Privacy Notice.

Who is responsible for your information?

HowTo? is currently operated by Aaron Tinney trading as HowTo?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or how your personal information is used, you can contact:

Email: aaron@howtoguide.uk

What information do we collect?

When you join the HowTo? waiting list, we may collect:

• Your first name.
• Your email address.
• Whether you have expressed an interest in beta testing HowTo?.
• Your consent and communication preferences.
• The date and time you registered.
• Information identifying how you reached the website or the campaign associated with your registration, where applicable.

We do not ask you to provide information about a medical condition, diagnosis or disability when joining the waiting list.

Venue and business enquiries

If you register interest in bringing HowTo? to your venue or business, we may collect:

• Your venue or business name
• Your name
• Your email address
• Your location, if you choose to provide it
• Your mobile number, if you choose to provide it
• Your preferred contact method
• Your consent to being contacted about HowTo?
• The date and time you registered your interest
• Information about how you reached our website, such as campaign or referral information where available

We use this information to respond to your enquiry, contact you using your preferred contact method, discuss how HowTo? could work with your venue or business, and manage potential pilot or future participation in the HowTo? platform.

Providing a mobile number is optional. If you choose email as your preferred contact method, you do not need to provide a mobile number.

Why do we use your information?

We use the information you provide to:

• Manage the HowTo? pre-launch waiting list.
• Confirm that you have joined the waiting list.
• Contact you about the launch and availability of HowTo? where you have agreed to receive these communications.
• Identify people who have volunteered to participate in beta testing.
• Contact potential beta testers when testing opportunities become available.
• Respond to venue and business enquiries.
• Contact venue and business representatives using their selected contact method.
• Discuss how HowTo? could work with an interested venue or business, including potential pilot participation.
• Manage and follow up expressions of interest from venues and businesses.
• Understand, in aggregate, which sources or campaigns are generating interest in HowTo?.

We do not sell your personal information.

Our lawful basis

Where we ask for your consent to receive email communications from HowTo?, we rely on consent as our lawful basis for using your personal information for those communications.

If you register interest on behalf of a venue or business, we rely on the consent you provide when submitting the form to use the contact details you give us to respond to your enquiry and contact you about bringing HowTo? to your venue or business.

This may include contacting you by email or, where you have provided a mobile number and selected phone contact, by telephone. If you select either as your preferred contact method, we may contact you using either of the contact methods you have provided.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting aaron@howtoguide.uk .

Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before you withdrew it.

Where another lawful basis applies to a particular use of your information, we will identify and document that basis appropriately.

Beta testing

If you select the option indicating that you are interested in beta testing HowTo?, we will record that preference.

This does not guarantee participation in a beta test. It allows us to identify and contact people who have expressed an interest when suitable testing opportunities become available.

Who processes your information?

HowTo? uses third-party technology providers to operate the website, securely store registration information and deliver emails.

These currently include:

• Cloudflare, website hosting, delivery and related infrastructure.
• Supabase, database infrastructure used to store waiting-list registrations.
• Resend, email delivery services used to send HowTo? communications.

These providers may process personal information on behalf of HowTo? in accordance with their respective services and data-protection arrangements.

Where information is processed internationally, HowTo? will take appropriate steps to ensure that relevant data-protection requirements are met.

How long do we keep your information?

We will keep waiting-list information only for as long as it is reasonably required for the purposes described in this notice.

If you register interest on behalf of a venue or business, we will keep your enquiry and contact information only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to your enquiry, discuss potential participation in HowTo?, and manage any ongoing relationship with your venue or business.

If a venue or business does not proceed with HowTo?, we will periodically review the information we hold and delete or anonymise personal information that is no longer required, unless we have another lawful reason to retain it.

We will also review the information we hold as HowTo? moves from its pre-launch stage into general availability and will delete or anonymise information that is no longer required, unless we have a lawful reason to retain it.

If you withdraw your consent or ask us to stop contacting you, we may retain limited information where necessary to record your preference and ensure that you are not contacted again unintentionally.

Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, UK data-protection law gives you rights relating to your personal information. These can include the right to:

• Request access to personal information we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct inaccurate information.
• Ask us to delete your information in certain circumstances.
• Restrict how your information is used in certain circumstances.
• Object to certain uses of your information.
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

To exercise a relevant right, contact aaron@howtoguide.uk .

Email communications

If you have agreed to receive communications from HowTo?, we may email you about the development, beta testing, launch or availability of HowTo?.

You can ask us to stop these communications at any time.

As our email system develops, we intend to provide an unsubscribe mechanism within relevant emails in addition to allowing requests by email.

Cookies and analytics

HowTo? does not currently use advertising cookies or behavioural advertising through this landing page.

If we introduce analytics, cookies or similar technologies that require additional information or consent, this notice and the website's consent mechanisms will be updated as appropriate.

Changes to this notice

We may update this Privacy Notice as HowTo? develops or where our use of personal information changes.

The latest version will be published on the HowTo? website with its most recent revision date.

Complaints

If you have concerns about how HowTo? uses your personal information, please contact us first at aaron@howtoguide.uk .

You also have the right to raise a concern with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data-protection regulator.

Visit the Information Commissioner's Office