Privacy Policy

 

Information for you about how we look after personal information about yourself and your child.

• Contact details

• What information we collect, use, and why

• Lawful bases and data protection rights

• Where we get personal information from

• How long we keep information

• Who we share information with

• How to complain

 

Contact details

Email

info@brightermindscoaching.co.uk

 

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information for student education and welfare:

• Names and contact details for students/children, parents/carers

• Gender

• Date of birth

• Next of kin and emergency contact information

• Additional support needs information (including those that may not have a formal diagnosis)

• Welfare information (includes family and home life circumstances and history)

• Progress reports

We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:

• Names and contact details

 

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

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Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

• Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. Read more about the right of access.

• Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. Read more about the right to rectification.

• Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. Read more about the right to erasure.

• Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. Read more about the right to restriction of processing.

• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. Read more about the right to object to processing.

• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. Read more about the right to data portability.

• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Read more about the right to withdraw consent.

 

​If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

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Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for student education and welfare are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we give you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

• Contract - we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:

• Contract - we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

 

Where we get personal information from

• Parents or carers

• Students/children

 

How long we keep information

We will only retain personal information:

• For as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes it was collected for as set out in this Privacy Notice.

• We will not normally keep personal data for longer than 24 months after services have ceased.  

 

 

Who we share information with

Others we share personal information with

• Organisations we need to share information with for safeguarding reasons. Information may be provided to local or public authorities where welfare and child protection issues arise.  

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How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

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The ICO’s address:        

  

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Last updated October 2025