Discoveries: Privacy Policy
OVERVIEW
CURTIS BROWN CREATIVE LTD (company no.: 08880058) of 167-169 Great Portland Street, Fifth Floor, London, England, W1W 5PF (“we”, “our”, “us”) manages and administers this website.
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1988 (as amended) and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, we are the “data controller” in respect of the Personal Data (as defined below) submitted by you when you visit our website discoveries.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk (the “Website”). In this privacy policy, “Group Company” means us, our subsidiaries or holding companies from time to time and any subsidiary of any holding company from time to time (as subsidiary and holding company are defined in s.1159 Companies Act 2006).
This privacy policy sets out the fair and lawful basis upon which we collect and process personal data. This privacy policy was last updated in September 2026.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT?
When you visit our Website, we may ask you to provide or otherwise collect the following information about you and your interests (“Personal Data”):
Personal Data Category: Personal Data
Contact Information: Your name, telephone number, address, email address.
Submission Information: Your competition submission, manuscript synopsis, previous publication experience, previous writing awards/prizes, writing inspiration/experience.
Personal Information: As voluntarily provided by you: age, race or ethnicity, geographical location, health and socioeconomic status.
Technical Information: Details of specific content and or pages you visit on our Website (including duration of visits), technical information including the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, device(s) you use to access our Website and your geographical location.
HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA
We receive information including Personal Data about you in three ways: (i) you may provide us information; (ii) we may collect information about you in the course of your visiting our Website; and (iii) third parties may provide us information about you where you have given them consent to do so.
WHY WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA
Information you give us.
This is information about you, including under any or all of the above Personal Data Categories, that you give us by filling in forms on the Website or by entering competitions, promotions or completing surveys or corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise.
We use this information because you have asked us to do something/provide you with information, because it is otherwise necessary in relation to a competition that you are entering into with us, for equality purposes, or for the other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
This includes:
where you submit Contact Information and have (i) entered a competition which requires such information in order for the initiative to be operated and/or (ii) subscribed to a mailing list to receive a newsletter, updates or other information about us and/or our competition partners;
where you submit Submission Information in order for us to review your competition submission; and
where you voluntarily submit Personal Information for the purposes of enabling us to identify or keep under review the existence or absence of equality of opportunity or treatment between groups of people in relation to a specific category (e.g. ethnicity) with a view to enabling such equality to be promoted or maintained with regards to marketing of a competition. Any Personal Information voluntarily submitted by you will be anonymised before if it used for such purposes.
Information we collect about you.
We also use cookies (which are small text files stored in your browser) and cookie-like software. These collect information that tell us how you use our Website as well as providing other Technical Information. This helps us make our Website relevant to your interests and needs. We may use a persistent cookie (a cookie that stays linked to your browser) to record your details so we can recognise you if you visit the Website again. You can choose to refuse cookies or set your browser to let you know each time a website tries to set a cookie.
If you use our Website we understand that to mean that you consent to our use and placement of cookies for the purposes of collecting and processing Technical Information in the manner described below:
Cookie
Purpose
How Long Your Data Is Stored
Facebook/Meta pixel
To show you adverts we think you will be interested in when you are using Facebook/Meta based on the information you view on our Website.
Thirty (30) days
To show you adverts we think you will be interested in when you are using Google products based on the information you view on our Website.
Thirty (30) days
Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our Website correctly, or at all.
WHEN IS PERSONAL DATA SHARED WITH THIRD PARTIES?
We may share Personal Data about you with the following service providers who we engage to process such Personal Data for the purposes described herein.
Type of third-party service provider: Name(s) of service provider
The Personal Data that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area including but not limited to the USA. By submitting your Personal Data to us you agree to this transfer, storage or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary and available to us to safeguard and ensure that your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with applicable laws.
We may also share Personal Data about you if we are required to do so in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect our legal rights (or those of our clients).
KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL DATA SECURE
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality and an obligation to process in accordance with applicable law. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available upon request, and also as set out above. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
YOUR RIGHTS
Under certain conditions, you have the right to ask us to fulfil one or more of the following requests:
We may ask you for proof of identity or other additional information before doing so.
You or your authorised agent can submit a data protection rights request and we will assess any request to exercise these rights on a case-by-case basis. You have the right to access to and rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing concerning the data subject or to object to processing as well as the right to data portability.
To exercise these rights, please email help@curtisbrowncreative.co.uk, with details of your request. If submitting a subject access request by email, please ensure that you specify the type of request in the subject line of your email. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity. This is an appropriate security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
Please note that some rights are not absolute, and there may be circumstances in which we are not legally required to comply with a request because of relevant exemptions provided for in applicable data protection legislation or are unable to comply due to data protection legislation.
If you have any concerns about how we have handled your personal data, you have the right to make a data protection complaint to us. You can submit a complaint by emailing at help@curtisbrowncreative.co.uk with the following details: (1) your name and contact details (your full name; your contact email address); (2) the details of your complaint and what you think has gone wrong; (3) the relevant dates and any supporting documents; and (4) your desired outcome. We will: acknowledge your complaint within 30 days of receipt; and investigate and respond without undue delay, keeping you informed of progress and providing you with an outcome. If after this process you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Contact details for the ICO can be found on its website at https://ico.org.uk.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE
We reserve the right to change this privacy notice at any time. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal data, we will notify you in accordance with applicable law. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of this page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Your continued use of our services constitutes your acceptance of any amendment of this privacy policy. If you reject any amendments to this privacy policy, we may still hold your personal data on file, to adhere to applicable law.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this about this Privacy Notice, want to exercise your rights, or you have complaints relating to our processing of your Personal Data, you should contact us by emailing at help@curtisbrowncreative.co.uk.