The Culture Collective website is owned by Creative Scotland, and managed by Culture Collective.

Creative Scotland is a public body established by the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 with offices at The Lighthouse, Mitchell Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU, and Waverley Gate 2-4 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EG.

Using our website

The Culture Collective website is maintained for your personal use and viewing. Please read these conditions of use carefully. Accessing and using this website constitutes acceptance by you of these conditions. We reserve the right to change the conditions of use at any time.

Disclaimer

Culture Collective will take every care and precaution to ensure that the contents and information it publishes is accurate and up-to-date. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of contents or information contained in its pages and any person using information contained in them does so entirely at their own risk.

Please be advised that you should verify the accuracy of any information before acting upon it. Culture Collective also reserves the right to change information at any time without notice.

Applicable law

The laws of Scotland govern these conditions of use and you agree that the Scottish courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in any dispute.

Any personal information collected through this website will be treated as confidential in line with data protection laws. For more information on how we handle and use your personal information, please read the Creative Scotland Privacy Notice.

Copyright and neighbouring rights

The copyright for the artwork, writing and photography on this site remains with the organisations, artists, writers and photographers as credited.

The material featured on this site is subject to Crown copyright protection unless otherwise indicated.

The Crown copyright protected material (other than departmental logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for research, private study, web-based discussion, or for internal circulation within an organisation. This is subject to the material being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context.

Where any of the Crown copyright items on this site are being republished or copied to others, the source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged.

The permission to reproduce Crown protected material does not extend to any material on this site which is identified as being the copyright of a third party. For further information on Crown copyright policy and licensing arrangements, see the guidance at www.opsi.gov.uk

The copying and use of the Culture Collective logo is not permitted without prior approval of the Culture Collective organisers.

Virus protection

The site operators make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for users to run an antivirus program on all material downloaded from the internet. Culture Collective cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material from this website.

Links to and from other websites

Culture Collective is not responsible for the contents or reliability of the external websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Links to external sites should not be taken as endorsement of any kind.

Culture Collective encourages users to establish hypertext links to the site. You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on the website.

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You can control which cookies are stored by clicking on the cookie control at the bottom right hand of the page.

You can find out more about our use of Cookies by visiting Creative Scotland’s Privacy Policy page.

Social Media

You can find us on social media on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Contacting us on Social Media

We are keen to engage with followers on these sites. We will try to reply where possible and appropriate, although our responses to replies, comments and direct messages will depend on the nature of the enquiry and the service used. If your enquiry is urgent or requires a direct response, please don’t rely on social media alone – see our main Contact page. Even if we cannot reply on social media, we are listening and will act on or pass on comments and feedback.

In order to protect our users, we will remove or report any contributions that break the rules of the relevant community, or which are not in line with the following general guidelines:

  • Be civil, tasteful and relevant.
  • Do not post messages that are unlawful, libellous, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented or racially offensive.
  • Do not swear.
  • Do not post content copied from elsewhere, for which you do not own the copyright.
  • Do not post the same message, or very similar messages, more than once.
  • Do not publicise your, or anyone else’s, personal information, such as contact details.
  • Do not advertise products or services (unless directly relevant to the community).
  • Do not impersonate someone else.