Privacy Policy
Last updated: 10 August 2026
Joyful Noise is an independent personal photography project run by Nelson Calvinho in London, UK.
This policy explains what personal information may be collected when you visit this website or contact Joyful Noise, and how that information is used.
Website analytics
Joyful Noise uses Squarespace Analytics to understand how people find and use the site.
This may include information such as:
your browser, device and operating system
your IP address
your approximate geographic location
the website or page that referred you here
pages you visit on Joyful Noise
clicks, internal links and other interactions
the date and time of your visit
This information is used to understand site traffic, which photography people are viewing, how visitors find Joyful Noise, and how the site can be improved.
Squarespace’s Activity Log may also show individual visits, including IP address, approximate location, referrer and pages visited. Activity Log information is available to the site owner for up to seven days.
Cookies
This website uses necessary cookies that allow Squarespace to operate and securely deliver the site.
Optional analytics and performance cookies are used only in accordance with the choices you make through the cookie banner.
You can accept or decline optional cookies, manage individual cookie preferences, and change your preferences later using the cookie settings control on the site.
Squarespace provides the website hosting and analytics services used by Joyful Noise.
Contacting Joyful Noise
If you contact Joyful Noise by email, I will receive information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address and the contents of your message.
This information is used only to respond to you and deal with the reason you contacted me.
Email correspondence is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose of the conversation, unless there is a legitimate reason to retain it for longer.
People appearing in photographs
Joyful Noise is an archive of photographs taken primarily at live music events and performances.
If you appear in a photograph published on this site and have a privacy concern about its use, please contact hello@joyfulnoise.org.uk.
Why personal information is used
Where applicable, personal information is processed because it is necessary for the legitimate interests of operating, maintaining and improving Joyful Noise and creating and maintaining its photographic archive.
Where consent is required — for example, for optional cookies — information is processed on the basis of your consent. You can withdraw or change that consent at any time through the site's cookie preferences.
Sharing and processing of information
Joyful Noise does not sell visitors' personal information.
The website is hosted by Squarespace, which processes information required to provide the website, security and analytics services.
Squarespace and its service providers may process information outside the UK, including in the United States. Squarespace states that it uses appropriate data-protection safeguards for international transfers.
Information may also be processed by service providers used to operate Joyful Noise, such as email providers, where this is necessary to provide those services.
How long information is kept
Personal information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
Squarespace Activity Log data is available to Joyful Noise for up to seven days. Other analytics information may be retained for longer in aggregated or statistical form.
Your rights
Depending on the circumstances, UK data-protection law may give you rights relating to your personal information, including the rights to:
request access to personal information held about you
ask for inaccurate information to be corrected
ask for information to be deleted
restrict certain uses of your information
object to certain processing
withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
You have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests.
To make a request or raise a privacy concern, email hello@joyfulnoise.org.uk.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you believe your personal information has been handled unlawfully.
Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated if the website, the services it uses, or applicable privacy requirements change. The date at the top of this page will show when it was last updated.