Privacy Notice
The Ampersand Foundation is an incorporated charity (charity no. 1167018 / company no. 09850522) based in the United Kingdom that exclusively supports the visual arts.
To view this website, visitors do not need to provide any personal details (such as name, title, gender and date of birth); contact details (such as email address, phone number and postal address); or financial information (such as bankcard information, bank details, or other payment information).
The site does hold an option to sign up for our mailing list subscription service, which is managed by a third-party service provider but requires your active consent.
This site does not show any third-party advertising. This site does include, however, links to third-party websites including those of some of our partner organisations and artists we have supported. Clicking on these links may enable third parties to collect and share data about you. We do not control third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before you submit any data to these websites.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on a device. Cookies can improve the visitor’s browsing experience because they help websites remember preferences and understand how people use different features. This website does not use Analytics and Performance cookies and does not collect personal data or email addresses through contact forms.
However, our site is hosted by Squarespace, and by using our site you are subject to Squarespace’s privacy and cookie policies. You can find information on how cookies are used by Squarespace on this website by reading their privacy and cookie policies:
https://www.squarespace.com/privacy/
https://www.squarespace.com/cookie-policy/
On our website, you can find a social plugin linked to our Instagram account. Instagram is a product offered by Meta Platforms, Inc., a US-based company. When accessing Instagram you are subject to their Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. To find out more about Instagram’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use please click here:
https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy
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Vimeo
We use Vimeo to provide video content across our website. Vimeo sets cookies in videos that we embed, which may stay active for a number of years. To find out more about embedding videos and Vimeo’s Privacy Policy please click here: https://vimeo.com/privacy
Emails
If you contact us via email, you are necessarily providing us with personal information (e.g. your name and email address). We will treat your communications confidentially and will not disclose information outside our organisation except where necessary to respond to your enquiry, or with your explicit agreement.
Our newsletter
From time to time we will send out a newsletter to let you know about the Foundation’s work and activities. We will only send it to you if you are subscribed to it. You can do this through our website or through the links at the bottom of our emails.
In signing up for the newsletter you are consenting to providing us with your email address and to receiving our newsletter. We will keep your data for as long as you still wish to receive the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or you can email info@theampersandfoundation.com with ‘Unsubscribe’ in the subject line.
Our purpose for collecting your contact details is so we can provide you with news about the Foundation’s work and activities.
We use Mailchimp to manage our mailing list and to stay in touch with you and as such they will collect analytic information, such as if you have opened the newsletter and the links you click on in the newsletter to monitor the impact of our work and improve the newsletter. To read their privacy policy please click here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
Contact
If you have any comments or require further information, please contact us by email at: info@theampersandfoundation.com
We will review this privacy notice regularly to keep it up to date with new legislation. Any updates or amendments will be published on this website.
This privacy notice was created on 19 June 2018 and was last updated on 27 November 2023.
Further information on data protection regulations and laws can be found here: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/