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Privacy policy

Last updated 29 October 2026.

This privacy policy explains what we do with the personal information you give us through this website, or when you contact us by phone, email or WhatsApp. It covers auto-drive.net and any enquiry, call or lesson booking that starts here.

Who we are

This website is run by Auto-Drive Driving School. We are the data controller for the information described below, which means we decide how it is used and we are responsible for looking after it.

You can reach us by email at tajk5507@googlemail.com or by phone on 07572 923950. We will give you a postal address on request.

What we collect

When you contact us through this site, we collect:

  • your name;
  • your email address and, if you give it, your phone number;
  • your postcode, so we know where lessons would start;
  • your driving experience, the type of lesson you would like and the days and times that suit you, when you tell us;
  • what you write in the message, and anything else you add;
  • the date and time of the enquiry.

That is all the forms ask for. We do not ask for anything special, such as health information, and you should not send it. We take no payment details through this website.

If you contact us by phone, email or WhatsApp instead, we keep the same kind of details from that conversation.

Our website is measured with privacy-friendly analytics that count visits without identifying anybody. That produces totals, not a record about you.

Why we use it, and our lawful basis

We use what you send us to:

  • Reply to your enquiry about driving lessons. Our lawful basis is legitimate interests: you asked us to get in touch, and we cannot answer without your details. We only use them for the reason you sent them.
  • Confirm and manage your lessons, and give you the tuition you asked for, including contacting you about lesson times, cancellations or rescheduling. Our lawful basis is performance of a contract with you.
  • Keep the records we are required to keep. Payment and accounting records are kept because the law requires it.

We do not sell, share or pass your personal data to anyone else for their own use, and we do not use it for marketing without your explicit consent. If we ever want to send you marketing, we will ask first, and you can stop it at any time.

Who else sees it

We use a small number of suppliers who handle information on our behalf, under contract, and only on our instructions:

  • My Webby (RevUp Online Ltd) builds and hosts this website and keeps your enquiry or booking for us in our customer hub. My Webby is our data processor: it only uses your details to run these things for us. Its servers are in the EU, and its suppliers are listed in My Webby's privacy policy.
  • Postmark sends the emails that come from this website through My Webby, such as the one telling us you have been in touch and any email confirming your enquiry or booking. Postmark may process them in the United States, under UK-approved safeguards for data sent abroad.
  • Our email provider carries the emails we send and receive ourselves, including our reply to you.
  • WhatsApp (Meta) carries your messages if you contact us that way, under its own privacy policy.

Beyond that, we share your details only where we have to: with our accountant, or where the law requires it.

Checking enquiries for spam

Every enquiry and booking sent through this website is checked automatically for spam on My Webby's servers. The check looks at how the form was filled in (for example, whether it was sent faster than a person could type it), at the name and message, and at whether the same message or sender has been sent to several other websites My Webby runs. It uses no AI. One that looks like spam is set aside rather than deleted. We can still read it and put it back, and it is deleted after 30 days. The check has no legal effect on you, or anything of similar weight. If you think yours was caught by mistake, get in touch and a person will look at it.

Cookies

This website sets no tracking cookies at all. Our analytics are cookieless: they count a visit without storing anything on your device and without building a profile of you. That is why you are not asked to accept anything when you arrive.

If you arrive by clicking an advert, your browser keeps the reference from that link in its own storage (not a cookie), so it can go with an enquiry you send. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes it.

How long we keep it

We keep information for no longer than we need it. In practice that means:

  • Booking enquiries: up to 12 months.
  • Student records: for as long as you are having lessons with us, and up to 2 years after your last lesson.
  • Payment and accounting records: for as long as tax law requires.
  • Website analytics: totals only, with nothing that identifies you, kept for 2 years.
  • Enquiries and bookings set aside as spam: deleted automatically after 30 days.
  • My Webby's record of emails sent from this website: 90 days.

After that, your information is securely deleted.

If we stop using My Webby and close our account, it deletes everything it holds for us within 30 days.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have the right to:

  • be told what we do with your information, which is what this page is for;
  • see a copy of the information we hold about you;
  • have it corrected if it is wrong or incomplete;
  • have it deleted, where we no longer need it for the reasons above;
  • restrict how we use it while a question about it is sorted out;
  • object to us using it, including for any marketing;
  • have it moved to you or another provider in a portable form.

Apart from the spam check above, we make no decision about you by automated means.

To use any of these rights, email tajk5507@googlemail.com. We will respond within one month, and it costs you nothing. We may ask you to confirm who you are first, so we do not hand your details to somebody else.

Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, please tell us first and we will try to put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113. Complaining to us first does not affect that right.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle your information we will update this page and the date at the top of it.