Privacy and Cookies Policy and Notice

Arty-Folks wants everyone who supports us, or who comes to us for support, to feel confident and comfortable with how we look after your personal information.  We are committed to protecting your personal information and making every effort to ensure that we process it in a fair, open and transparent manner.

We are a “data controller” for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“Data Protection Law”). This means that we are responsible for the processing of your personal information.  For further information about our privacy practices, please contact our Data Protection Officer by email info@arty-folks.org.uk

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect information from you when you visit our website, how we use and store your personal information. Personal information means any information that could identify you.

We gather general information which might include which pages you visit most often and which services, events or information is of most interest to you. We may also track which pages you visit when you click on links in emails from us. We also use “cookies” to help our site run effectively. There are more details below – see ‘Cookies’.

We use this information to personalise the way our website is presented when you visit to make improvements and to ensure we provide the best service and experience for you. Wherever possible we use anonymous information which does not identify individual visitors to our website.  Cookies enable us to use analytics tools to understand how people use our website, including how many visitors we receive, where they have come from and the pages that they have visited. This helps us to improve the layout and content of our website for web users.

If you do not want cookies to be stored on your computer it is possible to disable this function within your browser without affecting your navigation around the site. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Arty-Folks Privacy Policy is reviewed regularly and was last updated November 2023.