Last updated: May 2026
Creative Recess is a community guide to creative workshops in the Philadelphia region. This page explains what information we collect when you visit the site, and what we do with it. We'll keep it plain.
Analytics. We use two privacy-respecting analytics tools to understand how people find and use the site. Umami is cookieless and stores no personal data, no IP addresses, and no cross-site tracking; it tells us which pages are visited and roughly where visitors come from. We also use Google Analytics (GA4) during a transition period; GA4 sets cookies in your browser, and you can opt out using Google's opt-out tool. In addition, we log a small set of anonymous events (newsletter signups, save clicks, outbound clicks, searches, and filter use) to our own Supabase database so we can understand which content is useful. These events do not include personal information.
Newsletter signups. If you sign up for the Creative Recess newsletter, we collect your email address. We use it to send you the newsletter, nothing else. We use MailerLite to manage subscriptions. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link in any email we send. We do not sell or share your email address.
Contact form. If you send us a message via the contact form, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message. We use it only to respond to you. Messages are processed by Formspree.
Save button. When you save a workshop, that preference is stored in your browser's local storage and an anonymous count is sent to our server. We track how many people have saved each workshop, but not who. No account or personal information is required or collected.
The only cookies set on this site come from Google Analytics during the current transition period. Umami is cookieless, and our own event logging does not use cookies. We don't use advertising cookies or sell data to advertisers. If you'd prefer not to be tracked by Google Analytics, you can disable cookies in your browser settings or use the Google Analytics opt-out linked above.
Creative Recess links to venue websites and workshop registration pages. Once you leave our site, their privacy policies apply — not ours. We don't control what those sites collect.
If you're a California resident, you have rights under the CCPA, including the right to know what personal information we've collected and to request deletion. Since we collect very little (just your email if you signed up, or a contact message), this is straightforward. Get in touch with any requests.
Questions? Get in touch.