Privacy & Cookie Policy
This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of vitalthread .co.uk
By providing us with your data, you assure me that you are over 13 years of age.
Josh Alward and Eilidh McCormick are the data controllers and we’re responsible for your personal data.
It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let me know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing Josh at josh @ vitalthread.co.uk
WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND WHY DO WE COLLECT IT?
While using our website, we may collect information about you such as:
your IP address and details about your browser and device
how you use our website
information you send through our website such as your name and email address and other information you provide through your inquiry
This helps us to:
analyse your use of our website
administer and enable all functions of our website
administer our business and personal records
deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
understand the effectiveness of our advertising and grow our business.
We use Google Analytics to track and analyse this data.
In addition, we use the following third-party service providers to process and store your data:
Calendly is the scheduling software from which users can book appointments with us. Please see Calendly’s privacy policy.
Typeform is the form and survey building software we use to collect student registration form. Please see Typeform’s privacy policy.
Mailchimp is the email marketing software we use to store your basic contact details in order to keep you posted about services and occasional offers. (More about this below.) Please see Mailchimp’s privacy policy.
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
We may process your personal data to send you marketing communications in order to grow our business.
We may send you marketing communications if:
you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our services
you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since.
Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes, We will get your express consent.
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by emailing Josh at josh @ vitalthread.co.uk at any time.
If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases of tuition and online courses.
WHAT ABOUT SENSITIVE DATA?
We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive Data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
We do not carry out automated decision making or any type of automated profiling.
WHY AND WITH WHOM MIGHT WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:
Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers
Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR DATA AND HOW LONG DO WE KEEP IT?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.
When deciding how long to keep the data for, we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, and if these can be achieved by other means for legal requirements.
For tax purposes, the law requires us to keep basic information about our clients (including contact, identity, financial and transaction data) for six years after they stop being clients.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.
You can see more about these rights at:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at josh @ vitalthread.co.uk.
WHAT ABOUT LINKS ON OUR WEBSITE TO THIRD-PARTY SITES?
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of other websites you visit.
ONLINE TUITION RECORDINGS VIA ZOOM
Recordings of classes are for your continued learning and will be made available to you shortly after our classes together. If you have given us permission to record online tuition via Zoom, recordings will be securely stored on a password protected device. Your class recordings can be removed or deleted at your request at any time. No one else will have access or will be able to view your recording.
Cookie Policy
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
What’s a cookie?
A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
You can change what types of cookies you accept within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of my site.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to:
Anonymously track your use of our website so we can analyse patterns of usage and develop and improve our website as well as products and services in response to what you might need or want
Recognise when you return to our website
Test the effectiveness of new content on our website