Piano and keyboard, tuition and performance
Piano and keyboard, tuition and performance
This notice provides an overview of what information we collect about you, how we keep your data secure and up to date, how long we might hold it for, and what your rights are in relation to it.
Martin Fairbairn Music (MFM) is committed to protecting your personal data and will use any personal or sensitive data we collect from you in line with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). MFM is a Data Controller under the GDPR.
Your personally identifiable information is kept secure. Only authorized staff (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information.
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Martin Fairbairn Music will never sell trade, rent, exchange or otherwise share your personal information with any other person, company or organization. The data that you provide at the time of registration is held by our music school management software 10 to 8, which is GDPR compliant. Your name, email address and postal address are also held in our email and accounting systems. Your initial registration information is temporarily held within Martin Fairbairn Music’s Google Drive system before being transferred to the 10 to 8 system, after which it is deleted from Google Drive. Lesson and practice notes are held in Martin Fairbairn Music’s Google Drive and Google Classroom systems.
Only authorized employees (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information.
We will keep your contact information for as long as you or your child remains an active student at Martin Fairbairn Music. We will keep contact form entries for six months, analytics records for a year, and customer account records for 5 years.
If you have an account with us, you can request all the personal data we hold about you at any time (see the Contacts page for contact details). You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where applicable, we will use name and date of birth details to register for exams with exam boards, such as ABRSM and Trinity College London.
When you enrol yourself or your child to study at Martin Fairbairn Music we will ask you to provide the following information as part of the registration process:
During your studies / your child’s studies we will record information about planned and actual progress, all of which will be shared with you.
This data will be used by us to process your registration, manage your account with Martin Fairbairn Music and to organise and run our activities. We collect this data to provide you with the service agreed under our terms and conditions.
You are only required to provide the information necessary for us to form a contract with you, if you do not wish to provide the required information your child cannot study with us.
We will only contact you with necessary communications relating to your ongoing account with us (e.g. term dates, holidays, exams, concerts, re-enrolment or payment details). These are mandatory communications.