Privacy policy

Who runs this site

Traditional Artist is run by the team behind the @traditionalartist Instagram account. For anything about your data, email traditional_artist@yahoo.com or send a direct message to @traditionalartist(Instagram, opens in a new tab).

If you only visit

We do not use cookies for visitors and do not build a profile of you. We count how often artist profiles are viewed, how often people open an artist’s Instagram, booking page or website from here, how often the search and filters are used, how often the “Add your profile” form is opened and sent, and which of its fields most often need correcting (never what was typed). Only daily totals are stored — for example, “this profile was viewed 12 times today”.

So that one visit is not counted twice, the server briefly combines your IP address and browser name into a salted code. The code is kept in server memory for about half an hour, changes every day and is never written to our database. This reduces the information we retain; it is not a claim that processing an IP address is anonymous. Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs (address, time, page) for security for a limited time.

We respect Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals: browser usage events are not sent or counted when either is enabled. Counts are approximate activity totals, not a count of unique people.

Artists in the directory

A profile shows professional details: name, Instagram account, city, studio, styles, availability, links, a short bio and, with the artist’s permission, photos of their work and a profile picture. Details come from the artist, and every profile is checked by hand before it is published; our editors may correct obvious mistakes. We do not copy photos from Instagram and we do not write bios for anyone.

Artists can correct their profile with “Update this profile” on their page, or ask us to remove it at any time — see Contact. Taking a listing down can leave a brief notice with the artist’s name and location. An artist can also ask us to delete the profile completely: we then remove the profile, its photos and profile picture, and its old addresses stop working. Our moderation records — the original application and the log of editors’ actions — are kept to show how the listing was handled; if you want those removed too, ask us and we will explain anything we need to retain. Copies in our backups disappear as the backups expire.

If you send us a form

The details you enter in “Add your profile”, “Update this profile” or “Report incorrect information” are kept so an editor can review them. Your email is optional and is used only to ask you about that request.

Photos sent with “Add your profile” stay private until an editor approves them. Rejected and unselected photos are queued for deletion. Unreviewed photos become eligible for deletion after 30 days and can no longer be approved. Cleanup retries failed deletions; temporary storage outages or an overdue cleanup run can delay removal. Large photos are first made smaller on your own device, before they are sent. New uploads are re-encoded to remove embedded metadata such as GPS coordinates.

Editors

People who moderate the directory sign in with an account. Their actions are recorded in an audit log with the time, so every change to a profile can be traced. See the cookie policy for the sign-in cookie.

Where it is stored

Our database and our file storage are run by hosting providers that process the data only on our behalf. Backups of the database are stored privately and deleted after 30 days. We do not sell data, and we do not share it with advertisers.

Your rights

You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. We answer within 30 days. If you are in the EU or the UK and are not happy with our answer, you can complain to your data protection authority. To make a request, email traditional_artist@yahoo.com or send a direct message to @traditionalartist(Instagram, opens in a new tab).