Introduction
Last updated: 12 February 2025
Pròiseact nan Ealan is the national Gaelic arts agency, and this site documents our work across performing arts, visual arts, cultural hubs, and Gaelic heritage. If you have arrived here, you are probably reading about a project, browsing our team, or trying to get in touch. This policy explains what happens to your data while you do that.
We have written it in plain language on purpose. Privacy notices tend to drift into legal fog, and that helps nobody. Where a technical term is unavoidable, we explain it. The short version: we collect little, we keep it for as long as we need it and no longer, and you can ask us about any of it.
This document applies to everything under this domain. If a specific tool or campaign needs its own terms, we will say so at the point you use it.
Purposes of Processing
Every piece of data we handle ties back to one of three things. We keep the site running and improving, we look at how pages perform, and we respond when you write to us.
Site improvement and maintenance
Server logs tell us when something breaks. A page that throws errors, a link that leads nowhere, a slow-loading gallery of festival photographs — we trace these through technical records and fix them.
Performance monitoring
Analytics show us which articles people actually read. When a feature on a Gaelic heritage project draws sustained attention, that shapes what we commission next. The data here is aggregated; we care about patterns, not individuals.
Contact and communication
When you email us or submit a form, we use what you send to reply. That is the entire purpose. We do not fold contact details into a marketing machine.
External Services
This website uses a small number of third-party services, and each one touches some data on our behalf.
Analytics
We use privacy-conscious analytics to measure visits and performance. Additional measurement tools may be introduced later; this policy will be updated before they go live.
Advertising networks
None are active at present. Should we integrate an ad network in future, we will document it here and update our consent controls accordingly.
Hosting and CDN
Our pages are served through hosting and content-delivery providers who process technical request data purely to deliver the site to you.
These providers act under contract and may only use data for the services we have asked them to perform.
Information Collected
Most visitors give us nothing beyond the ordinary traces any web server records. A smaller number choose to send us more.
Technical logs
When your browser requests a page, our systems note your IP address, browser type, and the pages you viewed. This is standard for any website and underpins both security and the performance work described above.
Contact submissions
If you fill in a contact form, we receive whatever you put there — typically a name, an email address, and your message. You decide what to include.
Subscription inputs
Where we offer a mailing list or update sign-up, the email address you provide is stored to send you what you asked for. Nothing else rides along with it.
Cookies and Tracking
Cookies are small files a site stores in your browser. We group ours into three kinds, and only the first runs without asking.
Strictly necessary cookies
These remember your consent choices and keep a session coherent as you move between pages. The site cannot function properly without them, so they are set by default.
Analytics cookies
These record visit patterns and performance signals so we understand how the site is used. They run only with your agreement.
Advertising cookies
Reserved for potential future use. If we ever personalise advertising, the relevant cookies will be listed here first and gated behind consent.
You can clear or block cookies through your browser settings at any time. Doing so may affect how some features behave. Our full Cookie Policy sets out each cookie in detail.
Data Subject Rights
The data is yours, and the law backs that up. You hold several rights over it, and we treat requests to exercise them seriously rather than as paperwork.
Access
You may ask what personal data we hold about you, and we will tell you.
Deletion
You can request that we erase your data. Where no legal obligation requires us to keep it, we will.
Opt-out of tracking
You can withdraw analytics consent through the cookie controls, and decline non-essential tracking at any point.
Getting in touch
For any data-related question, use our Contact Us page. We aim to respond promptly, though complex requests occasionally take longer to verify.
Storage and Deletion
We do not hoard data. Technical logs are kept for a limited operational window and then discarded as part of routine maintenance. Contact and subscription details remain only while they serve the purpose you provided them for.
When you ask us to delete your data, we remove it from our active systems and instruct relevant providers to do the same, subject to any backups that cycle out on their own schedule. If a legal duty obliges us to retain something, we will explain which and for how long.
Policy Updates
Privacy practice changes as tools and laws change. When we revise this policy, we update the date at the top of the page, and for material changes we will make the update visible rather than burying it.
Reading the current version here is always the safest way to know where you stand. If anything is unclear, the Contact Us page is the right place to ask.