Privacy

Last updated 6 August 2026

This is the honest version: what we hold, why we hold it, who else sees it, and how to make it go away. Motion Network doesn't run ads, doesn't sell anything about you, and doesn't have an analytics package watching you read this page. There's less here than you're probably used to, which is the point.

1. Who we are

Motion Network is the data controller for everything described here. Written questions, requests and complaints all go to the same place: support@motion-network.com.

2. What we hold, and why

Your account. Your name, email address and a scrambled version of your password. We never store the password itself - it's put through scrypt with a random salt per account, and checking it means re-scrambling what you typed and comparing. A leak of our database does not hand anyone your password. If you sign in with Google instead, we keep the identifier Google gives us and your verified email, and never see a password at all.

Your profile. Whatever you choose to fill in - handle, bio, website, links, awards, showreel, profile picture. All of it is optional, all of it is public by design, and you can change or empty any of it in Settings.

Your work and your words. The files you upload, along with their titles, descriptions and tags, plus your comments, your Help posts and the pieces you save. Saves are private to you. The rest is public - that's what posting is.

Staying signed in. A session is a long random number in a cookie. We store only a one-way hash of it, so even we can't read your session token out of our own database.

Payment. If you subscribe, we keep your Stripe customer and subscription identifiers, which plan you're on, its status and when it renews. We never see or store your card details - those go straight to Stripe and never touch our server.

Email we've sent you. The address, which kind of message it was, whether it arrived, and any error. If your address hard-bounces or you mark us as spam, we record that and stop sending to it - both to respect the signal and to protect our ability to reach everyone else.

Abuse limits. We count recent sign-in, sign-up and password-reset attempts per IP address to blunt brute-force attacks. This lives in memory only, expires within minutes, and is never written to disk. We keep no access logs.

3. Our legal basis

Running your account, hosting what you post and taking payment are all performance of a contract - you asked us for a service and this is the service. Security measures, rate limiting and keeping records of email delivery are our legitimate interests in operating a site that works and doesn't get overrun. Where we ever need consent, we'll ask for it plainly rather than burying it.

4. Cookies

Three things, all strictly necessary, none used for tracking:

There is no advertising cookie, no tracking pixel and no cross-site profiling, which is why you get a short notice rather than a consent maze.

5. Who else sees your data

Four companies, each doing one job:

Nobody buys data from us, because we don't sell it. We don't share your information for advertising, and we don't build profiles of you for anyone.

6. How long we keep it

Your account and everything on it stays until you delete it. Sessions expire after 30 days. Password reset links last 30 minutes and confirmation links 24 hours, and all of them are single-use. Rate limit counters vanish within minutes. Records of email delivery are kept while your account exists. Database backups are kept for seven days, so deleted material can persist in a backup for up to a week before ageing out.

7. Deleting your account

Settings, then Close account. It is immediate and it is total: your posts, uploaded files, comments, Help threads, saves and profile all go, and any subscription is cancelled so you aren't billed again. We email you a receipt confirming it. We cannot restore an account afterwards, because there's nothing left to restore from.

8. Your rights

Under UK and EU data protection law you can ask for a copy of what we hold, have mistakes corrected, have your data deleted, object to how we're using it, or ask us to hand it over in a portable form. Most of this you can do yourself in Settings in less time than an email takes. For anything else, write to support@motion-network.com and we'll answer within 30 days.

If we get it wrong and you're not satisfied with how we've handled it, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

9. Security

Passwords are hashed with scrypt and compared in constant time. Sessions are stored only as hashes. The site is served over HTTPS. Sign-in, sign-up and reset attempts are rate limited. Changing your email address needs the new address to confirm before anything moves, and the old address is warned while there's still time to stop it. Changing your password signs out every other device and emails you about it. None of this makes a site unbreakable, and we won't pretend otherwise - but if something does go wrong that puts you at risk, we'll tell you and the regulator, not quietly hope you don't notice.

10. Children

Motion Network is for working motion designers and isn't intended for under-16s. We don't knowingly hold data about children. If you think we have, tell us and we'll remove it.

11. Changes

If we change how any of this works, we'll update the date at the top of this page, and we'll email members about anything that genuinely affects them rather than relying on you to re-read a policy.

12. Contact

support@motion-network.com. A person reads it.