Legal Information

Last updated: 26 October 2026

This page brings together the legal and company information that applies to showfran, a commercial learning resource devoted to studio production in motion: studio equipment set-up, dynamic camera operation, lighting and sound, and the creation of smooth, high-quality workflows for television news and live shows. It explains who operates the site, how that operator is registered in the United Kingdom, which statutory disclosures apply to it, what you may and may not do with the material published here, and how the other legal documents on this website fit together. Please read it before you rely on any material published here, enrol on a paid element of the service, or download any teaching resource.

1. Identity of the Website Operator

showfran is a commercial website published in the United Kingdom. The site is owned and operated by Adlib Audio Limited, a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. Throughout this notice, the words 3we4, 3us4, 3our4 and 3the operator4 refer to Adlib Audio Limited as the entity behind this website, while 3you4 refers to any person who visits, browses, enrols on, downloads from, or otherwise uses the website and its materials.

Adlib Audio Limited is the legal person that concludes contracts with you, that publishes and maintains the content made available through showfran, and that is responsible for the technical and organisational operation of the site. Where a paid course, subscription, workshop or downloadable resource is offered, the contract of supply is formed between you and Adlib Audio Limited, and not with any individual author, tutor, contributor, manufacturer or partner who may have helped to create the material. Any statement that a product or brand is used within our teaching material is descriptive only and does not imply any endorsement, sponsorship or commercial relationship.

The operator acts in several distinct legal roles, and each role carries different obligations under United Kingdom law. As a trader supplying digital content and services to consumers, it must comply with the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013. As a provider of an information society service, it must comply with the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002, including the requirements to identify itself clearly and to provide a direct and effective means of contact. As an organisation that processes personal data, it must comply with the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. This page, together with the other policies it refers to, explains how those obligations are met in practice.

1.1 Responsible persons and formal correspondence

Day-to-day responsibility for the website 4 its content, its security and its legal compliance 4 rests with the directors and management team of Adlib Audio Limited. Formal notices, complaints, intellectual property claims and any other legal correspondence relating to the site should be addressed in writing to the operatords registered office, which is given in section 2, or sent by email to [email protected]. Please use a clear subject line and include your name, the page or resource concerned, and sufficient detail for us to understand and investigate the matter. We aim to acknowledge formal correspondence within five working days and to provide a substantive reply within thirty days, although complex matters may take longer; where that is the case we will tell you why and when to expect a further response.

2. Statutory Company Information and Trading Disclosures

United Kingdom company law requires every company to disclose specified information about itself. Section 82 of the Companies Act 2006, read together with the Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business (Names and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2015, requires a company to display its registered name, its registered number, the part of the United Kingdom in which it is registered, and the address of its registered office on its websites, business letters, order forms and other business communications. The information must appear in legible characters, and a failure to make these disclosures is an offence. The disclosures below apply to showfran and to Adlib Audio Limited as its operator.

Registered Company Name: Adlib Audio Limited
Company Registration Number: 03555097
Place of Registration: England and Wales
Registrar: Companies House, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Company Type: private company limited by shares
VAT Registration Number: 477222243
Registered Office Address: Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG
Email Address: [email protected]
Telephone Number: 01494 671234

The VAT registration number shown above is displayed because the operator is registered for value added tax in the United Kingdom. Prices, where they are displayed on the website, are stated in pounds sterling and make clear whether VAT is included or excluded. A VAT invoice is issued for every taxable supply, and business customers who are registered for VAT may need to quote their own VAT number during checkout so that their records are accurate. Nothing on this page should be read as tax advice for your own circumstances.

For the convenience of visitors, the same statutory information is reproduced in the footer of every page in the following plain-text form, using label: value pairs separated by a vertical bar:

3. Registered Office, Service Address and Contact Routes

The registered office of the operator is the address at which formal documents may be validly served on the company: Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG. This is the correct address for legal notices, for service of court documents and for any correspondence that must reach the company itself rather than a particular member of staff. Post sent to the registered office is opened and logged during normal business hours, and urgent legal correspondence should be duplicated by email to [email protected] so that it can be actioned without delay.

General enquiries about courses, enrolment, invoices, technical problems, accessibility, or the content of a lesson should be sent to [email protected]. You may also telephone 01494 671234 during normal business hours. Where a telephone line is busy, we recommend sending an email instead, as written enquiries can be routed to the right person more quickly and create a reliable record for both sides. The website additionally provides a contact form on the Contacts page, which transmits your message to the same monitored inbox; you do not need to submit both a form and an email, as this only duplicates work.

We do not publish private direct-dial numbers, personal mobile numbers or home addresses for individual tutors, contributors or members of staff, and we ask visitors not to attempt to contact them outside the published channels. Requests for information that we are not obliged to provide, or that would require us to disclose another personds personal data, will be declined with an explanation of the legal basis for that decision.

4. Purpose, Scope and Intended Audience of This Website

showfran exists to help working and aspiring production professionals build practical competence in the studio environment. The subject matter covers the physical and technical set-up of studio equipment, dynamic camera operation and movement, the design of lighting for both presenters and sets, the capture and monitoring of sound, and the design of repeatable workflows that keep picture, sound and timing consistent across long recording days and live transmissions. The material is written for people who need to deliver results in real broadcast conditions rather than for purely academic study.

The intended audience includes camera operators, lighting technicians, sound engineers, vision mixers, studio managers, producers, technical directors, broadcast journalism students and freelancers who are moving into studio work. Because the audience is professional or pre-professional, the material assumes a reasonable level of technical literacy and does not attempt to replicate manufacturer training or formal health and safety certification. Where a lesson touches on electrical work, rigging, working at height or high-intensity lighting, the lesson is explanatory only and does not replace a site-specific risk assessment, a competent personds supervision, or the mandatory instructions supplied with the equipment.

The website is published in English, follows United Kingdom conventions and is primarily aimed at users in the United Kingdom. Users elsewhere are welcome to read the material, but they should remember that safety codes, broadcasting standards, frequency licensing, employment rules and consumer protections differ from country to country, and it is their responsibility to check what applies locally. The site is not a broadcaster, does not transmit any broadcast service, and does not provide legal, medical, insurance or financial advice.

5. Access to the Website and Acceptable Use

Much of showfran can be read without creating an account. Some parts of the service, including paid courses, downloadable worksheets, project files and live workshop sessions, require registration and payment, and access to those parts is granted under the Terms and Conditions. We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the site, and we do not guarantee that any particular lesson, file or feature will remain available indefinitely. Where a paid element is withdrawn, the rights described in the Payment and Refund Policy apply.

You may use the website for your own learning and for internal training within your own organisation, provided you do not remove copyright notices and do not present the material as your own. You must not:

copy, republish, resell, sublicense, mirror or systematically extract the teaching material, question banks, diagrams, checklists or project files, whether by hand or by automated means;
share account credentials, download links or paid materials with anyone who has not paid for them, or use a single account for multiple people;
circumvent paywalls, access controls, watermarks, download limits or other technical protection measures;
upload or transmit malware, attempt to probe or breach the security of the site, or interfere with the ordinary operation of the service for other users;
use the site to harass, threaten or defame any person, to infringe the rights of others, or for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose;
use automated tools to scrape content in a way that places an unreasonable load on our infrastructure.

Where we reasonably believe that a user has breached these rules, we may suspend or terminate access, withhold certificates of completion, refuse future orders and, where appropriate, recover the cost of technical investigations or legal action. We will normally explain the reason for a suspension, unless doing so would risk the security of the service or prejudice an investigation.

6. Intellectual Property, Trademarks and Permitted Use of Content

All content published on showfran 4 including text, lesson notes, scripts, diagrams, schematics, screenshots, video demonstrations, photographs, audio examples, illustrations, checklists, downloadable files, page design and the selection and arrangement of those elements 4 is owned by Adlib Audio Limited or is used under licence from the rights holder, and is protected by copyright, database rights, design rights and related rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

The names, logos, get-ups and marks used by the operator are its trade marks or those of its licensors. Trade marks, model names and product names belonging to manufacturers of cameras, lenses, lighting units, microphones and other equipment appear in the material for identification and teaching purposes only; they remain the property of their respective owners and their use does not imply any affiliation, sponsorship or approval.

You may view the material, print a single copy of a short extract for your personal or internal training use, and quote brief passages with a clear acknowledgement of showfran as the source. You may not reproduce substantial parts of the material in any other publication, use it in paid training that you deliver to others, incorporate it into a competing course, sell it, or use it to train automated systems, without our prior written permission. Requests for permission should be sent to [email protected], explaining the material concerned, the intended use and the audience.

If you send us feedback, suggestions, corrections, sample footage or other material, you grant the operator a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use it for the purpose of improving and promoting the service, and you confirm that you have the right to grant that licence. If you believe that any material published on showfran infringes your copyright or another right, please notify us at [email protected] with enough detail to identify the material and the basis of your claim; we will review the notice and may remove or restrict access to the material while the matter is considered.

7. Accuracy, Availability and Proportionate Limitations of Liability

We take reasonable care to ensure that the material on showfran is accurate and up to date when it is published. Studio technologies change quickly: firmware, recording formats, camera menus, lighting protocols and sound standards are all revised by their manufacturers from time to time. The material therefore describes the practices and settings that were current when it was written and may not match every device or every software version. Nothing on the website is a substitute for the manufacturerds current documentation, for a professional risk assessment, or for your own judgement in the conditions in which you are working.

We also do not promise uninterrupted availability. The site may be taken offline for maintenance, upgrades or security work, and some parts of the service depend on third-party hosting, payment, video streaming and content delivery providers whose performance we do not control. We will make reasonable efforts to keep downtime short and to give notice of planned maintenance, but we do not guarantee that the site will always be available, error-free or free of harmful components.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operator is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of business, loss of goodwill, loss of anticipated savings or loss of data arising from the use of, or inability to use, this website or its material. Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, our liability to a consumer for a paid service is limited to the amount actually paid for the service concerned. Nothing in this notice excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for breach of the statutory rights of consumers under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Studio work involves real physical risk. Lamps and luminaires become hot, stands and rigs can fall, cables can create trip and electrical hazards, and loud monitoring can damage hearing. You are responsible for safe working practices in your own studio, including risk assessments, electrical inspection, rigging competence, the use of protective equipment and compliance with the applicable workplace and broadcasting regulations. The demonstrations published here are for teaching and do not authorise you to work outside the limits of your training, your insurance or the law.

8. External Links and Third-Party Content

showfran may mention or point to websites, videos, tools and documentation operated by other organisations, such as equipment manufacturers, standards bodies, broadcasters or training partners. Those references are provided for information and convenience only. We do not control those sites, we do not review their content for accuracy or legality on a continuous basis, and a reference does not amount to an endorsement of the organisation, its products, its prices or its practices. When you follow a reference away from our site, the terms of use, privacy notices and cookie policies of the destination site apply, and you should read them before providing any personal data or making a purchase.

Some third-party material may be embedded in our pages, for example a video player or a font service. Embedded services can set cookies or similar technologies on your device and may collect technical information such as your IP address. Where such services are not strictly necessary for the page to work, they are loaded only after you have given consent through the cookie banner, and you can withdraw that consent at any time using the cookie settings. If you block these services, some demonstrations, transcripts or playback features may not display correctly, but the core written material will remain available.

We are not responsible for the availability of third-party goods or services, for the accuracy of claims made by their providers, or for any loss arising from your dealings with them. Any complaint about a third-party product or service should be directed to that provider.

9. Related Policies Published on This Website

This Legal Information page is part of a set of documents that govern your use of showfran. The other documents are equally important and should be read alongside this page:

the Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, how long we keep it, who we share it with, and how you can exercise your rights under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018;
the Cookie Policy explains the cookies and similar technologies used on the site, distinguishes strictly necessary cookies from analytics and marketing technologies, and describes how consent given through the site-wide cookie banner can be changed or withdrawn;
the Terms and Conditions set out the contract between you and the operator, covering accounts, licence scope, acceptable use, the rules for live sessions, and the limits of what is included in a purchase;
the Payment and Refund Policy covers prices, VAT, accepted payment methods, the fourteen-day cancellation right for distance contracts, exceptions where digital content is supplied immediately with your consent, refund timescales and the remedies available for content that is faulty or not as described.

We also maintain an accessibility approach for the site, which records the measures taken to keep pages readable with screen readers and keyboard navigation, the colour contrast standards applied, and how to report an accessibility barrier. Accessibility questions and requests for material in an alternative format can be sent to [email protected].

10. Data Protection and Electronic Communications

For the purposes of the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, the data controller responsible for personal data processed through showfran is Adlib Audio Limited, whose registered office is at Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG. We process personal data in order to create and administer accounts, deliver the courses and materials you have requested, process payments, respond to enquiries, maintain the security of the service, meet our accounting and legal obligations, and, where you have agreed, send you information about the service. The lawful basis for each processing activity, the retention periods that apply and the categories of recipients are described in the Privacy Policy.

Under the UK GDPR you have the right to be informed, to request access to your personal data, to have inaccurate data corrected, to request erasure, to restrict or object to certain processing, to receive data you provided in a portable format, and to withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissionerds Office, which is the supervisory authority for data protection in the United Kingdom. Requests to exercise your rights should be sent to [email protected]; we may ask for information to verify your identity before acting on a request, and we will normally respond within one month.

Our use of cookies and similar technologies is governed by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. We do not set analytics or marketing cookies on your device unless you have consented through the cookie banner, and strictly necessary cookies, such as those needed to remember your cookie choices or to keep you signed in, are set on the basis of the limited exception available for essential functionality. You can also control cookies through your browser settings, although blocking all cookies may prevent parts of the site from working. Direct marketing messages are sent only in accordance with the consent rules and the soft opt-in exception, and every message includes an easy way to unsubscribe.

11. Consumer Rights, Applicable Law and Competent Courts

These documents are written in English, are governed by the law of England and Wales, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with the use of showfran is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. Nothing in this clause removes the protection of the mandatory consumer law rules of the country in which a consumer habitually resides, where those rules apply to the contract.

Consumers in the United Kingdom benefit from statutory rights that cannot be excluded by contract. Digital content and services supplied by the operator must be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described, and where content is faulty, a consumer is entitled to the remedies provided by the Consumer Rights Act 2015, which may include repair or replacement of the content, a price reduction, or a refund. If you are a consumer and a dispute arises, please contact us first at [email protected] so that we have the opportunity to put matters right; most issues are resolved at this stage.

The operator is not obliged to participate in any alternative dispute resolution procedure and does not currently appoint an alternative dispute resolution provider. Where a consumer remains dissatisfied after our internal complaints process has been completed, they may seek independent advice from Citizens Advice or another consumer advisory body, or bring proceedings in the competent court. If you are resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may bring proceedings in the courts of your own part of the United Kingdom.

12. Changes to This Legal Notice

We review this Legal Information page regularly and may update it to reflect changes in the law, in the service we provide, or in the way the site is operated. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised. Where a change is material, we will provide a prominent notice on the website before the change takes effect, and where the change affects a contract we have with you we will give reasonable advance notice in writing. If you continue to use showfran after a revised version takes effect, you are treated as accepting the revised notice; if you do not agree with it, you should stop using the site and cancel any active subscription in accordance with the Payment and Refund Policy.

If you have a question about this page, about any of the company information set out above, or about the policies it refers to, please write to us at [email protected], telephone 01494 671234, or use the contact form on the Contacts page. Formal notices should also be sent in writing to the registered office at Beaconsfield Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1LG. This page was last updated on 26 October 2026 and is published in English as the authoritative version; any translation is provided for convenience only.