Studio Self-Made

Last updated: 30 July 2026

Studio Self-Made is a trading name of Redfern Studios Ltd. In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" mean Studio Self-Made.

1. About this policy

We are the data controller for personal data collected through studioselfmade.com. Our full company and regulator details are in section 13.

For any privacy matters, contact hello@studioselfmade.com.

2. What this policy covers

This policy covers personal data we collect through our website and our application forms.

If you join one of our programmes, you'll be given a separate programme privacy notice covering how your data is handled during and after delivery, including any requirements of the organisation commissioning or funding that programme. Where the two differ, the programme notice applies to that programme's data.

3. The data we collect

When you contact us

Your name, email address and anything you choose to write in your message. If you include a phone number or organisation, we hold that too.

When you apply to one of our programmes

Applications are made through Youform, a third-party form provider. Depending on the programme, this may include your name, contact details, age or date of birth, location, information about your business or idea, a written or recorded response, and, where a funder requires it, equality monitoring information such as ethnicity, disability, sex or socio-economic background.

Equality monitoring questions are always optional, always include a "prefer not to say" option, and are never seen by the people scoring your application. They're used only in anonymised, aggregated form for funder reporting.

When you browse our website

Our website is built on Squarespace. Squarespace records limited technical and usage information, including your IP address, the pages you view, the site that referred you, an approximate location derived from your IP address, and your device and browser type. We don't use Google Analytics, advertising pixels, or any additional tracking code.

We don't collect payment details through this website.

4. Why we use it, and our legal basis

What we use it for

Legal basis

Replying to your enquiry

Legitimate interests - responding to someone who has contacted us

Assessing a programme application

Legitimate interests before selection; performance of a contract once you accept a place

Equality monitoring and anonymised funder reporting

Consent (these questions are optional), with substantial public interest - equality of opportunity or treatment - as the additional condition for special category data

Understanding how our website is used

Consent, given through our cookie banner

Keeping accounting and tax records

Legal obligation

Handling complaints, insurance matters or legal claims

Legitimate interests and legal obligation

Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Withdrawing consent doesn't affect anything we did before you withdrew it.

5. Who we share it with

We share personal data only with organisations that provide services to us, and only as far as they need it:

Squarespace -website hosting and analytics

Youform - application forms

Our email and cloud storage provider

Our accountant, for bookkeeping and tax

Professional advisers, insurers or regulators, where we're required or permitted to involve them

For commissioned programmes, we may share information with the commissioning or funding organisation. Where we do, this is set out in that programme's privacy notice. Reporting to funders is anonymised and aggregated unless you've given specific, separate consent for something more identifiable, such as a photograph, film or written case study.

We don't sell personal data, and we don't share it for third-party advertising.

6. Transfers outside the UK

Youform hosts form data within the European Union. The UK Government has decided the EU provides an adequate level of data protection, so no additional safeguards are needed for those transfers.

Squarespace is a United States company and processes some data there. Where personal data leaves the UK for a country without a UK adequacy decision, we rely on the International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, alongside the provider's own technical safeguards. You can ask us for details of the arrangements in place for any particular provider.

7. How long we keep it

Enquiries that don't lead to work: 12 months from last contact

Unsuccessful programme applications: 6 months from the selection decision

Participant records: as set out in the programme privacy notice, usually 6 years, to meet funding audit requirements

Consent records for photography, film and case studies: for as long as the material is in use, plus 12 months

Accounting records: 6 years plus the current financial year

Website analytics: in line with Squarespace's own retention periods

8. Cookies

Essential cookies keep the site working - for example, remembering that you've responded to our cookie banner. These don't need your consent.

Analytics cookies, set by Squarespace, tell us how many people visit and which pages they read. These are only set if you accept them through our cookie banner. You can change your mind at any time using the cookie settings on our site, or by clearing cookies in your browser.

Youform doesn't use cookie tracking on our application forms.

9. Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have the right to:

Ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you

Have inaccurate data corrected

Ask us to delete data where we no longer have a good reason to keep it

Object to, or ask us to restrict, our use of your data

Ask us to transfer your data to you or to another organisation, where you provided it and we rely on consent or contract

Withdraw consent, where consent is our basis

Not be subject to decisions made purely by automated means - we don't make any such decisions

To exercise any of these, email hello@studioselfmade.com. We respond within one month, and there's no charge in ordinary cases.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, please tell us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113.

10. Children

Our website and services are intended for adults. Our programmes are for people aged 18 and over, and we don't knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18 through this website. If you believe we hold data about a child, contact us and we'll delete it.

11. Security

We use reputable providers with appropriate technical and organisational safeguards. Access to personal data is restricted to Emma Redfern and Graeme Tidd, our accounts use multi-factor authentication, and we don't store personal data on unencrypted portable devices.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The current version is always on this page, with the date it was last changed at the top. Where a change materially affects how we use data you've already given us, we'll tell you directly where we reasonably can.

13. Company and regulator details

Studio Self-Made is a trading name of Redfern Studios Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales.

Company number: 14885450

Registered office: 12 Fore Street, Chudleigh, Newton Abbot, Devon, England, TQ13 0HX

ICO registration number: ZC209267

Contact for all matters, including data protection: hello@studioselfmade.com