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Empowering Your Circle - UK GDPR Policy

UK GDPR POLICY of Empowering Your Circle, Registered Office 268B Chase Road, Southgate, N14 6HF.  Phone: 07914 170411, email address: hazel@empoweringyourcircle.com.

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A. Type of Data held

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  1. The only data held by Empowering Your Circle is for clients and the only data collected is the clients’ full name, address, email address and any contact phone numbers.

  2. The above data is held for use of communication regarding training sessions and invoicing.


B.  How Data is stored

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  1. Data is stored securely both on a business laptop which has a secure password, only known by Hazel Theocharous, owner of Empowering Your CIrcle and on phone owned by Hazel Theocharous, which has a password only known by Hazel.

  2. If any work is carried out for a client, it is held in a client folder with client initials within the Empowering Your Circle main folder. Both folders are password protected.

  3. A paper based diary is kept and all training sessions are diarised in the diary with client’s initials and address but no phone number or email address. This diary is locked when not in use.

  4. In line with setting up a new UK GDPR policy, new systems have been put in place so that each new client will need to sign an agreement form to accept training session, amount and that I can hold data securely during the time of a contract and then archived for 6 years. These contracts will be stored within client folders online in the main Empowering Your Circle folder.

  5. Data will only be held as current if I am working with a client, otherwise any contract data will be archived for a period of 6 years.

  6. Any information held on a CRM for clients will also be deleted if no longer a current client except for a name so that a reminder is set to delete archived content after 6 years.


C.  Who has access to client data

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  1. Data is controlled and processed by Hazel Theocharous, the owner of Empowering Your Circle.

  2. Third party software programs used are:

Outlook
Paypal
Eventbrite

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Third parties have been checked to ensure they are UK GDPR compliant by Hazel Theocharous.

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D.  How data is processed

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  1. When a client contacts Empowering Your Circle by phone, a phone number and email address plus requirements are recorded in a notebook and an email is sent as a follow up with information on fees and if a training session has been agreed, this is sent as an appointment through Outlook. At this point with the new UK GDPR policy in place, a pdf of the UK GDPR policy will be forwarded to the new client.  The information recorded in the notebook is shredded as no longer required.

  2. Should a client contact Empowering Your Circle by email, Empowering Your Circle will respond by email providing the same information as advised in 1 above.

  3. If a client should contact Empowering Your Circle via social media, Empowering Your Circle will follow the same procedure as in 1 and 2 above.

  4. Should any work be carried out for a client, any work which may be undertaken is saved as either a Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, PDF file and is stored in a file as per point B2 above and emailed to the client.

 

E.  Marketing

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  1. Any new subscribers will need to double opt-in to a new list via the Empowering Your Circle website.

 

F.  Subject Access Request

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  1. Client can request access to data held by Empowering Your Circle, which will be provided within the designate one month period either by email or post.  You can email me via this link if you would like this.

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G. Data Register of data protection with ICO

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1. Hazel Theocharous T/AS Empowering Your Circle is registered with the ICO - Registration Reference: ZB867759. Date Registered: 19 February 2025 to 18 February 2026.

 

© Empowering Your Circle – 01 May 2025

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