What we know about you, and what we do with it.

This policy explains what personal information we collect on CANARTA, why, and what your rights are. We keep it as short and as honest as the facts allow. If anything is unclear, write to us.

Who is responsible

Controller: Wehrli Media Inc., Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Privacy contact: Christian Wehrli, Founder & Publisher
mail@canarta.net
Applicable law: The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) of Canada.

What we collect, and why

Artist registration. When you register as an artist we ask for your name, e-mail address, discipline, province, a link to your work, optional images (a portrait and one work) and your answers to the questions about your person, your work and your process. We use this material only to read your registration, to decide editorially whether we write a portrait, and to contact you about it. Nothing is published without your written consent.

Reader, advertiser and supporter requests. The short forms under Read, Advertise and Support ask for your name, e-mail address, optionally an organization and a message. We use them to answer your request and, if you asked for it, to send you news about the platform and the Annual Book.

“Just say hello”. If you leave only your name and e-mail address, we send you up to three e-mails over three weeks with a story and the link to the full registration form. Every one of these e-mails contains an unsubscribe link. After the third e-mail we stop.

Draft saving in your browser. While you fill in the registration form, the page keeps a draft of your entries in your browser’s local storage so that nothing is lost if you close the page. This draft stays on your device, is never sent to us until you press Register, and is deleted after you submit. The page also remembers, in the same way, which link brought you here.

Cookies and tracking

This site does not set cookies and does not use analytics or tracking. It uses the local storage of your browser only as described above.

Service providers and third parties

Hosting. All our sites are hosted by CanSpace (canspace.ca), a Canadian hosting provider, on a server in Canada. Like every web server it keeps access logs (IP address, time, page requested, browser) for security and error analysis. We do not evaluate these logs for marketing purposes.

Google Fonts. The typeface of this site is loaded from Google Fonts. When the page loads, your browser requests the font files from Google’s servers, which means Google receives your IP address. Google’s privacy policy applies to that request.

cdnjs (Cloudflare). The animation library of this page is loaded from cdnjs.cloudflare.com. Your browser requests it from Cloudflare, which receives your IP address.

We do not sell personal information, we do not share it with advertisers, and we do not use it for profiling.

Where your information is kept, and for how long

Our server is in Canada. E-mail correspondence is kept for as long as it is relevant to the matter you wrote about, then deleted.

Registrations and requests are stored in our editorial database on our Canadian server for as long as the registration is under consideration or the correspondence is active. You can ask us to delete your registration at any time.

Your rights

Access and correction. You may ask what personal information we hold about you and have it corrected.
Withdrawal of consent and deletion. You may withdraw your consent at any time and ask us to delete your information, unless we are legally required to keep it.
Unsubscribe. Every e-mail we send in a series contains an unsubscribe link. One click is enough.
Answer within 30 days. We respond to requests within thirty days.
Complaints. If you believe we have not handled your information properly, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca). Readers in Switzerland and the European Union have, in addition, the rights granted by the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection and the GDPR, as far as they apply.

Young people

If you are under 18, please ask a parent or guardian before you send us personal information.

Changes

When we change how we handle information, we update this page and its date. Material changes to a service you signed up for will also reach you by e-mail.

Last updated November 4, 2026