What we keep, and why

Art & Beyond is a salon and corporate art-curation platform where art, philosophy and psychology meet, run by Belmin Dumlu Savaskan. This page explains, in plain language, what we collect, why we collect it, and how it may be used — including in our work with companies and brands.

For any privacy question or request, write to us at belmin@art-beyond.com.

Joining the salon is free. We store your email address, a display name, your field and — if you choose to share it — a short bio. There is no password: you sign in through a link we email to you, which also verifies that the address is yours.

Your email address is never published and never shared with companies, brands or other members. You can sign out at any time, and you can ask us to delete your account whenever you like.

Responses you post to Sparks are published in the salon under your display name and field — they are the public, shared substance of Art & Beyond. Before you post, remember that anyone visiting the site can read what you write.

By posting a response, you allow Art & Beyond to quote it — always anonymously, never with your name or email — in the insight reports described below. If you would rather a specific response of yours never be quoted, write to us and we will exclude it.

Art you send through Art Therapy or Sustainable Art is shared only with the salon team, unless you later agree to have it shown. Saved Sparks, followed threads and your personal reading lists are stored privately, visible only to you.

As part of our corporate work, we prepare summary reports for companies and brands about the themes, perspectives and disciplines that appear in salon conversations.

These reports are fully anonymous. They contain aggregate numbers (how many perspectives, from which disciplines and cities) and selected quotations attributed only to a discipline and a city — for example, “an architect in Lisbon”. They never contain names, email addresses, profile details or anything that identifies an individual member.

Reports are prepared by our moderators and shared directly with the requesting company. Raw conversation data is never sold, rented or handed over.

We use what we hold for three purposes only: to run the salon (membership, publishing your responses, your personal lists), to keep the site working and secure, and to produce the anonymous insight reports described above.

We do not sell personal data, we do not run advertising trackers, and we do not profile individual members for marketing.

If you choose to support the salon, the payment is processed by Stripe, our payment provider. Your card details never reach us — they go directly to Stripe. We receive only your name, email address and the amount, so we can thank you and, for Supporters, set up your chair in the salon.

Like any website, our hosting keeps standard technical logs (for example, your browser type and the pages you visit) to keep the site working and secure. We also count anonymous visit steps (for example, how many visitors read a Spark) to understand how the salon is used — these counts carry no name or email.

We use a small number of providers to run the salon: Stripe for payments, and our hosting and email infrastructure for the site and its messages. Each processes data only as needed to provide its service.

You may ask us at any time to send you a copy of what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it. Write to belmin@art-beyond.com and we will take care of it. If you delete your account, your published Sparks may remain in the salon unless you ask us to remove them too.