Privacy
Written to meet the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (RA 10173).
Short version: this website has no accounts, no comments and no advertising trackers, and it does not count page views. The newsletter runs on Beehiiv, whose signup form is embedded on our subscribe page and whose attribution script loads across the site. Three Tally forms are embedded here too: the event submission form on our submit page, the partnership inquiry form on our advertise page, and the issue report form on our report page. If you join the mailing list you give Beehiiv an email address; if you submit an event you give Tally the event details and your email address; if you send a partnership inquiry you give Tally your contact and proposal details; if you report an issue you give Tally what is wrong, and an email address only if you choose to. Apart from that, the only thing this site records is an anonymous count when someone follows an event’s source link.
What we collect today
- Nothing of our own, when you read the site. No account, no login, no advertising cookies. We do not run page-view analytics and we do not count how many people looked at a listing.
- Your email address, if you subscribe to the newsletter. The signup form on our subscribe page is operated by Beehiiv — your address goes into Beehiiv’s system, which is where the mailing list lives. This website never receives or stores it.
- Signup attribution, through Beehiiv. Beehiiv’s attribution script loads on every page so that, if you do subscribe, they can tell us which page sent you. It is subject to Beehiiv’s own privacy policy.
- What you send when you submit an event. The submission form on our submit page is operated by Tally. What you type — the event details, the organizer, your email address, and a poster file if you attach one — goes into Tally’s system. From there it is copied into Airtable, which is where we read it and decide whether to list the event. This website never receives or stores it. Your address is used only to check details of that submission, and is never published.
- What you send when you make a partnership inquiry. The inquiry form on our advertise page is operated by Tally as well. It is for commercial and partnership proposals, and it is never a step in getting an event listed. What you type — your organization or your own name, a contact name, your email address, the kind of partnership, the event or campaign, your desired timing, an approximate budget bracket, your proposal details, and a phone number if you choose to give one — goes into Tally’s system, which is where we read it. This website never receives or stores it. The phone number and the budget bracket are optional. Your contact details are used only to follow up on that inquiry, and are never published.
- What you send when you report an issue. The report form on our report page is operated by Tally as well. What you type — a summary of the problem, the kind of issue, the details, the page it happened on, the event it concerns, a suggested correction, and a file if you attach one — goes into Tally’s system, which is where we read it. This website never receives or stores it. An email address is optional and is asked for only so we can come back to you about the report; it is never published, and you can send a report without giving one.
- Which page a report came from, if you followed a correction link. A “report an error” link carries the address of the page you were reading into the form, so you do not have to look it up and type it in. That address is a public StudioPinoy page you were already on. Nothing about you travels with it, nothing follows you around the site to work it out, and you can change or clear it in the form before you send.
- Anonymous source-link click counts. When someone follows an event’s source link, we record an aggregate click so we can eventually tell organizers that their listing received attention. These counts are not tied to a name, account, or email address.
- Ordinary technical request data. The company that hosts this website may process things like your IP address in order to deliver the pages to you. That is how any website works, and it is not something we collect or keep ourselves.
What we deliberately do not collect
We do not ask for your birthday or your home address, anywhere on this site. Reading the site, joining the mailing list and submitting an event ask for no phone number and no full legal name either, and neither does reporting an issue — a free event listing needs the event details and an email address, and a report needs even less than that. Collecting less is the simplest way to protect it.
The partnership inquiry form asks for a contact name and offers an optional phone number field so StudioPinoy can communicate about the inquiry. You can leave the phone number blank and send the inquiry anyway. Nothing on the free side of the site — reading it, subscribing, submitting an event, or reporting an issue — asks for either.
Consent
You only join the mailing list by asking to, and then confirming through a link Beehiiv emails you. Nobody receives the newsletter without doing both steps. Every email we send has a one-click unsubscribe.
The partnership inquiry form has a consent question of its own: a checkbox for being contacted by email or phone about that inquiry. It is optional, and leaving it blank does not stop you sending the form. If you leave the consent box unticked, StudioPinoy will not contact you by email or phone about the inquiry. Sending an inquiry never adds you to the mailing list.
The issue report form works the same way. Giving an email address is optional, and beside it is an optional checkbox for being contacted about the report. You can leave both blank and send the report anyway; if you do, StudioPinoy has no way to reply and will not try. Reporting an issue never adds you to the mailing list.
How long we keep things
If you do not confirm your subscription, your address remains in Beehiiv with a pending status and you will not receive the StudioPinoy newsletter. Beehiiv retains that record according to its retention practices, and you may contact StudioPinoy to request deletion. If you unsubscribe, we keep only the minimum needed to make sure we never email you again.
Event submissions are retained in Tally and copied into Airtable, so that we have a record of where a listing came from and can check it again later. We have not set a fixed deletion schedule for them and will not pretend otherwise. If you want yours removed, email us and we will delete it from both.
Partnership inquiries stay in Tally in the same way, so that we have a record of what was proposed. No fixed deletion schedule has been set for those either, and we will not invent one. If you want yours removed, email us and we will delete it.
Issue reports stay in Tally too, so that a correction can be traced back to whatever prompted it. Any file you attach stays there with it. No fixed deletion schedule has been set for those either. If you want yours removed, email us and we will delete it.
Who else sees your data
The mailing list is run by Beehiiv, the event submission form is run by Tally, event submissions are then copied into Airtable where we review them, the partnership inquiry form is run by Tally as well, the issue report form is run by Tally too, and the website is served by a hosting provider which processes technical request data such as IP addresses in order to deliver pages. They process data on our instructions only. We do not sell, rent, or trade your information to anyone, and we never will.
Beehiiv, Tally and Airtable hold that data on their own systems, under their own privacy policies. StudioPinoy does not store the information you submit in its own website database.
Your rights
Under RA 10173 you can ask to see what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted. Email studiopinoy@sicat.org and we will action it. You also have the right to complain to the National Privacy Commission at privacy.gov.ph.
Contact
Questions about any of this go to studiopinoy@sicat.org.