Last updated October 2026.
Bloomsbury Pulse is a student-run listings board for early-careers creative opportunities across the UK. We're responsible for the personal data described here. You can reach us at ayala@ayarma.com or via Instagram.
Newsletter sign-ups. Our newsletter is sent through Substack. When you subscribe on our site, your email address goes to Substack's sign-up, and we also save a copy with Netlify (Netlify Forms) and add it to our Substack subscriber list once a week, in case the sign-up on Substack isn't finished. If you subscribe on Substack directly, it goes straight there.
Reader survey. If you fill in our short survey, we collect the sectors you're interested in, your age range and your career stage. The survey ends with an optional email box. If you add your email, we subscribe you to the newsletter as above; we don't ask for your name.
Contact forms. If you send us a message through the contact form on our Contact or Hire with us page, we collect your name, email address, what you tell us in the message and, on the hiring form, your organisation. We use this only to reply to you. It's kept with Netlify (Netlify Forms) and forwarded to our inbox.
Apply clicks. When you tap “Apply externally” on a job, we note which job it was and when. If you then tell us whether you applied, we note your answer too. This is anonymous — it isn’t linked to your name, email or device — and helps us see which roles are actually useful.
Site visits. If you agree to analytics cookies, we use Google Analytics to see how people use the site — which pages are visited, roughly where visitors are (country or city, not your exact location), what device and browser they use, and how they found us. We only see this in aggregate; it doesn't tell us who you are.
That's it. We don't use advertising cookies, and we don't collect anything else about you.
We use your email to send you the Bloomsbury Pulse newsletter and occasional site updates. The newsletter is sent through Substack.
We use contact form messages only to reply to you.
We use survey answers to understand who reads Bloomsbury Pulse and what kinds of roles to look for.
We use Google Analytics data to see which pages and roles are useful, so we can improve the site.
We only use your data because you've chosen to give it to us (your consent), and you can withdraw that at any time. We never sell, share or pass your data to anyone else for marketing.
Newsletter subscribers are stored with Substack. Sign-ups and contact form messages made on our site are also kept with Netlify (Netlify Forms), and survey answers with Google (Google Sheets). Both may store data on servers outside the UK, including in the US, and protect it under their own privacy policies and standard data-transfer safeguards. We don't run our own servers.
We keep your email until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it. We keep survey answers for up to two years, then delete them. We keep contact form messages for up to two years, then delete them.
Some parts of the site are run by other services, which have their own privacy policies:
Job listings link out to employers' own websites, which have their own privacy policies.
We only use Google Analytics if you say yes. The first time you visit, we ask; until you accept, Google Analytics doesn't load and no analytics cookies are set. If you accept, Google Analytics sets cookies (named _ga and _ga_…) to count visits and tell new visitors from returning ones. They last up to two years.
You can change your mind at any time with Cookie settings (also in the footer of every page). Saying no removes the analytics cookies. You can also block them in your browser settings, or install Google's opt-out add-on.
The site also saves a few small notes in your browser — for example, whether you've already seen the survey or a pop-up — so it doesn't keep showing them. These never leave your device, and you can clear them in your browser settings at any time.
You can ask us to show you the data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or stop using it. Email ayala@ayarma.com or message us on Instagram and we'll sort it as soon as we can, within one month at most.
If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Bloomsbury Pulse is for students and young creatives. We don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 13; if you think we have, get in touch and we'll delete it.
If we make significant changes to this policy, we'll note it here with an updated date.
