Sarah Markham

Saxophonist | Educator | Conductor | Mentor


Privacy Policy

The privacy of users of sarahmarkham.co.uk is taken very seriously. This privacy statement provides information about personal information relating to those websites, and the ways in which that information is used.

Personal Information Collection

Sarah Markham websites collect the following information:

  • Names, email addresses and telephone numbers you provide via contact forms. That information will only be used to facilitate discussion relating to enquiries initiated by yourself with regard to teaching, workshops, performances or other educational pursuits.
  • Your supplied name and email address will be used if you are part of an online project. This enables you to have login details to access the projects and downloadable content.
  • Note: musical compositions and arrangements purchased through the website use PayPal payments through the Ecwid online store platform. Personal details and information relating to purchases are handled by those platforms.
  • The software system used to manage user logins and access to secure areas of the website (project/teaching areas) collects IP numbers during the login process to facilitate security measures, such as detecting multiple simultaneous logins from the same user account.

Legal Basis for Collection of Information

Legal grounds for collection of data:

  • Explicit Consent: When you sign up for musical projects, teaching, or use a website form to initiate contact, you provide explicit consent to collect the above described personal information.
  • Legitimate Interests: Additional legitimate interests for the collection of the above listed personal information.

Data Processors

This website uses the following services:

  • PayPal – Payment processor
  • Ecwid – ecommerce online store
  • Google Analytics – for website analytics

Using personal information

Your personal information is used to:

  • administer this website and/or content.
  • personalize the website for you by displaying or changing the appearance of the website if you log in to supply relevant educational materials.
  • enable your access to and use of the website, content, and other services.
  • send to you the account-related emails such as login information or educational/project related information.

Personal information is not shared with any third parties. Your personal information may be disclosed to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

Securing your data

Reasonable technical and organizational precautions are taken to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. All the personal information you provide is stored on secure hosting servers.  

Cross-border data transfers

Information collected may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which sarahmarkham.co.uk operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy. You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information. In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website may be published on the Internet and may be available around the world.

Privacy of Children

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register with the website or content without parental or guardian’s approval. In most cases communication relating to musical projects/teaching will be conducted through a parental email address or educational institution email address, unless there is a specific request by the parent or guardian to use the child’s email address for technical reasons. In such cases it is normal practise to copy all communication to the parent/guardian email address.

GDPR Compliance

This website seeks to fully comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Pursuant to this regulation. Consequently, you have the following rights on this website:

  • Right to be forgotten: you may remove your details at any time. If you wish your data and login details to be permanently deleted you may contact us and it will usually be deleted within 72 hours.
  • Right to access and rectification: contact us at any time to access copies of all user data we retain for you. We will remove, update, or change any personal information about you from our servers upon your request.

Cookies and similar technologies

Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies this could affect certain features or services of our websites, such as the ability for your browser to remember your login details.

Updating this statement

This privacy policy may be updated by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

Other websites

We are not responsible for the contents of third party websites, links to onther websites, or privacy policies or practises of any third party.