Privacy Policy

Last updated: 3 September 2026

Leading Secondary Maths respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and protect information about you when you visit leadingsecondarymaths.co.uk, contact us, submit information through the website or otherwise interact with Leading Secondary Maths.

1. Who we are

Leading Secondary Maths is a podcast and educational resource platform supporting secondary mathematics leaders, teachers and education professionals.

For the purposes of UK data protection legislation, Leading Secondary Maths is responsible for determining how personal information collected through this website is used.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how your personal information is handled, please contact us at:

Email: mail@leadingsecondarymaths.co.uk
Website: leadingsecondarymaths.co.uk

2. Information we may collect

We may collect personal information that you provide directly to us, including:

  • Your name

  • Your email address

  • Your school, organisation or professional role, where provided

  • Information included in messages sent through our contact forms

  • Questions, reflections or feedback submitted through the website

  • Suggestions for future podcast topics or guests

  • Information supplied when subscribing to email updates, where this facility is available

  • Any other information that you choose to provide when contacting us

We may also collect limited technical information automatically when you use the website, such as:

  • IP address

  • Browser type and version

  • Device type

  • Operating system

  • Pages visited

  • Time and date of visits

  • Referring website or source

  • General website usage information

Some of this information may be collected using cookies or similar technologies.

3. How we use your information

We may use your personal information to:

  • Respond to enquiries and messages

  • Respond to questions or reflections relating to the podcast

  • Consider suggestions for future podcast episodes, topics or guests

  • Manage correspondence with website visitors

  • Provide information or updates that you have requested

  • Send email updates where you have specifically chosen to receive them

  • Understand how visitors use the website

  • Improve the website, podcast and supporting resources

  • Maintain the security and reliability of the website

  • Prevent spam, abuse or malicious activity

  • Meet any legal or regulatory obligations that apply to us

We will not use your personal information for purposes that are incompatible with those described in this Privacy Policy without informing you where required.

4. Our lawful basis for processing your information

Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for processing personal information.

Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on the following lawful bases:

Consent

We may rely on your consent when you actively choose to provide information or agree to a particular type of processing, such as subscribing to marketing or email updates where applicable.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at mail@leadingsecondarymaths.co.uk.

Legitimate interests

We may process information where it is necessary for our legitimate interests in operating and improving Leading Secondary Maths, communicating with our audience, responding to enquiries, maintaining website security and developing the podcast and its resources.

Where we rely on legitimate interests, we will consider your rights and interests before processing your information.

Legal obligations

We may process personal information where necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

5. Contact forms and submissions

When you submit a contact form, question, reflection, suggestion or other information through the website, the information you provide may be sent to us by email and/or stored securely within systems used to operate the website.

We will use this information primarily to deal with your submission and communicate with you where appropriate.

If you submit a question, reflection or suggestion for possible use in the podcast or on the website, we will not intentionally publish personally identifiable information about you without an appropriate basis for doing so.

Please avoid including sensitive personal information in website forms unless it is genuinely necessary.

6. Email communications

If you contact us by email, we may retain your email address, your message and any information contained within it so that we can respond to you and maintain an appropriate record of our correspondence.

If Leading Secondary Maths introduces an email subscription or newsletter service, marketing emails will only be sent in accordance with applicable UK data protection and electronic marketing requirements.

Where consent is used, you will be able to unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time.

7. Cookies

Leading Secondary Maths uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the website and understand how visitors use it.

Cookies are small files that may be stored on your device when you visit a website.

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function correctly and may be used without consent where an applicable exemption applies.

Other cookies, including analytics cookies used by Google Analytics, will only be activated after you have provided the appropriate consent through the website’s cookie controls where required by law.

You can manage or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time using the cookie settings available on the website.

Further information about the cookies used on this website should be provided in our Cookie Policy.

8. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use the Leading Secondary Maths website.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

  • The pages you visit

  • How long you spend on the website

  • The type of device and browser you use

  • How you arrived at the website

  • Your approximate geographical location

  • General interaction and usage information

Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information about website usage.

Because analytics cookies are not strictly necessary for the operation of the website, Google Analytics will only be activated after you have given the appropriate consent through the website’s cookie consent controls.

The information collected through Google Analytics is used to help us understand website performance, identify popular content and improve the experience for visitors.

Google may process information collected through Google Analytics in accordance with its own privacy policies and data protection arrangements.

You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time through the cookie settings available on the website.

9. Embedded content and third-party services

Pages on Leading Secondary Maths may include content provided by third-party services.

This could include:

  • Podcast players

  • YouTube videos

  • Audio streaming services

  • Social media content

  • Maps

  • Forms

  • External educational resources

  • Other embedded media

Embedded content may behave in a similar way to visiting the third-party provider’s website directly.

These providers may collect information about you, use cookies or similar technologies, and monitor your interaction with their content in accordance with their own privacy policies.

Where consent is legally required before third-party technologies are loaded, we will endeavour to ensure that the appropriate consent mechanism is used.

We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party services that you choose to interact with.

10. Links to other websites

Leading Secondary Maths may contain links to websites operated by other organisations.

Once you leave our website, we are not responsible for the privacy practices, content or security of those external websites.

We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of any external website before providing personal information.

11. Sharing your information

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share information with trusted organisations or service providers where this is necessary to operate Leading Secondary Maths.

These may include providers of:

  • Website hosting

  • Website maintenance

  • Email services

  • Google Analytics

  • Security and spam protection

  • Website forms

  • Email marketing services, where applicable

  • Podcast, audio or video hosting

  • Cloud-based technology services

Where these organisations process personal information on our behalf, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate data protection arrangements are in place.

We may also disclose information where required to do so by law or where necessary to protect our legal rights.

12. International data transfers

Some services used by the website, including Google services, may process or store information outside the United Kingdom.

Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that an appropriate legal mechanism or safeguard is in place where required under UK data protection legislation.

This may include recognised adequacy arrangements or approved contractual safeguards.

13. How long we keep your information

We will only retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including any legal, accounting, security or administrative requirements.

The appropriate retention period will depend on the nature of the information and why it was collected.

For example, routine website enquiries and correspondence may be retained for a reasonable period after the enquiry has been resolved in case further correspondence is required.

Information used for email marketing will normally be retained until you unsubscribe or otherwise withdraw your consent, subject to retaining limited suppression information where necessary to ensure that your preferences continue to be respected.

We periodically review the information we hold and delete information that is no longer required.

14. How we protect your information

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss or misuse.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You should therefore take appropriate care when submitting personal information online.

15. Your data protection rights

Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law gives you rights relating to your personal information.

These may include the right to:

  • Ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold about you

  • Ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete

  • Ask us to delete your personal information in certain circumstances

  • Ask us to restrict the way we use your information in certain circumstances

  • Object to certain uses of your personal information

  • Ask for certain information to be transferred to you or another organisation

  • Withdraw consent where we rely on consent as our lawful basis

Not all rights apply in every situation.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact:

mail@leadingsecondarymaths.co.uk

We may need to verify your identity before dealing with certain requests.

16. Complaints

If you have concerns about how Leading Secondary Maths handles your personal information, please contact us first so that we have an opportunity to address your concerns.

You also have the right to raise a concern with the UK’s independent data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Further information can be found on the ICO website at ico.org.uk.

17. Children’s privacy

Leading Secondary Maths is primarily intended for education professionals, including teachers, mathematics leaders, school leaders, consultants and other adults working in education.

The website is not designed specifically to collect personal information directly from children.

If we become aware that personal information relating to a child has been provided to us inappropriately, we will take reasonable steps to deal with that information appropriately and securely.

18. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to the website, the services we use or applicable legal requirements.

When significant changes are made, we will update the Last updated date shown at the top of this page.

We recommend reviewing this Privacy Policy occasionally to remain informed about how we handle personal information.

19. Contact us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, how Leading Secondary Maths handles personal information or would like to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us:

Leading Secondary Maths
Website: leadingsecondarymaths.co.uk
Email: mail@leadingsecondarymaths.co.uk