Our privacy policy

This is the privacy policy for the leithsacademy.com website operated by Leiths School of Food and Wine Limited who is the data controller for information collected through this site. The purpose of this policy is to inform you on how we collect and use your information when you use our website. At Leiths, we are committed to being fair and transparent about how we collect, use and protect your personal information.

Why do we collect and use your information?

• To provide you with the best possible experience and service;
• To use your information for market research and for updating our website;
• To ensure all cookery courses, cookery classes and events are safe and accessible to you;
• To process your payments and keep internal records;
• To send you newsletters, magazines, brochures and prospectuses;
• To send you promotional materials that may interest you.

What information do we collect?

• Your date of birth, gender, job title, company information if booking corporate events, contact information such as e-mail and telephone;
• Your payment information such as credit/debit card numbers;
• Your browsing information such as information about the webpages you visit on our site collected by browsing cookies, IP address, location, activity on our website;
• Your medical or health information including any food allergies, special requirements and educational needs you may have for enrolling into our cooking classes and events.

We collect this information from a variety of sources. These include from you directly when use of our website, attend any course, class, use a voucher or make purchases; fill in any sign-up forms that you complete for courses, open evenings or events; and any subscriptions or requests you fill out for our newsletters, magazines, brochures and prospectuses.  It may also include where others provide your information on your behalf for the uses above.

Legal basis for using your information

• We use your personal information because we have a legitimate business interests in in providing you with the best possible experience, telling you about our goods and services and ensuring we can run our business and to carry out analytics and research.
• Where we have contracted to provide a service or process your online orders we will process your information in order to fulfil our contract with you.
• We also use your personal information because we have a set of legal obligations, such as meeting our taxation duties and managing legal claims.

Who do we share your information with?

We may share your information with third parties if you give us permission to do so. If granted permission, we will only do so selectively and carefully. You can withdraw your permission for this at any time. We may also be obliged to share your information with third parties where legally required to do so under relevant laws and government requests, or when a separate organisation, such as the Wine and Spirit Education Trust or the Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality has accredited the course, or when the course is being offered in partnership with an outside training provider such as Chef’s Training.

We may transfer your information abroad and outside the European Economic Area for business purposes and also for using services such as Google Analytics. If we do so, we will ensure adequate safeguards are in place such as confidentiality agreements protecting your information.

Links to other websites

This privacy policy is only for Leiths.com. It does not cover any websites that can be accessed from our website including any links we may provide to social media websites. For any other websites please refer to their own privacy policies.

Security and retention

Protecting your information is of great importance to us, and we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard any information we collect from you.

We hold your information for as long as we have a business need to do so. For example, we may hold your information to meet our taxation obligations and manage any legal claims. In any event we will not hold your information for longer than 6 years.

Your Rights

You have a number of rights with regards to your information. In some circumstances you can:

• Access and obtain a copy of your information (if necessary in a machine readable format);
• Require us to amend incorrect or incomplete information;
• Require us to stop collecting or delete your information;
• Object to the way we are processing your information;

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, or put through a request for a copy of your data, please contact our Data Protection Officer by emailing dataprotection@leiths.com.

If you have any complaints regarding how we have collected or handled your information, you may report a complaint to dataprotection@leiths.com.

The full legal name of our business who is the data controller for your data is:  

Leiths School of Food and Wine Limited
Postal address:  16-20 Wendell Road, London, W12 9RT, UK.

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8749 6400

You also have a right to contact the Information Commissioner who is the Data Privacy Regulator for the UK.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file stored in your computer when you use our website. We use cookies to personalise your experience and to improve our range of products and services. When you visit Leiths.com you can choose to accept or decline cookies in your internet browser. By giving permission you allow us to provide a better experience and service to you. You can also refuse to give permission, however certain features of the website may not work as intended. You can delete these cookies any time.