Privacy

At LocalAccountants.co.uk, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

LocalAccountants.co.uk is the controller responsible for your personal data. We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the contact details provided on our website.

You 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. However, we would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.

2. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, including:
– Identity Data (such as name, title, date of birth)
– Contact Data (such as address, email, phone number)
– Technical Data (such as IP address, browser type)
– Usage Data (information about how you use our website)
– Marketing and Communications Data (your preferences in receiving marketing from us)

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you.

3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:
– Direct interactions when you fill in forms on our website or correspond with us
– Automated technologies or interactions as you navigate through our site
– Third parties or publicly available sources

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
– To perform a contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you
– Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests
– Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation

We may use your personal data to:
– Manage our relationship with you
– Administer and protect our business and website
– Deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
– Use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, and user experiences

5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may have to share your personal data with third parties for the purposes set out above. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

6. International Transfers

We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

8. 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.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
– Request access to your personal data
– Request correction of your personal data
– Request erasure of your personal data
– Object to processing of your personal data
– Request restriction of processing your personal data
– Request transfer of your personal data
– Right to withdraw consent

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of the other rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.

10. Changes to the Privacy Notice

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This version was last updated on [Insert Date]. Historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.

LocalAccountants.co.uk is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.