Privacy policy
Last updated: 6 October 2026
Who we are
This website is run by Sofia Makarskaya, trading as Saphire, Limassol, Cyprus (“Saphire”, “we”). We decide how and why your personal data is used — we are the data controller.
For any question about your data, write to saphiretalents@gmail.com. We answer within one month.
What we collect and why
- Talent applications (“Become a talent”): name, e-mail, country, city, Instagram and TikTok handles, audience size, category, portfolio link and what you tell us about yourself — to review your application and contact you about representation.
- Brand enquiries (“Work with us”): name, company, e-mail, website or social media, project details, budget range and timeline — to answer your enquiry and propose talent.
- Newsletter (“Stay connected”): your e-mail — to send you news from Saphire.
- Technical data: when you open the site, our hosting provider processes your IP address and browser details to deliver the pages and protect the site from abuse. We do not use this data to identify you.
Please do not send us sensitive information (health, political or religious beliefs and the like) in the free-text fields — we do not need it.
Legal basis
- Applications and enquiries — steps you ask us to take before a possible contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR / UK GDPR), and our legitimate interest in answering business enquiries (Art. 6(1)(f)).
- Newsletter — your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)). You can withdraw it at any time by writing to the e-mail above; withdrawal does not affect sending done before it.
- Technical data — our legitimate interest in running a secure website (Art. 6(1)(f)).
Giving us your data is voluntary, but without it we cannot answer your application or enquiry. We make no decisions about you by automated means.
Who receives your data
- Google LLC (USA) — the form data is stored in Google Sheets and Google Drive.
- Telegram (Telegram Messenger Inc.) — our team gets a notification with the contents of each application or enquiry.
- Cloudflare, Inc. (USA) — hosts the website and processes the technical data described above.
- YouTube (Google) — only if you press play on an introduction video; the video is embedded in privacy-enhanced mode.
- Our website developer, who maintains the forms and the spreadsheet on our instructions.
We do not sell your data or share it for advertising.
Transfers outside the UK and EU
Google and Cloudflare process data in the USA and are certified under the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension. Telegram processes data on its own servers outside the UK and EU under its own privacy policy.
How long we keep it
- Applications and enquiries — 24 months after our last contact, unless we start working together.
- Newsletter — until you unsubscribe.
- Technical data — kept by Cloudflare for a short time for security, under its own policy.
Your rights
You can ask us for access to your data, its correction or deletion, restriction of processing, a copy in a portable format, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest. Write to saphiretalents@gmail.com.
You can also complain to a data protection authority: our lead authority is the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection of Cyprus (dataprotection.gov.cy); you may also contact the authority of the EU country where you live or work, or, in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).
Cookies and tracking
This website uses no analytics, no advertising pixels and no tracking cookies. It keeps one technical note in your browser’s session storage so the opening animation is not repeated on every page; it never leaves your device. If you play a YouTube video, YouTube may set its own cookies under Google’s privacy policy.
Changes
If we change this policy, we will update it on this page and change the date above.