ADHD Bible Study — Privacy Policy
This privacy policy tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.
Contact Details
Email: admin@adhdbiblestudy.com
What Information We Collect, Use, and Why
Email Newsletter Subscription
When you sign up to receive our free weekly devotionals and community updates, we collect your email address. We use this to send you the content you have requested. The lawful basis for this processing is consent. You can withdraw your consent and unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email we send you, or by contacting us at admin@adhdbiblestudy.com. Your email address is processed by MailerLite on our behalf as a data processor.
Legal Requirements
We collect or use the following information to comply with legal requirements:
• Safeguarding information
• Any other personal information required to comply with legal obligations
Queries, Complaints or Claims
We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:
• Names and contact details
• IP addresses
Website Functionality
We collect or use the following information to operate and maintain the website:
• IP addresses
• Marketing preferences
• Records of consent, where appropriate
Cookies
We use cookies on this website. Cookies are small text files placed on your device that help the website function. Currently, we only use cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to work — these do not require your consent. If we introduce any non-essential cookies in future, these will only be set with your permission and this notice will be updated accordingly.
Lawful Bases and Data Protection Rights
Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.
Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights, which are set out briefly below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:
• 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 correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Your right to erasure — You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.
• Your right to restriction of processing — You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information.
• Your right to object to processing — You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
• Your right to data portability — You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you.
• Your right to withdraw consent — When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month. To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
Our Lawful Bases
| Processing activity | Lawful basis |
| Email newsletter subscription | Consent — you have given us permission after receiving all relevant information. You may withdraw consent at any time by unsubscribing. |
| Legal requirements (including safeguarding) | Vital interests — collecting or using the information is needed when someone’s physical or mental health or wellbeing is at urgent or serious risk. Please note that confidentiality has limits: where we have reasonable belief that harm is occurring or may occur to a child or vulnerable adult, we hold a legal obligation under UK law to share relevant information with statutory agencies regardless of consent. |
| Queries, complaints or claims | Consent — we have permission from you after giving you all relevant information. You may withdraw consent at any time. |
| Website functionality | Consent — we have permission from you after giving you all relevant information. You may withdraw consent at any time. |
Where We Get Personal Information From
Directly from you.
How Long We Keep Information
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, in accordance with UK GDPR.
| Type of information | Retention period |
| Email newsletter subscription data | Retained until you unsubscribe, after which it is deleted within 30 days |
| Comments and comment metadata | Retained while the site is active and reviewed annually. Comments may be deleted at our discretion or on request. |
| IP addresses collected with comments | Retained for 6 months for spam and security purposes, then deleted |
| Contact and query correspondence | Retained for 2 years from the date of last contact |
| Safeguarding records | Retained for a minimum of 7 years in accordance with UK safeguarding guidance, or until the subject’s 75th birthday where the record relates to a child |
| User account data (where applicable) | Retained until the account is deleted, either by the user or by an administrator |
Where we become aware that information is no longer required within any of the above periods, we will delete it promptly.
Who We Share Information With
We share personal information with the following where necessary:
• Organisations we are required to share information with for safeguarding reasons
• Emergency services
Sharing Information Outside the UK
We do not transfer personal data outside the United Kingdom or European Union.
How to Complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.
| ICO contact details | |
| Address | Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF |
| Helpline | 0303 123 1113 |
| Website | https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint |