This privacy notice explains how Skills4Wheels Driving School collects and uses personal information when you visit our website, make an enquiry, subscribe to updates or take driving lessons with us.
Who we are
Skills4Wheels Driving School is a UK driving instruction business serving Weston-super-Mare and nearby areas. Our main website is https://www.skills4wheels.com.
For privacy questions or requests, email info@skills4wheels.com.
Information we collect
- Enquiry information: your name, email address, telephone number, postcode, lesson requirements, availability, instructor preference and anything you include in a message.
- Learner information: contact, booking, lesson, progress, payment and driving-test information needed to provide tuition and manage your learning.
- Subscription information: your email address and preferences when you ask to receive driving tips or other updates.
- Website information: technical information such as your IP address, browser, device and website activity where this is collected through security, analytics or cookies.
- Comments or reviews: information you choose to publish or provide if these features are available.
How and why we use your information
- To answer enquiries, provide availability and take steps you request before booking lessons.
- To provide and administer driving lessons, bookings, learner progress, payments and essential service messages.
- To operate, protect and improve our website and services, including preventing spam and understanding general website performance.
- To meet accounting, tax, safeguarding and other legal or regulatory responsibilities.
- To send driving tips, news or offers where you have consented or where the law otherwise permits us to do so.
Our lawful bases are usually contract (including steps taken at your request before a contract), legal obligation, legitimate interests in running and improving a safe driving-school service, and consent where required for marketing or non-essential cookies.
If information is needed to arrange or provide lessons and you do not provide it, we may be unable to respond fully, confirm availability or deliver the requested service.
Marketing and subscriptions
We only send non-essential marketing where you have asked to receive it or where the law permits. You can unsubscribe using the link in an email or by contacting us. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before it was withdrawn.
Cookies and analytics
Our website uses essential cookies and may use optional analytics or third-party cookies where you have given the required permission. You can review or change your choices using the cookie controls on the website. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information.
Who we share information with
We do not sell personal information. Where necessary, information may be handled by trusted providers supporting our website hosting and email, contact forms, newsletter delivery, lesson and learner management, analytics, cookie consent, security and spam prevention. These currently include Krystal Hosting, Jetpack/Automattic, MailerLite, TotalDrive, Google, Complianz and Akismet.
We may also disclose information to professional advisers, insurers, payment providers or public authorities where reasonably necessary or legally required.
International transfers
Some service providers may process information outside the UK. Where UK data-protection law requires it, we use providers that put appropriate safeguards in place for those transfers.
How long we keep information
We keep personal information only for as long as it is needed for the purpose collected, including providing lessons, responding to enquiries, maintaining appropriate learner and business records, resolving disputes and meeting legal, tax or insurance requirements. Marketing details are kept until you unsubscribe or we no longer need them. Retention periods may vary according to the type of record and our legal responsibilities.
Security
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information and restrict access to people and providers who need it for the purposes described above. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.
Your data-protection rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights to be informed, access your information, correct inaccurate information, request erasure or restriction, receive certain information in a portable format, object to processing and withdraw consent. You have an absolute right to object to your personal information being used for direct marketing.
To exercise a right, email info@skills4wheels.com. We may need to confirm your identity before completing a request.
If you are unhappy with how we use your information, please contact us first so we can try to resolve the issue. You may also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint.
Changes to this notice
We may update this notice when our services or legal responsibilities change. The current version will always be published on this page.
Last updated: 25 July 2026
