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Privacy notice
What we collect when you use this website or contact us, why, and what you can ask us to do with it.
Who we are
This website is run by Variance. If you have a question about this notice or your information, email hello@variance.agency.
What we collect
When you browse the site. We don’t use advertising or analytics cookies, and we don’t track you across other websites. Like every website, the servers that deliver these pages keep short-lived technical logs (such as the address of the page requested and the time), which are used to keep the site running and secure.
Two small preferences. The site remembers two things on your own device, using your browser’s storage rather than cookies: whether you switched the sound on, and that you’ve already seen the opening animation during this visit. They never leave your browser, and clearing your browser’s site data removes them.
When you contact us. If you use the contact form or email us, we receive what you send: your name, your email address, the name of your organisation if you give it, what you need, any date you mention, and your message. The form sends this to our inbox by email. To keep spam out, it briefly checks how many messages have come from the same connection in the last hour, using a one-way scrambled code that isn’t stored.
Why we use it
We use your contact details to reply to your enquiry, to discuss and prepare a proposal if you ask for one, and to keep a record of what was agreed. We don’t sell your information, and we don’t add you to marketing lists unless you ask us to.
Who else handles it
We use a small number of providers to run the site and our email: a hosting provider, an email delivery provider that carries messages from the contact form to our inbox, and our email provider. They process information only to provide those services to us.
How long we keep it
We keep enquiries for as long as we need them to respond and follow up. If we don’t go on to work together, you can ask us to delete your enquiry at any time.
Your choices
You can ask us to show you the information we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it. Email hello@variance.agency and we’ll do it.
Changes to this notice
If we change how we handle information, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.