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Curioso terms and conditions

Last updated: 24-May-2026

These terms and conditions apply when you access or use Curioso, including our website, platform, open call tools, application tools and related services.

Please read these terms carefully. By creating an account, publishing an open call, submitting an application, making a payment or otherwise using Curioso, you agree to these terms.

1. Who we are

Curioso is operated by AM Foundry Ltd, trading as Curioso.

Company number: 16986540

Registered address: International House, 64 Nile Street, London, United Kingdom, N1 7SR

Contact email: [email protected]

In these terms, “Curioso”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to AM Foundry Ltd. “You” and “your” refer to the person, business, organisation, gallery, collective or other entity accessing or using Curioso.

2. What Curioso provides

Curioso is an online platform for creating, managing and applying to open calls for art.

Curioso provides software tools that allow users to create and publish open calls for visual art, collect artist applications, upload and review artwork submissions, manage application information, make selections, send application-related communications, view application status and manage parts of the open call workflow.

Curioso acts as a platform and software provider. We provide workflow and administration tools only. Open calls are created, managed and operated by organisers, not by Curioso.

Unless we expressly agree otherwise in writing, we do not run, judge, promote, fund, endorse, guarantee or manage the open calls created by users.

3. How Curioso works

Curioso provides tools to help organisers create and manage open calls, and to help artists submit applications. The open calls themselves are created and managed by organisers, not by Curioso. This means organisers are responsible for the opportunities they publish, and artists are responsible for the applications and materials they submit.

4. Who can use Curioso

You must be at least 18 years old to use Curioso.

You may use Curioso as an individual, artist, curator, organiser, business, gallery, collective or other organisation.

Depending on how you use Curioso, you may be acting as an artist, organiser, curator, business, gallery, collective or other organisation. The responsibilities that apply to you under these terms depend on how you use the service.

If you create an organisation or open call on behalf of another person, business, gallery, collective or entity, you confirm that you have authority to do so.

5. Accounts

You are responsible for:

Telling us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without permission.

Account deletion is not available directly through the platform. If you want to request deletion of your account, you must contact us at [email protected] .

We will process account deletion requests within a reasonable time, subject to any legal, operational, security, record-keeping or legitimate business reasons that require us to retain certain information.

6. Organisations

Users can create an organisation within Curioso and use that organisation to create and manage open calls.

Curioso does not judge applications, promote open calls, manage exhibitions, handle artwork logistics, process artist payments, or mediate disputes between artists and organisers unless we expressly agree otherwise in writing

The user who creates or manages an organisation is responsible for the activity carried out through that organisation in Curioso.

If you create or manage an organisation in Curioso, you are responsible for the activity carried out through that organisation and for ensuring that you have authority to act on its behalf.

You are responsible for keeping your account access secure. If you choose to share access to an account or use a shared email address, you are responsible for all activity carried out through that account and for ensuring that anyone with access is authorised to act on your behalf. We are not responsible for disputes between people who access or use the same account.

You must not create an organisation using a name, brand, gallery, company, collective or identity that you are not authorised to use.

We may remove, restrict or suspend an organisation if we reasonably believe that it has been created without authority, is misleading, infringes rights, breaches these terms or creates a risk for Curioso or other users.

Limits of Curioso’s role:

Unless we expressly agree otherwise in writing, Curioso does not:

Curioso is not responsible for artwork transport, delivery, collection, storage, handling, installation, insurance, damage, loss or return.

Curioso provides the platform. Organisers are responsible for the opportunities they create and manage using Curioso.

Information made available through Curioso is provided for use of the service only. It does not create any partnership, agency, employment, investment, shareholder, advisory, fiduciary or other relationship between you and Curioso or AM Foundry Ltd.

7. Creating and publishing open calls

Organisers can use Curioso to create and publish open calls.

Organisers are responsible for making sure each open call is accurate, lawful, complete, clear and not misleading.

Organisers are responsible for ensuring that all open call details are accurate, complete and kept up to date while the open call is live, including any dates, deadlines, eligibility criteria, fees, selection criteria and participation requirements.

For paid open calls, publication takes place after successful payment. If payment is not completed, fails, is reversed, is disputed or is flagged for review, we may withhold publication or restrict access to the relevant open call.

We reserve the right to refuse to publish, remove, restrict or suspend an open call where we reasonably believe it is misleading, unlawful, harmful, discriminatory, abusive, infringing, in breach of these terms, likely to damage Curioso or its users, or otherwise inappropriate for the service.

8. Open call limits and automatic closure

Each open call is subject to the fees, applicant limits, artwork limits, usage limits and other conditions shown to you at the time of purchase, publication or plan selection.

You are responsible for reviewing and monitoring the limits that apply to your open calls.

If an open call reaches its applicant limit, it will automatically close to new applications.

We may notify organisers when an open call is approaching its applicant limit and when the limit has been reached. However, we are not responsible if you do not see, read or act on a notification, including where an email is delayed, filtered, rejected, sent to spam, affected by inbox settings, or sent to an incorrect or outdated email address.

You must not attempt to avoid applicable fees, limits or fair use restrictions, including by creating multiple accounts, using multiple email addresses, creating duplicate organisations, or otherwise misusing free, paid or promotional allowances.

9. Closing applications early

Curioso does not currently provide a delete or pause function for open calls.

Where the platform allows it, organisers may close applications early by changing the application deadline.

If an organiser closes, changes, withdraws or cancels an open call, the organiser is responsible for communicating any material changes to affected applicants and handling any consequences under its own terms, policies or legal obligations.

Curioso is not responsible for an organiser’s decision to close, change, withdraw or cancel an open call.

10. Organiser responsibilities

Organisers are fully responsible for the open calls they create and manage through Curioso.

This includes, but is not limited to, responsibility for:

Responding to artist queries, complaints or disputes.

Organisers must not use Curioso to create open calls that are unlawful, misleading, discriminatory, exploitative, abusive, fraudulent or otherwise harmful.

Organisers are responsible for making clear any terms that apply to their open call, including any eligibility rules, fees, cancellation policies, refund policies, exhibition terms, sales terms, commission terms, artwork handling arrangements and artist obligations. This includes clearly communicating whether insurance is provided, required or excluded, who is responsible for arranging it, and what happens if artwork is lost, damaged or not collected.

If an organiser does not provide its own cancellation, refund, exhibition or participation terms, that does not make Curioso responsible for those matters.

11. Artist applications and submissions

Artists can use Curioso to submit applications to open calls.

An application may include information such as the artist’s name, contact details, artist bio, artist statement, CV, website, social media links, artwork images, artwork title, medium, year, price, dimensions and other submission details.

Artists are responsible for making sure all information they submit is accurate, complete and not misleading.

Applications are final once submitted. Artists cannot currently edit or withdraw applications through Curioso after submission.

Artists should check all information carefully before submitting an application.

By submitting an application, the artist understands that their submission will be shared with the organiser of the relevant open call. If any information in an application changes after submission, the artist is responsible for contacting the organiser directly and providing any updated information.

Artists must submit applications using accurate information and must not impersonate another person, artist, collective or organisation. If you submit an application on behalf of another artist, collective or organisation, you confirm that you have authority to do so.

Artists must not submit artwork, images, statements, biographies, CVs or other materials that they do not have the right to submit.

Curioso does not guarantee that an artist will be selected, receive feedback, be exhibited, make sales, receive prizes, gain exposure or receive any other outcome from submitting an application.

12. Artwork images and artist content

Artists retain ownership of the artwork images, text and other materials they submit through Curioso.

By uploading or submitting content to Curioso, users grant us a limited licence to host, store, copy, display, process, transmit and otherwise use that content only as necessary to provide, operate, maintain, secure and improve the service.

This includes displaying submitted artwork and application information to the relevant organiser within Curioso.

Users confirm that they have all rights, permissions and licences needed to upload and submit their content. Users must not upload content that infringes copyright, trade marks, privacy rights, moral rights, confidentiality rights or any other rights belonging to someone else.

Organisers may view submitted artwork images and application materials for the purpose of reviewing and managing the relevant open call. Organisers must not copy, publish, reproduce, distribute, edit, sell, license, promote or otherwise use an artist’s submitted images or materials outside the relevant open call unless they have the artist’s permission or another lawful basis to do so.

Curioso is not responsible for an organiser’s use or misuse of submitted images or materials outside Curioso or beyond the permissions granted by the artist.

Organisers may view and use submitted artwork images and application materials only for purposes reasonably connected with reviewing, managing and administering the relevant open call, unless they have the artist’s permission or another lawful basis to use them for another purpose.

Curioso will not use artist-submitted artwork images, organiser logos, organisation names or submission materials in Curioso marketing without permission.

13. Public open call pages and search engines

Open call pages may be public and may be indexed by search engines.

Organisers are responsible for ensuring that any information they include on a public open call page is accurate, lawful and suitable for public display.

Curioso does not make artist application information, contact details, artwork submissions or other submitted application materials publicly available as part of the public open call page. Application materials are shared with the organiser of the relevant open call for the purposes of reviewing and managing that open call.

14. Selection decisions and application status

Organisers are solely responsible for reviewing applications and making selection decisions.

Curioso does not judge applications, verify the fairness of selection decisions, review the quality of decisions, or decide which artists should be accepted or rejected.

Artists may be able to view their application status within Curioso and may also receive transactional emails about their application status.

Users are responsible for checking their application status in Curioso where status information is available. We cannot guarantee that users will see, read or act on every email notification, including where an email is delayed, filtered, sent to spam, affected by inbox settings, or sent to an incorrect or outdated email address.

Any challenge, complaint or question about a selection or rejection decision should be raised with the organiser, not Curioso.

15. Fees and payment

Organisers may be required to pay fees to use certain Curioso services, including paid open calls.

All prices are shown and charged in GBP unless stated otherwise.

Payments are processed by Stripe. Stripe acts as our payment processor. We do not store your full card details.

Stripe may issue receipts, confirmations or payment records on our behalf.

If your card, bank account or payment method uses a currency other than GBP, your bank, card provider or payment provider may apply exchange rates, foreign transaction fees or other charges. Curioso is not responsible for those charges.

You are responsible for ensuring that your payment information is accurate and that you are authorised to use the payment method provided.

16. Refunds

Payments are generally non-refundable once the paid service has begun, except where required by law or where we expressly agree otherwise.

If you are a business user, you do not have an automatic right to cancel or receive a refund after payment, unless we expressly agree otherwise.

If you are a consumer, you may have a legal right to cancel certain online purchases within 14 days. When you complete payment for a paid open call, Curioso will begin providing the paid service, including publishing or preparing to publish your open call. By completing payment, you agree that the paid service will begin immediately after payment. This may limit or remove your right to cancel, where permitted by law.

Nothing in this section affects any legal rights you may have if the service is faulty, not as described, or where we are otherwise required by law to provide a refund.

Curioso is not responsible for refunding any application fees, participation fees, sales payments, commissions, prizes, reimbursements or other payments arranged between artists and organisers outside Curioso.

17. Payments between artists and organisers

Curioso does not currently process payments between artists and organisers.

This means we do not currently process:

refunds owed by organisers to artists.

Any financial arrangement between an artist and organiser outside Curioso is the responsibility of those parties.

Curioso is not responsible for payment disputes between artists and organisers.

18. Free open calls, plan limits and fair use

Curioso may offer free trials, free open calls, introductory offers, discounts, promotional credits or other incentives from time to time. Any such offer is subject to the terms shown at the time, including any applicable eligibility criteria, usage limits, expiry dates and fair use restrictions.

All use of Curioso, including free, discounted, promotional and paid use, is subject to fair use. You must not misuse any offer, avoid applicable fees or limits, create multiple accounts, use multiple email addresses, create duplicate organisations, misrepresent your identity, or otherwise attempt to access benefits or allowances in a way that was not intended.

If we reasonably believe that a user is attempting to misuse the free open call offer or avoid applicable limits, we may refuse publication, restrict access, suspend the account, close the organisation, remove open calls or take other action we consider appropriate.

We may change our fees, plans, limits, offers and features from time to time.

Changes to fees or plan limits will apply to future purchases unless we tell you otherwise.

We will not apply a price increase retrospectively to an open call you have already paid for.

We may change, restrict or withdraw features, limits or offers for legal, security, technical, operational or abuse-prevention reasons. Where a change materially affects an active paid open call, we will take reasonable steps to minimise disruption and, where practical, notify the affected organiser.

19. Applicant contact details and organiser use

Organisers may access applicant contact details where those details are provided as part of an application.

Organisers may only use applicant contact details for purposes connected with the relevant open call, such as:

Organisers must not use applicant contact details for unrelated marketing, mailing lists or promotional communications unless they have a lawful basis or appropriate consent to do so.

Organisers are responsible for complying with applicable data protection, privacy, electronic marketing and communications laws when using applicant information.

20. Emails and communications

Curioso may send transactional emails and service communications relating to accounts, open calls, applications, selection decisions, rejection decisions, payments, limits, security, support and service updates.

Artists cannot opt out of essential transactional emails while using Curioso.

Curioso may send transactional emails relating to application status, including selection and rejection notifications, based on actions taken through the platform. Organisers remain responsible for ensuring that artists receive any additional information, next steps or context that may be required in relation to their open call. Users are responsible for keeping their contact details up to date.

Curioso may log communication history for audit, support, security, operational and service improvement purposes.

21. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share and protect personal data when you use Curioso.

By using Curioso, you acknowledge that your personal data will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

When an artist submits an application to an open call, their application information is shared with the organiser of that open call so the organiser can review and manage the application. Organisers are responsible for how they use applicant information in connection with their open calls and must comply with applicable data protection laws.

Application and submission data may remain available to the organiser of the relevant open call unless and until the data is deleted, access is restricted, the account is closed, the service changes, or we are required to remove or restrict it.

If you request deletion of your account or personal data, we will handle that request in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Deletion of your Curioso account may not automatically remove information that has already been shared with an organiser, and you may need to contact the organiser directly about their own use or retention of your application information.

22. Prohibited content and misuse

You must not use Curioso to upload, submit, publish, send, display or distribute content that is:

Curioso is an art platform, and we recognise that artwork may include nudity, political themes, challenging subject matter or sensitive material. We do not prohibit lawful artistic content simply because it is challenging, political or contains nudity.

However, users are responsible for ensuring their submissions are lawful, appropriate for the relevant open call and not abusive, exploitative, discriminatory or harmful.

Organisers are responsible for setting any content, eligibility or suitability restrictions that apply to their open calls.

You must not impersonate another person, artist, organiser, business, gallery, collective or organisation, or falsely suggest that you are connected with, authorised by or acting on behalf of someone else.

23. Platform monitoring and moderation

We may review open calls, submissions, accounts and platform activity for moderation, support, security, compliance and service improvement purposes.

However, we do not guarantee that we review all content before it is published, submitted or viewed by other users.

We may remove content, refuse publication, restrict visibility, suspend access or close accounts where we reasonably believe there has been a breach of these terms, misuse of the service, unlawful activity, rights infringement, security risk, payment issue, abuse of fair use limits or harm to Curioso, users or third parties.

24. Availability, maintenance and changes

Curioso is provided on an “as available” basis.

We aim to provide a reliable service, but we do not guarantee that Curioso will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, error-free or free from bugs.

We may carry out maintenance, updates, repairs or changes from time to time. Where practical, we will aim to schedule planned downtime at less disruptive times.

We may show a maintenance or downtime screen where the service is temporarily unavailable.

We may add, change, restrict, suspend or discontinue features at any time. Curioso is an evolving product and the service may change over time.

Users are responsible for keeping their own copies of any information they need to retain outside Curioso. We do not guarantee data export, backup or recovery unless required by law or expressly agreed in writing.

25. Suspension and termination

We may suspend, restrict or terminate your access to Curioso immediately if we reasonably believe that:

Where appropriate and practical, we may give notice before suspension or termination. However, we may act immediately where we consider it necessary.

If your account is suspended or terminated, you may lose access to your account, organisation, open calls, applications and related data.

26. Account deletion

You may request deletion of your account by contacting us at [email protected] .

We will process deletion requests within a reasonable time, subject to legal, operational, security, record-keeping or legitimate business reasons that may require us to retain certain information.

Deleting an account may affect access to open calls, applications, organisations and submission information.

Where an organiser account is deleted, we may need to retain certain open call, application, payment, audit or communication records for legal, operational, tax, accounting, dispute-resolution or security reasons.

27. Curioso intellectual property

Curioso, including the brand, name, logo, design, software, interface, workflows, text, platform content and underlying technology, is owned by AM Foundry Ltd or its licensors.

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use Curioso in accordance with these terms.

You must not:

use Curioso in a way that exceeds the access we provide.

You must not access or attempt to access Curioso through unauthorised technical methods, including scraping, crawling, bots, scripts, automated tools, security probing, reverse engineering or bypassing access controls.

You must not access or use Curioso, including by creating an account, publishing test open calls, submitting test applications, reviewing platform workflows or using non-public areas of the service, for the purpose of researching, developing, benchmarking, validating, informing, improving or supporting a competing product, service, platform or business without our prior written permission.

This restriction applies whether you are already operating a competing product or service, are considering doing so, are acting on behalf of someone who may do so, or are gathering information that could reasonably be used to create, improve or support a competing product or service.

You must not use Curioso to gather product, design, workflow, pricing, user experience, feature, market or commercial intelligence for any competitor, prospective competitor, client, employer, investor or third party without our prior written permission.

We may suspend or terminate access if we reasonably believe the service is being used for competitive research, benchmarking, copying or product development in breach of these terms.

28. Third-party services

Curioso may use third-party services to operate the platform, including payment processing, hosting, email delivery, analytics, storage and security services.

Stripe processes payments for Curioso. Your use of Stripe may be subject to Stripe’s own terms and policies.

We are not responsible for third-party services, websites, platforms or tools that we do not control, except where required by law.

29. International use

Curioso is operated from the United Kingdom.

We do not guarantee that Curioso is appropriate, available or compliant for use in every country.

If you access or use Curioso from outside the United Kingdom, you are responsible for complying with any local laws that apply to you.

If local law prevents you from using Curioso, you must not use the service.

30. Liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation and any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law.

Subject to the above, Curioso is not responsible for:

Curioso is not responsible for losses, claims or disputes arising from an organiser’s open call, except to the extent caused directly by Curioso’s breach of these terms, negligence or failure to provide the service with reasonable care and skill.

If you are a business user, our total liability to you is capped at the greater of: (a) the fees you paid to us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or (b) £100.

If you are a consumer, our liability is limited only to the extent permitted by law.

31. Consumer rights

Some users may use Curioso as individuals rather than businesses.

Nothing in these terms affects any legal rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded or limited by law.

Payments are non-refundable except where required by law or where we expressly agree otherwise.

If you are a business user, you do not have an automatic right to cancel a paid open call once payment has been completed, unless we expressly agree otherwise.

If you are a consumer, you may have a legal right to cancel certain online purchases within 14 days. However, where you ask us to begin providing the digital service immediately, including by publishing or preparing to publish your open call after payment, you may lose the right to cancel once performance of the service has begun, where permitted by law.

Before payment, we may ask you to confirm that you want Curioso to begin providing the service immediately after payment and that you understand this may affect your cancellation rights.

This does not affect any rights you may have where the service is faulty, not as described, or where we are otherwise required by law to provide a refund.

32. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time.

If we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify users, for example by email, in-platform notice or updating the date at the top of these terms.

Your continued use of Curioso after the updated terms take effect means you accept the updated terms.

If you do not agree to the updated terms, you must stop using Curioso.

33. Governing law and jurisdiction

If you have a concern or complaint about Curioso, please contact us first at [email protected] so we can try to resolve it.

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.

If you are a business user, the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with these terms.

If you are a consumer, you may bring proceedings in the courts of England and Wales, or in the courts of the country where you live if applicable law gives you that right

34. Contact us

If you have any questions about these terms, contact us at:

[email protected]