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The Onboard Academy is a trading name of Richard Lenton. Business Address: 3 Wayfield Close, Hove, BN3 7RE.

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 2026

The Onboard Academy is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website or book a discovery call with us.

For the purpose of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Controller is Richard Lenton trading as The Onboard Academy.

Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following personal data about you:

  • Contact Information: Your name, company name, email address, and phone number when you fill out a form, contact us directly, or book a discovery call.
  • Technical Data: Your IP address, browser type, time zone setting, operating system, and information about how you interact with our website.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your data to:

  • Provide our early-career consultancy and training services to your organisation.
  • Respond to your enquiries or schedule your requested discovery call.
  • Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
  • Send you updates or marketing materials if you have explicitly consented to receive them.

Under the UK GDPR, we rely on the following lawful bases to process your data:

  • Contractual Necessity: To take steps at your request before entering into a contract (e.g., booking a discovery call to discuss a potential training programme).
  • Legitimate Interests: For our legitimate business interests in managing and improving our website and responding to client enquiries.
  • Consent: Where you have explicitly opted-in to receive our marketing newsletter.

Data Sharing and Transfers

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, managing our calendar bookings, or conducting our business (e.g., website hosting, booking tools, CRM systems). These providers are legally bound to protect your data.

If your data is transferred outside the UK, we ensure appropriate safeguards (such as Standard Contractual Clauses) are in place.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed in an unauthorised way.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Under UK data protection laws, you have rights including:

  • Access: The right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
  • Rectification: The right to ask us to correct information you think is inaccurate.
  • Erasure: The right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Restriction & Objection: The right to ask us to restrict or object to the processing of your data.
  • Data Portability: The right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation.

How to Contact Us or Complain

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at richard@theonboardacademy.com or via phone at +44 7980 649 710.

You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us first.

Website Terms and Conditions

Last Updated: August 2026

Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our Privacy Policy govern The Onboard Academy’s relationship with you in relation to this website.
If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

The term ‘The Onboard Academy’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website, [Richard Lenton trading as The Onboard Academy]. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

Use of the Website

Website use is subject to terms including general informational content that may change without notice, cookie usage as detailed in our Cookie Policy, and the exclusion of liability for any inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law. Users acknowledge that reliance on any information or materials on the site is entirely at their own risk.