Our Privacy & Cookie Policy

Earthen Lamp provides information, services and resources to the creative and cultural sector. This requires some personal data to be held by Earthen Lamp for our mailing list. In managing this data, Earthen Lamp will be following the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (2018).

1. Earthen Lamp will ensure that all personal data is processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals;

2. The information held will be used to send digital and postal communication on matters directly associated with the work of Earthen Lamp.

3. Earthen Lamp will not ask for any information that is not required in order to fulfil its communication purposes.

4. Earthen Lamp will aim to keep all information held up to date. Data Subjects (i.e. anyone who has provided data to Earthen Lamp) will need to inform Earthen Lamp of any changes of their personal details.

5. Data will not be held for longer than is necessary. After the relationship between the Data Subject and Earthen Lamp is completed, data will be deleted unless the Data Subject asks for it to be retained to allow continuing correspondence with Earthen Lamp. Data subjects may request their data to be deleted at any time.

6. Data will be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
There are two kinds of cookies – session (set on a short-term basis and auto-deleting after a few minutes or when you close your browser), usually in order to register to a website that you are logged in to it, and persistent, set by the website and stored for a longer period of time, usually used to store commonly entered information on forms (such as your name, address, and telephone number), any preferences the website might allow you to store in terms of layout and functionality (such as widgets on an iGoogle home page), and information about your browsing habits across multiple sites, usually used to allow advertisers and social network site operators to target advertising at you.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website and help us create a more useful and easy to use site. The data collected is completely anonymous and does not store any personal details. The information, collected by Google through the use of the cookie, is used to analyse how visitors make use of the website and allows us to gather statistical information such as website activity, visitor numbers, popular pages, customer journey through the website, etc.

If you would like to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics you can use the opt-out tool at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies our website sets. However, if you would like to, you can change your cookie settings at any time. Instructions for blocking cookies using browser settings:
 

For other browsers and operating systems, consult your relevant help file. The use of persistent cookies in the European Union has been regulated by EU Directive 2002/58 on Privacy and Electronic Communications, and in the UK is enacted under the authority of the Information Commissioner’s Office.