Legal Information

1. About This Legal Notice

This Legal Notice — also referred to as the imprint, legal information or company information page — explains who operates this website, the legal form and registration particulars of the business behind it, the rules that apply to your use of the site, and the legal framework that governs our relationship with visitors, customers and professional partners in the United Kingdom.

It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms and Conditions and Payment and Refund Policy, each of which forms part of the terms on which this website is made available to you. Where a conflict arises between this Legal Notice and those documents, the more specific document prevails in relation to the subject matter it covers.

The information below is published in line with the disclosure requirements that apply to companies trading in the United Kingdom, including the Companies Act 2006, the Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business (Names and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2015, the Provision of Services Regulations 2009 and the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 as they apply in Great Britain.

Last updated: 3 November 2026

2. Who We Are and the Role of the Website Operator

2.1 Identity of the operator

The website and the services described on it are operated by truthara. The site is a professional hub for live television production, covering studio equipment integration, camera technique, acoustic optimisation, lighting design and the production processes that make news programming, studio interviews and live shows dependable night after night.

In legal terms, truthara acts as the publisher of the content available on this site and as the point of contact for enquiries, quotations and bookings made through it. Where a contract for goods, hire or services is concluded as a result of your use of this site, that contract is entered into with the registered company identified in section 3 below, and not with any individual author, contributor or supplier.

2.2 Trading identity and relationship with the registered company

truthara operates as the trading identity of Adlib Audio Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales that supplies, hires and integrates professional audio, lighting and video systems for live events, broadcast environments and television production. That technical background informs the guidance published here, including the practical material on signal flow, room acoustics, lighting positions and live production workflow.

2.3 What we are not

This website is an information and enquiry platform. It is not a broadcaster, a commissioning body or a regulatory authority, and nothing published on it constitutes an endorsement by, or an opinion of, any broadcaster, standards body or regulator. Editorial descriptions of equipment, techniques or standards reflect professional practice at the time of writing and do not replace manufacturer instructions, risk assessments or advice from a qualified engineer.

3. Legal Form, Registration Particulars and Tax Identifiers

The following details identify the legal entity responsible for this website. They are published in accordance with United Kingdom trading disclosure requirements, so that visitors can verify who they are dealing with and where the business is registered.

Legal form: private company limited by shares
Company name: Adlib Audio Limited
Company Registration Number: 03555097
Country of registration: England and Wales
VAT Number: 477222243
Registered Office: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG, United Kingdom
Register of companies: Companies House, Crown Way, Cardiff CF14 3UZ, United Kingdom
Business activity: hire, sale and integration of professional audio, lighting and video equipment for live events, broadcast and television production

3.1 Registration and company number

The company is registered with the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales under Company Registration Number 03555097. That number identifies the legal entity for all purposes, including contracts, invoices, complaints and formal notices, and can be checked free of charge on the public register maintained by Companies House.

3.2 VAT registration

The company is registered for Value Added Tax in the United Kingdom under VAT Number 477222243. Prices shown on this website may be quoted exclusive of VAT unless expressly stated otherwise, and VAT is applied to taxable supplies at the rate in force at the time of supply. Business customers in other jurisdictions should check whether the reverse charge or any other treatment applies to their circumstances.

3.3 Responsible representatives

The persons responsible for the management and representation of the company are its directors, whose current appointments are recorded on the public register at Companies House. Correspondence intended for the directors, including formal legal notices, should be sent to the registered office shown above. Directors and employees acting in the course of their duties are not personally liable for the obligations of the company, and no member of staff should be treated as a contracting party.

3.4 Licences, registrations and regulatory obligations

Because the business supplies, hires and installs electrical and electronic equipment, a number of regulatory regimes apply to its activities rather than to this website. These include the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations (WEEE), which govern the collection, treatment and recycling of electrical equipment placed on the market in the United Kingdom; the Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations; the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations; the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005; the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 where lifting and rigging equipment is supplied; and the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998. Where equipment is installed or rigged, our work is carried out under site-specific risk assessments and method statements, and copies of relevant certification can be provided on request to production managers and health and safety officers.

3.5 Insurance and financial standing

The company maintains professional indemnity, employers' liability and public and products liability cover consistent with the requirements of the relevant law applicable in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Evidence of cover, including policy limits, can be supplied to clients, insurers and venue operators who need it for their own compliance records. Requests should be made in writing through the contact channels listed in section 4.

4. Registered Office, Contact Details and Communication Channels

4.1 Registered office

The registered office of the company is National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG, United Kingdom. This is the official address for the service of legal documents, statutory correspondence and formal notices. It is also the address at which the company maintains its statutory registers.

4.2 How to reach us

General enquiries about content, equipment, hire availability, integration projects or training material may be directed as follows:

Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01494 671234
Postal address and registered office: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG, United Kingdom

You may also use the contact form on our Contacts page. Messages sent through the form are received by our office team and answered during normal business hours. Please include your organisation, the production or project the enquiry relates to, and any dates or technical requirements, so that we can route your message efficiently.

4.3 Formal notices and complaints

Formal notices, claims and complaints should be sent in writing to the registered office address above, marked for the attention of the company secretary or a director. We aim to acknowledge written complaints within five working days and to provide a substantive response within twenty-eight days. Where a complaint concerns a specific hire or installation, please include the order or contract reference, the date of supply and photographs or technical notes where relevant.

4.4 Language of communication

All contracts, notices and pre-contractual information are provided in English. Where technical documentation from a manufacturer is available only in another language, we will provide an English summary of the key safety and operating information on request.

5. Purpose, Scope and Intended Audience of the Website

This website exists to support professionals working in live television production. Its purpose is to explain and illustrate how studio equipment is integrated, how cameras are moved and framed for dynamic coverage, how studio acoustics can be tuned to control reverberation and background noise, how lighting is designed for news desks and interview sets, and how reliable production processes keep a live programme on air when there is no opportunity for a second take.

The material is aimed at technical crew, producers, studio managers, facilities engineers, freelancers and students who already have a working understanding of production environments. It assumes familiarity with terms such as genlock, colour temperature, key and fill, delay towers, balanced audio and line-level signals. It is not written for children, and it is not intended for use by consumers seeking domestic audio-visual installation services.

We aim to describe practice in a way that is accurate and useful, but production environments vary enormously. A working method that suits a permanent news studio in a city centre may be unsuitable for an outside broadcast in a temporary structure. Nothing on this website should be treated as a substitute for a site survey, a method statement, a manufacturer's instructions or an on-site risk assessment carried out by a competent person.

We reserve the right to add, amend or withdraw any part of the website at any time, including technical articles, equipment descriptions and availability information, without notice and without liability.

6. Access to the Website and Acceptable Use

6.1 Access

Access to this website is permitted on a temporary basis. We do not guarantee that the site, or any part of it, will always be available or that access will be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw, restrict or change all or any part of the site without notice where we consider it necessary for maintenance, security, legal or operational reasons. We are not liable to you if for any reason the site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to gain access to the site and for ensuring that anyone who accesses the site through your internet connection is aware of these terms and complies with them.

6.2 Permitted use

You may view, download and print pages from this website for your own personal, professional or internal business reference, provided that you do not remove or obscure any copyright, trade mark or other proprietary notices. You may quote short extracts for the purposes of review, teaching, internal training or professional discussion, provided that the source is acknowledged and the quotation is fair and proportionate.

6.3 Prohibited conduct

You must not:

use the website in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
copy, reproduce, republish, sell, rent, sub-licence or otherwise commercially exploit any part of the website without our written permission;
introduce viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or any other material that is malicious or technologically harmful;
attempt to gain unauthorised access to the website, the server on which it is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to it;
attack the website by means of a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack;
use automated systems, including scrapers and bots, to extract content or data from the site in a manner that places an unreasonable load on our infrastructure; or
frame the website, mirror it on another server or present our content in a way that misrepresents its origin or suggests an endorsement that does not exist.

Breach of this section may constitute a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, the Fraud Act 2006 or other legislation. We may report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and cooperate with them by disclosing information about you, including your identity, in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

6.4 Accounts, credentials and security

Where any part of the site requires credentials, you must treat those credentials as confidential and must not disclose them to any third party. We may disable any account, password or other identifier at any time if, in our reasonable opinion, you have failed to comply with these terms. You must notify us promptly if you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your credentials.

7. Intellectual Property: Content, Trade Marks and Permitted Use

All intellectual property rights in the website and in the material published on it — including text, diagrams, photographs, illustrations, page layouts, source code, data compilations and the selection and arrangement of content — are owned by us or licensed to us, and are protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, by trade mark law and by international treaties.

The names, logos and product names of manufacturers and suppliers shown in connection with equipment are the trade marks of their respective owners. Their appearance on this site is for identification and descriptive purposes only, and does not imply any affiliation with, sponsorship by or endorsement from those owners.

You may not use any of our trade marks, service marks, trade names, logos or the look and feel of the site without our prior written consent, whether in advertising, in the metadata of a web page, in a domain name or in any other context that could create confusion about the origin of goods or services. All rights not expressly granted in this Legal Notice are reserved.

If you believe that any material on this website infringes your intellectual property rights, please write to us at the registered office with details of the work concerned, the location of the material on the site and evidence of your rights. We will investigate promptly and remove or amend material where appropriate.

8. Accuracy, Availability and Limitations of Liability

8.1 Accuracy of information

Commentary on this website is provided for general guidance. It is prepared with reasonable care, but technical standards, equipment firmware, production practices and regulations change frequently. We do not warrant that any description, specification, price, availability note or statement of practice is accurate, complete, current or suitable for your particular production. You should verify critical details, particularly dimensions, load ratings, power requirements, frequency allocations, noise limits and safety tolerances, against primary sources and manufacturer documentation before relying on them.

8.2 Limits of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for any loss of profits, loss of business, loss of revenue, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, loss of goodwill or any indirect or consequential loss arising out of or in connection with the use of, or inability to use, this website or reliance on any content published on it. We also exclude liability for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, programs, data or proprietary material as a result of your use of this website or of any website linked to it.

Nothing in this Legal Notice limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for breach of the terms implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 or section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

8.3 Availability and changes

We may update or remove content at any time. Where content is removed, we are not obliged to archive it or to provide notice. Product availability and pricing for hire or purchase are confirmed only in a written quotation or order confirmation, which supersedes any indicative information published on this website.

8.4 Business customers

Where you use this website in the course of a business, trade or profession, we provide the site and its content on the basis that you accept responsibility for the commercial decisions you take as a result. We exclude all implied conditions, warranties and other terms to the extent permitted by law in a business-to-business context.

9. External Links and Third-Party Content

This website may contain links to third-party websites, resources, manufacturer manuals and video platforms, and may embed or reference third-party content. These links are provided for convenience and professional reference only. They do not constitute an endorsement of the linked site, its operator or its content, and we have no control over the content of those sites.

We accept no responsibility for the content of linked websites, for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them, or for the practices of their operators. When you follow a link to a third-party website, you leave our site and become subject to that site's own terms of use, privacy notice and cookie practices. We recommend that you review those documents before providing any personal information.

Inclusion of a link does not imply any association with the linked site's operators. Where we publish third-party material, such as images, quotations or specifications, that material remains the property of its owner and is used only for the purposes of identification, commentary, criticism, review or reporting, as permitted by law.

We may also include links to training providers, industry bodies, standards organisations and regulatory guidance. Those organisations operate independently of us, and any dealings you have with them are solely between you and them.

10. Data Protection, Privacy and Cookies

10.1 Controllership and legal framework

We are a controller for the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 and, where applicable, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR). We process personal data such as your name, employer, email address, telephone number and the content of your enquiry in order to respond to you, provide our services and meet our legal and accounting obligations. Our lawful bases are usually our legitimate interests in running our business and responding to professional enquiries, the performance of a contract or steps taken at your request before entering into one, and compliance with legal obligations.

10.2 Your rights

You have the right to be informed about how we use your personal data, to request access to it, to ask us to correct inaccurate information, to request erasure where there is no continuing justification for processing, to restrict or object to certain processing, and to data portability where processing is based on consent or contract and is carried out by automated means. Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office, the United Kingdom's supervisory authority for data protection.

10.3 Cookies and similar technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies, including strictly necessary cookies that enable core functionality and, where you consent, analytical cookies that help us understand how the site is used. Under PECR, non-essential cookies are set only after you have given consent through the site-wide cookie banner. You can refuse non-essential cookies, and you can change or withdraw your consent at any time through the banner or your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect the way the site behaves. Full detail of the cookies we use, their purposes, their durations and how to manage them is set out in our Cookie Policy.

10.4 Retention, security and international transfers

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, and then delete or anonymise it, subject to statutory retention periods such as those applying to tax and accounting records. We apply appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss or alteration. Where personal data is transferred outside the United Kingdom, we rely on an adequacy finding or on appropriate safeguards such as the International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the Standard Contractual Clauses.

11. Related Policies and Documents

The following documents form part of the terms that apply to this website and to any services we provide. They are available from the links in the site footer and from the Contacts page.

Privacy Policy — how we collect, use, store and share personal data, how long we keep it, and how to exercise your rights.
Cookie Policy — the categories of cookies used on this site, the purposes they serve, their retention periods and how to manage or withdraw consent.
Terms and Conditions — the terms governing orders, hire agreements, integration services, quotations and liability.
Payment and Refund Policy — payment methods, invoicing terms, deposits, cancellation charges and the circumstances in which refunds are available.
Acceptable Use Policy — rules protecting the site, our systems and other users from misuse, and the consequences of breaching those rules.
Accessibility Statement — our approach to accessibility, the standards we work to and how to report a barrier you encounter.

Where a document listed above has not yet been published for a particular service, we will provide a copy on request. Documents are provided in English and are governed by the law set out in section 12.

12. Governing Law, Jurisdiction and Consumer Dispute Rights

This Legal Notice, its subject matter and its formation, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or with the use of this website, 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 such dispute or claim.

If you are a consumer resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may bring proceedings in the courts of your own part of the United Kingdom, and nothing in this Legal Notice affects your right to do so. If you are a consumer, you also benefit from any mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you are resident, and nothing in this Legal Notice affects your statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 or equivalent legislation.

We are not obliged to participate in alternative dispute resolution before a consumer arbitration board, and we do not do so unless we agree in writing to a specific process. Where a dispute arises, we ask that you contact us first through the channels in section 4 so that we have the opportunity to resolve the matter directly. Where a contract is concluded with a business customer, the parties will attempt to resolve any dispute through good-faith discussions between senior representatives before commencing proceedings.

Nothing in this Legal Notice excludes or limits any right you have under the laws of the United Kingdom to bring a claim in a court of competent jurisdiction, or limits our liability in any way that is prohibited by law.

13. Changes to This Legal Notice and How to Contact Us

We may revise this Legal Notice at any time by amending this page. The date of the most recent revision is shown at the top of the page, and the revised version takes effect from the moment it is published. You are expected to check this page from time to time so that you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you. Changes will not apply retroactively to contracts already concluded, which continue to be governed by the version in force at the time the contract was formed.

If any provision of this Legal Notice is found to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision will be severed and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. No failure or delay by us in exercising a right under this Legal Notice operates as a waiver of that right. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation, and we will notify you in writing if we do so. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our written consent.

If you have questions about this Legal Notice, need a copy of any related document, or wish to exercise a legal right described on this page, please contact us using the email address, telephone number or postal address in section 4. We will respond to written enquiries within a reasonable period and, in any event, within the timescales required by applicable law. This page is reviewed at least annually and whenever there is a material change to our legal form, registration particulars, data practices or the services described on the website.

Last updated: 3 November 2026

14. Company Information Summary

Company Registration Number: 03555097
VAT Number: 477222243
Registered Office: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG, United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01494 671234

15. Contact

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For questions about this Legal Notice, our policies or your statutory rights, please reach us using the contact details below or through the form above.

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01494 671234
Address: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG, United Kingdom

Company Registration Number: 03555097 • VAT Number: 477222243 • Registered Office: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Studios, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG, United Kingdom • Email: [email protected] • Phone: 01494 671234