Privacy policy

Privacy

Searching a surname doesn't create an account or require you to identify yourself. When you place an order, we hold what's needed to fulfil it (name, delivery address, phone, email, and your design) and share your delivery details with our print partner, Prodigi. Digital downloads are emailed via Resend. Checkout and payment are handled by Shopify under their own privacy policy.

The 1901/1911 census records themselves describe people who died decades ago; that's historical public record, not personal data about a living person.

Abandoned orders are deleted after 35 days; contact messages and shared design links after 12 months; completed order records are kept 6 years for sales-record purposes. Email hello@census2art.com to see what we hold or have it deleted sooner, or to complain about how it's handled.

Cookies

Most cookies here just make the site work, and are set whatever you choose: a cart id, sign-in (if you use "Sign in with Shop"), and your currency preference. We also measure page views and speed (Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights) and collect crash reports (Sentry), all of it aggregate and none of it identifying you.

Two things need your permission, which is what the banner asks for. If you accept, Shopify's analytics sets a cookie that recognises your browser across visits, so we can see how many people come to the site and which pages lead to an order. The Meta Pixel (Facebook and Instagram) also records your visit, when you open the designer and when you add a print to your cart, so we can measure which of our ads work and show them to people likely to be interested. Meta handles that data under its own privacy policy. We don't sell any of it. Choose "Essential only" and neither is set, and nothing about the site changes.

You can change your answer at any time on census2art.com/legal.