This Privacy Policy explains how DrumBetter collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal information when you visit our website, download a free resource, join the Backbeat Code System waitlist, receive emails from us, book a call, or interact with DrumBetter online.

DrumBetter is operated by Giuliano Kolling.

Contact email: giuliano@drumbetter.co.uk

1. Who we are

DrumBetter provides online drum education,

free drum practice resources, email lessons, course updates, and online drum coaching.

For the purposes of data protection law, DrumBetter is the data controller for the personal information collected through this website and our email and funnel pages.

2. What personal information we collect

We may collect your first name, your email address, information you submit through forms on our website, information related to joining a waitlist, downloading a free resource, or booking a call, email engagement data such as whether you open or click emails, basic technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, and referral source, and cookie or tracking information where applicable.

If you later buy a course, product, or service from DrumBetter, we may also collect information related to your purchase. Payment information is normally processed by third-party payment providers and is not stored directly by DrumBetter.

3. How we collect your information

We collect information when you fill in a form to download a free PDF or practice guide, join the Backbeat Code System waitlist, subscribe to emails or newsletters, click links in emails or on our website, book a call or contact us directly, visit pages on our website, or purchase a product, course, or service, if available.

4. How we use your personal information

We use your personal information to send you the free resource you requested, send you email lessons, practice tips, updates, and relevant DrumBetter content, let you know when Backbeat Code System founding member places or course enrollments open, respond to your questions or messages, manage waitlists, course interest, and email communication, improve our website, emails, content, and offers, understand how people use our website and resources, protect our website, systems, and business, and comply with legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations.

5. Legal basis for using your information

We only use your personal information when we have a valid legal basis to do so.

This may include consent, when you choose to download a free resource, join a waitlist, subscribe to emails, or agree to receive marketing communications.

This may include contract or pre-contract steps, when you book a call, ask about coaching, join a course, buy a product, or request information before making a purchase.

This may include legitimate interests, when we improve our website, understand general engagement, manage our business, prevent misuse, and communicate with people who have shown interest in DrumBetter, as long as your rights and freedoms do not override those interests.

This may include legal obligation, when we need to keep certain information for tax, accounting, legal, or regulatory reasons.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email.

6. Email marketing

If you download a free resource, join a waitlist, or subscribe to DrumBetter emails, we may send you emails about drum practice, free resources, course updates, waitlist updates, online coaching, and related offers.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.

7. Sharing your information

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share your information with trusted service providers who help us run DrumBetter, such as email marketing and funnel platforms, website and landing page platforms, calendar booking tools, payment processors if you buy something, analytics, tracking, or link management tools, cookie consent tools, email, hosting, domain, and technical service providers.

These providers only receive the information needed to provide their service and are expected to protect your information appropriately.

Tools we may use include Systeme.io, Short.io, Google, YouTube, CookieScript, Cal.com, Stripe or other payment processors, and similar services used to operate DrumBetter.

8. International transfers

Some of the tools and service providers we use may process data outside your country, the UK, or the European Economic Area.

When this happens, we rely on appropriate safeguards where required, such as contractual protections or other lawful transfer mechanisms used by those service providers.

9. How long we keep your information

We keep your personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

For email subscribers and waitlist contacts, we usually keep your information until you unsubscribe, ask us to delete it, or we no longer need it for the reason it was collected.

We may keep certain information for longer if required for legal, tax, accounting, dispute resolution, or business record reasons.

10. Your data protection rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access the personal information we hold about you, correct inaccurate or incomplete information, ask us to delete your personal information, ask us to restrict how we use your information, object to certain types of processing, request a copy of your information in a portable format, withdraw consent where we rely on consent, and unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time.

To exercise your rights, contact us at:

giuliano@drumbetter.co.uk

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

11. Cookies and tracking

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to make the website work properly, understand how visitors use the site, improve our content, and manage marketing or tracking tools.

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Others, such as analytics or marketing cookies, may require your consent depending on your location.

More details will be provided in our Cookie Policy.

12. Third-party links

Our website and emails may contain links to third-party websites, such as YouTube, booking pages, payment processors, or other external tools.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites. You should review their privacy policies before submitting personal information to them.

13. Security

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

However, no website, email system, or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

14. Children

DrumBetter is not intended to collect personal information from children without appropriate consent from a parent or guardian.

If you believe a child has provided personal information without appropriate consent, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to remove it.

15. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.

16. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how DrumBetter handles your personal information, contact:

Giuliano Kolling

DrumBetter

Email: giuliano@drumbetter.co.uk