Privacy policy
1. Data controller
Espacio Valverde, a contemporary art gallery based in Madrid, Spain, represented by Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, is responsible for the personal data collected through this website and its associated internal tools. Contact: jacobo@espaciovalverde.com.
2. Data we process
Depending on how you interact with the gallery, we may process:
- Contact details you provide voluntarily, such as your name, email, phone number, company, artistic interests and messages.
- Approximate IP address, pages visited and visit date for technical and aggregate purposes.
- Data from the gallery's professional Instagram account, including its public identifier and profile, aggregate statistics, direct messages received and relevant public comments, for internal communication management.
- Professional correspondence, calendar information and contacts from Google Workspace and similar services.
3. Purposes
We process data to run the gallery: respond to enquiries, manage relationships with collectors and professionals, organize exhibitions and fairs, communicate about represented artists and analyse gallery activity internally. AI assisted tools help organize this information. We do not sell data to third parties or use it for advertising.
4. Legal basis
Processing is based on your express consent when you provide data through a form or contact channel, the gallery's legitimate interest in carrying out its professional activity and managing public relations, or the performance of a contract where a commercial relationship exists.
5. Recipients and processors
Data is not disclosed to third parties unrelated to gallery activity unless legally required. Under the relevant contractual safeguards, our processors include:
- Meta Platforms, Inc. — Instagram platform and API.
- Google LLC — corporate email, calendar and document storage.
- Anthropic PBC — AI processing of internal gallery data.
- OpenAI, L.L.C. — automatic transcription of voice notes.
- Hetzner Online GmbH — hosting of gallery services.
6. International transfers
Some providers listed above are outside the European Economic Area. Transfers rely on standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or equivalent mechanisms.
7. Retention
Data is retained while there is an active relationship with the gallery and afterwards for the periods required by applicable tax, commercial and anti money laundering law. Instagram data is deleted when it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was processed.
8. Your rights
You may request access, rectification, erasure, objection, restriction, portability or withdrawal of consent at any time by writing to jacobo@espaciovalverde.com. You may complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (www.aepd.es).
9. Deleting Instagram data
To request deletion of data collected through the Instagram API, email jacobo@espaciovalverde.com with the subject “Instagram data deletion”. The request will be handled within thirty days.
10. Newsletter
If you subscribe, we use your email address only to send news about our exhibitions and activities. The legal basis is your consent, which you confirm through the link in the double confirmation email.
You can withdraw consent and unsubscribe at any time using the link in each email. Mailchimp, a service of Intuit Inc., processes this data on our behalf; this involves an international transfer of data to the United States subject to the applicable contractual safeguards.
11. Updates
This policy may be updated to reflect legal or service changes. The current version is always published here with its last update date.