Privacy & data practices
A plain description of what Canvas & Skin actually does — not a legal compliance claim.
What this page covers
This describes Canvas & Skin's actual current behavior — not a legal compliance claim, not a certification, and not reviewed by an attorney. If anything below is unclear or seems wrong, use the correction contact at the bottom of this page.
Browsing the directory itself
No account or personal information is required to browse artists, studios, galleries, regions, programs, or guides. Canvas & Skin runs no advertising tracker, marketing cookie, or cross-site profiling of any kind.
Aggregate visitor analytics
As of 2026-08-25, Canvas & Skin uses Vercel Web Analytics — run by our hosting provider, Vercel, not a third-party ad or tracking company — to see aggregate traffic patterns (which pages get visited, on roughly what kind of device). It uses no cookies and no persistent identifier capable of tracking you across other websites: visitors are identified only by a temporary hash derived from each request, which Vercel discards after 24 hours. What's recorded (page address, referring site, approximate device/browser type, and a city-level location derived from your network connection — never precise or GPS-level) is aggregated statistics, never tied back to you individually or to your IP address. A small number of page addresses that could otherwise carry a search term or a personal reference code (from search, a claim, or a correction lookup) have that part of the address removed before anything is sent. This directory's own separate, internal product-usage instrumentation — which pages, filters, and buttons get used — has never sent data anywhere; it stays entirely in your own browser session and is never connected to what Vercel Web Analytics separately collects. See Vercel's own Web Analytics privacy documentation for their complete data-handling description.
Theme preference
If you switch between light and dark mode, that single choice is saved in your browser's own local storage (never sent to us, never a cookie) so it's remembered on your next visit to this device.
This deployment: directory-only
This deployment of Canvas & Skin is running in directory-only mode. It has no application database and no private object storage of any kind — every public page you can see (artists, studios, galleries, regions, programs, guides) is built from content compiled directly into the application, not read from a database at request time. “Let us build your profile,” reviewer accounts, and every related workflow described in some versions of this page simply don't exist as reachable features here — those routes return a real, honest “not found,” the same as any other nonexistent page.
Requesting a correction, submitting a manual profile, or claiming a profile (/corrections, /submit, /claim)
These forms ask for your name, an optional contact method, and whatever correction/profile/claim details you provide. None of the three has a server, a database, or any persistence behind it, in any deployment of this site. “Submitting” one instead prepares a real email — addressed to empowerailabs@gmail.com — from what you typed, using a plain mailto: link your own browser hands off to your own email application. This website never sees, stores, or transmits that message itself; you review it and choose whether to actually send it, using your own email provider. If your email application opens, that only means it opened — nothing is submitted to anyone until you send it yourself.
Hosting and operational logs
Like any website, Canvas & Skin's hosting platform (Vercel) may process ordinary request information — your IP address, browser/device details, the page requested, response time — to serve pages, maintain security, and diagnose operational problems. This is standard web-hosting infrastructure behavior, not an application-level analytics or tracking system this project built or controls, and it's separate from anything described elsewhere on this page.
Correction, removal, or a question about any of this
Found outdated information, an incorrect affiliation or a broken source? Email Empower AI Labs with the page URL and the correction you recommend. empowerailabs@gmail.com, or use the corrections form. An already-published artist or studio can also request removal at any time — see our methodology.