Thanks for visiting Bossing your Birth. We take your privacy very seriously. When it comes to your personal information, we believe in transparency, not surprises. That’s why we’ve set out here what personal information we collect, what we do with it and your choices and rights.
Bossing your Birth may be required to change this policy periodically by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
Our contact details.
Company name: Bossing your Birth
Name: Zoe Hyde
Phone Number: 07725 109245
E-mail: zoe@bossingyourbirth.com
What type of information we have.
We currently collect and process the following information:
Personal contact information: Name, address (only if necessary), email and telephone number.
Information about your circumstances: Estimated due date and number of children.
Other information: Previous antenatal classes attended, how you heard of classes and why you chose to attend. Birth story testimonial and photo (only with your prior written consent).
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.
How we get the information and why we have it.
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
You are using our website to book onto one of our courses.
You have emailed or messaged us through Text message, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp or Instagram.
You are attending a class in person and we need your contact details for NHS Track and Trace purposes.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting zoe@bossingyourbirth.com
We have a contractual obligation.
We have a legal obligation.
We have a legitimate interest.
What we do with the information we have.
We use the information that you have given us in order to:
Enable effective communication with you in relation to your booking.
Improve our services and ensure they are the most informative and supportive they can be.
Promote positive birth stories to help others feel more positively about birth and to market our services.
Promote upcoming events, which we feel would be of interest to you, such as coffee mornings and other meet ups.
Provide details for NHS Track and Trace if you have attended an in person class and we have been instructed to by NHS Track and Trace.
How we store your information.
Your information is securely stored on a password protected device. For tax and insurance purposes we are required to keep basic information about you (including personal contact details, financial and transaction data) for five years. After that time we will then dispose of your information.
Third parties.
This website is hosted by Squarespace and uses Acuity scheduling (a Squarespace company) to process bookings and PayPal to facilitate financial transactions. Before booking please ensure you have read their Privacy policies:
This website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them. We can not be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement.
Your data protection rights.
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us at zoe@bossingyourbirth.com if you wish to make a request.
How to complain.
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF
