Privacy Policy

About this website

This website is operated by South Coast Arts.

Your use of this website constitutes your agreement to the current privacy policy. South Coast Arts reserves the right to update or modify the policy at any time without prior notice. If you do not agree with any part of the policy, do not use the South Coast Arts website.

We value your business and your trust. We will never share or sell your information, and we have employed industry standard security measures to keep your information safe.

Information collected and stored

We collect and store information that you enter into this website. For example, when all users sign up, we collect and store the following required information: name, email address and region. You can choose to provide your phone number and social media links if you wish (optional).

If you are an artist/creative registering on the site, you can choose whether your email address, phone number and social media links are visible to other artist/creative users in the Weave community area, which is only accessible to other logged in artist/creative users.

Artist/creative users can also choose to provide information about you and your work for your public website profile, including a featured image of your work, featured works which can be images/videos/audio of your work, awards/career highlights information, links to your website and your studio address if you have one. This information is used in your public website profile and in our community area. 

When editing your public website profile, you can chose whether you would like your email address, phone number and social media links displayed on your public website profile or not.

If you sign up for promotional emails, we may use your information to customise your emails to make them as relevant to you as possible. If you do not want to receive promotional emails from South Coast Arts, you can opt out anytime using the link provided in the emails.

We do not share any user information with any third parties for any reason. If South Coast Arts needs to contact you we will always use email in the first instance. We will not call you for any marketing or promotional purposes.

We collect and store certain other information automatically whenever you interact with this website. For example, we collect your IP address, browser information and referring website domain name every time you visit this website. We also collect information regarding customer traffic patterns and website usage. This information is used to analyse and improve this website and to provide you with a better experience.

Also, like many websites, we use “cookies”, which are files stored on your computer’s hard drive by your browser. Cookies help us to identify existing users and optimise their browsing experience. Cookies also allow us to hold favourites when a user leaves the website. Most browsers accept cookies automatically but allow you to disable them. We recommend that you leave cookies “turned on” so that we can offer you a better experience.

Security

South Coast Arts makes every effort to ensure that all of the interactions that occur on this website are secure. To ensure that your connection is secure, look at the web address (URL) window of your browser. When accessing a secure server, the first characters of the website address are “https” or you may see a padlock icon (depending on your browser).

Removal or editing of your information

Artists/creatives can edit their profile by logging into our website at any time. You can remove yourself from promotional emails by opting-out using a link provided in all of our promotional emails.

You can delete yourself from our database by contacting us at any time.