Privacy Policy

C4CCI — Centre for Cultural & Creative Industries is a London-based organisation dedicated to innovation and collaboration in the creative industries. We operate the website c4cci.com and the Art X Space digital gallery platform.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, C4CCI is the data controller responsible for your personal information.

We collect information in the following ways:

• Contact form submissions — name, email address, organisation and message content when you contact us via our website
• Open call applications — name, email, portfolio information, artist statements and uploaded images submitted via our application process
• Newsletter sign-ups — email address when you subscribe to our updates
• Website usage data — IP address, browser type, pages visited, time spent on site (collected via cookies and analytics tools)
• Email correspondence — information contained in emails you send to info@c4cci.com

We use the information we collect to:

• Respond to enquiries and communicate with you about collaborations, exhibitions and services
• Process and evaluate open call applications for our exhibition programme
• Send newsletters and programme updates (only if you have subscribed)
• Improve our website and understand how visitors use our content
• Comply with legal obligations

We will never use your personal information for purposes incompatible with those for which it was collected, or sell it to third parties.

We process your personal data on the following legal bases under UK GDPR:

• Legitimate interests — responding to enquiries, managing our programme and improving our services
• Consent — newsletter subscriptions and non-essential cookies (you may withdraw consent at any time)
• Contract — where processing is necessary to fulfil an agreement or collaboration
• Legal obligation — where we are required by law to process data

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information. We may share your data with:

• Service providers — including our website hosting provider, email platform and analytics tools, who process data on our behalf under data processing agreements
• Partner organisations — only where necessary for a specific collaboration you have consented to
• Legal authorities — where required by law or to protect our legal rights

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected:

• Contact form enquiries — up to 2 years
• Open call applications — up to 3 years (whether successful or not)
• Newsletter subscriptions — until you unsubscribe
• Website analytics — as per our analytics provider's retention settings (typically 14 months)

Under UK data protection law, you have the right to:

• Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
• Rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data
• Erasure — request deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances
• Restriction — ask us to restrict processing of your data
• Portability — receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format
• Object — object to processing based on legitimate interests
• Withdraw consent — at any time, where processing is based on consent

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@c4cci.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

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This Privacy Policy was last updated in March 2026. We may update it from time to time — the current version will always be available on this page.