What this site collects, and what happens to it

Only what you type into one of the four forms, and only when you submit it.

No analytics or advertising cookies are set. No tracking pixels, session recording or fingerprinting scripts run on this site, and no third-party scripts of any kind are loaded. Your IP address is used only to rate-limit form submissions in memory at the moment of submission; it is not written to storage and is not included in the email FRT receives.

To reply to you, and to do the thing you asked for — to follow up about membership, to discuss a partnership, or to answer your question. Your details are not used for anything else and are never sold, rented or shared for marketing.

If you joined the mailing list, your address is used to send you notices about open calls, submission deadlines, cohort intakes and events. It is used for that and nothing else, and joining the list does not add you to anything else or make you a member.

The mailing list uses double opt-in. Giving an address on the form sends one message asking you to confirm it, and nothing further is sent unless you do. This is why an address someone else typed in never receives anything.

Consent. Every form requires you to tick an unticked box before it will submit, and that box does one job. On the membership, partnership and contact forms it asks whether FRT may hold your details and reply to your submission. On the mailing list it asks something different — whether FRT may email you about future calls and events — and it is worded that way because consent that does not describe what was consented to is not consent. No form ever bundles the two.

Withdrawing consent later is straightforward and is described below.

The FRT secretariat. Submissions are delivered by email to a secretariat address and are not published, posted to any other system, or passed to partner organizations.

Three processors are involved. The site's hosting provider runs the code that receives the form; the email delivery provider sends the message; and, for the mailing list only, a managed database provider stores the address. None of them uses the contents for their own purposes.

Membership interest and partnership inquiries are kept for as long as you are in contact with FRT about them, and for no more than 24 months after the last exchange unless you have since become a member. General contact messages are deleted within 12 months. There is no separate archive.

Mailing list addresses are held until you ask to be removed. Every message carries an unsubscribe link, which takes effect immediately and needs nobody at FRT to act on it.

An unsubscribed address is kept, marked as unsubscribed, rather than deleted. That is so a later signup or import cannot quietly put you back on a list you left, and so FRT can show when consent was withdrawn. If you want the address erased outright rather than suppressed, say so through the contact form and it will be deleted.

An address that is given but never confirmed is removed after 30 days.

You can ask FRT for a copy of what it holds about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, or withdraw your consent — at any time, without giving a reason, and without it affecting anything else.

Use the contact form and say what you want done. FRT aims to act within 30 days. Withdrawing consent does not undo anything already sent, but it stops future contact.

The FRT secretariat is in Bangladesh. The hosting and email providers operate internationally, so a message may be processed on servers outside your own country on its way to the secretariat.

Mailing list addresses are stored in a managed database hosted in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, in India. If you are in the EEA or the UK, this is a transfer outside that area.

If FRT changes what it collects or why, this page changes first. There is no version history here, so if you need a record of the notice as it stood when you submitted a form, save a copy.