Privacy Policy

Who we are

illustration.lol is a curated editorial illustration platform operated by Design LOL LLC. We showcase, catalog, and celebrate editorial illustrations and the people who create and commission them.

For any privacy-related questions or requests, contact us at privacy@illustration.lol.

What we collect

Information about creative professionals

illustration.lol displays publicly available professional information about illustrators, art directors, and publishers. This includes names, professional roles, locations (city and country), public social media profiles, agency affiliations, and credited editorial work.

This data is sourced from published editorial credits and publicly available professional profiles. We display it for attribution and discovery purposes — to help people find and credit the creators behind the work.

If you’re an illustrator, art director, or represented professional, you can claim your profile. A claimed profile is owner-managed: our automated systems never write to it. If our pipeline surfaces a suggested update about a claimed profile, it is only ever applied by a person making a deliberate editorial decision — never automatically.

If you are a featured professional and would like to update, correct, or remove your information, please contact us at privacy@illustration.lol. This includes information cached from articles or portfolio pages, and any facts stored in our internal extraction records, whether or not they were ever published. We will respond within 30 days.

Automated processing and AI-assisted extraction

We use Anthropic’s Claude API to read the article and portfolio pages we’ve cached and pull structured facts out of them: bylines and credits, titles, publication dates, social media links, contact email, location, representation (agency name and, for our internal records only, the individual agent’s name), and client lists. Claude acts as a processor for this task — it receives page content we’ve already cached and returns structured results; it does not receive your account data, analytics, or anything outside the page content being processed.

Every fact Claude extracts is checked against the original source text before it can be shown anywhere on the site — if we can’t verify a fact was actually said on the page it came from, it doesn’t get used. A person on our editorial team reviews extracted facts before they’re applied to a public profile. Over time, we expect some high-confidence, low-risk facts (like a publication date) to be applied automatically, always with the same verification safeguards, and always reversible by an editor.

We keep the full result of each extraction — including facts we choose not to publish — because we’re building toward a fuller internal picture of how the people, publishers, and companies in our catalog relate to one another. This unpublished material is never shown on the site and is never made public. It exists purely as internal editorial and research material. In particular, an individual agent’s name is captured for our internal records only — it is never displayed publicly unless a human editor makes an explicit decision to do so.

Third-party services

We share data with the following service providers:

• Vercel — hosting, anonymous analytics, and performance monitoring
• Supabase — database and file storage (hosted on AWS infrastructure)
• Mixpanel — product analytics (consent-gated; US-based)
• Buttondown — email newsletter delivery (US-based)
• Anthropic — AI-assisted extraction of structured facts (credits, dates, contact and representation details) from cached article and portfolio pages (processor; US-based; does not receive analytics or account data)
• Firecrawl — automated fetching and caching of publisher article pages and public portfolio pages (processor; US-based)

We do not sell your personal information. We have no advertising relationships and do not share data with advertisers.

Cookies and tracking

We use a cookie consent banner that appears on your first visit. Only if you accept are Mixpanel analytics cookies set. Vercel Analytics does not use cookies. Here is what we store:

• Mixpanel cookies (if accepted) — persistent analytics cookies used to understand content engagement. Duration: up to 1 year.
• localStorage items — consent preference, theme choice, and grid size. These are not cookies and are never sent to any server.

Data retention

• Analytics data — retained for 12 months, then automatically deleted
• Newsletter emails — retained until you unsubscribe; deleted within 30 days of your request
• Submission data — your name and email are retained for 90 days after a submission decision is made, then deleted. The article URL may be retained as an editorial record.
• Cached article and portfolio pages — retained to support editorial review and to avoid repeatedly re-fetching the same page; deleted or scrubbed of your personal information on request
• Extraction outputs — the full set of facts we extract, including anything not published, is retained as internal research material; on request we remove a person’s personal information from these records (email privacy@illustration.lol — we respond within 30 days)

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate data
• Request deletion of your data
• Withdraw consent for analytics tracking at any time
• Object to processing based on legitimate interest

To exercise any of these rights, email privacy@illustration.lol. We will respond within 30 days.

California residents: Under the CCPA, you have the right to know what personal information is collected and how it is used, to request deletion, and to opt out of the sale of personal information. We do not sell personal information.

EU/EEA residents: We process the professional information described in this policy — editorial credits, portfolio details, and related publicly available professional facts — on the basis of our legitimate interest in documenting and crediting published editorial illustration work. In relying on that basis, we limit ourselves to professional (not private) information, source it from publicly available pages, verify extracted facts against their source, and give every featured professional a claim, correction, and removal path. We process account data in order to provide the service you signed up for, and analytics data only with your consent. Where we rely on legitimate interest, you have the right to object. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority.

Children’s privacy

illustration.lol is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

Security

We use industry-standard security measures including HTTPS encryption, database row-level security, and role-based access controls. While no system is perfectly secure, we take reasonable steps to protect the data we collect.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected in the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.

Contact

Design LOL LLC
privacy@illustration.lol