Last updated: November 2026
Animal Advocacy Studio ("we," "us," or "the Studio") provides a campaign workspace for animal welfare and climate organizations. This policy explains what information we collect through this website, why we collect it, and how it's handled. It also explains how we handle information about people we research on behalf of partner organizations.
When you submit the request-access form or the contact form, we collect the information you provide directly: your name, email address, organization name, organization focus, and any message or campaign details you choose to share. We collect this information only through these forms, and we do not use cookies or trackers to profile visitors to this site.
We use the information you submit to evaluate access requests, respond to questions and partnership or press enquiries, and to set up and support accounts for approved organizations. We do not sell or rent this information to third parties, and we do not use it for advertising.
We retain submitted information for as long as needed to respond to your request or maintain your organization's account, and delete it when it's no longer needed for either purpose. Deleted information may remain in our encrypted backups until they expire, at most 35 days later, and is not used in the meantime.
You can ask us what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, at any time.
A partner organization is a non-profit whose request for access we have approved. In most cases, our team runs the research and supports the partner's campaign as a managed service; some partners use the Studio themselves through their own account. Either way, at the partner's request, we research people in public roles whose decisions affect that partner's campaign, such as elected representatives, public officials and the leaders of companies and institutions. We use only publicly available sources, and we record only what relates to the person's public role: their position, public statements and decisions, and official contact routes. We do not collect private contact details, home addresses, or information about health, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, family or private life.
From this research, the Studio uses AI to generate assessments of how a person might respond to a campaign, for example to a particular argument or request. These assessments are predictions, not facts about the person, and they are personal data. They are covered by the partner's brief, kept and deleted with the rest of the research, and used only to help the partner prepare its campaign. Assessments are reviewed by a person on our team or at the partner, and are never used on their own to make decisions about the person. The rights described below apply to them too.
For this research, the partner organization is the controller. It sets out in a research brief who is researched, for what purpose, what information is collected and how long it is kept. We act as its processor: we process the information only on the partner's instructions and for no purpose of our own. Each partner's research is kept separate and is never shared with or reused for another partner. The partner's own privacy policy explains how it uses this information.
We keep research information, including assessments, for the period set in the partner's brief, counted from the day the partner's campaign ends, and then delete it. The partner may receive a copy before it is deleted. Access is limited to the members of our team who work on the partner's campaign and, where the partner has its own account, the partner's authorized users. Deleted information may remain in our encrypted backups until they expire, at most 35 days later, and is not used in the meantime.
We use these service providers, all run by Microsoft:
For hosting and AI, Microsoft processes information only to provide these services to us, under a contract that requires it to protect it, including when information is processed outside the European Union.
If you think you have been researched on behalf of a partner organization, you can ask to access, correct or delete information held about you, or object to its use. Some people are researched but never contacted, so you may not know which organization it was. Write to us at the address below: we will check whether any partner's research includes you, forward your request to that partner without delay, and help it respond. If you know the organization, you can also contact it directly.
Questions about this policy or your data can be sent to info@animaladvocacystudio.org. See also our Terms & Conditions.