Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 2026
G Major Music Makers respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide to us.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect your personal information when you visit our website, enquire about our services, book music lessons or otherwise communicate with us.
G Major Music Makers is based in the Lanarkshire and Clydesdale area and provides music tuition in guitar, bass, drums and piano/keys.
1. Who we are
The organisation responsible for your personal information is:
G Major Music Makers
Owned and operated by
Email: info@gmajormusicmakers.com
Telephone: 07394451420
For the purposes of UK data protection law, G Major Music Makers is the data controller for the personal information we collect and use.
2. What information we collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect information such as:
Contact information
- Name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Postal address where necessary
Lesson and enquiry information
- The instrument you are interested in
- Your preferred lesson arrangements
- Your age or the age of the student where relevant
- Information about your musical experience and goals
- Information you provide when making an enquiry or booking
Parent or guardian information
Where lessons are arranged for a child or young person, we may collect the name and contact details of a parent or guardian and information necessary to arrange and manage the lessons.
Website information
When you use our website, technical information may also be collected, such as your IP address, browser type, device information and information about how you use the website, depending on the cookies and analytics services enabled on the site.
3. How we collect your information
We may collect personal information when you:
- Complete a contact or enquiry form
- Request information about lessons
- Make a booking
- Contact us by telephone, email or social media
- Sign up to receive marketing communications
- Communicate with us about an existing lesson
- Visit or use our website
We may also receive information from a parent or guardian when lessons are being arranged for a child.
4. Why we use your information
We use personal information to:
- Respond to enquiries and questions
- Arrange and manage music lessons
- Process bookings
- Communicate with students and parents or guardians
- Provide information about our services
- Manage lesson schedules and administration
- Maintain appropriate business records
- Improve our website and services
- Respond to complaints or enquiries
- Protect the security of our website and business
- Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
- Send marketing communications where we are legally permitted to do so
We will only use your personal information for purposes that are compatible with the reason we collected it, unless the law allows or requires us to use it for another reason.
5. Our lawful bases for using your information
Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for processing personal information.
Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:
Contract
We may need to process your information to arrange or provide music lessons that you have requested or agreed to.
Legitimate interests
We may use information where it is necessary for the legitimate operation and administration of G Major Music Makers, provided that our interests do not unfairly override your rights.
For example, this may include responding to enquiries, managing existing customer relationships and improving our services.
Consent
Where required, we may ask for your consent before using your information for particular purposes, such as certain marketing communications or non-essential cookies.
You can withdraw consent where consent is the lawful basis for processing.
Legal obligation
We may process information where this is necessary for us to comply with a legal or regulatory requirement.
6. Marketing
We may occasionally contact you about G Major Music Makers services, news, lesson availability, offers or other relevant information.
Where consent is required for electronic marketing, we will only send marketing communications where we have obtained the appropriate consent or where another lawful route applies.
You can ask us to stop sending marketing communications at any time by contacting us or using the unsubscribe option where one is provided.
7. Children's information
G Major Music Makers provides music tuition to children, young people and adults.
We take particular care when processing information relating to children.
Where we require personal information about a child for lesson enquiries, bookings or administration, we may collect that information from their parent or guardian where appropriate.
We only collect information that is reasonably necessary for the provision and administration of lessons and will not knowingly collect more information about a child than we need.
If you believe we have collected personal information about a child incorrectly or unnecessarily, please contact us.
8. Sharing your information
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share personal information with trusted third parties where this is necessary to operate the website or provide our services.
Depending on the services used by the website, these may include:
- Wix, our website hosting and website management provider
- Website form and communication services
- Email service providers
- Booking or scheduling systems, where used
- Payment providers, where used
- Website analytics providers, where enabled
- Professional advisers where necessary
- Government bodies, regulators or law enforcement where legally required
Third-party providers may process information on our behalf. We expect them to handle personal information securely and in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.
The exact third-party services used by the website should be reviewed and reflected in this section before publication.
9. Wix and third-party services
Our website is built and hosted using Wix.
Wix may process personal information on our behalf in connection with website hosting, forms, security, functionality and other services we enable.
Other third-party services may also be connected to the website, such as analytics, booking, payment or social-media features.
Where third-party services are used, they may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and terms.
10. Cookies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to operate correctly, maintain security or provide requested functionality.
Other cookies, such as analytics or marketing cookies, may be optional.
Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies on your device.
You should be provided with appropriate choices to accept or reject non-essential cookies.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings.
11. How long we keep your information
We will only keep personal information for as long as we reasonably need it for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
The length of time information is retained will depend on the type of information and why we need it.
For example, information relating to an enquiry may be kept for as long as reasonably necessary to deal with the enquiry and any resulting relationship.
Information relating to customers, bookings and financial records may need to be retained for longer where necessary for legal, accounting, insurance or other legitimate business purposes.
When personal information is no longer required, we will securely delete it or anonymise it where appropriate.
12. How we protect your information
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against:
- Unauthorised access
- Loss
- Misuse
- Alteration
- Unauthorised disclosure
- Destruction
However, no method of transmitting information over the internet or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
13. International transfers
Some of the third-party providers we use may process personal information outside the UK.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that the transfer is carried out in accordance with applicable UK data protection requirements.
Where relevant, appropriate safeguards may include adequacy regulations or approved contractual safeguards.
14. Your data protection rights
Depending on the circumstances, you have rights under UK data protection law including the right to:
Access the personal information we hold about you.
Correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
Request deletion of your personal information where there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
Request restriction of how we use your information in certain circumstances.
Object to certain types of processing, including some processing based on legitimate interests.
Withdraw consent where we are relying on consent to process your information.
Data portability in certain circumstances, allowing you to obtain and reuse certain personal information in a commonly used format.
These rights are subject to certain legal conditions and exemptions.
15. How to exercise your rights
To make a request about your personal information, please contact us using:
Email: info@gmajormusicmakers.com
Telephone: 07394 451 420
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
We will normally respond to a valid request within the time period required by applicable data protection law.
16. Complaints
If you have a concern about how we have handled your personal information, we encourage you to contact us first so that we can try to resolve the issue.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's independent regulator for data protection.
Information Commissioner's Office
Website: ico.org.uk
17. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our services, website, technology or legal requirements.
The latest version will always be published on this page, together with the date it was last updated.