Privacy Policy updated August 2025
Whole Brain Home Education is committed to protecting the privacy of all personal data collected from our visitors. We aim to provide an exceptional resource tool whilst safeguarding the security and privacy of all our visitors and subscribers.
This Privacy Policy explains Whole Brain Home Education’s information practices and the choices you can make regarding the information we collect and how we use it.
Who we are
Our website address is: http://www.wholebrainhomeeducation.co.uk. Our contact information can be found at: http://www.wholebrainhomeeducation.co.uk/contact/
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are stored by your internet browser on your computer, tablet or mobile. They are used to make websites work better or more efficiently. Websites are able to read and write these text files, enabling them to recognise you and important information about you – such as your settings and preferences.
Most web browsers will automatically accept cookies; however, if you wish to prevent this from happening, there is a simple procedure for most browsers that allows you to deny the cookie feature.
If you leave a comment on our website, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
The cookies we use on Whole Brain Home Education help us analysis how our visitors interact with our website – for instance, which pages are most popular / how you found our website / what type of device you used to view our website. We use this information to help us improve our website – for instance, making the website more ‘mobile friendly’ or making sure popular information is easily available on each page.
We Do Not collect any personally identifiable data through the cookies on our website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We promise we will NEVER share your details with anyone else.
How long we retain your data
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Analytical information collected to help us analysis and improve our website will be stored for a period of 3 years.
When will we use your information?
Information collected about our website users will only be accessed and reviewed when we make updates to our website.
How will we keep your data safe
Information collected about our website users is stored in the back-end of the website on a secure server with the latest encryption and security technologies. Only the web designer and business owner have access to this server.
What rights you have over your data
Under the new GDPR Regulations (May 2018), individuals have the right to request the following :
- To see what information a business stores about them
- To make updates/amendments to this information if it is incorrect
- To request that part of the information stored is deleted
- To request that all the information stored is deleted
If you would like to request any of the above, please contact us at http://www.wholebrainhomeeducation.co.uk/contact/
We will reply to all requests within 48 hours, but it may take up to 5 working days to access and collate your information.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may make changes to our Privacy Policy in the future in accordance with new regulations or after reviewing our business practices. The date at the top of this Policy will identify the last time this Policy was updated. Your continued use of our services after this date will constitute your agreement to the terms of the Privacy Policy.