The Cullercoats Sunrise Mosaic fully respects the privacy of all who visit and contribute to our website (especially children).
All submissions to the Mosaic are carefully monitored by our editors. Contributions are not automatically posted to the website: every one passes through an editing stage before it is okayed. We reserve the right to refuse to publish work submitted if it does not meet the requirements, and we may edit submitted material for sense.
Therefore it may take a couple of days for your contribution to reach the website.
Before we publish anything on the website we will remove any unecessary identifying personal information. We strongly recommend that you submit only the minimum required information to any website including our own.
Copyright: Contributors retain the copyright of their submissions. Contributors assign rights to Cullercoats Sunrise Mosaic and Ebb and Flow to publish their work on the website and in any associated zine, poster, flyer or read-aloud session.
Information and writing submitted to Cullercoats Sunrise Mosaic is used only for the purposes of creating and maintaining the website and associated creative resources. We do not share email addresses with any other organisation or company. If you submit your email address it is used only for the purposes of telling you (1) your contribution has been accepted or (2) for any updates to the site, to the Ebb and Flow festival or copyright requests which affect your writing.
This site, Cullercoats Sunrise Mosaic is owned by Helen Whitehead, a resident, on behalf of the community of Cullercoats.
All of our web pages use "cookies". A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we place on your computer or mobile device if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and enables us to improve our website.
Types of cookies we use
We use the following types of cookies:
strictly necessary cookies - these are essential in to enable you to move around the websites and use their features. Without these cookies the services you have asked for, such as submitting a piece of writing, cannot be provided.
performance cookies - these cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often. We use this information to improve our websites and to aid us in investigating problems raised by visitors. These cookies do not collect information that identifies an individual visitor.
functionality cookies - these cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide more personal features. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. We do not retain these once you have left the website.
We DO NOT use advertising cookies, allow advertising on the website other than our non-commercial sponsors, or pass information on to anyone else without your permission.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
We encourage children to submit their own work, text or images. Submitted information is not used for any form of marketing or solicitation. We do not sell or otherwise share any information about site visitors with any other third parties, organizations, companies, groups, or individuals, other than providing general, non-personally identifiable information as described below. We collect via server log files certain statistical information about the users of our site: this does NOT identify individual users.
If you would like your child to submit an item, please submit it together with them and confirm with your own name and email address. It is OK for the child to use a nickname or pseudonym for this purpose.
Information about the browser you are using makes it possible to plan the site in innovative and interesting ways so as to take advantage of the available technology. If we know that most users access the site on desktop computers rather than mobile devices then we are able to use more advanced Web technologies to improve the content of the site and its interest for you.
Statistics help us promote our free website and other resources, and it gives us statistics on numbers and locations of users which are very important for a venture that is dependent on grants and sponsorship.
We retain online contact information in our records only to protect submitters’ safety and to protect the security or liability of our site or to respond to law enforcement, if necessary.
Please do not hesitate to contact us (sunrise@newmediawriting.com) with any questions, comments, or concerns.

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