LEGAL INFORMATION
Privacy Policy
This page explains how The Yoga Spotâ„¢ collects, uses, stores and protects your personal information in accordance with UK data protection legislation.
The Yoga Spotâ„¢
Owner: Anna Andraszek
Effective Date: July 2026
At The Yoga Spotâ„¢, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal information is handled with care and respect. This policy explains what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you whilst you visit our site or use our services.
We provide yoga classes, workshops, retreats, and wellbeing services. To provide these effectively, we occasionally need to collect information about our clients. This document outlines how we comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
1. Who We Are
The Yoga Spotâ„¢ is owned and operated by Anna Andraszek. For the purposes of data protection laws, Anna Andraszek is the Data Controller. If you have any questions regarding your data, you can contact us at: anna@the-yoga-spot.com.
2. Information We Collect
Personal Information
- Name and contact details (email address, phone number).
- Home address (if required for billing or specific home-based services).
Booking Information
- Details of the classes, workshops, or retreats you have attended or booked.
- Payment information (processed securely through third-party providers; we do not store full credit card details).
Health Information
- Information regarding your physical health or injuries, provided by you via a health questionnaire. This is 'Special Category Data' used solely to ensure your safety during practice.
Newsletter and Marketing
- Your name and email address, if you choose to sign up for our mailing list.
Website Information
- Technical data such as IP address, browser type, and location, collected via cookies for website performance.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information that we collect from you to provide our services. In addition to this we may use the information for one or more of the following purposes:
- To process and manage your bookings and class attendance.
- To provide you with information that you request from us relating to our products or services.
- To inform you of any changes to our website, services or goods and products.
- To ensure your safety during physical practice (Health Information).
- To send you newsletters and promotional materials, if you have opted in.
4. Legal Basis for Processing
Under the UK GDPR, we rely on the following lawful bases for processing your personal data:
- Contract: For processing related to bookings and providing our services.
- Consent: For marketing communications (mailing list).
- Legal Obligation: For tax and accounting purposes.
- Legitimate Interests: To improve our offerings and manage the business.
For health information, we rely on your explicit consent, which is obtained at the point of collection via our health questionnaire.
5. Sharing Your Information
We will not disclose your personal information to any other party other than in accordance with this Privacy Policy and in the circumstances detailed below:
- Service Providers: We use third-party platforms to help run our business, such as booking software (e.g., Momoyoga or similar), email marketing (e.g., Mailchimp), and payment processors (e.g., Stripe). These providers have their own privacy policies.
- Legal Compliance: Where we are legally required by law to disclose your personal information.
6. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Most yoga-related data is kept for a period of seven years following your last attendance for insurance purposes.
7. Keeping Your Information Secure
The Yoga Spotâ„¢ takes data security seriously. We use secure servers and trusted software providers to store your information. While the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, we do our best to protect your personal data through administrative and technical safeguards.
8. Your Rights
Under data protection laws, you have rights including:
- Access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
- Rectification: You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate.
- Erasure: You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Restriction: You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information.
- Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
- Data Portability: You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation.
9. Marketing Communications
You will only receive marketing emails from The Yoga Spotâ„¢ if you have explicitly signed up. You can unsubscribe from these communications at any time by clicking the 'unsubscribe' link in any email or by contacting us directly.
10. Cookies
Cookies provide information regarding the computer used by a visitor. We may use cookies where appropriate to gather information about your computer in order to assist us in improving our website. We use cookies to:
- Recognise when you return to our site.
- Gather statistics on how visitors interact with the site.
- Ensure the site functions correctly for your browser.
11. Third-Party Links
On occasion we include links to third parties on this website. Where we provide a link it does not mean that we endorse or approve that site's policy towards visitor privacy. You should review their privacy policy before sending them any personal data.
12. Children's Privacy
Our services are not intended for use by children under the age of 16 without parental consent. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This policy was last updated in July 2026.
14. Complaints
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at anna@the-yoga-spot.com. You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.