policieS and Documents
/ Privacy Policy
This privacy policy explains how Deveron Projects collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit this website.
What personal information do we collect?
We collect the following personal information from you when you visit our website:
- Your IP address
- The type of browser you are using
- The pages you visit on our website
- The date and time of your visit
We may also collect personal information from you if you choose to register for an account on our website, contact us, or make a purchase. This information may include your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number.
How do we use your personal information?
We use your personal information to improve the user experience on our website and to provide you with relevant content and services. We may also use your personal information to contact you about our products and services, or to send you marketing communications.
How do we share your personal information?
We do not share your personal information with any third parties without your consent. However, we may share your personal information with our service providers, such as our web hosting provider or email marketing provider.
How do we protect your personal information?
We use a variety of security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These measures include:
- Encrypting your personal information
- Using firewalls and intrusion detection systems
- Limiting access to your personal information to authorized employee
Your choices
You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. You also have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications from us. To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@deveron-projects.com.
Changes to this privacy policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. If we make any changes, we will post the updated privacy policy on our website.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at info@deveron-projects.com.
You can read our full Data Protection Policy here.
/ Child Protection and Vulnerable Adult Policy
Deveron Projects endeavours to involve children and vulnerable adults in creative activity as a means of inspiring people and increasing their confidence towards a stronger sense of self by adhering to the following:
- The best interests of children and vulnerable adults will always be a primary consideration
- All children and vulnerable adults will be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect and exploitation
- All children, young people and vulnerable adults will have the right to express their views on matters that affect them
- Everyone will be made aware of procedures for discipline
- Symptoms of child or vulnerable adult abuse
- How you might learn of a child, young person or vulnerable adult suffering from harm or being at risk of suffering from harm
- How to respond to a child or vulnerable adult who has told you they have been harmed or are being harmed
- If a child or vulnerable adult makes an allegation against a staff member or volunteer
/ Photography & Documentation Policy
Deveron Projects aims to document all stages of a project and the involvement of participants, in any events or workshops, which can be used for reporting to funding bodies, marketing, the website, social media or any other appropriate use. Documentation includes photography, videos, sound recordings and other media. These are stored securely in a digital database in line with our Privacy Policy (see above).
Our Photography & Documentation Policy outlines the risks involved and the steps we take to mitigate these risks. These steps include:
- our use of photography/media
- employing a photographer/other practitioner to document an event
- guidelines for photography/documentation
/ Climate Emergency Policy
The current climate emergency makes it essential that we take immediate action. The purpose of this policy is to define Deveron Projects’ environmental objectives and confirm these as central to the organisation’s work. It outlines the concepts and frameworks underpinning our approach, details our seven environmental commitments, alongside an overview of the actions taken to date and our next steps. This policy also includes our Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP), setting out a detailed list of measurable actions, including target dates and listing the personnel responsible.
Our seven environmental commitments are:
- Monitor: Improve carbon data collection and monitoring to enable informed reduction of emissions in line with our net zero trajectory.
- Escalate: Escalate priority of environmental objectives across organisation, ensuring team is equipped with skills and experience to achieve objectives.
- Strategise: Develop strategy and explore tension between internationalism, rurality and environmental impact of travel.
- Justice: Embed environmental justice principles across organisation (programme, operations, buildings)
- Adapt/Survive: Develop capabilities and plan for climate adaptation/survival
- Communicate: Develop communications for climate emergency actions to support communities’ action and response
- Mobilise: Expand and mobilise existing actions from previous Environment Policy (2018)
/ Access, Equity and Justice Policy (EDI)
Deveron Projects’ vision is for a world where art is a part of everyday rural life, where the power of art to build communities is realised and the work of artists is valued. This policy maps the next stage of our journey towards this vision. It pays attention to all aspects of our organisation and its work, aiming to site access, equity and justice as intentions for everyday practice and long-term strategy.
The policy establishes the following commitments:
- Produce a rigorous, collaborative and responsive programme that offers multiple forms of engagement, participation and decision-making in art making, with people who are underrepresented in Huntly and the arts.
- Implement a values-led communications strategy that meets the needs of our communities and breaks down barriers to/within our programme.
- Enhance inclusive recruitment and Fair Work practices across the organisation (board, staff, artists, collaborators). Increase the diversity of lived experience and identity across DP’s communities and promote a safer working culture for those who experience barriers to the arts.
- Develop experimental and flexible administrative and monitoring systems that enable us to enact our values and achieve our ambition.
- Improve the accessibility of our residencies, events and buildings. Communicate this accessibility publicly.
- Nurture relationships in the long-term with community members, artists and partners, to share and develop collective learning related to EDI.
- Ensure climate justice is embedded in climate emergency planning.
- Support, contribute to, and learn from sector wide partnerships and initiatives focused on building equitable practice in the arts.
/ Fair Work Policy
Deveron Projects aims to be a fair organisation to work for and a fair organisation to work with.
We embed and aim to expand Fair Work practices across our work, going beyond minimum requirements and fair work guidelines in line with our values of rigour, collaboration, community and solidarity. This is an active area of work, being developed and accounted for in line with our Fair Work Action Plan.
We aim to support the Fair Work Conventions’ Fair Work Framework in the following ways:
- Effective voice
2. Transparent communication between organisation, artists and local communities. We aim perspectives. Promotion and Artist Union and utilising their recommended rates of pay for artists and freelancers.
3. Promotion and awareness of staff legal rights on union membership. Recognising Scottish Artist Union and utilising their recommended rates of pay for artists and freelancers.
- Opportunity
1. Developing fair and inclusive recruitment and opportunities for:
a. Participation in organisational governance
b. Employment at Deveron Projects
c. Artist and community opportunities
2. Investing in training and development for the team and board, sharing this resource with the wider community
3. Creating alternative, paid training and development opportunities for local young people who have little access to arts training / experience
4. Creating routes for progression and development within organisation and programme where appropriate and possible for our team, board, the artists and community members we work with.
- Security
- Fulfilment
1. Job design and organisational culture to offer fulfilment at work.
2. All communities (staff, board, volunteers, artists, collaborators, audiences) to be supported to undertake their roles or engage with our work in safe(r) and accessible conditions.
- Respect
1. Ensuring communities across the organisation (staff, board, volunteers, artists, collaborators) are equipped to work effectively and comfortably.
2. Organisational culture is transparent, collaborative, respectful and kind.
3. Navigating and mediating conflict or disagreement by appropriate person, aiming for constructive outcomes.
4. Promoting understanding that everyone is a person with complex identities, lives, commitments and lived experiences.
You can read the full Fair Work Statement here and the full Fair Work Policy & Action Plan here
