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Last updated: 4 November 2026

This page explains who is behind this website, how the business is registered in the United Kingdom, what you may and may not do with the material published here, and how the law of England and Wales applies when you use the site. It is written for visitors, prospective clients, production companies, freelancers, suppliers and technical partners who work with live television and studio production. Please read it together with our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms and Conditions and Payment and Refund Policy, all of which are referenced in plain text in the sections below.

1. About This Legal Information Page

The information published here is provided to meet the disclosure requirements that apply to commercial websites operating in the United Kingdom. It is a legal notice, not marketing material, and nothing on this page should be read as a promise about a particular production outcome, delivery date, equipment availability or technical result. Where this page and a signed contract, quotation or hire agreement disagree, the signed document takes priority.

We review this notice at least once a year and whenever the business, its registrations or its data practices change. The date at the top of the page shows the most recent version. If a change is material, we will say so clearly at the top of the revised page so that returning visitors can see what has moved.

2. Who Operates This Website and What We Do

This website is operated by reportlyo. reportlyo acts as the controller of personal data collected through the site and is the party responsible for the content published on it. In practical terms, that means we decide what information appears here, why it appears, how long we keep any personal data you send us, and how you can ask us to change or delete it.

The business is a professional hub for live television production. Our work covers studio equipment integration, dynamic camera technique, acoustic optimisation, lighting design and the reliable production processes that keep news programming, interviews, panel discussions and live studio shows on air. We support producers, technical directors, lighting and sound specialists, and production teams who need dependable infrastructure and clear technical guidance.

Where this site describes methods, workflows or equipment configurations, that material is general professional information. It is not a commissioning contract, an offer capable of acceptance, or a guarantee that a particular configuration will suit every studio, and it should not be relied on as a substitute for a site survey or a technical consultation.

3. Legal Form, Registration and Tax Identifiers

The operator of this website is a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales. The details that identify the company for legal and tax purposes are set out below.

  • Company name: reportlyo
  • Legal form: private company limited by shares, incorporated in England and Wales
  • Company Registration Number: 13033970
  • VAT Registration Number: 494089156
  • Register of companies: Companies House, Crown Way, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • Responsible representative: Jon Howarth, company director, who is authorised to act on behalf of the company
  • Business activity: rental and supply of camera and lighting equipment, and related technical services, for film, television and media production

The company registration number and VAT number are the primary non-contact identifiers used to verify the business for invoicing, procurement, credit checks and tax purposes. If you are asked to raise a purchase order, verify a supplier or complete a new-supplier form, these are the numbers to quote. Where an invoice is issued with UK VAT, VAT is charged at the rate in force on the tax point of the supply, and a valid VAT invoice is issued in accordance with the Value Added Tax Act 1994 and related regulations.

3.1 Registers, Licences and Reporting Obligations

As a UK company we file annual accounts and a confirmation statement with Companies House, maintain statutory registers, and keep accounting records as required by the Companies Act 2006. We do not require a broadcasting licence in order to operate the services described on this site: broadcasting licences are held by broadcasters and programme services, not by equipment suppliers or production support businesses. Where we work alongside licensed broadcasters, responsibility for compliance with the relevant broadcasting code rests with the licensee.

3.2 Equipment, Safety and Environmental Compliance

Equipment supplied or integrated by us is subject to the product safety and environmental rules that apply in Great Britain. These include electrical safety requirements, electromagnetic compatibility requirements, restrictions on hazardous substances, and producer responsibility for waste electrical and electronic equipment. In practice this means equipment placed on the market carries the required UK conformity marking and documentation, that batteries and lamps are handled through appropriate take-back arrangements, and that our technicians follow current guidance on safe working at height, electrical isolation, rigging loads and temporary power distribution.

We also maintain the internal policies that a business of this kind is expected to hold, including a Terms and Conditions of Business document, a Privacy Policy, a Sustainability Policy, a Safe Working Policy and a Modern Slavery Statement. These documents are available on request and are referred to in plain text throughout this page; they are not hosted as separate downloadable files here.

4. Registered Office and How to Reach Us

The company maintains a registered office and a principal place of business in the United Kingdom at The Greenhouse, MediaCityUK, Salford, Greater Manchester, M50 2EQ, United Kingdom. Formal notices, legal service and correspondence concerning this website, our policies or your data rights should be directed to that address unless we have agreed otherwise in writing.

The fastest route for day-to-day questions is the contact form on our Contacts page, which reaches the team responsible for enquiries, bookings and technical support. You can also reach us by email at [email protected] or by telephone on 0161 886 5300. Please include your company name, the project or production you are working on, and any relevant reference numbers so that we can route your message correctly and reply without delay.

If your enquiry concerns a booking, an invoice or a technical fault, please use the same channels and state clearly that the matter is commercial. Written complaints should be marked for the attention of the company director at the registered office so that they enter our formal complaints process rather than the general enquiry queue.

5. Purpose, Scope and Intended Audience of This Website

This website exists to describe our professional capability in live television production and studio integration, to help producers and technical teams evaluate whether we are the right partner for their work, and to provide a clear route to contact us. Content is aimed at a professional audience in the United Kingdom and, where relevant, in other territories: production companies, broadcasters, studios, facilities houses, freelance crew and equipment suppliers.

The site is intended for adults acting in a business or professional capacity. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under the age of 18. Where a page includes technical specifications, those specifications describe typical or indicative configurations and may change as equipment is updated, replaced or re-configured.

The information on this site is published in English and is governed by the law of England and Wales, as explained in section 12. We make no representation that the content is appropriate or available for use in any other jurisdiction where local law would prohibit it.

6. Access to the Website and Acceptable Use

We aim to keep the site available at all reasonable times, but access is provided on an as-available basis. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict all or part of the site for maintenance, security, legal or operational reasons without notice. Access is generally free of charge and does not require an account, although we reserve the right to introduce registration or restricted areas for certain resources in future.

6.1 What You May Do

  • Browse and read the content for your own professional and internal business purposes.
  • Print or save individual pages for your own internal reference, provided our authorship is not removed.
  • Quote short passages with a clear acknowledgement that this website is the source.
  • Contact us through the contact form to ask about services, availability or technical matters.

6.2 What You May Not Do

  • Copy, republish, resell or commercially exploit substantial parts of the site or its content without our written permission.
  • Use automated tools to scrape, harvest, index or systematically extract content or any contact details published here.
  • Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, its servers, its hosting environment or any connected system.
  • Introduce viruses, malicious code, denial-of-service traffic or any other harmful material.
  • Use the site in a way that is unlawful, fraudulent, misleading, defamatory or that infringes the rights of others.
  • Frame, mirror or present our content in a way that suggests a relationship, endorsement or authorship that does not exist.

We may block access, report activity to the relevant authorities and take legal action where these rules are broken. Breaching them may also amount to a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 or an infringement of our intellectual property rights.

7. Intellectual Property, Trademarks and Permitted Use of Content

All intellectual property rights in this website and its content are owned by or licensed to reportlyo, unless stated otherwise. This includes the design and layout of the site, written text, technical descriptions, diagrams, photographs, video, audio, graphics, data compilations, source code and the selection and arrangement of the content.

Our trading names, logos and any product or service names used on this site are our trademarks or those of our partners. Third-party names, logos and equipment references appear for identification and compatibility purposes only and remain the property of their respective owners. Their appearance does not imply any sponsorship, endorsement or affiliation.

7.1 Licence Granted to Visitors

You are granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive and non-transferable licence to access this site and to view, print or download extracts for your own personal and internal non-commercial use, and to share individual pages with colleagues for the same purpose. This licence does not transfer ownership of any rights and does not permit commercial republication, distribution to the public, incorporation into a product or service, or use for training automated systems without our prior written consent.

7.2 Copyright Complaints

If you believe that content published on this site infringes your copyright or another intellectual property right, please contact us at [email protected] with details of the work concerned, the location of the material on this site, the basis of your claim and your contact details. We will investigate promptly and remove or amend material where the claim is well founded.

8. Accuracy, Availability and Proportionate Limits of Liability

We prepare the content of this site with reasonable care, but professional information about equipment, acoustic performance, lighting design and production workflow is necessarily general and can become outdated as technology, firmware and production practice change. We therefore do not warrant that every statement is complete, current or suitable for your particular studio, and we recommend that you take project-specific advice before acting on it.

Nothing on this site forms a contract for the supply of equipment, crew or services, and no order is accepted until we confirm it in writing. Prices, availability and lead times shown anywhere on the site are indicative only unless expressly stated otherwise in a written quotation.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for loss of profit, loss of business, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, business interruption and any indirect or consequential loss arising from your 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 negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Where you use the site as a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected by this section, and our liability is limited to the extent permitted by the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and related legislation.

9. External Links and Third-Party Content

This site may link to third-party websites, tools, manufacturers or resources, and third-party services may be embedded in parts of the site. Those destinations are outside our control. We do not endorse them, we do not monitor their content, and we are not responsible for their accuracy, security, availability, terms of use or privacy practices.

When you follow a link away from this site, or when a third-party service loads content into a page, that provider may collect information about you under its own policies. We recommend reading the relevant notice before submitting personal data to any external service. Responsibility for third-party content always rests with the provider or operator of that content.

10. Data Protection, Privacy and Cookies

Personal data collected through this website is handled in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. Our Privacy Policy sets out in full what we collect, why we collect it, the lawful basis for each purpose, how long we keep it, who we share it with and how you can exercise your rights. This section is a summary and does not replace that policy.

We collect only what we need: information you type into the contact form (such as your name, company, email address, telephone number and message), correspondence you send us, and limited technical information generated by your browser, such as the pages you visit and the type of device you use. We use this information to answer enquiries, prepare quotations, provide services, keep business records and secure the site. We do not sell personal data.

10.1 Your Rights

  • The right to be informed about how your data is used.
  • The right of access to the personal data we hold about you.
  • The right to rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • The right to erasure in the circumstances set out in data protection law.
  • The right to restriction of processing and to object to processing based on legitimate interests.
  • The right to data portability for data you provided to us.
  • The right to withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at [email protected] or write to us at The Greenhouse, MediaCityUK, Salford, Greater Manchester, M50 2EQ, United Kingdom. We respond within one month and may ask for proof of identity. If you are unhappy with our response, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection.

10.2 Cookies and Similar Technologies

This site uses a cookie banner and a small number of cookies and similar technologies. Strictly necessary cookies keep the site working and remember your cookie choices; these do not require consent. Any non-essential cookies, including analytics or embedded media that set their own identifiers, are placed only after you agree through the banner. You can change your choice at any time through the banner, and you can also control cookies through your browser settings, although blocking some cookies may affect how parts of the site behave. Our Cookie Policy explains the categories of cookies used, their purpose and their typical duration.

11. Terms and Conditions, Payment and Refund Policy

Use of this website is also governed by our Terms and Conditions. Any hire, supply, integration or technical service we provide is governed by our separate Terms and Conditions of Business, which are issued with quotations and hire agreements and which take precedence over anything published on this site.

Please refer to the following documents for the detail that applies to you: the Privacy Policy, which explains our handling of personal data; the Cookie Policy, which explains the technologies used on the site and your choices; the Terms and Conditions, which set out the rules for using the site and for booking our services; and the Payment and Refund Policy, which explains accepted payment methods, deposit and cancellation arrangements, credit terms for account customers, and how refunds, credits and adjustments are handled. Copies are available on request from [email protected].

Where you order as a business, our standard commercial terms apply, including provisions on risk and title, hire periods and extensions, loss or damage to equipment, insurance, late returns and cancellation charges. Where you order as a consumer, nothing in those terms affects the statutory rights described in section 12.

12. Consumer Rights, Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

This notice and your use of the site 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 arising in connection with the site or this notice.

If you are a consumer resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may bring proceedings in your local courts, and nothing in this notice removes your right to do so. If you are a consumer, you also benefit from mandatory protections under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 and related legislation, and nothing in this notice excludes or restricts those rights.

Before starting formal proceedings, we ask that you raise the matter with us directly so that we have a fair opportunity to resolve it. If we cannot resolve a dispute between us, you may be able to use an alternative dispute resolution provider; we are not obliged to participate in alternative dispute resolution, and we do not currently commit to doing so. Consumers in the United Kingdom can also seek guidance from Citizens Advice or from their local Trading Standards service.

13. Contact Route, Changes to This Notice and Version Control

This notice may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in the business, in our registrations, in the services described on the site, or in the law. The version published on this page is the current version, and the date at the top shows when it was last changed. Continued use of the site after an update means that you accept the revised notice.

If you have any question about this legal information page, about our registration and tax identifiers, about our policies, or about how your personal data is handled, please contact us using the contact form on our Contacts page, by email at [email protected], by telephone on 0161 886 5300, or in writing to The Greenhouse, MediaCityUK, Salford, Greater Manchester, M50 2EQ, United Kingdom. We will acknowledge written legal correspondence promptly and aim to respond substantively within a reasonable period, normally within ten working days.

This page was last updated on 4 November 2026.