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Privacy Policy

How we collect, use and protect your personal information.

Last updated: 7 June 2026

Who we are

Fitter at 40 is a personal running coaching service operated by Gareth Hiron (England Athletics Level 3 coach, CiRF), based in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom. For the purposes of UK data protection law, Gareth Hiron is the data controller for the information you provide through this website. You can contact us at gareth@fitterat40.co.uk.

What we collect

When you submit an enquiry or coaching intake form on this website, we collect the information you choose to provide, which may include:

  • Your name, email address and phone number
  • Your age, location and running experience
  • Training details — weekly mileage, training days, personal bests and goals
  • Any injury or health information you choose to share so we can advise you safely

Injury and health information is treated as "special category" data under UK GDPR and handled with extra care. You only need to share what you're comfortable with.

Why we use it & our lawful basis

We use the information you submit solely to respond to your enquiry, discuss your coaching needs, and (if you go ahead) set up your coaching. Our lawful bases are:

  • Legitimate interest / taking steps to enter a contract — to respond to and follow up on your enquiry.
  • Consent — for any health or injury information you provide, which you give by submitting the form. You can withdraw this at any time.

We will not send you marketing without your agreement, and we never sell your data.

Who we share it with

Enquiries submitted through this site are processed by Netlify (our website and form host) and delivered to our email inbox. If you become a coaching client, your data is managed through our coaching platform — see the platform privacy notice for details of the providers involved. We share your data only with these service providers, under appropriate data-protection terms.

How long we keep it

We keep enquiry information only as long as needed to respond to you and, if relevant, while you are a coaching client. If you don't go ahead with coaching, we'll delete your enquiry data within a reasonable period. You can ask us to delete it sooner at any time.

Cookies

This website does not use tracking or advertising cookies. To understand how the site is used, we use GoatCounter — a privacy-friendly analytics tool that counts visits and shows which pages are popular. It sets no cookies and collects no information that identifies you personally.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you have the right to access, correct or delete your data, to restrict or object to how we use it, to receive it in a portable format, and to withdraw consent. To exercise any of these, email gareth@fitterat40.co.uk. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

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