Privacy policy

Who we are

Yande Studio Ltd (“Yande Studio”, “we”) runs yande.studio and is the controller of the personal data described here. Contact us about anything on this page at rich@yande.uk.

What we collect and why

When you send a message through Contact

Your name, email address, the subject you choose and your message. We use them only to reply and, if it leads anywhere, to discuss the work. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in answering enquiries (and, where you are asking about a project, taking steps at your request before a contract).

When you join the opening list on the gate

Your email address, the date you signed up and the page you signed up from. We use it for one thing: to tell you when the studio opens. Our lawful basis is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by emailing us.

When you browse

• Page counts. Vercel Web Analytics counts visits and pages viewed without cookies and without identifying you; we only see totals (for example, pages, referring sites, countries and device types). Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in knowing whether the site is being found.
• Server logs. Like any website host, Vercel processes your IP address and browser details to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse.
• Invite-only access. If you enter an access code, a cookie remembers that you are invited. It holds no personal data. See the cookies policy.

We do not ask for your location. The street’s light and weather follow London, the studio’s home, using public weather data.

How long we keep it

• Messages: for as long as needed to deal with your enquiry and any work that follows, and no longer than two years after our last contact, unless we need it longer for accounts or legal reasons.
• Opening list: until we have told you the studio is open, then deleted within three months, or sooner if you ask.
• Analytics: aggregated totals only, kept by Vercel under its own retention periods.

Who helps us

We use a small number of service providers, who process data only on our instructions:

• Vercel hosts the site, delivers pages and provides the cookie-free page counts.
• Resend delivers the emails sent from the Contact form and the opening list to our inbox.
• Sanity stores the site’s content and the opening list.
• Open-Meteo provides London’s weather for the street. Your browser asks it directly, so it sees the request (including your IP address) but nothing else about you.

Some of these providers are based in, or use servers in, the United States. Where personal data leaves the UK, it is protected by safeguards recognised under UK law, such as the UK-US data bridge or standard data protection clauses.

We do not sell personal data or share it with advertisers.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask us to:

• give you a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
• correct it, or delete it;
• restrict or object to how we use it;
• send it to you or another organisation in a portable format;
• stop using it where we rely on your consent (for example, the opening list).

Email rich@yande.uk and we will respond within one month. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113, though we would appreciate the chance to put it right first.

Changes

If what we collect or how we use it changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. Significant changes affecting people on the opening list will be emailed to them.