Privacy notice

Last updated 25 October 2026

Leading Your International School (LYIS) is an organisation for people who aspire to lead international schools, and for those already doing it. This notice explains what personal information we collect through this website, why, and what your rights are. It is written to meet the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Who we are

LYIS is Leading Your International School Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 15050327), of 16 Aspen Drive, Whitfield, Dover, England, CT16 2EX. For anything about your personal information, email contact@leadingyourinternationalschool.com.

What we collect and why

When	What	Why, and our lawful basis
You send a membership interest form	Name, email address, school or organisation, current role, country, the membership you are interested in, anything you add in the message	To reply, confirm your place and set up your membership. Lawful basis: taking steps at your request before entering a contract, and our legitimate interest in running the organisation.
You enquire about a course	Name, email address, school or organisation, the course, your message	To reply with dates, places and booking details. Lawful basis: taking steps at your request before entering a contract.
You use the contact form	Name, email address, your message	To answer you. Lawful basis: our legitimate interest in responding to people who write to us.
You subscribe to the newsletter	Email address	To send you the Principal’s Blog, news of events and courses. Lawful basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time using the link in every email or by emailing us.
You send any form	How you found us: the first page you saw on this visit, the website or campaign link that brought you here, and how many pages you looked at. This is kept in your browser only until you close the tab, and sent with the form.	So we know which of our events, newsletters and posts lead people to get in touch. Lawful basis: our legitimate interest in understanding what works.
You visit the site	Visit statistics: pages viewed, time on page, the site that referred you, browser type, screen size and approximate country. Your IP address is shortened before it is stored, so it cannot identify you.	To see which pages are useful and plan what we write and run. We use Matomo, which runs on our own website, so this data is not shared with any analytics company. Lawful basis: our legitimate interest in improving the site. You can opt out below.
You visit the site	Server logs: IP address, browser, pages requested, time	To keep the site secure and working. Lawful basis: our legitimate interest in protecting the service. Our host keeps these logs for no more than two months.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not use it for automated decision-making.

Where it goes

Form submissions are stored on our website, which is hosted by GoDaddy, and emailed to the LYIS team. Our email is hosted by GoDaddy, and form submissions are forwarded to a Google Gmail account used by the LYIS team. Newsletter sign-ups are kept by WordPress on our website, and the newsletter itself is sent using Wix. These providers process data on our instructions under contracts that meet UK GDPR requirements. Some of them store data outside the UK; where they do, transfers are covered by the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or an adequacy decision.

We share your information with nobody else, unless the law requires it.

How long we keep it

Membership and course enquiries: for as long as needed to deal with the enquiry, and then for up to two years so we can follow up, unless you become a member.
Member records: for the life of your membership and six years afterwards, for accounting and legal reasons.
Contact messages: up to two years.
Newsletter subscriptions: until you unsubscribe.

Cookies

This site sets only the cookies it needs to work: a session cookie when you log in, and a short-lived cookie that remembers a form you have just sent so we can show the confirmation. We do not use advertising cookies.

Our visit statistics (Matomo, described above) are set up to work without cookies. We do not track you across other websites or build a profile of you, and staff visits are not counted. If you would rather not be counted at all, use the switch below.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of the information we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, object to or restrict how we use it, and ask for it in a portable format. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Email contact@leadingyourinternationalschool.com and we will respond within one month.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113. We would rather you told us first so we can put it right.