Casting applications. Last updated: 2 September 2026
This policy explains what we do with your personal information when you apply to take part in THE COMEBACK, a Start Over television documentary project. It covers the casting application form and anything you send us as part of applying. It is written to be read, not survived, so it is in plain English.
Two other policies cover different things on this website. If you registered for a Start Over live or online event, or bought a ticket, the events privacy policy covers that. If you applied to become a co-author in the Start Over Movement Book Series, a separate policy covers that. This one is only about casting.
The data controller responsible for your personal information is:
START OVER MOVEMENT HOLDINGS LTD
5 Railway Terrace, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 7AW
Registered in England and Wales, company number 16905154
Email: [email protected]
In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" mean START OVER MOVEMENT HOLDINGS LTD.
We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller, registration number ZC234946, and pay the data protection fee.
Information you give us in the application form. The casting page carries an application form. When you submit it we receive:
Your story. The application asks you to tell us, in your own words, what happened to you, what it cost you, what your lowest point was, what you did next, where you are now, and why your story should be seen. Whatever you choose to write in those answers, we hold.
Video, if you send one. We may ask for a short video introducing yourself. If you send one, we hold it.
Anything else you send us. If you email us, or reply to a message from us, we hold whatever you choose to put in it.
Technical information. Some technical information reaches the companies that serve our pages and our form, such as your IP address, browser and device type. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies on the casting page. There is no advertising pixel and no analytics tracking on it. The company that provides our application form may set cookies that are necessary for the form itself to work.
This section matters more than any other, so please read it.
The questions we ask invite you to talk about the hardest parts of your life. Depending on your story, your answers may reveal things the law treats as especially sensitive, called "special category" information. That can include information about your physical or mental health, addiction and recovery, disability, your religious or philosophical beliefs, your racial or ethnic origin, your sex life or sexual orientation. Your story may also touch on criminal offences, whether committed by you or against you.
We only hold that information because you have chosen to give it to us, and we ask for your explicit consent to do so. That is the legal basis we rely on for it, under Article 9(2)(a) of the UK GDPR.
What that means in practice:
If you would rather not put something sensitive in a web form, you can apply with the outline of your story and tell us the rest later, in person, if you are shortlisted.
We do not add you to a marketing list because you applied. If you want to hear from Start Over generally, that is a separate choice you make separately.
We do not sell your information. We do not use it for advertising. We do not share your story with anyone outside the list above without asking you first.
Our application form is provided by a company whose infrastructure includes servers in the United States, so the information you submit is transferred outside the UK.
Where that happens we rely on safeguards recognised under the UK GDPR, being the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the receiving company is certified under it, and the International Data Transfer Addendum to the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses where it is not. You can ask us for a copy of the safeguard that applies.
If you are in the EEA, the equivalent protections apply under the EU GDPR.
Being shortlisted is not the same as being cast, and applying is not a promise of anything.
If your story is shortlisted, someone from the casting team will contact you by email or phone to talk further, and may ask for more detail. If you are then selected to take part, you will receive separate participation, consent, production and filming agreements, and you will have the chance to read them and take advice before you sign anything.
Nothing you send in your application is filmed, broadcast, published or distributed. Your application is used to decide whether to talk to you further, and for nothing else.
Any filming, and any broadcast, only ever happens under the separate agreements described above, which you would sign first.
We keep applications for 12 months from the close of casting, and then delete them.
If you ask us to delete your application sooner, we will.
If you are selected to take part, the information needed for the production is kept under the separate participation and consent agreements, which set out their own periods.
Your application is held in the form provider's systems, which are access controlled and encrypted in transit. Access is limited to the people who need it to run the casting process. We do not keep copies of applications on personal devices.
No system is perfectly secure, and we will not pretend otherwise. If something goes wrong that puts your rights at risk, we will tell you and the Information Commissioner's Office as the law requires.
You have the right to:
To do any of these, email [email protected]. We will respond within one month.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal data you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK regulator, at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113. If you are in the EEA you can instead complain to the supervisory authority in the country where you live or work. We would rather you gave us the chance to put it right first, but it is your right either way.
This casting application is open to people aged 18 or over only. We do not knowingly accept applications from anyone under 18. If we learn that an application has come from someone under 18, we delete it.
Our pages link to other websites, including the platforms that carry our previous programmes. This policy does not cover those websites, and we are not responsible for how they handle your information. Their own policies apply.
If we change how we handle casting applications, we will update this policy and change the date at the top. If the change is significant, and we still hold your application, we will tell you.
START OVER MOVEMENT HOLDINGS LTD
5 Railway Terrace, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 7AW
Email: [email protected]