Privacy & Cookie Policy

Last updated: October 2026

Confidence in Spanish is committed to respecting your privacy and keeping your personal information safe. This policy explains what personal information I collect, why I collect it, how I use it and the choices you have about your information.

1. Who I am

Confidence in Spanish is a Spanish tutoring business run by Suzie Goldsmith.

If you have any questions about how I use your personal information, you can contact me at:

Email: confidenceinspanish@gmail.com

2. What information I collect

The information I collect depends on how you interact with Confidence in Spanish.

If you contact me or enquire about lessons

I may collect information such as:

your name;
your email address;
your telephone number, if you choose to provide it; and
information you choose to share about the Spanish tuition you are looking for.

Once you become a client, I may collect additional information that is reasonably necessary to provide tuition and manage your lessons.

If you complete a form

I may collect your name, email address and, where relevant, your home address and other information that you choose to provide.

If you join my email list

If you sign up to receive Spanish tips, resources and updates, I collect your name and email address and record your marketing preferences.

My email list is managed using MailerLite.

3. How I use your information

I use personal information where necessary to:

respond to enquiries;
arrange and provide Spanish lessons;
communicate with students and parents/carers about lessons;
provide resources you have requested;
manage my business and keep appropriate records;
send invoices and deal with payments where relevant;
send Spanish tips, resources and updates if you have chosen to receive marketing emails; and
keep my website and services secure and functioning properly.

I only collect information that I reasonably need for these purposes.

4. My lawful basis for using your information

Data protection law requires me to have a lawful basis for processing personal information.

Depending on why I am using your information, I may rely on:

Contract: where I need information to arrange or provide tuition or to take steps at your request before providing tuition.

Legitimate interests: where I need to use information for reasonable business purposes, such as responding to enquiries, maintaining business records or managing and improving my services.

Legal obligation: where I need to keep or provide information because the law requires me to do so.

Consent: where you have actively chosen to receive marketing emails from me or where consent is required for certain cookies or similar technologies.

You can withdraw your consent to marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in my emails or by contacting me at confidenceinspanish@gmail.com.

5. Email marketing

If you choose to join my mailing list, I may send you Spanish tips, resources and updates from Confidence in Spanish.

My signup form includes a separate opt-in checkbox so that you can actively choose whether to receive these emails.

My email marketing is managed using MailerLite. MailerLite processes personal data on my behalf to provide email marketing and automation services. You can read more about how MailerLite handles personal data in its own privacy policy.

You can unsubscribe from my marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing email.

6. Who I share your information with

I do not sell or rent your personal information.

I may share personal information with trusted service providers where this is necessary to run my business. These currently include:

Squarespace, which hosts my website;
MailerLite, which provides my email marketing and automation service;
Google, where I use Google Forms to collect information; and
Pencil Spaces, where relevant, when you separately join an online class or lesson using that platform.

These organisations process information according to their own privacy and data protection policies as well as the arrangements they have with their customers.

I may also share information where I am legally required to do so.

7. How long I keep your information

I keep personal information only for as long as I reasonably need it for the purpose for which it was collected, including any period necessary to meet legal, accounting or other record-keeping requirements.

When information is no longer needed, I will securely delete it or anonymise it where appropriate.

Marketing information will be kept while you remain subscribed to my mailing list. If you unsubscribe, I will stop sending you marketing emails and retain only the information necessary to record your unsubscribe preference and comply with my legal obligations.

8. Keeping your information secure

I take reasonable steps to protect personal information from being lost, misused, accessed without permission or disclosed inappropriately.

No method of transmitting or storing information online is completely secure, but I take appropriate practical measures to protect the information I hold.

9. Your rights

Under data protection law, you have rights over your personal information. Depending on the circumstances, these include the right to:

ask what personal information I hold about you;
ask me to correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
ask me to delete your personal information in certain circumstances;
ask me to restrict how I use your information in certain circumstances;
object to certain types of processing; and
withdraw consent where I am relying on consent to process your information.

You can also unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact me at:

confidenceinspanish@gmail.com

I will respond to requests within the timeframe required by applicable data protection law.

10. Cookies

My website is hosted by Squarespace and uses cookies and similar technologies.

Some cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function properly. These cookies do not require your consent where they are genuinely necessary to provide the service you have requested.

Squarespace may also use non-essential cookies, including cookies associated with analytics and website functionality. I have configured my website so that non-essential cookies are restricted unless you give consent.

When you visit my website, you can use the cookie banner to choose whether to accept or decline non-essential cookies.

You can change your cookie preferences through the cookie settings on my website.

I do not currently use Google Analytics or the Meta/Facebook Pixel on my website.

If I introduce additional analytics, advertising or other non-essential tracking technologies in the future, I will review and update this policy and my cookie settings where necessary.

11. Links to other websites

My website may contain links to other websites or online services.

I am not responsible for the privacy practices or content of websites operated by other organisations. I recommend checking their privacy policies when you visit them.

12. Changes to this policy

I may update this Privacy & Cookie Policy from time to time, for example if I introduce new services, website features or marketing tools.

The latest version will always be available on my website and the date at the top of the policy will show when it was last updated.

13. Complaints

If you have any concerns about how I have used your personal information, please contact me first at: