COOKIE STATEMENT
Last updated September 2026
Blank Canvas uses essential cookies and similar technologies to operate and secure this website. With your permission, we may also use optional analytics and media technologies to understand how the website is used and to display embedded content. This statement explains what these technologies do, who provides them, how long they remain active and how you can control them.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website. Cookies can help websites operate, remember preferences and provide information about how a website is used. Similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, scripts and local storage, can perform comparable functions. In this statement, we refer to these collectively as ‘cookies’.
Types of cookies
We use essential cookies to make this website work. With your permission, we also use optional performance, analytics and advertising cookies, including cookies connected with embedded YouTube videos. You can accept, reject or manage optional cookies and change your choice at any time.
We group cookies according to their purpose:
• Essential cookies: These are necessary for the website to operate securely and provide services you request. They cannot be switched off through our cookie controls.
• Analytics cookies: These help us understand how people use the website so we can improve its content and performance. We will only use these without consent where all the conditions of the statistical-purposes exception are met. Otherwise, they remain disabled unless you accept them.
• Media and functionality cookies: These may be used to display embedded videos or other external content. They remain disabled unless you accept them.
• Marketing cookies: We do not currently intend to use cookies for personalised advertising. If this changes, we will update this statement and ask for consent before using them.
Cookies may also be described as first-party or third-party. First-party cookies are set through the Blank Canvas website. Third-party cookies are provided by another organisation whose service or content we have included on the website.
Your Cookie Choice
When you first visit our website, you can accept, reject or manage optional cookies. Optional cookies will not be used unless you accept them, except where a legal exception applies. If you do not make a choice, optional cookies will remain disabled.
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time by selecting ‘Cookie settings’ at the bottom of the website.
How do I change my cookie settings?
You can review or change your choices at any time by selecting ‘Cookie settings’ at the bottom of our website. Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of anything done before you withdrew it. You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings, although blocking essential cookies may affect how the website works.
Cookies used on this site
The table below lists the cookies and similar technologies identified during our most recent website audit. Cookie names and durations can occasionally be changed by the organisations providing them. We therefore review this table regularly.
Please view the link to view our cookie statement and the exact cookies used by www.blankcanvasyouth.com
The exact YouTube cookies used may vary according to the visitor’s Google account, browser settings and cookie choices. Further information is available in Google’s cookie information.
Third-party services and external websites
We are responsible for understanding and appropriately managing third-party technologies that we choose to include on our website. We identify relevant providers in the table above and explain the purposes for which their technologies are used.
Our website also contains links to external services, including social-media pages, our Brevo newsletter form and our Stewardship donation page. If you follow one of these links, you leave the Blank Canvas website and the external organisation may use its own cookies. You should read that organisation’s privacy and cookie information.
Our newsletter sign-up links take you to a form operated for us by Brevo. When you follow the link, you leave the Blank Canvas website. Brevo may use its own cookies and similar technologies on that website. Brevo also processes the information you submit so that we can manage our mailing list and send communications you have requested. Further information about our use of Brevo is provided in our Privacy Statement.
Young People’s Privacy
Our website is likely to be used by young people. We therefore aim to explain our use of cookies clearly and keep optional cookies disabled unless the visitor chooses to accept them. We do not use cookies to profile young people for advertising.
Changes to this statement
We review this statement and our website’s use of cookies regularly and whenever we add or change an online service. The date at the top shows when this statement was last updated.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this statement or how we use personal information, contact:
Blank Canvas
The Palace Hub, 28–29 Esplanade
Redcar
TS10 3AE
Email: info@blankcanvasyouth.com
Telephone: 07310 250352
Registered charity number: 1182185
Please also see our Privacy Statement