Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 5 October 2026
Lauren Jean Devine ("Lauren Jean Devine", "we", "us" or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share and protect personal information when you visit our website, contact us, subscribe to our communications, purchase a product or service, or participate in any programme, membership, course, workshop, mentoring service or other service provided by Lauren Jean Devine.
This Privacy Policy applies across the Lauren Jean Devine business and its programmes and services, including The Home Economist Academy™, educational services, student and teacher programmes, mentoring and coaching services, memberships, workshops, events, digital resources, online programmes and other products or services offered by Lauren Jean Devine.
We process personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR"), the Data Protection Act 2018, applicable Irish ePrivacy legislation and other applicable Irish and European Union data protection laws.
1. Who We Are
For the purposes of applicable data protection law, Lauren Jean Devine is the data controller responsible for the personal data covered by this Privacy Policy.
Our services may include:
The Home Economist Academy™
Educational programmes and memberships
Student educational support
Teacher resources and professional educational support
Mentoring and coaching
One-to-one and group programmes
Online courses and workshops
Live and recorded sessions
Digital products, resources and downloads
Online communities
Events and masterclasses
Email newsletters and educational communications
Podcast and website content
Other programmes, resources and services offered by Lauren Jean Devine
Data Controller: Lauren Jean Devine
Location: Ireland
Email: [email protected]
Website: laurenjeandevine.com
Questions or requests relating to personal data may be sent to [email protected].
2. Personal Data We Collect
The information we collect depends on your relationship with us and the services you use.
Information You Provide
We may collect:
Name
Email address
Telephone number
Billing information
Address where required
Age or confirmation of age where relevant
Parent or legal guardian details and consent where required
School, educational stage or professional role where relevant
Programme, membership or course information
Information provided through enquiry, registration or application forms
Information provided when participating in mentoring, coaching or educational services
Communications and correspondence with us
Questions submitted for educational or mentoring support
Work or materials submitted for educational feedback
Information you choose to share during live sessions or within programme communities
Feedback, reviews or testimonials you voluntarily provide
We aim to collect only personal data that is adequate, relevant and reasonably necessary for the particular purpose.
Information Collected Automatically
When you access our website or online services, we or our service providers may collect certain technical information, which may include:
IP address
Browser and device information
Website activity
Pages visited
Referral information
Cookie identifiers
Analytics information
Non-essential cookies and similar technologies will be handled in accordance with applicable consent requirements.
3. How and Why We Process Personal Data
We process personal data only where we have an appropriate lawful basis under applicable data protection law.
Depending on the circumstances, this may include:
Performance of a Contract
We may process information where necessary to:
Process an order or registration
Provide a purchased programme, membership or service
Deliver mentoring, coaching or educational services
Provide access to digital products or resources
Manage appointments, workshops and live sessions
Provide customer support
Communicate important information about a service
Consent
Where appropriate, we may rely on your consent for activities such as:
Certain marketing communications
Use of testimonials, photographs or identifiable success stories
Certain non-essential cookies
Particular processing involving young people where consent is required
Other optional processing that we clearly explain when requesting consent
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
Legitimate Interests
Where appropriate and permitted by law, we may process information where necessary for legitimate business interests, including:
Operating and improving our services
Protecting our business, systems and intellectual property
Preventing misuse or fraud
Maintaining appropriate records
Understanding how customers use our services
Responding to enquiries
Establishing, exercising or defending legal claims
Where we rely on legitimate interests, we will consider whether our interests are overridden by your rights and freedoms.
Legal Obligations
We may process and retain information where necessary to comply with legal, regulatory, accounting or tax obligations.
4. Under-18s and Parental/Guardian Permission
Some Lauren Jean Devine services, particularly educational services provided through The Home Economist Academy™, may be relevant to secondary-school students.
It is our policy that no person under the age of 18 may enrol in, purchase, or participate in a Lauren Jean Devine programme or service intended for students without the permission of a parent or legal guardian.
Where a participant is under 18, we may require a parent or legal guardian to:
Give permission for participation;
Complete or approve registration;
Provide appropriate contact information;
Make or authorise payment;
Provide any consent required for the relevant service or processing activity; and
Confirm that they have authority to act as the child's parent or legal guardian.
Where required, we may take reasonable steps to verify parental or guardian permission.
The personal data of a person under 18 remains that person's personal data. Parental or guardian permission does not remove the young person's rights under applicable data protection law.
We seek to collect only the information reasonably necessary to provide the relevant service and apply particular care to information relating to young people.
We do not knowingly permit an under-18 participant to use a service contrary to this policy. If we become aware that an under-18 participant has registered without required parental or guardian permission, we may suspend access while the position is verified and take appropriate steps regarding the personal information concerned.
5. Educational Work and Student Submissions
Students may submit questions, coursework, drafts or other educational material for teaching, correction or feedback where this forms part of a service.
We process such information for the purpose of providing educational support and associated services.
Our role is to support learning, teaching, understanding and improvement. Students remain responsible for ensuring that work submitted for formal assessment complies with their school's requirements and the requirements of the relevant examination or awarding authority.
Our educational services must not be used to misrepresent work produced by another person as a student's own work.
6. Payments
Payments may be processed using trusted third-party payment providers.
Lauren Jean Devine does not ordinarily receive or store complete debit or credit card details. Payment providers process payment information in accordance with their own privacy and security obligations.
We may retain appropriate transaction, invoice and payment records for accounting, tax, legal and customer-service purposes.
7. Marketing Communications
We respect your right to control whether you receive marketing communications.
Where required by applicable law, we will obtain appropriate consent before sending electronic direct marketing.
Where applicable law permits us to contact an existing customer about our own similar products or services without obtaining fresh marketing consent, we will only do so where the applicable legal requirements have been satisfied.
Marketing communications will be clearly identifiable as such and will provide a clear and accessible method of opting out or unsubscribing.
Every electronic marketing communication will provide an appropriate method for requesting that further marketing communications stop, such as an unsubscribe link or other clearly identified opt-out mechanism.
You may also opt out at any time by contacting:
Where you opt out, we will stop using your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
We may retain limited information on a suppression list where necessary to ensure that your marketing preference is respected and that you are not inadvertently re-added to marketing communications.
Opting out of marketing does not prevent us from sending essential non-marketing communications relating to an active purchase, membership, appointment, programme, account, payment, service or other contractual relationship.
8. Live Sessions, Online Communities and Recordings
Some services may include:
Live online teaching
One-to-one sessions
Group mentoring
Workshops
Webinars
Community spaces
Q&A sessions
Where a live session is recorded, participants will be informed where appropriate.
Participants must respect the privacy of other members and must not independently record, reproduce, publish or distribute another participant's personal information, image, voice or contributions without appropriate permission.
Where a recording is made available as part of a programme or membership, access may be restricted to appropriate participants.
9. Testimonials, Photographs and Success Stories
We may invite clients, customers, teachers, parents or students to voluntarily provide feedback or testimonials.
We will obtain appropriate permission before using identifiable personal information, photographs, video or testimonials publicly where required.
Where the person concerned is under 18, appropriate parental or legal guardian permission will be required before identifiable photographs, testimonials or success stories are used for promotional purposes.
Consent for optional promotional use may be withdrawn by contacting [email protected]. Withdrawal does not affect uses lawfully made before withdrawal and may not always enable us to recall material already lawfully distributed or published.
10. Cookies and Analytics
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies necessary for its operation.
We may also use optional technologies for purposes such as:
Analytics
Website improvement
Remembering preferences
Measuring marketing effectiveness
Advertising
Where consent is legally required, non-essential cookies or similar tracking technologies will not be activated until the appropriate consent has been obtained.
Where available, users may change or withdraw their cookie choices through our cookie-management system.
Additional information may be provided in our Cookie Policy.
11. Service Providers and Recipients of Personal Data
We may use trusted third-party service providers to help us operate and deliver our services.
These may include providers of:
Website and course hosting
Membership platforms
Payment processing
Email delivery and marketing
Video conferencing
Appointment scheduling
Cloud storage
Forms and surveys
Community platforms
Analytics
Customer relationship management
Accounting and professional services
Technical and administrative support
Personal data will only be disclosed where reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose, where you have authorised the disclosure, or where disclosure is otherwise permitted or required by law.
We do not sell personal data.
12. International Data Transfers
Some technology or service providers we use may process personal data outside Ireland or the European Economic Area ("EEA").
Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, we will take appropriate measures required under applicable data protection law.
Depending on the destination and provider, these safeguards may include:
A European Commission adequacy decision;
European Commission-approved Standard Contractual Clauses;
Another transfer mechanism recognised under GDPR; or
Other appropriate safeguards required by law.
13. Data Retention
As a general business policy, personal data relating to customers, clients and programme participants will ordinarily be retained for up to two years after the relevant service, programme, membership or client relationship ends, unless a shorter retention period is appropriate.
We will not retain personal data simply because it may be useful in the future.
Information may be deleted or anonymised sooner where it is no longer reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Certain information may need to be retained for longer than two years where this is reasonably necessary or legally required, including:
Accounting, tax and financial records;
Records required to comply with another legal or regulatory obligation;
Information necessary for an ongoing dispute, complaint or legal claim;
Records necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal rights; or
Limited records necessary to demonstrate consent, withdrawal of consent or an individual's marketing opt-out.
Where a longer retention period applies, the information will be retained only for the relevant purpose and for as long as reasonably necessary or legally required.
At the end of the applicable retention period, personal data will be securely deleted, anonymised or otherwise disposed of as appropriate.
14. Data Security
We take reasonable and appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information from:
Unauthorised access
Unlawful processing
Accidental loss
Destruction
Alteration
Misuse
Unauthorised disclosure
Access to personal data is restricted where appropriate to persons and service providers who require access for legitimate purposes.
While we take data security seriously, no internet-based service or electronic storage system can guarantee absolute security.
15. Your Rights Under GDPR
Subject to applicable law and any relevant exemptions, you may have the right to:
Access personal data we hold about you;
Rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
Erase your personal data in certain circumstances;
Restrict processing in certain circumstances;
Object to processing based on legitimate interests;
Object at any time to direct marketing;
Withdraw consent where consent is the basis for processing;
Receive certain personal data in a portable format where the right to data portability applies; and
Lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission.
You will not be charged for exercising these rights except where permitted by law.
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.
Requests can be sent to:
We will respond within the time limits required by applicable data protection law.
16. Automated Decision-Making
We do not currently make decisions about individuals that produce legal or similarly significant effects solely through automated processing.
If this changes, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide the information required under applicable data protection law.
17. Complaints
If you have a concern about how your personal data has been processed, we encourage you to contact us first:
You also have the right to make a complaint to the Data Protection Commission (DPC), Ireland's independent supervisory authority for data protection.
18. External Websites and Services
Our websites, programmes, emails and resources may contain links to third-party websites or services.
Third parties operate under their own privacy practices and we are not responsible for how an independent third party processes personal information.
We recommend reviewing the relevant privacy information before providing personal information to an external service.
19. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to:
Our services;
Our technology or providers;
Our processing activities; or
Applicable legal or regulatory requirements.
The current version will be made available through our website and the Last Updated date will be changed accordingly.
Where a change materially affects how we process personal data, we will take appropriate steps to bring that change to the attention of affected individuals where required.
20. Contact
For questions about this Privacy Policy, our processing of your personal information, or to exercise your data protection rights, please contact:
Lauren Jean Devine
Ireland
Email: [email protected]
Website: laurenjeandevine.com
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