Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. It is Windmill Theatre School’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, www.windmillts.co.uk and other sites & social media we own and operate.

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used.We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

We don’t share any personally identifying information publicly or with third-parties, except when required to by law. This does not apply to our ‘class manager’ - a third party site that Windmill Theatre School uses for payments, registers and storage.

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.

Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information.

Cookies

About Cookies
This website, along with most other major websites, use 'Cookies'. Cookies are tiny pieces of text that a website transfers to the cookie file on your computer or mobile device. The cookies we use cannot harm your computer, do not contain any personal information, and cannot be used to identify you.

'First Party' Cookies
We use 'first party' cookies for Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google. These cookies don't identify you as an individual. All data is collected and aggregated anonymously to help us report on the overall usage and effectiveness of the website. Further information can be found on the Google website at http://bit.ly/MFEWuPWe also use cookies for the 'Recently Viewed' page. People can visit our website several times before making a decision on which tea to book, and this feature records which pages you viewed over the previous two weeks. Again these cookies don't identify you as an individual and we don't store any information on our server.

How to delete and block our cookies
If you want to delete or block our cookies you can do so using your browser's settings. If you would like detailed instructions as to how to do this we recommend you take a look at the guides at AboutCookies.org. Your use of our website without modifying your cookie settings means you consent to our use of cookies.

GDPR

General Information Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)
This is further information specifically in reference to GDPR.
Windmill Theatre School (I/We) is concerned about protecting and respecting your privacy. The purpose of this Notice is to:  

  • Reassure you that we fully respects your privacy and the information relating to you, otherwise known as your Personal Data, which is provided to us 

  • Describe the personal data that Windmill Theatre School collect about you, how it is used and shared, and your rights in relation to it.

    What information do we hold

  • We hold your first name, surname, phone number, address, email address and company name where applicable

  • We hold your child’s/children first name, surname, date of birth, gender, address and relevant medical information.

  • This information is collected through a sign up form which you would have completed either on the Windmill Theatre School website, our paper based form, class manager or through the various social media accounts 

  • The information we hold is used to email you to gain feedback, special offers and newsletters as well as the information necessary to provide our classes in a safe manner.

  • Your information will not be sent to third parties for marketing.

  • Our data is stored on class manager - we ONLY use class manager for effective storage of information, so that our teachers can contact you in an emergency and taking payments. Please see the separate policies for class manager.

  • Your information can be requested at any time and you can unsubscribe at any time

    Request for more information

    If you would like to know more about The Windmill Theatre School , our business, cookies, or any of the issues discussed here, then please get in touch by email to info@windmillts.co.uk. 

For class manager please see below:

https://classmanager.com/privacy/

Payment Information

Any credit/debit card payments and other payments you make through our Class Manager will be processed by our third party payment providers and the payment data you submit will be securely stored and encrypted by our payment service providers using up to date industry standards. Please note that we do not ourselves directly process or store the debit/credit card data that you submit.

You may choose to opt out of our third party payment providers holding your card or payment data although this means that you will need to re-supply us with card/payment details to pay via our third party site or pay via alternative methods. If you do not make payment, we reserve the right to now allow your child/children to continue to take classes.

Social Media

  • Students, teachers and parents are not to post of any photographs of themselves (in Windmill Uniform) or other students (at any time) without express permission of the child, their parents and Windmill Theatre School.

  • Students, teachers and parents are not to post information or location of themselves (in Windmill Uniform) or other students (at any time) without express permission of the child, their parents and Windmill Theatre School.

  • Posts on social media sites becomes the property of those sites and could be used at some time in the future, Windmill Theatre School will not post pictures or information without permission.

  •  Any unkind comments, even of a joking nature, will be viewed by Windmill Theatre School as bullying and will be dealt with very severely.

  • Students, teachers and parents must flag to the Windmill Theatre School team if any of the above is not being adhered to, of which the team will deal with

  • This policy is effective as of 11/9/22