Privacy Policy

This website is operated by Julian Elphick-Smith, trading as julianesenglish, providing private English tuition services in the United Kingdom.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, Julian Elphick-Smith is the data controller responsible for your personal data.

You can contact us at: jje_s@me.com

We may collect and process the following personal data:

• Contact information - your name and email address when you submit the contact form on this website.
• Enquiry details - information you provide in your message, such as the student's year group, subjects of interest, or any other details you choose to share.
• Communications - records of correspondence between us by email or other means.

We do not collect sensitive personal data (such as health information) through this website. If such information becomes relevant to tuition arrangements, it will be handled separately and with your explicit consent.

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To respond to your enquiry and discuss tuition arrangements.
• To manage the tuition relationship, including scheduling and communications.
• To comply with any legal obligations.

We do not use your data for marketing purposes, and we do not send unsolicited emails.

Under UK GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases:

• Legitimate interests - to respond to enquiries and manage tuition arrangements, where our interests are not overridden by your rights.
• Contract performance - where processing is necessary to fulfil a tuition agreement with you.
• Legal obligation - where we are required to process data to comply with the law.

Your personal data is stored securely. We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect it against unauthorised access, loss, or disclosure.

We retain your data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, or as required by law. Enquiry data from individuals who do not become pupils is typically deleted within 12 months. Data relating to active or former pupils is retained for a reasonable period following the end of tuition.

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for their own purposes.

We may share data with trusted service providers who assist us in operating this website or our communications (for example, email hosting providers), where they are bound by appropriate data protection obligations.

We may disclose data where required to do so by law or by a regulatory authority.

This website may use cookies or similar technologies to support its operation. We do not currently use third-party analytics or advertising cookies.

If you have any questions about cookies used on this site, please contact us.

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

• Right of access - to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification - to ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to erasure - to ask us to delete your data in certain circumstances.
• Right to restriction - to ask us to restrict processing in certain circumstances.
• Right to object - to object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Right to data portability - to receive your data in a structured, commonly used format.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at jje_s@me.com. We will respond within one month.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK's supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), at ico.org.uk.

Our tuition services are provided to pupils aged 11 to 18. Enquiries and communications are typically made by parents or guardians on behalf of their child. We process only the data necessary to provide the tuition service, and we do not knowingly collect personal data directly from children without parental involvement.

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page indicates when it was last revised. We encourage you to review it periodically.

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or how we handle your data, please contact us:

Julian Elphick-Smith
julianesenglish
jje_s@me.com