Privacy Policy (UK)
Last updated: 19 February 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Baz Myers PT (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, shares and protects personal information when you visit bazmyerspt.com (the “Website”), contact us, or use our services (including our remote coaching delivered through the Trainerize app).
This policy is written for UK requirements, including the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and (where relevant) the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
1. Who we are (the controller)
Controller: Baz Myers PT
Address: Post House Cottage, Village Street, Thruxton, SP11 8LZ, United Kingdom
Email: bazmyerspt@gmail.com
If you contact us about data protection, please use the email above. If our contact details change, we will update this page.
2. Who this policy applies to
This policy applies to people who:
- browse or interact with our Website;
- enquire about personal training (offline or online);
- become clients of our services;
- leave (or request) testimonials or reviews.
Our services are intended for adults aged 18+.
3. Personal data we collect
A) Information you provide to us
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:
- Contact details: name, email address, phone number.
- Enquiry details: message content and any information you choose to include.
- Client/service details: information needed to provide coaching services (e.g., goals, schedule, training preferences).
- Account details (Trainerize): username/login identifiers and coaching-related information stored in Trainerize.
- Testimonials/reviews: feedback you provide (and, if you approve, your first name/initials).
B) Information we collect automatically
When you use the Website, we may collect:
- Device and usage data: IP address (or partial IP), browser type, device identifiers, pages viewed, interactions and timestamps.
- Cookie and similar technology data: identifiers used for analytics and advertising measurement (depending on your cookie choices).
Important note on health information
Personal training may involve you sharing health-related information (for example, injuries, medical conditions, medications, or health risks) so that training can be delivered safely and appropriately. Health information is treated as special category data (see Section 6).
4. How we collect your data
We collect personal data:
- when you submit a contact form on the Website;
- when you email or message us;
- through cookies and similar technologies on the Website (subject to your choices);
- through Trainerize if you use our online coaching;
- during onboarding and ongoing coaching communications.
5. How we use your data and our lawful bases
We use personal data for the purposes below.
Enquiries and quotes
- Purpose: respond to messages, provide quotes, and manage enquiries.
- Lawful basis: Legitimate interests (running our business and responding to enquiries) and/or contract (steps you ask us to take before entering into a contract).
Delivering services
- Purpose: provide offline personal training and online coaching, manage appointments, and deliver programmes.
- Lawful basis: Contract (to deliver the services you request).
Customer support and administration
- Purpose: provide support, handle issues, keep internal records.
- Lawful basis: Contract and/or legitimate interests.
Website analytics and improvement
- Purpose: understand how our Website is used and improve performance and content.
- Lawful basis: Consent for non-essential cookies where required, and legitimate interests for improving the Website (where permitted).
Legal and accounting
- Purpose: comply with legal obligations (e.g., accounting records).
- Lawful basis: Legal obligation.
Marketing communications
- Purpose: send marketing messages where you have asked to receive them or where permitted.
- Lawful basis: Consent (and, in some cases, “soft opt-in” for existing clients where applicable and permitted by law).
6. Special category data (health information)
If you provide health information, we will only use it where necessary to deliver training safely and appropriately.
- UK GDPR Article 9 condition: generally explicit consent (because health information is special category data).
- You can withdraw your consent at any time, but this may affect our ability to continue providing services safely.
We recommend that you do not provide more health information than is necessary for your coaching.
7. Cookies, analytics and advertising technologies
We use a consent tool (CookieYes) to manage cookie preferences. Cookies and similar technologies may be used for:
- Strictly necessary functions (e.g., security and site functionality);
- Analytics (e.g., Google Analytics 4 via Google Tag Manager);
- Advertising measurement (e.g., Google Ads, Meta Pixel/Conversions API, LinkedIn Insight Tag), depending on your choices.
You can manage cookie preferences:
- through the cookie banner/settings on our Website; and/or
- in your browser settings (note that blocking some cookies may impact site functionality).
We may introduce remarketing in future; if we do, we will do so in line with applicable cookie/consent rules and update this policy if needed.
8. Who we share your data with
We share personal data only when necessary for the purposes described above, including with:
- Website hosting provider: to host and maintain the Website.
- Email provider (ChemiCloud): to send/receive emails and store correspondence.
- Trainerize: to deliver online coaching services and manage your coaching account.
- Analytics and tag management providers: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 4.
- Advertising/measurement providers: Google Ads, Meta (Pixel/CAPI), and LinkedIn (Insight Tag) where enabled and subject to your cookie choices.
- Professional advisers: accountants, legal advisers, or insurers where necessary.
- Authorities: where required by law.
We do not sell your personal information.
9. International transfers
Some of the providers we use may process data outside the UK (for example, in the United States). Where this happens, we take steps designed to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place (such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, the UK Addendum to EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or other lawful mechanisms).
10. How long we keep your data (retention)
We keep personal data no longer than necessary for the purposes we collected it for, unless we are required by law to keep it longer.
As a typical approach (you can request details):
- Enquiry records: usually kept for a reasonable period to manage follow-ups and maintain business records.
- Client records: kept for the duration of the client relationship and a period afterwards for administration and legal/insurance reasons.
- Accounting records: retained for the period required by law.
- Analytics data: retained in line with platform settings and consent choices.
If you want specific retention periods, contact us and we will provide them.
11. Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration, or disclosure. However, no system is completely secure, and you use the internet at your own risk.
12. Your data protection rights (UK)
You may have the right to:
- access your personal data;
- correct inaccurate or incomplete data;
- request erasure (in certain circumstances);
- restrict processing (in certain circumstances);
- object to processing based on legitimate interests;
- data portability (in certain circumstances);
- withdraw consent at any time (where processing is based on consent).
To exercise your rights, contact us using the details in Section 1.
13. Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, please contact us first so we can try to resolve the issue.
You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
14. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be published on this page, with the “Last updated” date at the top.