Privacy Policy
How we handle your information.
Who we are
Alcana Art is an independent art advisory and brokerage practice based in London, United Kingdom, led by Céline Hongyi Yang. We are responsible for the personal information described here. You can reach us at celine@alcanaart.com.
What we collect
The information you choose to send us, such as your name, contact details, and what you tell us about your collection or interests. If we act for you in a purchase or sale, we also collect what we need to verify your identity, such as a copy of your passport or other identification. Our website host may record technical information, such as your IP address, in its server logs. The typefaces on this website are delivered by Google Fonts, which receives your IP address in order to send them. We do not use analytics or advertising tools.
Why we use it
To reply to your enquiry and, if we work together, to provide our services. We rely on our legitimate interest in running our practice, on our agreement with you once we work together, and on our legal obligations, including anti-money-laundering law. We treat everything in confidence.
Who we share it with
Only when it is necessary to provide our services and, wherever possible, with your permission. This may include the other parties to a transaction, such as auction houses and galleries, and our professional advisers and service providers, such as our email and website hosts. We may also disclose information to regulators or law enforcement where the law requires it. We never sell personal information.
Where it is processed
Our email and website providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where they do, we rely on recognised safeguards for international transfers.
How long we keep it
For as long as we need it to deal with your enquiry or provide our services. Where we have verified your identity, the law requires us to keep those records for five years after our work together ends, and we then delete them. We keep other information only for as long as we need it or the law requires.
Security
We take reasonable steps to keep your information secure and restrict access to it.
Your rights
You may ask to see, correct, or delete the information we hold about you, to restrict or object to how we use it, or to receive a copy of it, by writing to us. Records we are required by law to keep, such as identity checks, can only be deleted once that period has ended. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
Cookies
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Changes
We may update this policy from time to time. The date below shows when it was last changed.
Last updated 14 November 2026.