Privacy policy — waiting list
Updated: September 30, 2026
Who we are
Castalio is a creative platform in the making, based in Quebec (Canada). This page only covers the founding members waiting list.
What we collect
Your email, your first or artist name (optional), your crafts, your city and country, your portfolio link (optional), the page language, your confirmation that you are 18 or older, the date and text of your consent, your referral code and, where applicable, your referrer’s, and the date you confirmed your address. If you write to us through the form: your email and your message. To block abuse we keep a non-reversible fingerprint of your IP address — never the address itself.
Why
To confirm the address is yours, invite you at opening, apply the founder offer and referrals, and prevent abusive sign-ups. Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
How long
Until Castalio opens, then at most 12 months if you do not create an account. A sign-up that is never confirmed is erased after 7 days, form messages after 12 months, the anti-abuse fingerprint after 30 days. You can delete everything yourself, immediately, including your messages, from your personal link (sent by email).
Where
The page and database are hosted by Cloudflare, whose servers are spread worldwide: your data may be processed outside Quebec and Canada, under Cloudflare’s contractual safeguards. Emails (confirmation, personal link) are sent by Resend, in the United States. Nothing is sold or shared for advertising.
Cookies
No advertising or analytics cookies. A single strictly necessary cookie remembers your language, only if you change it.
Your rights
Access, correction, deletion, withdrawal of consent: use your personal link or write to us through the form. You may also complain to the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec or to your country’s data protection authority.
Introduction emails
We write once to creative professionals (photographers, studios, agencies, schools, clubs) whose business email address is published, for example on their website or in OpenStreetMap, to introduce Castalio. We keep only that address, the public business name, its city, the source and the date sent, so we never write twice. Every message has an unsubscribe link: an unsubscribed address receives nothing more. Legal basis: legitimate interest in presenting a service related to your work; in Canada, a published address with no statement refusing messages. Deleted 12 months after sending, except the unsubscribe list, kept to respect your choice.
Contact
Through the “Contact us” form at the bottom of every page. Reply within 15 days at most.