Your data, looked after
How Mick Letts, trading as Letts Go Driving With Mick, collects, uses and protects your personal information when you get in touch, take lessons or use this website.
Last updated: [17/10/2026]
Your information is never sold or rented to anyone.
Just enough to answer you, arrange lessons and run the business.
Pass photos are only shared with your permission, and you can change your mind.
Ask to see, correct or delete your data at any time.
This website and the driving lessons it describes are run by Mick Letts, trading as Letts Go Driving With Mick (“I”, “me”). For the purposes of UK data protection law (the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018), I am the data controller of the personal information described in this policy.
I also work with RED Driver Training. If you book your lessons through RED, RED will also handle some of your information under its own privacy notice.
The lesson price builder, quiz and postcode checker work in your browser. Nothing you enter into them is sent to me unless you choose to send it, for example by pressing a WhatsApp or Send button.
The law says I must have a valid reason, called a lawful basis, for each way I use your information:
| What I use it for | Lawful basis |
|---|---|
| Answering your enquiry and discussing lessons | Steps before a contract at your request, and legitimate interests (responding to people who contact me) |
| Arranging, giving and managing your lessons, including test preparation | Contract |
| Checking your provisional licence | Legal obligation, and contract |
| Using health information you tell me to keep lessons safe | Your explicit consent (special category data), which you can withdraw at any time |
| Taking payments and keeping business and tax records | Contract, and legal obligation |
| Contacting existing pupils about lessons, changes or cancellations | Contract |
| Sharing pass photos or testimonials | Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time |
| Keeping this website secure and working | Legitimate interests |
| Dealing with complaints, insurance or legal claims | Legitimate interests, and legal obligation |
I do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling, and I will not send you marketing messages unless you have asked me to.
I never sell or rent your information. I only share it where needed to run the business, and only what each organisation needs:
Some providers, such as WhatsApp (Meta) and Google, may process data outside the UK, including in the USA. Where this happens, it is protected by safeguards recognised under UK law, such as adequacy regulations (including the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework) or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement. You can ask me for more details.
| Information | How long |
|---|---|
| Enquiries that don’t lead to lessons | 12 months after our last contact |
| Pupil records (contact details, lesson notes, licence checks) | 6 years after your last lesson, in case of legal or insurance claims |
| Payment and tax records | At least 5 years after the 31 January Self Assessment deadline for that tax year, as HMRC requires |
| Health information | Deleted when you stop taking lessons, or sooner if you ask |
| Photos and testimonials | Until you withdraw your consent |
| WhatsApp and text messages | 12 MONTHSafter pupils last lesson/contact. |
When information is no longer needed it is securely deleted or destroyed.
I take sensible steps to protect your information, including password-protected and up-to-date devices and accounts, a secure (HTTPS) website, and only keeping what I need. Paper records, if any, are stored securely. No system is completely secure, but if a breach affecting your rights happens I will deal with it as the law requires, including telling you and the ICO where necessary.
You can start driving lessons at 17, so some pupils are under 18. Their information is handled in the same careful way. A parent or guardian may contact me or pay for lessons on a learner’s behalf, in which case I will also hold their contact details. Pass photos of under-18s are only shared with their permission.
Cookies are small files stored on your device. This website uses:
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Under UK data protection law you have the right to:
To use any of these rights, email info@lettsgodrivingwithmick.co.uk or call 07365 265236. It’s free, and I will reply within one month. I may need to confirm your identity first.
If you’re unhappy with how your information has been handled, please tell me first so I can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator:
I may update this policy from time to time, for example if the way I run lessons or this website changes. The latest version will always be on this page, with the date it was last updated at the top. If a change significantly affects how I use your information, I will let current pupils know.
Mick is happy to help.
