Cookie, Privacy & Legal Policy

Last updated: September 2026

1. About this Site

scottwalkermusic.com is the official website and digital archive dedicated to the life, work and creative legacy of Scott Walker.

The Site is published on behalf of the Estate of Scott Walker (“we”, “us”, “our”).

The Site contains editorial content, photographs, audio and video, archival documents, correspondence, artwork, press material and other material relating to Scott Walker and his work.

For questions about this policy, privacy, copyright, permissions or the Site generally, please use the Contact form.

2. Archival and Historical Material

The Site is published on behalf of the Estate of Scott Walker for the purpose of documenting, preserving and celebrating the life, work and creative legacy of Scott Walker.

The archive includes photographs, documents, correspondence, press material, artwork, audio, video and other historical material created over many decades and obtained from a variety of sources.

Every reasonable effort is made to identify creators and rights holders, establish the appropriate basis for publication, and provide accurate credits and attribution. However, given the historical and archival nature of the material, information concerning authorship, ownership or rights may occasionally be incomplete, unavailable or difficult to establish. Where copyright or other rights are held by third parties, those rights remain with their respective owners.

If you are a rights holder, or believe that material appearing on the Site has been incorrectly attributed or published without appropriate permission, please contact us through the Contact form with details of the material concerned.

We will investigate reasonable requests promptly and, where appropriate, correct an attribution, provide an appropriate credit, or temporarily remove material while the matter is reviewed.

3. Information We Collect

We aim to collect only the personal information reasonably necessary to operate, maintain and develop the Site and archive.

Information you provide

We may collect personal information that you choose to provide when you:

  • contact us through the Site;

  • submit information, corrections, material or enquiries relating to the archive;

  • subscribe to receive occasional email updates about new or updated content on the Site; or

  • otherwise communicate with us.

This may include your name, email address and any other information you choose to include in your correspondence.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the Site, certain technical information may be collected automatically by Squarespace and services used or embedded within the Site.

This may include:

  • IP address;

  • browser and device type;

  • operating system;

  • pages visited;

  • referring website;

  • approximate geographic location derived from your IP address; and

  • information about how visitors navigate and interact with the Site.

Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar technologies.

4. How We Use Your Information

We may use personal information to:

  • operate, maintain and improve the Site;

  • respond to enquiries and correspondence;

  • understand how visitors use the Site;

  • maintain the security and integrity of the Site;

  • send occasional email updates about new or updated content on the Site where you have subscribed to receive them;

  • investigate technical problems or misuse;

  • research, maintain and develop the archive;

  • assess and respond to information, corrections or material submitted in relation to the archive; and

  • comply with legal obligations or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

We do not sell personal information.

5. Lawful Bases for Processing

Where UK data protection law applies, personal information is processed only where there is a lawful basis for doing so.

Depending on the circumstances, these may include:

Legitimate interests — where processing is reasonably necessary to operate, maintain, secure and develop the Site and archive, respond to correspondence or protect legal interests, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

Consent — where you have actively agreed to a particular use of your information, including subscribing to receive email updates or consenting to the use of non-essential cookies or similar technologies. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

Legal obligation — where processing is necessary to comply with applicable law.

Contract — where processing is necessary to provide something you have specifically requested or to fulfil an agreement with you.

6. Data Protection

The personal representatives of the Estate of Scott Walker are responsible for personal information collected through the Site.

Personal information submitted through the Contact form is processed on behalf of the Estate for the purposes described in this policy.

Data protection enquiries and requests to exercise your legal rights can be made through the Contact form.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files stored on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit a website.

The Site and services embedded within it may also use technologies such as local storage. Together, these technologies can enable website functionality, remember preferences and provide information about how websites and embedded services are used.

Strictly necessary cookies

Squarespace may place cookies or use similar technologies that are necessary for the operation, security and basic functionality of the Site.

These technologies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary to provide the Site or a service requested by you.

Analytics and performance cookies

Squarespace may use analytics and performance technologies to help us understand how visitors interact with the Site, including visitor numbers, traffic sources, pages viewed and visitor sessions.

Where required by law, non-essential analytics technologies will only be used after you have given consent.

Embedded media

The Site contains or may contain media provided by third-party services including:

  • YouTube;

  • Spotify;

  • Apple Music;

  • Vimeo; and

  • Google Drive.

Loading or interacting with this content may allow the relevant provider to receive technical information about your device and your interaction with the embedded content.

Depending on the service and whether you are signed into an account with that provider, the provider may also use cookies, local storage or similar technologies.

Where technically possible and legally required, non-essential third-party technologies will not be activated until you have provided the appropriate consent.

8. Cookie Details

The precise cookies and similar technologies used depend upon the Squarespace features enabled and the third-party content present on the page you visit.

Squarespace

Squarespace provides the website platform, hosting, security and website analytics.

Squarespace may use technologies necessary for operation, security, cookie preferences and other essential website functions.

Where Squarespace Analytics is enabled, analytics and performance cookies may also be used to distinguish visitors and sessions and provide information about use of the Site.

The precise cookies used by Squarespace may change as its platform and services develop.

YouTube

YouTube, a Google service, is used to provide embedded video content.

Where practical, the Site uses privacy-enhanced YouTube embedding to reduce unnecessary tracking associated with embedded video.

YouTube and Google may nevertheless receive technical information necessary to provide embedded video and may use cookies or similar technologies when you load or interact with YouTube content.

The information collected may depend upon factors including your browser settings and whether you are signed into a Google account.

Spotify

Spotify is used to provide embedded music and other audio content.

Spotify may use cookies and similar technologies in connection with its embedded player. These technologies may provide player functionality, remember preferences and provide information about interaction with Spotify content.

The precise processing may depend upon Spotify's services, your location, consent choices and whether you are signed into Spotify.

Apple Music

Apple Music is used to provide embedded music and audio content.

Apple may collect technical information associated with its embedded web player, including information about your browser or device, the website on which the player appears, general geographic information and interaction with music provided through the player.

Different processing may apply where you are signed into Apple Music.

Vimeo

Vimeo is used to provide embedded video content.

The Vimeo player may use cookies and similar technologies for essential player functionality, security, preferences and, depending upon its configuration and your consent, analytics.

Where appropriate, Vimeo's Do Not Track functionality may be used to reduce non-essential analytics and data collection. Technologies required for security and delivery of the player may still operate.

Google Drive

Some video or other archival content may be hosted using Google Drive.

When Google-hosted content is loaded, Google may receive technical information necessary to provide that content, such as IP address, browser and device information and request information.

Google may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with its own privacy practices. Processing may vary depending upon how the content is delivered and whether you are signed into a Google account.

9. Managing Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit the Site, you may be asked whether you wish to allow non-essential cookies.

You can accept or reject non-essential cookies using the cookie controls provided on the Site.

Where available, you can subsequently change or withdraw your consent using the Site's cookie preference controls.

You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings.

Blocking cookies or third-party technologies may prevent some features from working as intended. In particular, embedded music or video may not be available unless the relevant technologies are permitted.

10. Third-Party Services

The Site currently uses or may use services supplied by:

Squarespace — website platform, hosting, security, analytics and email subscription services.

Google / YouTube — embedded video and Google-hosted media, including content hosted using YouTube or Google Drive.

Spotify — embedded music and audio.

Apple / Apple Music — embedded music and audio.

Vimeo — embedded video.

When you load or interact with content supplied by these organisations, information may be processed directly by the relevant provider in accordance with its own privacy and cookie policies.

We do not control the privacy practices of third-party services and encourage you to review their policies if you interact with their content.

11. Sharing Personal Information

Personal information may be shared with organisations providing services necessary to operate and maintain the Site, including:

  • website hosting and infrastructure providers;

  • providers of embedded media and content where interaction with those services requires information to be transmitted to them;

  • IT and technical service providers; and

  • professional advisers where reasonably necessary.

Information may also be disclosed where required by law, regulation, court order or another lawful authority, or where reasonably necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal rights.

Personal information is not sold or rented to third parties.

12. International Data Transfers

Some services used by the Site may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where responsibility for an international transfer of personal information rests with the Estate, appropriate safeguards will be used where required by applicable data protection law.

Third-party services may also process information internationally in accordance with their own privacy policies and applicable legal obligations.

13. Data Retention

Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including where necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or protect legal interests.

Correspondence may be retained where it forms part of the administrative, research or historical record of the archive.

Where personal information is no longer required, it will be deleted, anonymised or otherwise securely disposed of where reasonably practicable.

14. Email Updates

You can choose to provide your email address to receive occasional updates about new or updated content on the Site. Updates will be sent no more than quarterly.

Subscriptions are managed using Squarespace. Your email address will be used only for these updates and will not be sold or shared with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in each email. If you unsubscribe, we will stop using your email address to send you these updates.

15. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law may give you the right to:

  • request access to personal information held about you;

  • ask for inaccurate or incomplete information to be corrected;

  • ask for your personal information to be deleted in certain circumstances;

  • ask for the use of your information to be restricted;

  • object to certain uses of your information;

  • request transfer of certain information to you or another organisation; and

  • withdraw consent where consent is relied upon as the lawful basis for processing.

These rights are subject to applicable legal limitations and exemptions.

To exercise these rights, please use the Contact form on the Site.

You also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's independent regulator for data protection.

16. Security

Reasonable technical and organisational measures are taken to protect personal information against accidental loss, unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or misuse.

However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Legal Notice & Terms of Use

17. Copyright and Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, the content of the Site — including its design, text, graphics, photographs, artwork, archival material, audio, video and other content — is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights.

Copyright and other rights in individual photographs, artworks, recordings, films, documents, publications and archival materials may belong to their respective photographers, artists, authors, publishers, record companies, film companies, estates or other rights holders.

Material is reproduced on the Site with permission where required or under another applicable legal basis.

You may view and access the Site for personal, non-commercial purposes.

Except where permitted by law, content from the Site may not be reproduced, republished, distributed, modified, commercially exploited or used to create derivative works without permission from the relevant rights holder.

Nothing on the Site should be interpreted as granting any licence or right to use any trademark, photograph, image, recording, artwork, document or other protected material beyond normal viewing and use of the Site.

18. Scott Walker Name, Image and Creative Work

The Site is the official digital archive of Scott Walker and is published on behalf of the Estate of Scott Walker.

The presence of Scott Walker's name, image, creative work or material associated with his Estate on the Site does not grant permission for such material to be reproduced, commercially exploited or used in connection with other products, publications or services.

Requests to reproduce material from the Site should be made through the Contact form.

19. Accuracy and Corrections

Considerable care is taken in researching and presenting information contained on the Site. However, archival and historical information can sometimes be incomplete, conflicting or subject to revision as new information becomes available.

We therefore cannot guarantee that all information on the Site is complete, current or free from error.

We welcome corrections, additional information and supporting documentation that may help improve the accuracy and completeness of the archive. These can be submitted through the Contact form.

20. External Links

The Site may contain links to websites operated by third parties.

We are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, content, security or privacy practices of external websites.

Links are provided for information and convenience and do not necessarily constitute endorsement of the website, organisation, products, services or opinions concerned.

21. Availability of the Site

We aim to keep the Site available and functioning correctly but cannot guarantee uninterrupted or error-free access.

Any part of the Site may be changed, suspended, removed or updated without notice where reasonably necessary, including for maintenance, technical, editorial or legal reasons.

22. Limitation of Liability

The Site and its content are provided for general information, historical reference and archival purposes.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Estate of Scott Walker accepts no liability for loss or damage arising from reliance on information contained on the Site or from the use of, or inability to use, the Site.

Nothing in this policy excludes or limits liability where it would be unlawful to do so.

23. Changes to This Policy

This policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the Site, the services used, working practices or applicable law.

The date at the top of this page indicates when the policy was most recently updated.

25. Governing Law

This policy and use of the Site are governed by the laws of England and Wales.

Any dispute arising in connection with the Site will be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales, subject to any rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

25. Contact

For privacy enquiries, data protection requests, copyright enquiries, corrections, permissions or other questions concerning the Site, please use the Contact form at scottwalkermusic.com.