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

Who we are

Mary Helen Young Consulting Ltd is a company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 16207468. Our website address is: https://maryhelenyoung.co.uk.

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information to provide and improve products and services for clients or for research and archiving purposes:

• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Gender
• Date of birth
• Video recordings
• Audio recordings (eg calls)
• Records of meetings and decisions

We also collect or use the following special category information to provide and improve products and services for clients or for research or archiving purposes. This information is subject to additional protection due to its sensitive nature:

• Racial or ethnic origin
• Religious or philosophical beliefs
• 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.
• Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. Read more about the right to rectification.
• Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. Read more about the right to erasure.
• Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. Read more about the right to restriction of processing.
• Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. Read more about the right to object to processing.
• 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. Read more about the right to data portability.
• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Read more about the right to withdraw consent.

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 provided elsewhere on this website.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide and improve products and services for clients or for research purposes 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
• Regulatory authorities
• Publicly available sources

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.

How long we keep information

We will securely store personal information for up to a year after the end of a given project in which it is used.

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 elsewhere on this website.

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 provided elsewhere on this website.

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: 30 June 2025