This Privacy Policy describes how Forge & Canvas Media Ltd. collects, uses and protects personal data gathered through this website. It applies to all visitors who browse our articles or contact us directly.
Forge & Canvas Media Ltd. is the data controller responsible for personal information collected through this website, and any inquiries regarding how your data is handled can be directed to our editorial contact address listed on the site.
Your data's handled under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 and whatever else applies across United Kingdom. If this policy ever clashes with the law, the law has the final word.
We collect information you voluntarily submit through our contact form, such as your name, email address and message content; technical data recorded automatically in server logs, including IP address, browser type and pages visited; and, where you have given consent, analytics cookie data describing general browsing behavior on the site.
We process contact form data to respond to inquiries and editorial pitches on the basis of your consent and our legitimate interest in managing correspondence, server log data to maintain the security and functioning of the website under legitimate interest, and analytics cookie data to understand readership patterns on art and AI coverage only where you have provided explicit consent.
Contact form submissions are retained only as long as necessary to address the inquiry and are typically deleted or archived within a reasonable period thereafter, server logs are retained for a limited time for security purposes before automatic deletion, and analytics data is retained according to the retention settings of our analytics provider, generally not exceeding twenty-six months.
We may rely on third-party service providers, such as email delivery platforms and website analytics tools, to operate this site, and these providers process personal data on our behalf under their own privacy policies and applicable data protection agreements; we do not sell personal data to third parties for marketing purposes.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to certain processing activities, and to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before such withdrawal; requests can be submitted through our contact form and will be addressed within a reasonable timeframe.
Write to [email protected] or ring +44 114 704 9552 during Mon-Fri 08:00-16:30, break 12:15-12:45. Every message gets a reply within one working day.
