Privacy Policy

Marketing For Schools is committed to protecting your privacy and personal data. We comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).

This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal information when you use our website.

We are the data controller for the personal data we process. Contact us at hello@marketingforschools.co.uk for any privacy-related questions.

We use cookies to improve your browsing experience and understand how visitors use our website. You can control cookie preferences through our cookie consent banner.

Essential Cookies: Required for the website to function properly. These cannot be disabled and include session management and security features.

Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve our services. These cookies collect anonymized data including pages visited, time spent on site, and traffic sources. You can opt out via the cookie consent banner.

Marketing Cookies: Currently not in use. If we implement marketing cookies in the future, we will ask for your explicit consent.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clearing your browser's localStorage for 'mfs-cookie-consent'.

When you submit our contact form, we collect:

• Your name and school name (if provided)
• Your email address
• Your phone number (if provided)
• Your message content

How we use this data: We use your contact information solely to respond to your inquiry and provide information about our services. We do not share this data with third parties or use it for marketing without your explicit consent.

Data retention: Contact form submissions are retained for up to 12 months to maintain a record of correspondence. After this period, data is securely deleted unless required for ongoing business relationships.

Contact form submissions are processed via Web3Forms, a GDPR-compliant service. Web3Forms does not store your data and acts only as a secure email relay.

Information you provide: Name, email address, phone number, school name, and any other information you choose to share when contacting us or using our services.

Automatically collected information: When you visit our website, we may automatically collect technical information including IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages viewed. This is collected via Google Analytics (if you consent) and is used solely for improving our website.

Lawful basis: We process your personal data based on legitimate interests (responding to inquiries, improving our website) and, where required, your explicit consent (analytics cookies).

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

Website security: Our website uses HTTPS encryption to protect data in transit. We host on Cloudflare Pages, which provides enterprise-grade security and DDoS protection.

Access controls: Only authorized personnel have access to personal data, and access is limited to what is necessary for their role.

Data breach notification: In the unlikely event of a data breach affecting your personal data, we will notify you and the relevant authorities within 72 hours as required by GDPR.

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right to access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

Right to rectification: You can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.

Right to erasure: You can request deletion of your personal data ('right to be forgotten').

Right to restrict processing: You can ask us to limit how we use your data.

Right to data portability: You can request your data in a machine-readable format.

Right to object: You can object to processing based on legitimate interests.

Right to withdraw consent: Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello@marketingforschools.co.uk. We will respond within one month.

Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze website traffic (with your consent). Google Analytics collects anonymized data and is configured to respect user privacy. Read Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy

Web3Forms: Contact form submissions are processed via Web3Forms. They act as a secure email relay and do not store your data. Read their privacy policy at https://web3forms.com/privacy

Cloudflare: Our website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare may collect technical information for security and performance purposes. Read Cloudflare's privacy policy at https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

We do not share your personal data with any other third parties without your explicit consent, except where required by law.

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements.

When we make significant changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent notice on our website or, where appropriate, by email.

Last updated: 27 March 2026

We encourage you to review this privacy policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your data.