Privacy policy
How Find Art Competitions collects, uses and protects personal data. Last updated 2026-10-12.
Who we are
Find Art Competitions (“we”) operates Find Art Competitions at https://findartcompetitions.com. We are the data controller for the personal data described here. Contact us at [email protected].
What we collect, and why
| Data | Purpose | Legal basis | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your eligibility profile: year of birth, country of residence and nationality, career stage, student status, graduation year, mediums, optional group memberships, fee preference | To tell you which competitions you can enter. Stored only on your device until you sign in. | Consent (you enter it; you can clear it) | Until you delete it or your account |
| Email address, sign-in provider id | To create and secure your account | Contract | Life of the account |
| Competitions you save | To show them on your Saved page and, if you opt in, email you when one opens | Contract; consent for emails | Life of the account |
| Analytics data: pages viewed, device and browser type, approximate location from a truncated IP address, interaction recordings | To understand how the site is used and improve it | Consent (cookie banner) | Google Analytics: 14 months. Microsoft Clarity: 30 days for recordings, 13 months for aggregates |
| Advertising identifiers | To show and measure adverts, when we run them | Consent (cookie banner) | Set by the ad network; see the cookie policy |
| Details you give in a lead or enquiry form, with the consent wording you agreed to | To pass your enquiry to the named partner | Consent | 24 months |
| Server logs: IP address, request path, user agent | Security and keeping the service running | Legitimate interests | 30 days |
Special category data
Some open calls are only for particular groups, for example women artists, disabled artists or artists of colour. You may optionally tell us which such groups you belong to so that we can include those calls in your matches. This can reveal information about health, ethnicity or sexual orientation. We process it only with your explicit consent, only to match you with competitions, and never for advertising or profiling. You can remove it at any time from your profile.
Cookies and similar technologies
Strictly necessary cookies keep you signed in and remember your cookie choice. Analytics and advertising cookies are set only after you agree in the banner, and you can change your mind at any time from “Cookie settings” in the footer. Full details are in the cookie policy.
Who we share data with
- Supabase hosts our database and authentication (data stored in the EU or US depending on project region).
- Sevalla (Kinsta) hosts the website.
- Google (Analytics, and sign-in if you choose it) and Microsoft (Clarity) process analytics data under their own terms, only with your consent.
- Anthropic processes the text of public competition web pages to extract their rules. No personal data about you is sent.
- Advertising networks and affiliate partners, when we run them, receive data only with your marketing consent. Each is named in the cookie policy.
- Lead partners receive only the details you enter in a form that names them.
We do not sell personal data.
International transfers
Some providers are in the United States. Transfers rely on the UK and EU adequacy decisions for the Data Privacy Framework or on standard contractual clauses.
Your rights
You can access, correct, download, or delete your data, object to or restrict processing, and withdraw consent at any time. Signed-in users can download or delete everything from the account data page; everyone can clear their device profile from the For you page and change cookie choices from the footer. For anything else email [email protected]. You may also complain to your supervisory authority; in the UK that is the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Children
The site is not aimed at children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
We will post any changes here and update the date above. Material changes will be announced on the site.
This policy is governed by the law of England and Wales.