Privacy notice – Nina Lenton
Activities of the company: planning and providing accountability for business projects; planning and providing accountability and inspiration for personal creative projects; coaching.
We keep this notice under regular review and will update it where necessary to reflect changes in the law or our data practices. Any updates will be added to this notice. This notice was last updated on: 22nd October 2025
Our contact details
Name: Nina Lenton, 3 Heynes Green, Maidenhead, SL6 3NA
E-mail: nina@ninalenton.co.uk
What type of information we have
We collect and process the following information:
Clients and potential clients (owners of small businesses, freelancers, private individuals)
- Company
- Name
- Phone
- Address
- Job role
- Voice/image
Contacts needed to manage projects – suppliers, collaborators
- Company
- Name
- Phone
- Address
- Job role
- cv
How we get the information and why we have it
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
- To negotiate for opportunities to work with you
- To deliver projects or courses
- To provide coaching services
Personal data may be obtained during online networking eg via LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X (was Twitter), face to face networking, when you supply contact details to enable a discussion of a project opportunity or obtain details about a course. It may also be supplied in order to sign up for our mailing list.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
We have a contractual obligation
- If you have contracted with us for a project, course or coaching, or we are discussing a project, course or coaching, then we will need to process your personal data to do this.
- If you have provided us with personal data that we need to use in order to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.
We have a legitimate interest
- If we are reaching out to businesses to discuss potential new work, we will use legitimate interest as our lawful basis for this.
What we do with the information we have
We use the information that you have given us in order to:
- Respond to enquiries
- Conduct marketing for our services
- Deliver contracted services
We do not share this information with any third parties for their use, only with authorised individuals contracted by you or us to assist us in delivering our commitments to you. Where we use processors in this way GDPR compliant data processor agreements are in place to protect your rights and privacy.
How we store your information and how long we keep it for
We do not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Data will therefore be retained for the following periods (or its retention will be determined on the following bases):
i. We will retain your contact details for as long as we contract with you and for 72 months thereafter;
ii. We will retain your contact details for 24 months if you have enquired about our services thereafter, it will be deleted;
iii. If you sign up to Our mailing list or subscribe to anything on Our Site, We will retain your Personal Data for as long as you consent to receive emails and marketing material from us. You can unsubscribe at any time and We will remove you from Our mailing list and thereafter We will delete your details; and
iv. We will retain your financial information, which could include your name, address and email address, for as long as we contract with you and, thereafter, for the permitted period of time required by law.
We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described above and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it.
We will store some of your personal data in the UK. This means that it will be fully protected under the UK’s data protection legislation.
We will store some of your personal data within the European Economic Area (the “EEA”). The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. This means that your personal data will be fully protected under the EU GDPR and/or to equivalent standards by law. Transfers of personal data to the EEA from the UK are permitted without additional safeguards.
We may store some or all of your personal data in countries outside of the UK and EEA. These are known as “third countries”. When We do, We ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data. These safeguards include ensuring that the level of protection in the destination country is not materially lower than that required under the data protection legislation. Data security is very important to us, and to protect your data we have taken suitable measures to safeguard and secure data collected by us and through our website.
We use the following third-party software and some of your data may be stored on their servers:
- Microsoft (email and OneDrive folders);
- Dropbox (sharing files);
- Mailchimp (mailing list);
- FreeAgent (invoicing software).
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
If you do request a copy of any of your personal data that we hold (where such data is held). Under the data protection legislation, no fee is payable, we are required to reply to you within one month, and we will provide any and all information in response to your request free of charge, provided the request is reasonable. If we require clarification to help us locate the information you are seeking, we may pause the one-month response period until we receive that clarification. We will also carry out a search that is reasonable and proportionate based on the scope and nature of your request.
Please contact us at nina@ninalenton.co.uk if you wish to make a request.
How we use AI
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support internal processes, such as drafting content, summarising information, supporting productivity or managing communications. These tools do not make decisions about individuals and are only used to assist us in carrying out tasks more efficiently.
We won’t usually use AI tools to process personal data unless we are instructed to do so. Where these tools process any personal data, a human reviews the output before it is used. We comply with both UK and EU data protection laws, including the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR where applicable.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about how we collect or use your personal data, we encourage you to contact us in the first instance using the details at the top of this notice so that we can try to resolve the issue. We aim to respond to all complaints within 30 days. Where your concern is complex or requires more time, we will let you know and keep you updated on progress. If you are not satisfied with our response, or if you would prefer not to speak to us first, you can contact the UK’s data protection authority: Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) www.ico.org.uk
Nina Lenton is registered with the ICO.
The ICO’s address: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
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