Last updated: July 2026
This Privacy Policy explains what personal information Banksy Explained collects, how it is used and protected, and the choices and rights available to you. Please read it together with our Terms and Conditions and our Disclaimer.
1. Who We Are
Banksy Explained is an independent editorial, educational, research and market intelligence platform. For legal, administrative and operational purposes — and as the controller responsible for personal information described in this Policy — the website is operated by Markowicz Fine Art LLC, a Florida limited liability company, doing business as Banksy Explained (“Banksy Explained”, “we”, “us” or “our”).
2. Our Approach
This website is a publication, not a commercial platform. You can browse it without an account, without logging in and without telling us who you are. We do not sell products through the site, we do not take payments, and we do not create user profiles.
We collect the minimum necessary, and we describe below exactly what that is.
3. Information You Provide
If you contact us through the enquiry form on our Services page, we collect the information you choose to enter: your name, your email address, your organisation (optional), your telephone number and the content of your message.
We use that information solely to read and respond to your enquiry, and to keep a record of the exchange. We do not use it for advertising and we do not pass it to third parties for their own marketing.
Please do not send confidential, sensitive or privileged information through the form unless a separate written relationship has been agreed in advance.
Where you submit either form, your submission is also recorded in our own private storage, hosted by Vercel, so that we can keep track of enquiries and subscriptions. That record contains only what you entered in the form; we do not store your IP address or any browser fingerprint alongside it. Access is restricted to the two people who operate this website.
Newsletter subscriptions
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we record your email address and the fact that you gave your consent, together with the date. We keep that record for as long as you remain subscribed. You may ask us to remove it at any time by writing to contact@banksyexplained.com, and we will delete it without asking you for a reason.
4. Information Collected Automatically
This website is hosted on Vercel. Like most websites, our hosting infrastructure processes limited technical data when a page is requested — including the IP address making the request, the browser and device type, the page requested and the time of the request. This is a normal part of serving a website securely, and is used for delivery, security and abuse prevention.
We do not use this data to identify you personally, and we do not combine it into individual profiles.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use one cookie, and it is strictly functional.
We also use a short-lived browser storage entry that prevents the language redirect from being applied more than once in the same session.
We do not use advertising cookies, tracking cookies, social media pixels or cross-site identifiers. You may delete or block cookies through your browser settings; the only consequence is that the site will not remember your language preference.
6. Analytics and Measurement
Where we measure audience on this website, we use Vercel Web Analytics, a privacy-focused measurement service provided by our hosting provider. It reports aggregate figures such as the number of visits, the pages viewed, the referring source and the country of the visitor.
Vercel Web Analytics does not use cookies, does not store identifiers on your device, and does not follow you across other websites. It does not build advertising profiles, and we cannot use it to identify you individually.
We do not use Google Analytics or any advertising measurement service. We also use Google Search Console, which reports aggregate search statistics for our pages — such as the queries that led to the site and their position in results — from Google’s own index. It places nothing on your device.
Audience measurement was introduced with the public launch of this website on 24 August 2026. If we later add or change a measurement tool, we will update this Policy at the same time, describe the tool concerned, and where such a tool relies on cookies or similar technologies we will seek consent where required by applicable law.
7. Site Search
The site has a search box. Searching happens entirely in your browser: the search index is a static file, and your keystrokes are not sent anywhere as you type.
We do keep a record of what is searched for, and only that. When a search settles, the site sends us the words searched and how many results they returned. We store these as monthly counters — for example “girl with balloon: 42” — never as individual, timestamped events.
No IP address, no cookie, no device or session identifier and no page history is recorded with a search. We therefore cannot tell who searched for what, nor reconstruct anyone’s path through the site, and we have deliberately built it so that we cannot.
We use this for one purpose: to see what visitors look for and do not find, so that we know what to document next. Please avoid typing personal information into the search box, as you would with any search engine.
8. Newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect the email address you enter and the fact that you gave your consent. Subscription is voluntary, the consent box is not pre-ticked, and the address is used for the sole purpose of sending you the newsletter.
Subscriptions are currently relayed to us by the same third-party form service that handles enquiries. Every newsletter includes an unsubscribe link, and you may withdraw at any time by using that link or by writing to us. We do not sell or rent subscriber addresses.
9. Service Providers
We rely on a small number of providers to operate the website:
These providers process information on our behalf and for the purposes described here. We do not operate a customer relationship management system, and enquiries are handled by email.
10. No Sale of Personal Information
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.
11. International Transfers
Banksy Explained is operated from the United States, and our hosting and form providers may process and store information on servers located in the United States or in other countries.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, this means your information may be transferred outside your country of residence. Where such a transfer takes place, we take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that it is carried out in accordance with applicable law.
12. Retention
We keep enquiry correspondence for as long as necessary to handle the matter and to maintain a reasonable record of it, and no longer than is necessary for the purposes described in this Policy or required by law. You may ask us to delete your correspondence at any time.
13. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the address below. We will respond within the period required by applicable law. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
14. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may have the right to know what personal information we collect and how it is used, to request deletion or correction of that information, and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
As stated above, we do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, so no opt-out of sale or sharing is required. To make a request, please contact us at the address below.
Global Privacy Control
Some browsers and extensions send a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, which communicates a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. Because we do not sell or share personal information in the first place, there is nothing for such a signal to switch off. Where a GPC signal applies to processing we carry out, we will honour it as required by applicable law.
15. Children’s Privacy
This website is intended for a general adult audience and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.
16. Security
We take commercially reasonable measures to protect the information we hold. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
17. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy from time to time. The revised version takes effect when posted on this page, and the “Last updated” date shown above will be amended accordingly. Where a change is material, we will take reasonable steps to make it apparent.
18. Contact
Questions about this Policy, or requests concerning your personal information, may be sent to contact@banksyexplained.com.
Markowicz Fine Art LLC
d/b/a Banksy Explained
241 NE 59 Terrace
Miami, FL 33148
United States