Maridi UK Education
Privacy Policy
Introduction
Maridi UK Education respects the privacy of visitors to this website and of the people who contact us or use our services.
This policy explains what personal data we may collect, why we use it, how we handle it, which other parties may process it, and your rights in relation to your data.
Last updated: October 2026.
Who We Are
Maridi UK Education is an independent service providing educational information, guidance, educational consultations, tutoring, and academic and research mentoring. It is run by Hasan Maridi from Manchester, United Kingdom.
Hasan Maridi, as the operator of Maridi UK Education, is responsible for the personal data described in this policy.
Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), registration number: ZC273875
For privacy enquiries:
Information We May Collect
This depends on how you contact us and which services you use. It may include:
- Your name, email address and contact details.
- Messages you send by email or through Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or other contact channels we use.
- Booking details for educational consultations, tutoring, or academic and research mentoring, such as the type of service and the appointment time.
- Educational information provided by you or a parent or guardian, such as age, school stage, qualifications, subjects, grades and educational goals.
- When you use the tutoring service, we may keep information related to the lessons, such as the subject and level, times and attendance, topics covered, and brief notes on the student's progress or areas needing further support.
- Documents or drafts you send for discussion during a consultation or academic and research mentoring session, such as a Research Proposal, Academic CV, or other academic or research materials connected with the service.
- You may also share unpublished research ideas or materials when using the academic and research mentoring service.
- Limited payment information, such as the amount, date and status of a transaction.
- Technical information that hosting and security services may process when you visit the website, such as IP address and technical request logs.
Unpublished research materials: Drafts, ideas and research materials you share for the purpose of academic and research mentoring are treated confidentially. We do not share them with another party for purposes outside providing the service, and we do not use them for any other purpose, unless required by law.
Please do not send identity documents or sensitive information beyond what is necessary to understand your question or provide the service you have requested.
Sensitive Information
In some cases you may share information with us about health, disability or special educational needs, or information that may reveal religious beliefs or other sensitive data.
You may also provide information about immigration or asylum status where it is relevant to fees, funding or an educational pathway.
We use this information only as far as necessary to understand the situation and provide the guidance or service you have requested. We do not use it for marketing.
Where we need to process data that is legally classed as special category data, we identify an appropriate lawful basis under UK GDPR together with the additional condition required for processing that category of data.
Where explicit consent is the appropriate condition, we will ask for your explicit consent in writing before processing this data, for example through the booking form or a written confirmation by email before the service is provided.
You can withdraw this consent later. Please note that doing so may limit our ability to provide guidance or services that depend on that information.
Purposes & Lawful Basis
General enquiries
We use your contact details and the content of your message to reply to your enquiry and manage our communication with you.
Lawful basis: Legitimate interests in managing enquiries and running the service in a way users would reasonably expect.
Booking and providing individual services
We use booking details and the information and materials you give us to manage appointments and provide educational consultations, tutoring, or academic and research mentoring.
Lawful basis: Contract, or taking steps at your request before entering into the contract for the service.
Payments and financial records
We use the information needed to process payments and to manage invoices and financial and tax records.
Lawful basis: Contract for providing the service, and legal obligation where keeping records is required by law.
Running and securing the website
Some technical data may be processed to help run the website, prevent misuse and protect the website and services.
Lawful basis: Legitimate interests in running and protecting the website.
Students Under 18
If the student is under 18, contact and booking must be made by a parent or guardian.
For individual educational consultations, the parent or guardian attends the consultation with the student.
For tutoring, arrangements, payment and communication are handled through a parent or guardian, who is kept informed of the lesson times.
We may process educational information about the student, provided by the parent, guardian or student, as far as needed to provide the service and follow the student's learning.
Online Sessions
Educational consultations, tutoring, and academic and research mentoring sessions take place online using a suitable video-call platform.
Maridi UK Education does not make audio or video recordings of online sessions.
Brief notes may be taken where needed to provide the service or support follow-up.
Third-Party Services
We use a number of external services to run the website and provide our services. These may include:
- Cloudflare: website hosting, DNS management, security, Web Analytics and email routing.
- Setmore: managing appointments and bookings.
- Square: payment processing.
- Google: Gmail for email.
- Video-call platforms: for holding educational consultations, tutoring, and academic and research mentoring sessions online.
- Namecheap: domain name registration.
- Meta: when you contact us through Facebook or Instagram.
- TikTok: when you contact us through the TikTok account.
- Google / YouTube: when you interact with or contact us through YouTube.
When you use one of these platforms to contact us, the platform itself may also process your data under its own privacy policy.
Some service providers may process data outside the United Kingdom. Where international data transfer rules apply, the parties concerned use appropriate legal safeguards under applicable data protection law.
Full payment card details are processed by the payment provider and are not stored directly on the Maridi UK Education website.
Data Retention
We do not keep personal data for longer than we need it. In general:
- General enquiries and messages may be kept for up to 12 months after the last contact.
- Consultation notes and related educational information are usually kept for up to 12 months after the last session, and then deleted when there is no legitimate need to keep them.
- Tutoring notes and student progress information are usually kept for up to 12 months after the last lesson, and then deleted when there is no legitimate need to keep them.
- Notes and materials connected with academic and research mentoring, including drafts and materials sent for review, are kept only as long as needed to provide the service and any necessary follow-up, usually for no longer than 12 months after the last session, unless there is a legitimate reason or legal obligation to keep them for a different period.
- Sensitive data connected with a service is usually kept for the same period, unless there is a legal reason to keep it for a different period.
- Financial and tax records are kept for the period required by HMRC. For Self Assessment records relating to self-employment, the general rule is to keep records for at least five years after the 31 January submission deadline of the relevant tax year.
Cookies & Technical Data
The Maridi UK Education website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to measure the number of visits, the most-read pages and website performance. According to Cloudflare, this service does not rely on cookies and does not track visitors as individuals.
We do not currently use non-essential cookies for advertising or behavioural tracking.
Hosting and security services may use technologies or technical information that are necessary to run and protect the website.
If we add other analytics tools, marketing tools or non-essential cookies in future, this policy will be updated and the appropriate notice and consent requirements will be applied before they are used.
External Links
The website contains links to government websites, universities, scholarship programmes and external platforms and services.
When you move to an external website, the data you provide there is subject to that website's own privacy policy and terms of use.
Your Data Protection Rights
Under UK data protection law you may, depending on the circumstances, have rights including:
- Asking for a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Asking for inaccurate or incomplete data to be corrected.
- Asking for your data to be deleted where this right applies.
- Asking for the processing of your data to be restricted in some cases.
- Objecting to some types of processing.
- Asking for your data to be transferred where the right to data portability applies.
- Withdrawing consent at any time where particular processing relies on consent.
To exercise any of these rights, contact:
We respond to data protection rights requests without undue delay, and usually within one calendar month of receiving the request.
In some cases permitted by law, such as complex requests or several requests at once, the response may take longer, and we will tell you if that applies.
Privacy Questions & Complaints
If you have a question or complaint about how your data is handled, please contact us first and we will look into it.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the independent authority responsible for data protection in the United Kingdom.
Information Commissioner's Office | ICOChanges to This Policy
This policy may be updated when the services, the service providers, the way data is used or the legal requirements change.
The date of the last update is shown at the top of this page.
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