem in a future release.

6. Intellectual property, trademarks and permitted use of content

6.1 Ownership

All content on this website, including text, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, layout, graphics, audio and video material, code and the selection and arrangement of the content, is owned by or licensed to writevio and is protected by copyright, database right, design right and other intellectual property laws. The name writevio, its logos, page designs and any product or service names used by us are trademarks or trade dress belonging to the operator. Nothing on this website grants you any licence or right to use those marks.

6.2 What you may do

You may view, browse and display the pages of this website on a device, print or download extracts for your own internal, non-commercial reference, and quote short passages with clear attribution to this website, provided the quotation is fair, accurate and not misleading. Internal circulation within your own organisation for genuine production planning is permitted.

6.3 What you may not do

You must not reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, rent, sub-licence, frame, mirror or create derivative works from any substantial part of this website without our prior written consent. You must not remove or obscure copyright, trademark or attribution notices, and you must not use our content to train, fine-tune or otherwise develop machine-learning models, or to populate another website, database or publication, without a written licence.

We expressly reserve our rights in respect of text and data mining to the fullest extent permitted by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, including in relation to any automated analysis of the content of this site.

6.4 Third-party material and notices

Photographs, technical drawings, specifications and case-study material supplied by manufacturers, venues, broadcasters or other partners remain the property of those parties and are used with permission or under an applicable licence. Trade names, equipment names and logos shown on the site belong to their respective owners and are used for identification and descriptive purposes only. Their appearance does not imply endorsement of this website by the owner, nor endorsement by us of the product concerned.

6.5 Complaints about content

If you believe that material on this website infringes your copyright, database right, trademark or other right, please write to us at [email protected] with enough detail for us to identify the material, the right relied on and your contact details. We will review the notice promptly and, where the complaint is well founded, remove or amend the material while the position is resolved.

7. Accuracy, availability and limitation of liability

7.1 Accuracy of information

We take reasonable care to ensure that the technical information we publish is accurate when it is prepared. The audiovisual field changes quickly: firmware, standards, connector conventions, spectrum rules, safety guidance and product ranges are all revised regularly. Content may become out of date, and we are under no obligation to update it. Any reliance you place on the material on this website is at your own risk, and you should verify critical details against the manufacturer's current documentation and the applicable standards before specifying, purchasing, installing or operating equipment.

7.2 Availability and changes

The site is provided on an "as available" basis. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or free from errors, or that defects will be corrected. We may change, edit, restructure or withdraw content at any time.

7.3 Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for loss of profit, loss of business, loss of revenue, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, loss of goodwill, business interruption, and for any indirect or consequential loss arising out of or in connection with the use of, or inability to use, this website or reliance on its content.

Nothing in this notice excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for breach of the terms implied by section 9 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (in relation to digital content), for defective products under the Consumer Protection Act 1987, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.

Where you are using this website in the course of a business, our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with this notice or your use of the site is limited to one hundred pounds sterling. This cap does not apply to the liabilities that cannot be excluded as set out above.

7.4 Events beyond our control

We are not liable for any failure or delay in making the site available that is caused by events outside our reasonable control, including network or hosting failures, power outages, cyber-attacks, industrial action, pandemics, severe weather or changes in law.

8. External links and third-party content

This website may contain links to websites, documents and resources operated by third parties, and may embed media hosted on third-party platforms. Those links and embeds are provided for convenience and information only. We do not control third-party sites, we do not endorse their content, products or practices, and we accept no responsibility for their availability, accuracy, legality or privacy practices. When you follow a link or load embedded media, the third party's terms of use and privacy policy apply, and you should read them before providing personal data or entering into a transaction.

We are not responsible for content posted by visitors or partners in areas of the site that allow contributions, nor for any reliance you place on such content. If you consider that linked or user-submitted material is unlawful, defamatory or otherwise objectionable, please notify us at [email protected] and we will consider removal.

9. Data protection, privacy and cookies

writevio is the data controller for personal data processed through this website for the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. We process personal data on the lawful bases of our legitimate interests in operating and improving the site, the performance of a contract where we supply goods or services, compliance with legal obligations, and consent where we rely on it, for example for optional marketing communications or for non-essential cookies.

We collect only what we need: enquiry details submitted through our contact form, correspondence sent by email or given by telephone, and technical information generated by your browser such as device type, approximate location derived from the network and pages visited. We keep enquiry records for as long as needed to deal with the matter and to meet our legal and accounting obligations, and we then delete or anonymise them.

You have the right to be informed about how your data is used, to request access to your data, to have inaccurate data rectified, to request erasure in the circumstances set out in law, to restrict or object to processing, and to data portability where it applies. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. To exercise any of these rights, write to [email protected]. We will respond within one month, extending that period where the request is complex.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, please raise it with us first. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the United Kingdom supervisory authority for data protection.

Cookies and similar technologies are used on this site. A cookie banner is displayed when you first visit, and non-essential cookies, including analytics and any advertising or embedded-media cookies, are set only where you have given consent in line with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. You can withdraw or change your consent at any time through the cookie settings available from the banner, and you can block or delete cookies through your browser. Our Cookie Policy describes each category of cookie, its purpose and its duration; our Privacy Policy sets out the full detail of our processing, retention and transfers.

10. Terms and conditions of supply, payment and refunds

Some activities connected with this website may be offered on a paid basis, for example training, events, commissioned research, advertising placements or access to premium material. Where you purchase anything from us, separate Terms and Conditions of supply apply and form the contract between us; those terms set out the description of what is supplied, the price, the payment timetable, delivery or access arrangements, and the remedies available if something goes wrong.

Payment is due in accordance with the invoice or checkout terms applicable to the order, in pounds sterling unless another currency is agreed in writing, and inclusive of VAT where applicable. Our Payment and Refund Policy explains accepted payment methods, invoicing, late payment, cancellation of events or training places, the delivery of digital content, and when refunds or credits are available.

If you are a consumer contracting at a distance, you may have a statutory right to cancel within fourteen days of entering into the contract under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013. That right does not apply once a service has been fully performed with your express agreement, or once supply of digital content has begun where you have consented and acknowledged the loss of the cancellation right. Nothing in this section affects your rights in relation to faulty or misdescribed goods, services or digital content under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

11. Complaints, alternative dispute resolution and consumer rights

We would much rather resolve a problem directly than let it escalate. If you are dissatisfied with anything connected with this website, a purchase or a communication from us, please contact us using the details in section 3, describe the issue and tell us what outcome you are seeking. We will investigate, keep you informed of progress, and aim to give a final response within twenty working days of receiving a full description of the complaint.

Consumers in the United Kingdom may also seek advice from Citizens Advice or from a trading standards service. Where a dispute concerns goods, services or digital content supplied by us, alternative dispute resolution may be available through a certified provider, but we are not obliged to participate in such a procedure and, unless we agree in writing, we do not do so. This does not prevent you from bringing a claim in court.

12. Applicable law, jurisdiction and territorial scope

This notice, its subject matter and its formation, and any non-contractual dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it, are governed by the law of England and Wales. Subject to the paragraph below, the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute.

If you are a consumer resident in Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in the Scottish courts, and if you are a consumer resident in Northern Ireland, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of Northern Ireland. Nothing in this notice deprives a consumer of the protection of the mandatory rules of the country in which they live.

We do not represent that this website or its content is appropriate or available for use in every country. If you access the site from outside the United Kingdom, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, including any restrictions on the import of technical information, encryption technology or controlled goods.

13. Changes to this notice and the last-updated date

We review this notice regularly and will amend it when our practices, our services or the law change. The version published on this page is the current version, and the date shown at the top of the page records when it was last updated. Where a change materially affects how we use personal data or the basis on which you may use the site, we will draw attention to it on the site. Continued use of the website after an update takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revised notice.

If you do not accept a revised notice, you should stop using the website. Questions about this notice, its interpretation or its application should be sent to [email protected].

14. Key company details

The following summary repeats the legal identifiers required to be disclosed on this website. It is provided so that the information can be read at a glance.

Company Name: writevio
Company Registration Number: 03555097
Place of Registration: England and Wales
VAT Registration Number: 477222243
Registered Office: 70 Kensington Way, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1LQ, United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 8953 5963

Related documents forming part of our site terms: Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms of Use, Terms and Conditions of Supply, Payment and Refund Policy, and Accessibility Statement. This notice was last updated on 6 November 2026.