Who is responsible
Young Studio is responsible for personal information submitted through this website. Privacy questions can be sent to hello@youngstudio.uk.
Information collected
The enquiry form collects the contact and project information you choose to provide. The server also processes limited request information needed to prevent abuse, including a temporarily hashed network address. Young Studio does not ask for passwords or access credentials through the public form.
Why it is used
Enquiry information is used to read and respond to your request, prepare a proposal where relevant, prevent form abuse and maintain an appropriate business record of the conversation. The lawful bases are taking steps at your request before a contract and Young Studio's legitimate interest in responding to genuine business enquiries.
Email delivery and enquiry retention
Your submission is delivered into Young Studio's business mailbox using its configured mail provider. Enquiries that do not become client work are reviewed and removed when they are no longer useful; contractual and accounting correspondence may need to be retained for longer.
Business outreach
Young Studio carries out limited business-to-business outreach to UK corporate organisations whose public information indicates that its website services may be relevant. This is not consumer marketing. Sole traders and other individual subscribers are excluded unless an applicable consent or existing-customer basis has been established.
The information used may include an organisation's name, website, sector, location, publicly displayed business email address, the apparent business role of that address, corporate status and a short factual note taken from the organisation's website. It comes from first-party business websites and public business sources such as public maps, directories and corporate registers. Young Studio does not buy consumer mailing lists or use special-category information for outreach.
Outreach purpose and lawful basis
The purpose is to identify corporate organisations that may reasonably benefit from Young Studio's services and send a relevant introductory email. Where this involves personal information, Young Studio relies on legitimate interests: developing its business through proportionate, targeted corporate outreach. It applies a necessity and balancing assessment, prefers role-based business addresses, limits the information used, excludes sensitive and unsuitable sectors, and checks corporate status, relevance, prior contact and objections before sending.
Each message identifies Young Studio and provides a simple way to object. You have an absolute right to object to use of your information for direct marketing. Reply to any message or email hello@youngstudio.uk; outreach will stop and the minimum necessary address or domain will be retained on a suppression list so it is not added again.
Outreach retention and automation
Potential-lead evidence is rechecked regularly and removed or reclassified when it is stale or no longer necessary. Rejected raw evidence is normally removed within 90 days, while a minimal record of the decision may be retained to prevent repeated collection. Qualified lead evidence is reviewed at least every 30 days. Contact and response records are retained while needed to manage the business relationship, demonstrate what was sent and respect preferences. Suppression entries are retained for as long as reasonably necessary to honour an objection.
Deterministic software helps collect public business information, remove unsuitable records, verify evidence and prioritise outreach. It does not make decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on people. Replies and unusual cases are routed for review.
Anonymous website measurement
Young Studio uses a first-party measurement system solely to understand and improve this website. It records aggregate page views, broad device category, the referring domain without its path or query string, allow-listed campaign labels and selected calls to action. It does not use advertising identifiers, session replay, cross-site tracking or behavioural profiles.
The server briefly processes the network address supplied with an ordinary web request. It reduces that address and irreversibly hashes it with a secret, day-specific input to estimate daily visitors without retaining the raw address. These temporary daily hashes are removed within 48 hours. Aggregate counters are retained for no more than 24 months.
Analytics choice and lawful basis
The measurement is used only to create statistics for improving youngstudio.uk. Young Studio relies on the statistical-purposes exception in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations and legitimate interests under UK data-protection law. Visitors are given a simple, free way to object on the cookie and measurement page. The system also respects enabled Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals.
Sharing and international processing
Information is shared only with service providers needed to host the website, operate the private customer-relationship system and deliver business email, or where required by law. Young Studio does not sell enquiry or outreach data. Where a provider processes information outside the UK, appropriate contractual or other recognised safeguards are required.
Your rights
Depending on the circumstances, UK data-protection law may give you rights to access, correct, erase, restrict or object to processing of your information, and to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Official guidance
The structure of this notice was checked against the ICO's right-to-be-informed guidance.