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Privacy Policy

Data Controller for Pathfinder Driving Skill Ltd

Pathfinder Driving Skill Ltd

Collingwood Buildings

38 Collingwood Street

Newcastle

NE1 1JF

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Tel: 0800 037 3036

Owner contact email: support@drivingskill.co.uk

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1. The owners and management at Pathfinder Driving Skill Ltd understand the importance of customer confidentiality.

By our undertakings as a driving school training provider, ​Pathfinder Driving Skill Ltd is ICO registered.

All customers information is protected and not disclosed to any third party. On completion of Driving Lessons or an Intensive Driving Course, all customer details held by Pathfinder Driving Skill Ltd will be destroyed and the customer will receive an email to confirm this action.  

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2. Pathfinder Driving Skill Ltd, does NOT at any time hold on file, paper or computer, any details of customer card payments and bank details.

Pathfinder Driving Skill Ltd has decided for a payment to be made regarding Driving Lessons or an Intensive Driving Course, a secure payment link will be forwarded to the customer to make payment, this email payment link is for the customer only, and will enable total security between the customer and their bank without the need for Pathfinder Driving Skill Ltd to hold confidential payment details.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

  • Access to third-party accounts

    • Facebook account access Permissions: About Me; Tracker; User location

  • Advertising

    • Google Ad Manager Personal Data: Tracker; Usage Data

  • Analytics

    • Google Analytics and Google Analytics with anonymized IP Personal Data: Tracker; Usage Data

  • Contacting the User

    • Contact form Personal Data: email address; first name; last name; phone number

  • Comments

    • Personal Data: Facebook account, email address, name and IP address

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

We respect your privacy and will never share your data with any unauthorised parties.

Data previously mentioned may be shared with third parties such as Google and Facebook who are GDPR compliant.

HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize 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.

WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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Last updated: 01/01/2026

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