Privacy Policy

This privacy policy specifies the personal data collected by Mad About Swing when you use our website, and expains how it is used.

Data collected when browsing the website

When you visit this website, a small amount of information is stored in web server access logs each time you load a page, including:

• Your IP addressⓘ
• The type of web browser you used
• The page you accessed, and the date and time of access

We collect this information for the purpose of access monitoring, to ensure the security and reliability of the website, and to detect misuse.

We do not retain raw access logs, containing IP addresses, for more than one month.

Anonymous usage statistics are calculated from these logs every 24 hours. These statistics do not contain personal data and may be retained indefinitely.

Data collected when using our class and event booking system

Data collected by Mad About Swing

To book for a class or event online, you must consent to us collecting and storing some data in addition to the data required for browsing the website. This information is entered directly by you in the booking form, and includes the following data:

• Your name, and the names of other people for whom you are booking
• Your e-mail address
• Your phone number, if you provide it
• The sessions for which you are booking, and the roles and groupings of participants in those sessions

We collect your data for the following purposes:

• Processing your booking and payment
• Detecting and preventing fraud or misuse
• Organising the classes or events for which you have booked
• Informing you (by phone, SMS, WhatsApp or e-mail) about changes to the classes and events for which you have booked
• Very occasionally, Mad About Swing might contact you to let you know about a forthcoming event.

Your consent is requested at the time of entering your data. If you do not consent, your data will not be stored, but we will be unable to process your booking.

We will keep the personal data you provide when booking our events for customer service purposes and to ensure traceability of payments. Please contact us if you would like to request a copy of, or removal of, your personal data and we will be happy to help. Anonymous attendance data may be retained indefinitely.

Data collected and transferred for processing online payments

If you pay for a class or event booking online, we must transfer some information to our payment processing partner SumUp, which may include:

• Your name
• Your e-mail address
• The name and date of the event you are booking
• The amount of the payment due
• A booking reference

You then submit your payment information, including the cardholder's name and card details, directly to SumUp through their secure web form ('payment widget'). Please refer to SumUp's privacy policy for more details of how this is stored and processed.

Mad About Swing does not receive or store your credit card details. We store a reference number for the online checkout process, and your SumUp transaction code, for payment traceability and customer service purposes.

CAPTCHA

As part of the booking process, you may be asked to complete a CAPTCHA to confirm that you are a genuine user, normally by ticking "I'm not a robot". This is provided by reCAPTCHA, a service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse. As part of this process, Google will collect and process some data in accordance with Google's privacy policy.

We include the CAPTCHA for the purpose of detecting and preventing fraud or misuse.

None of the personal information you enter in the booking form is transferred to Google or any other third party.

Cookies

Cookies are text files saved on your device by your web browser to store data when you are using a website.

Mad About Swing does not create or read any cookies when you use this website.

However, if you use our class and event booking system, Google may use cookies to implement the CAPTCHA in accordance with its privacy policy, and our payment processing partner SumUp may use cookies in accordance with its cookie policy. This usage is not managed by Mad About Swing.

Marketing

The data collected by Mad About Swing when you use this website will not be used for marketing purposes or advertising. This information will not be transferred to a third party except as specified in this policy.

Data storage and transmission

Your data are transferred over an encrypted HTTPS connection and stored in a password protected database on a server operated by our web hosting provider, HostGator, in accordance with their privacy policy and terms of service. HostGator acts as a processor of data submitted to this website and is GDPR compliant.

We will not transmit your data to third parties except as specified in this policy.

Your rights

We process your data in accordance with the UK GDPR. Under the UK and EU GDPR, all users are entitled the following:

• The right to access: you have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
• The right to rectification: you have the right to ask us to correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure: you have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing: you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: you have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we will respond to you within one month.

Changes to this privacy policy

We keep this privacy policy under regular review and publish any updates on this web page. This policy was last updated on 18th August 2026.

Contact details

Privacy or data protection related enquiries should be made using the contact details in the footer of this web page.

If you feel that we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner's Office.