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Wester Hailes Arts for Leisure and Education

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WHALE Arts Agency is committed to protecting your privacy. This site allows you to send us information for the purpose of contacting us with regard to our services. By submitting your details to us you elect to receive communications from us.

Our web server automatically collects and stores information about your visit for statistical purposes. This includes your IP address, service provider, browser type, domain names of referring websites, operating system, pages accessed on our website, and the date and time of your access among other information. This information does not identify you personally.

This site uses first party cookies to record

  • the precise time of a visit to the site;
  • the precise web pages that were viewed and the websites visited before and after the visit this site;
  • to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use this site to
  • help us to improve the operation of this site;

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You have a number of legal rights to control what we do with your information. You can request a copy of the information we hold about you.  You can ask us to correct or update information that is wrong.  You can request that we stop using your data or delete your data, in which cases we will cease to contact you.

Unless you have told us not to, we will send you information relating to our services, programmes and news that we think will be of interest and relevant to you. Communication may be by email, , social media app or by post. If you change your mind and no longer want to receive these communications you can tell us at any time. We will not share your information with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

We keep your information confidential. We use third party systems certified by the US -EU Privacy Shield Framework to manage and hold information, including Mailchimp. We will not share your information with third parties, unless we are required to do so for legal or regulatory purposes.

We occasionally commission a photographer to take images of projects and events at WHALE Arts.  These images are used on our web site, on social media and in print to promote and document our activities.  We make every effort to ensure that the subject(s) of the photograph(s) (or a parent/carer) grant permission for their image to be used, through registration forms and event registration consents.  If you wish your image not to be used or removed from our promotional material you can tell us at any time.

WHALE Arts is …

... the cultural anchor organisation for Wester Hailes. We are a community-led arts charity and social enterprise, set up by local people in 1992. Our mission is to be the creative heart of a vibrant, thriving community.

WHALE Arts

30 Westburn Grove,
Edinburgh,
EH14 2SA
0131 458 3267
info@whalearts.co.uk

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WHALE Arts to become one of Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Funded Organisations 

WHALE Arts has been successful in its application to Creative Scotland for Multi-Year Funding for 2025-28. We will be joining the MYF Portfolio for the first time, which this time has seen 251 organisations across the country awarded funding. WHALE Arts CEO Kate Griffin said: Congratulations to our partners who also received funding! Starcatchers, Sistema […]

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