Privacy Policy
Last updated: 30th October 2026
1. Who we are. Ryan Hook Coaching Ltd, trading as The Self Growth Formula, is the controller of your personal data. We're registered in England and Wales (company number 14228917) at Stone Cottage, Stockett Lane, East Farleigh, Maidstone, ME15 0QG. We have applied to register with the Information Commissioner's Office, and our registration number will be added here once it is issued. Contact: hello@selfgrowthformula.com.
2. What we collect
- Contact details: your name and email address, when you join our email list or buy.
- Starting Point Assessment: if you take our free assessment, your answers, your scores and your tier, so we can send you your results.
- Membership details: your plan, join date and platform activity.
- Payment details: processed by Stripe. We never see your full card number.
- Workbook answers: what you write in the web workbook, stored encrypted (see section 3).
- Delivery address: for lifetime members, so we can post the printed workbook.
- Posts you make in the Reviews and Member Insights spaces.
- Instagram messages: if you message us or comment on one of our Instagram posts asking for a link or resource, your Instagram username, your messages and, if you give it, your email address. These are handled through ManyChat.
- Messages you send us.
- Mobile number: only if you ask for WhatsApp reminders. We use it only to send you reminders about launches and intakes.
- Email data: whether our emails are opened and which links are clicked, measured through Kit.
- Purchase questions: if you choose to answer them after joining (for example, how you heard about us).
- Technical data from our website. We measure visits with Umami, which uses no cookies and doesn't identify you: it records things like the page you viewed, the site that sent you, your browser, device type and country, and which buttons were clicked. We ask for your consent before setting any cookies that aren't essential.
3. Your workbook answers. Your web workbook answers are encrypted on our server before they're stored, so they can't be read in our database, backups or exports. Nobody at The Self Growth Formula reads them, and our admin tools can't show them. If you choose to share your workbook with a coach, that coach can read your answers until you stop sharing, which you can do at any time. You can download or delete everything you've written at any time. The web workbook can't be printed.
4. Health information. We don't ask for health information, and we ask you not to include detailed health information in posts or messages. If you choose to share it with us, we'll use it only to respond to you, with your explicit consent. You can withdraw that consent at any time. Your workbook answers may also include health information if you choose to write it. Before you write anything, the web workbook asks for your explicit consent to store it, and records the date you gave it. We store it only so you can use your workbook, keep it encrypted and never read it. You can still use the workbook without consenting, as long as you leave health details out. You can withdraw consent at any time on the Your answers page, and edit or delete anything you've written.
5. Why we use your data, and our lawful basis
- To provide the Programme, store your workbook answers, take payments and post the printed workbook: necessary for our contract with you. Any health information in your workbook answers is stored on the basis of your explicit consent.
- To send you your assessment results: because you asked us to (your consent).
- To send you WhatsApp reminders about launches and intakes: only if you ask for them (your consent). Reply STOP to any message to opt out.
- To keep accounting and tax records: required by law.
- To keep the Programme secure, prevent misuse and improve our service, including understanding how people find us: our legitimate interests.
- To measure which of our ads work, using the Meta Pixel: only with your consent, given through our cookie banner.
- To send marketing emails, and to use your posts in our marketing: only with your consent. We'll always ask before using your words or name publicly.
6. Marketing emails. We send marketing emails only if you've signed up to receive them. That includes when you download a free resource, take the Starting Point Assessment or enter a giveaway: each of those forms tells you that emails will follow. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
7. Who we share data with
We don't sell your data. We share it only with the people who help us run the Programme:
- Circle (course platform)
- Stripe (payments)
- Kit (email)
- Google Workspace (email and files)
- Royal Mail (delivery of the printed workbook)
- Netlify (website and web workbook hosting)
- Supabase (web workbook accounts and encrypted answers, stored in London)
- Zapier (connecting your Circle membership to the web workbook)
- ManyChat (Instagram direct messages)
- Umami (cookie-free website analytics)
- Meta Platforms (Instagram and Facebook advertising measurement, only if you accept advertising cookies, and WhatsApp, for launch reminders you ask for)
- ScoreApp (the Starting Point Assessment)
- Shopify (printed workbook orders and delivery addresses)
Each provider acts on our instructions under a data processing agreement, except Meta (including WhatsApp), Stripe and Royal Mail, which are also responsible for the data they use for their own purposes under their own privacy policies.
8. International transfers. Some providers store data outside the UK, including in the United States. Where they do, your data is protected by UK adequacy regulations (including the UK–US data bridge) or approved contract terms.
9. How long we keep data
- Membership data: while you're a member, plus 2 years.
- Financial records: 6 years, as required by law.
- Marketing data and assessment results: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them.
- Workbook answers: while you're a member. When your access ends, you can still read and download them for 90 days, after which they're deleted. You can delete them yourself at any time.
- Mobile numbers for WhatsApp reminders: until you reply STOP or ask us to delete your number.
- Instagram messages: up to 2 years after your last message, unless you ask us to delete them sooner.
- Posts: until they're deleted or your account is closed. We stop using a post in marketing once you withdraw permission.
10. Your rights
You have the right to access your data, have it corrected, have it erased, restrict or object to its use, take it with you (data portability), and withdraw your consent at any time. To use any of these rights, email us. You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
11. Security. We use reputable providers and take sensible steps to protect your data.
12. Age. The Programme is for adults. We don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 18.
13. Changes. We'll tell you about any significant change to this policy.
