Privacy Policy

Last updated: 30 July 2026

The Second Draft is a UK-based communication support business. For the purposes of UK data protection law, The Second Draft is the controller of personal information described in this notice.

Contact details

Email: theseconddraft@hotmail.com

Information collected

Information may include your name, email address, correspondence, information you choose to provide about your circumstances, documents supplied for communication support, transaction and service records, and technical website information collected through Google Analytics 4 only where you consent.

Please avoid sending more personal information than is necessary. Information connected with SEND matters may include special category data, including health or disability information. This will only be used where necessary to provide the service you have requested and where a lawful condition for processing applies.

Why information is used and the lawful bases

• To respond to enquiries and take steps at your request before entering a contract: contract.
• To provide agreed services and manage payment or records: contract and legal obligation.
• To keep proportionate business, tax and accounting records: legal obligation and legitimate interests.
• To protect legal rights, manage complaints and prevent misuse: legitimate interests and, where relevant, legal claims.
• To understand website use through Google Analytics 4: consent. Analytics is disabled by default and Google Analytics is not loaded unless you expressly accept analytics cookies.

Google Analytics 4 and CookieConsent

This website uses Orest Bida CookieConsent v3 to record and apply your cookie choices. Necessary storage used by the consent platform is required so the website can remember those choices.

Google Analytics 4 measurement ID G-WKM19C6LFM is used to produce aggregated website statistics. The Google Analytics script is loaded dynamically only after you consent to Analytics cookies. If you reject Analytics, it is not loaded. Google may process technical information such as pages visited, device or browser information, approximate location derived from IP address and interaction information. Google acts as a service provider and may process data outside the UK using its applicable transfer safeguards.

Sharing information

Information may be shared only where necessary with service providers supporting email, hosting, IT, payments, professional advice or accounting; with Google where analytics consent is given; or with regulators, courts or authorities where required by law. Personal information is not sold.

International transfers

Some technology providers may process information outside the UK. Where this occurs, reasonable steps will be taken to use an approved transfer mechanism or another lawful safeguard.

How long information is kept

Enquiry information that does not lead to work will normally be kept for up to 12 months. Client communications and service records will normally be kept for up to six years after the relationship ends where needed for legal, tax, insurance or record-keeping purposes. Records may be deleted sooner where they are no longer required, or kept longer where a legal dispute or obligation requires it. Cookie choices are generally retained for up to 182 days before being requested again.

Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights to be informed, access your information, correct inaccurate information, request erasure, restrict processing, object to processing, receive portable data, and withdraw consent. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.

To exercise a right, email theseconddraft@hotmail.com. Identity may need to be verified before a request is completed.

Changing or withdrawing cookie consent

Select Cookie Preferences in the footer at any time. You can accept, reject or change Analytics consent. When Analytics consent is withdrawn, future analytics collection is disabled and the consent tool will attempt to remove Analytics cookies set through this website.

Complaints

Please contact The Second Draft first so concerns can be addressed. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection.

Security

Reasonable organisational and technical measures are used to protect information. No internet or email transmission can be guaranteed completely secure, so please do not send unnecessary sensitive information.

Changes to this notice

This notice will be reviewed and updated when business practices, technology or legal requirements change.