Last Updated: Sep 12, 2026

Culture and Arts Policy Institute (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) wants you to understand how we collect, use, and disclose personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we handle personal information we collect through our website (including https://culturepolicy.org, https://culturedata.io/), social media pages, online communications, and any other sites or services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”).

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Here’s how we collect personal information in providing our Services.

Personal information we receive from you

Data Categories

Examples

Account, Profile, and Contact Information

Username and password, first and last name, email address, business name, and third-party social media handle.

User Content

Content you share while using the Services, as well as posts or comments you make on our social media pages.

User Interactions

Information about how users engage with the Services.

Preferences

Language or other feedback or preferences that you might express during your use of the Services.

Marketing Data

Choices regarding our newsletters, surveys, and other marketing displayed or provided to you, and preferred methods of receiving such promotional communications.

Relationship Information

Details of your communications with us and details of your claims, complaints, and queries in general.

Personal information collected automatically through your use of the Services

Data Categories

Examples

Online Activity Data

Pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, site interactions, searching behavior within the Services, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, duration of access, and whether you have opened our marketing emails or clicked links within them.

Device Information

Your device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., WiFi, LTE, 3G), and general location information.

We use the following tools for automatic data collection

Cookies

Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the device that you are using that allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other traffic data. our service providers, and we may use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, display information more effectively, conduct analytics, and personalize your experience.

We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals.

You can read more information about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html.

Local Storage Technologies

These technologies provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.

Pixel Tags

Also known as web beacons and clear GIFs, pixel tags may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps, and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to https://policies.google.com/privacy, and exercise the opt-out provided by Google by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Other sources from which we collect personal information

Social Media

Information we collect from social media sites may include details such as profile pictures, social media account ID, and other public social media profile information.

Other Third Parties

We may collect information from other third-party sources such as publicly available databases, contributing partners, or data brokers.

We may need to collect personal information to provide the Services. If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide the Services. If you disclose any personal information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Here’s an overview of how we use personal information in providing our Services.

Purposes

Examples

Administering the Services

To provide the Services to you, including arranging access to your account, responding to your inquiries, fulfilling your requests, and sending you administrative information such as agreements to provide the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.

Operations and General Business

To conduct our operations (such as troubleshooting, diagnostic testing, performance analyses of our systems and Services, testing of new system features to evaluate their impact, system and log maintenance, technical support, system debugging, and hosting data) and to facilitate mergers, acquisitions, and other reorganizations and restructurings of our business (including prospective transactions).

Marketing

To send you our newsletters, publications, and updates that we think may be of interest to you. We may send marketing messages by mail, email, phone calls, and text messages.

Relationship Building and Engagement

To respond to any posts on our social media pages and to conduct other user relationship-building activities.

Improving and Developing the Services

To conduct data analysis, to monitor and analyze use of the Services, to use data analytics to improve the efficiency of the Services, to develop new features, to enhance, improve, repair, maintain, or modify the Services, to identify usage trends, to understand which parts of the Services are most interesting to users, to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and for other similar purposes.

Aggregation and/or Anonymization

We may anonymize and aggregate personal information so it does not identify you or any other individual, and use and share such data for our business purposes.

Security and Fraud Prevention

To conduct audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and are compliant with legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements, to monitor for and prevent fraud, and for security purposes, including maintaining system security.

Legal and Compliance

To fulfill our legal and compliance-related obligations, including complying with applicable laws, complying with legal processes, responding to requests from public and government authorities, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements, complying with requirements set by industry-specific supervisory bodies, enforcing our terms and conditions and standards, protecting our operations, protecting the rights, privacy, or property of our business, responding to auditors, pursuing available legal remedies, making insurance claims, defending claims, and limiting the damages that we may sustain.

HOW WE DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Here are the types of entities to which we may disclose personal information in providing the Services.

Contributing Partners

We may share limited information with contributing partners as needed to support collaboration, data stewardship, and platform governance, including information related to platform participation and collaboration activities.

Service Providers

We use service providers that provide hosting, information technology, customer support, email and communications delivery, and analytics services for the purposes listed above.

Professional Advisors

We use accountants, actuaries, auditors, experts, consultants, lawyers, banks, and financial institutions to support our business.

Authorities and Others

If we are required by law or legal process or if we deem the disclosure appropriate for other legal, compliance, or fraud-prevention purposes, we may disclose personal information to law enforcement, public, regulatory, and government authorities, courts, or other entities that obtain valid subpoenas.

Other Online Services

When you interact with us, you may choose to share information and content on our social media pages.

Business Transferees

We may disclose or transfer your personal information to third parties such as acquiring entities and their advisors in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

SECURITY

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect personal information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you believe your interaction with us is no longer secure, please notify us immediately.

MARKETING CHOICES

You have choices regarding marketing-related communications. If you no longer want to receive marketing-related communications from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out by following the unsubscribe instructions in any such message. We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, which you cannot opt out of.

THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

RETENTION PERIOD

We retain personal information for as long as needed or permitted for the purposes for which it was collected as outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

  • The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you have a relationship with us or keep using the Services);
  • Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records or communications for a certain period before we can delete them); or
  • Whether retention is advisable, considering our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).

CROSS-BORDER TRANSFERS

We may store and process your personal information in any country or region where we have facilities or engage service providers. By using the Services, you understand that we may transfer your personal information to countries outside your country or region of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules different from those of your country or region. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, or security authorities in those other countries or regions may be entitled to access your personal information.

CHILDREN

The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from those individuals.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

The “Last Updated” legend at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes take effect when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

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