Tuzo Driving School customer privacy notice 

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information. 

Contact details 

Telephone 

07526809876 

Email 

tuzo@tuzodrivingschool.co.uk 

What information we collect, use, and why 

We collect or use the following information for driver student education and welfare

  • Names and contact details for students/children 
  • Date of birth 
  • Next of kin and emergency contact information 
  • Payment details and financial information including transactions 
  • Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) or additional support information (includes reasonable adjustments and special educational needs and disabilities) 
  • Photographs 
  • Lesson booking and reason for cancellation data 
  • Account access information 
  • Driving Exam results 
  • Progress report 
  • Information relating to compliments and complaints 

We also collect or use the following special category information for student education and welfare. This information is subject to additional protection due to its sensitive nature: 

  • Health information 

We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims

  • Names and contact details 
  • Addresses 
  • Payment details 
  • Account login or user information 
  • Purchase or service history 
  • Dashcam footage – outside vehicle 
  • Financial transaction information 
  • Correspondence 
  • Lesson booking and reason for cancellation data 

We also collect the following special category information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims. This information is subject to additional protection due to its sensitive nature: 

  • Health information 

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 in brief 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. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. Read more about the right of access

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 for the collection and use of your data 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for student education and welfare are: 

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are: 

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. 

Where we get personal information from 

  • Directly from you 
  • Parents or carers 

How long we keep information 

2 Years. 

For more information on how long we store your personal information or the criteria we use to determine this please contact us using the details provided above. 

Who we share information with 

Data processors 

Total Drive App

This data processor does the following activities for us: manage driving examiner online diary, process student payments, record of student lessons, record of student progress, students address and contact details, driving theory test details, driving licence details, driving tests booked and result. Enquiring manger widget to collect information for people wanting driving lessons.  

Others we share personal information with 

  • Parents and carers 
  • External auditors or inspectors 
  • Publicly on our website, social media or other marketing and information media 

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. 

The ICO’s address:            

Information Commissioner’s Office 
Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow 
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF 

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113 

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint 

Last updated 

25 June 2025

Who we are

Our website address is: https://tuzodrivingschool.com and our email is tuzo@tuzodrivingschool.co.uk

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. 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.