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This Legal Information page explains who operates trendyze, how the company behind it is registered, the rules that apply when you use the site, and the legal framework that governs our relationship with you. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms and Conditions, and Payment and Refund Policy, each of which forms part of the same set of documents. Last updated: 4 November 2026.

1. Identity of the Website Operator and Its Role

trendyze is a professional hub devoted to live television production. It brings together practical, studio-tested guidance on studio equipment integration, dynamic camera techniques, acoustic optimisation, lighting setups, and the reliable production processes that keep news programmes, interviews, and live shows on air. The site is operated by Shoot Blue Limited, a company whose business is the rental of camera and lighting equipment for film, television, and media production.

Throughout this page, "we", "us", and "our" refer to Shoot Blue Limited in its capacity as the operator and publisher of trendyze. "You" means any person who visits, reads, downloads from, or otherwise uses the site. Where we write "the site", we mean the website published under trendyze, together with any related pages, downloadable checklists, and services that we make available through it.

Our role is that of a publisher, information provider, and equipment supplier. We do not produce, commission, license, or broadcast the programmes described in our material, and we do not act as your production company, broadcaster, employer, agent, or technical adviser. Unless we have signed a separate written agreement with you, no partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary, or professional advisory relationship arises between us simply because you have used the site.

1.1 What the site is and what it is not

The material published on trendyze is general professional education. It is not a substitute for a site-specific risk assessment, an electrical or structural survey, a broadcast compliance review, advice from a qualified health and safety professional, or the judgement of a competent crew on the day. Rigging loads, rigging points, power distribution, heat output, cable management, and audience safety must always be assessed by suitably qualified people against the equipment actually in use, the venue's own rules, and the applicable codes of practice.

1.2 Independent status

We are an independent commercial operator. We are not owned or controlled by any broadcaster, regulator, or public body, and nothing on the site should be read as an official statement on behalf of any third party. Any brand, programme, or venue mentioned in our material is referred to for illustrative purposes only.

2. Legal Form, Registration Details, Tax Identifiers and Responsible Representatives

The site is operated by a private limited company incorporated in the United Kingdom. The following details are published in line with the Companies (Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2008 and the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002, which require businesses to disclose identifying information on their websites.

  • Legal name of the operator: Shoot Blue Limited
  • Legal form: private company limited by shares
  • Place of registration: England and Wales
  • Company registration number: 13033970
  • VAT registration number: 494089156
  • Registered office: MediaCityUK, Salford, Greater Manchester, M50 2EQ, United Kingdom
  • Responsible representative and company director: Jon Howarth
  • Principal business activity: rental of camera and lighting equipment for film, television, and media production

The registered office above is the address recorded on the public register maintained by the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales. Any change of registered office, company name, director, or accounting reference date is filed at Companies House and takes effect from the date recorded there, whether or not this page has yet been updated.

2.1 Verification of company details

The company number and registered office can be checked against the public register at Companies House, and our VAT registration can be verified with HM Revenue & Customs. If any information published here ever appears to conflict with the public register, the public register prevails.

2.2 Professional and regulatory status

We do not practise a regulated profession and we are not supervised by a professional regulator. We are not a broadcaster licensed by Ofcom, we are not a financial services firm authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, and we do not provide legal, medical, tax, or investment advice. Where our material touches on electrical work, rigging, working at height, or audience safety, it describes common industry practice and does not replace the statutory duties that rest on the producer, the venue, or the employer.

2.3 Directors’ details

The name of the director is published as a responsible representative for the purposes of regulatory and consumer correspondence. Where directors are named on this page, all directors of the company at the date of publication are named, in keeping with the requirement that directors' details be complete if they are given at all.

3. Registered Office and Contact Details

Our registered office is: MediaCityUK, Salford, Greater Manchester, M50 2EQ, United Kingdom. This is the address at which formal legal documents, including notices and service of proceedings, may be validly served on the company. Correspondence sent to the registered office may be opened centrally and routed to the relevant team.

General enquiries about trendyze, this Legal Information page, or the exercise of your data protection rights may be sent by email to [email protected] or raised by telephone on +44 161 295 4545. We aim to acknowledge enquiries within five working days and to answer data protection requests within one month, as required by the UK GDPR, unless the law allows us to extend that period.

3.1 What to include in your message

To help us identify and handle a request quickly, please include your name, a clear description of what you are asking us to do, the page or document concerned, and, for data protection requests, the specific right you wish to exercise. We may ask for proof of identity where the law permits or requires us to verify who is making the request before we disclose, change, or delete information about you.

3.2 How we handle correspondence

Ordinary enquiries and complaints are handled by our team in the order in which they are received. Where a matter concerns a contract for the hire of equipment or services, please quote the contract or job reference so that we can locate the relevant records. Where a matter concerns the site's editorial content, please tell us the address of the page concerned so that we can review it promptly.

4. Purpose, Scope and Intended Audience of the Website

The purpose of trendyze is to help production professionals plan, build, light, and run live television output more reliably. The site covers studio equipment integration, camera movement and framing in fast-turnaround environments, acoustic treatment and monitoring, lighting design for news and interview formats, and the operational discipline that keeps a live gallery calm when something goes wrong.

The site is published in English and is aimed primarily at people working in, studying for, or supplying the broadcast and live production sector in the United Kingdom. Because the material is openly accessible, it may also be read from other countries. We make no claim that the guidance reflects the law, technical standards, or union agreements of any country other than the United Kingdom, and readers outside the United Kingdom should check local rules before applying anything they read here.

The site is intended for a professional and adult audience. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly design content or collect personal data from children. Some material discusses electrical installations, rigging, heat, and working at height; it is written for competent adults who are appropriately trained and supervised.

4.1 Scope of the material

Content on the site is provided for general information and professional development. No statement on the site is an offer capable of acceptance, a quotation, a recommendation of a particular product, or a guarantee of any particular production outcome. Commercial terms for equipment hire and related services are agreed separately and in writing.

5. Access to and Acceptable Use of the Website

We grant you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, and non-transferable right to access and use trendyze for your own lawful purposes. We may update, suspend, withdraw, or restrict all or part of the site at any time, including where we need to carry out maintenance, address a security issue, or comply with a legal obligation.

We try to keep the site available, but we do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, timely, or free from error, and we do not promise that any particular page or feature will remain available. It is your responsibility to have the equipment, software, and connectivity needed to access the site.

5.1 Conduct that is not permitted

When using the site, you must not:

  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the site, its servers, or any connected system, or otherwise interfere with its normal operation;
  • introduce viruses, malware, ransomware, or any other harmful code or material;
  • scrape, harvest, or bulk-extract content, data, or contact information from the site;
  • use automated tools to crawl the site in a way that places a disproportionate load on our infrastructure;
  • use the site to send unsolicited advertising, chain letters, or spam;
  • copy, resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit our content without written permission;
  • remove, obscure, or alter copyright, trade mark, or attribution notices;
  • impersonate trendyze, Shoot Blue Limited, our staff, or any other person, or misrepresent an affiliation with any person;
  • use the site in a way that infringes the privacy, confidentiality, or intellectual property rights of contributors, presenters, crews, or audiences; or
  • submit, upload, or transmit anything that is defamatory, discriminatory, obscene, threatening, or otherwise unlawful.

If you breach these rules, we may suspend or terminate your access, block the relevant traffic, and where appropriate take legal action or report the matter to the police or another competent authority. We may also take technical steps to protect the site, including rate limiting and blocking of abusive addresses.

5.2 Accounts and credentials

If any part of the site is ever made available only to registered users, you must keep your credentials confidential, not share them, and tell us promptly if you believe they have been compromised. You are responsible for activity carried out using your credentials, except where that activity results from our failure to take reasonable security measures.

6. Ownership and Permitted Use of Website Content, Trademarks and Other Intellectual Property

All intellectual property rights in trendyze, including copyright in text, diagrams, illustrations, photography, layout, and code, and database rights in any compilation of content, belong to Shoot Blue Limited or are licensed to us by their owners. Nothing on the site transfers any of those rights to you.

The names Shoot Blue Limited, Shoot Blue, and trendyze, together with any associated logos, straplines, and visual identity, are trade marks or trade names used by us. You may not use them in a way that suggests endorsement, partnership, or sponsorship without our prior written consent. All other trade marks mentioned on the site remain the property of their respective owners.

6.1 What you may do

You may view the site, print pages or save them locally for your own reference, and quote short extracts in internal training material, internal briefing notes, or academic work, provided that the source is clearly attributed to trendyze and the quotation is fair and proportionate. Internal use within your own organisation for professional development is permitted on that basis.

6.2 What you may not do

You may not republish substantial parts of the site, make it available on another website or platform, distribute it commercially, sell access to it, create derivative works from it, or use it to build a competing resource, without our written permission. Systematic downloading, text extraction, or re-use of our content for the training of machine learning or artificial intelligence models is also prohibited.

6.3 Reservation of text and data mining rights

We reserve our rights in relation to text and data mining to the fullest extent permitted by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and any equivalent legislation. No licence to mine, index, or otherwise extract our content for computational analysis or model training is granted by this page or by the availability of the site.

6.4 Reporting infringement

If you believe that material on the site infringes your rights, please write to [email protected] with details of the work concerned, the address of the page, and an explanation of your rights. We will investigate and, where appropriate, remove or amend the material promptly.

7. Accuracy, Availability and Proportionate Limitations of Liability

We prepare the content of trendyze with reasonable care and review it periodically. Even so, technology, practice, and regulation change, and guidance that was correct when written may later be out of date, incomplete, or unsuitable for your particular venue, equipment, or production. Content is therefore provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without a warranty that it is accurate, complete, current, or fit for a particular purpose.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, and other terms that might otherwise be implied by statute, common law, or trade usage, and we are not liable for losses that were not reasonably foreseeable when this page took effect, or for indirect or consequential losses. In particular, we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business, loss of production time, loss of anticipated savings, reputational harm, or damage to equipment resulting from the application of general guidance without appropriate professional assessment.

7.1 When a paid contract exists

Where you have entered into a written contract with us for the hire of equipment or the supply of services, our liability under that contract is governed by its own terms and conditions, and not by this page. In that situation, and to the extent the law allows, our total aggregate liability in connection with the contract is limited to the total charges paid by you to us in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim.

7.2 What we never exclude

Nothing in this page limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for any breach of the terms implied by sections 9 to 11 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 where they apply, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded. If you are a consumer, you keep all statutory rights, and nothing here affects them.

7.3 Steps you should take yourself

You remain responsible for your own decisions, for complying with the law and any union or client rules that apply to your production, for carrying out risk assessments, and for insuring your own equipment and liability exposure. If you are unsure whether something described on this site is safe or lawful in your circumstances, stop and take qualified advice before proceeding.

8. External Links and Third-Party Content

The site may refer to, quote, or link to websites, documents, tools, or services operated by other people. Those references are provided for convenience and context only. They are not an endorsement, and we do not control and are not responsible for the content, accuracy, availability, security, or privacy practices of any third-party resource.

When you follow a reference to an external resource, you leave trendyze and the terms and policies of that resource apply to your use of it. You should read those terms before relying on anything you find there. Any dealings you have with a third party, including any purchase or contract, are solely between you and that third party.

8.1 Links out and links in

If you would like us to remove a reference to your website, please contact us at [email protected] and we will consider the request promptly. Conversely, you are welcome to link to the home page of the site, provided you do so in a way that is fair, does not suggest endorsement, and does not frame or replicate our content as if it were your own.

8.2 User-submitted contributions

If the site ever allows visitors to submit comments, corrections, or other contributions, you retain ownership of your submission but grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, display, and adapt it in connection with the site. You must have the right to submit it, it must not contain confidential production information or material belonging to someone else, and we may remove any contribution at our discretion.

9. Privacy, Cookies, Terms and Further Policies

This Legal Information page is only one part of the documentation that governs your use of trendyze. The following documents apply alongside it and should be read together with this page. Each is available from the site's footer or its policy pages, and copies can be requested from [email protected] in a readable format at any time.

  • Privacy Policy — explains what personal data we collect through the site and the contact form, why we collect it, the lawful bases we rely on, how long we keep it, who we share it with, how it is secured, and the rights you have under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, including your right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
  • Cookie Policy — explains how we use cookies and similar technologies, distinguishing strictly necessary cookies from non-essential analytics or preference cookies, and describes the consent banner shown on the site, how consent is recorded, and how you can refuse or withdraw consent and manage cookies in your browser, in line with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003.
  • Terms and Conditions — set out the contract between you and us for the use of the site and, where applicable, the hire of camera, lighting, and audio equipment and the provision of related production services, including delivery, collection, insurance, damage, and cancellation terms.
  • Payment and Refund Policy — describes accepted payment methods, deposits, invoicing, late payment, security deposits, and the circumstances in which charges are refundable or non-refundable, including the position under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 where a consumer enters into a distance or off-premises contract with us.

Where a breach of our acceptable use rules involves personal data, our handling of that information will follow this page, the Privacy Policy, and our obligations under data protection law. Where a consumer contract is cancelled, we may withhold amounts permitted by the regulations, for example where equipment was supplied with the consumer's prior express consent before the end of the cancellation period.

10. Applicable Law, Competent Courts and Consumer Dispute Rights

This page and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it, its subject matter, or its formation are governed by the law of England and Wales. Subject to the paragraph below, the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute, and both we and you submit to that jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may bring proceedings in your own courts, and you also benefit from any mandatory provisions of the law of the part of the United Kingdom in which you live. Nothing in this page deprives you of the protection of such mandatory rules. If you are a consumer, you also have the right to bring a claim in the courts of the place where you are domiciled, where the applicable rules allow it.

10.1 Complaints first

We would much rather resolve a problem directly. If you are dissatisfied with the site, with our handling of your information, or with a contract with us, please contact us first at [email protected] or on +44 161 295 4545, describing the issue and the outcome you are seeking. We will acknowledge your complaint and aim to give you a substantive response within ten working days, or to explain why more time is needed.

10.2 Alternative dispute resolution

Consumers may use an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) provider or the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform in respect of online purchases, where those routes are available and applicable. We are not obliged to participate in ADR proceedings, but we will always consider a reasonable request to do so, and nothing prevents you from taking independent legal advice or from complaining to a competent authority, including the Information Commissioner's Office in relation to data protection matters.

10.3 Severability

If any provision of this page is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, that provision will be treated as deleted and the remaining provisions will continue in full force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

11. Accessibility, Changes to This Page, and Last Updated Date

We want the site to be usable by as many people as possible and we aim to follow recognised accessibility guidance when we publish new material, including sensible use of headings, sufficient colour contrast, and text alternatives for decorative elements. If you meet a barrier on the site, please tell us at [email protected] and describe the page and the assistive technology you are using; we will try to provide the information in another format.

We may amend this Legal Information page from time to time to reflect changes in the law, in the company's details, or in the way the site works. The version published on the site at the time you use it is the version that applies to that use. Material changes will be signalled by a revised date at the top of the page, and continued use of the site after an update counts as acceptance of the updated page where the law allows.

11.1 How to contact us about this page

Questions, corrections, and formal notices concerning this page should be sent by email to [email protected], by telephone on +44 161 295 4545, or in writing to MediaCityUK, Salford, Greater Manchester, M50 2EQ, United Kingdom. Please make it clear that your message concerns the Legal Information page so that it is routed correctly and answered without delay.

11.2 Summary of key dates

This page was last reviewed and updated on 4 November 2026. It supersedes all earlier versions of the site's legal information page. Any queries about earlier versions can be raised using the contact route above.

12. Documents and Records We Keep

We keep records of the company's registration, VAT status, insurance, and the contracts we enter into, together with the consents we obtain through the site, for as long as the law and our legitimate business needs require. Records relating to equipment hire are typically retained for six years after the end of the relevant financial year, to meet accounting, tax, and limitation requirements. Records relating to data protection consents are kept for as long as we are required to be able to demonstrate compliance.

Employees, contractors, and freelancers who work with us are expected to follow our internal policies on information security, confidentiality, health and safety, and business conduct. Any person may raise a concern about our conduct, including a concern about modern slavery or environmental practice in our supply chain, by writing to [email protected]. We consider all such reports and will respond as appropriate.

This page is intended to give you a clear, complete, and readable account of the legal position of trendyze and Shoot Blue Limited. If anything here is unclear, or if you would like this information in a different format, please contact us and we will do our best to help.