Privacy Policy
Effective date: May 7, 2026
Marie de Caba respects your privacy.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect personal information when you visit mariedecaba.com, contact us, or submit a question through the Ask Marie form.
1. Who we are
This website is operated for the Marie de Caba project.
Project name: Marie de Caba
Creator: Val Ferren
Legal contact: Valentí Ferrer Serra
Contact email: mariedecaba@gmail.com
Location: United States
For privacy-related questions or requests, you can contact us at:
2. What information we collect
We may collect the following information.
Information you provide directly
When you use the Contact form, we may collect:
your name;
your email address;
your message;
any information you choose to include.
When you use the Ask Marie form, we may collect:
your first name;
your email address;
your question for Marie;
your identification preference, such as “use my first name” or “keep me anonymous”;
your consent choices;
optional video submissions;
optional video links;
your voice, image, likeness, and any personal information you include in your video or question.
Please do not submit confidential information, private information about other people, medical details, legal matters, financial information, or anything you would not want to be considered for public storytelling.
Information collected automatically
When you visit this website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:
browser, network, and device information;
IP address;
pages visited;
clicks and internal links;
timestamps;
referring pages;
information used to protect the website from spam or abuse.
This website is built with Squarespace, which may collect visitor data to operate, secure, and analyze the site.
3. How we use your information
We may use your information to:
operate and maintain the website;
receive and respond to messages;
review questions submitted through Ask Marie;
contact you about your submission if necessary;
select, edit, subtitle, translate, adapt, or produce Marie de Caba YouTube content based on selected submissions;
manage consent and permissions;
prevent spam, abuse, or security issues;
understand website traffic and improve the website;
comply with legal obligations;
protect our rights, safety, and creative work.
4. Ask Marie submissions
If you submit a question through Ask Marie, your submission may be reviewed for possible use in future Marie de Caba content.
Selected questions may be answered in future Marie de Caba YouTube Shorts, videos, episodes, livestreams, thumbnails, descriptions, subtitles, translations, or Community posts.
If you upload or link a video, you understand that your image, voice, likeness, and first name may be used if your submission is selected, depending on the permissions you have given.
If you choose “Keep me anonymous”, we will not display your name. However, if you submit a video and it is selected, your image and voice may still appear unless we decide to edit or obscure them.
Submitting a question or video does not guarantee that it will be used, answered, credited, or compensated.
5. Use of AI and creative tools
Marie de Caba is an AI-assisted storytelling project.
If your submission is selected, we may use editing, subtitling, translation, production, or AI-assisted creative tools to prepare content for the Marie de Caba YouTube channel.
We do not sell your submitted question, video, image, or voice.
6. Legal basis for processing
Depending on the situation, we process personal information based on:
your consent, especially when you submit an Ask Marie question, upload a video, agree to possible use on YouTube, or subscribe to updates;
legitimate interests, such as operating the website, responding to messages, protecting the website, understanding audience activity, and developing the Marie de Caba project;
legal obligations, where we are required to keep or disclose information by law.
You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at:
Withdrawing consent will not affect uses already made before we received your request. If your submission has already been used in published YouTube content, we will review your request and respond in accordance with applicable law and platform limitations.
7. Newsletter or updates
If you choose to receive updates, we may use your email address to send information about new Marie de Caba videos, Shorts, cases, or related project updates.
You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us.
If you do not offer a newsletter or email updates, this section should be removed.
8. Cookies and analytics
This website may use cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies help the website work properly, remember preferences, protect forms from spam, understand website traffic, and improve the visitor experience.
Squarespace and third-party services may place cookies or collect technical information when you visit the site.
Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before using non-essential cookies.
9. Embedded content and third-party services
This website may include embedded content or links from third-party platforms, including:
YouTube;
Pinterest;
X;
Squarespace;
Google reCAPTCHA;
email or form storage services;
analytics or security tools.
When you interact with embedded content, forms, or external links, those third parties may collect information according to their own privacy policies.
YouTube videos embedded on this website may collect information when you play or interact with them. Where possible, we may use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode.
10. Form storage and service providers
Form submissions may be processed or stored through Squarespace and, depending on the website configuration, may be sent to or stored in services such as:
email;
Google Drive;
Squarespace form storage;
Mailchimp;
Zapier;
other tools connected to the website.
These providers process information so that we can receive, store, review, and respond to submissions.
11. Sharing your information
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share limited personal information with:
website hosting and form providers;
email and storage providers;
video editing, subtitling, translation, or production collaborators;
analytics, anti-spam, or security providers;
legal or regulatory authorities if required by law;
professional advisers where necessary.
We only share information when it is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
12. International transfers
Some of the services we use may process information outside your country, including in the United States or other jurisdictions.
When required, we rely on appropriate safeguards or service provider commitments to protect personal information transferred internationally.
13. How long we keep information
We keep personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
As a general guide:
contact messages may be kept for as long as needed to respond and manage the relationship;
Ask Marie submissions may be kept while they are being reviewed and, if selected, for as long as needed for the Marie de Caba project, published content, records of consent, and related creative archives;
newsletter data is kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it;
technical and analytics data is kept according to the settings of Squarespace and any connected services;
consent records may be kept as long as necessary to demonstrate that permission was given.
We may keep certain information longer if required by law or necessary to protect our rights.
14. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal information, including the right to:
request access to your personal information;
request correction of inaccurate information;
request deletion of your information;
request restriction of processing;
object to certain processing;
request portability of your data;
withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.
To exercise your rights, contact us at:
If you are located in Spain or the European Union, you may also have the right to contact your local data protection authority.
15. Children and minors
The Marie de Caba website and Ask Marie submissions are not intended for children.
Please do not submit an Ask Marie question, video, image, voice recording, or personal information if you are under 18 years old.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a minor without appropriate permission, we will take steps to delete it.
16. Security
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or disclosure.
However, no website, form, email system, or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
17. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
When we make changes, we will update the effective date at the top of this page.
If we make significant changes to how we use personal information, we will take reasonable steps to make those changes clear.
18. Contact
For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact:
Valentí Ferrer Serra
Email: mariedecaba@gmail.com
Website: mariedecaba.com