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Privacy Notice

our information will be held by Above & Beyond Bookkeeping Limited

 

How we use your information

This privacy notice is to let you know how we promise to look after your personal information. This includes what you tell us about yourself, what we learn by having you as a client, and the choices you give us about what marketing you want us to send you. This notice explains how we do this and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

 

Our Privacy Promise

 

We promise:

• To keep your data safe and private


• Not to sell your data


• To give you ways to manage and review what we send you


• We will respond to your request within thirty days

 

How the law protects you

As well as our Privacy Promise, your privacy is protected by law. This section explains how that works.

Data Protection law says that we can use personal information only if we have a proper reason to do so. This includes sharing it outside Above & Beyond Bookkeeping Limited. The law says we must have one or more of these reasons:

• To fulfil a contract we have with you, or


• When it is our legal duty, or


• When it is in our legitimate interest, or


• When you consent to it.

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. But even then, it must not unfairly go against what is right and best for you. If we rely on our legitimate interest, we will tell you what that is.

 

Here is a list of all the ways that we may use your personal information, and which of the reasons we rely on to do so. This is also where we tell you what our legitimate interests are.

 

What we use your personal information for	Our reasons	Our legitimate interests
·         To manage our relationship with you or your business ·         To develop new ways to meet our clients’ needs and to grow our business. ·         To develop and carry out marketing activities. ·         To study how our clients, use services from us and other organisations. ·         To provide advice or guidance about our services. ·         Accounts Preparation for your business. ·         Producing a Tax Return for you. ·         Running a Payroll service. ·         Undertaking Bookkeeping for you.	·         Your consent. ·         Fulfilling contracts. ·         Our legitimate interests. ·         Our legal duty.	·         Keeping our records up to date, working out which of our products and services may interest you and telling you about them. ·         Developing products and services. ·         Defining types of clients for new products or services. ·         Seeking your consent when we need it to contact you. ·         Being efficient about how we fulfil our legal duties.

 

Where we collect personal information from

We may collect personal information about you (or your business) from these sources:

 

Data you give to us

When you apply for quotations for our services

When you talk to us on the phone

When you use our websites and mobile apps

In emails and letters

Data we collect when you use our services

Data from third parties we work with

Third parties that introduce you to us

Social networks

Fraud prevention agencies

Government and law enforcement agencies

 

Who we share your personal information with:

We may share your personal information with these organisations

 

HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities

Any party linked with you or your business’ product or service

Companies we have a joint venture or agreement to co-operate with

Organisations that introduce you to us

Companies that we introduce you to

Companies you ask us to share your data with

 

The information we use:

These are some of the kinds of personal information that we use:

 

Name

Address

Contact details, such as email addresses and phone numbers

Financial data

Data that identifies computers or other devices you use to connect to the internet. This includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address

 

Sending data outside of the EEA

 

We will only send your data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) to:

 

Follow your instructions

Comply with a legal duty

Transfer it to organisations that are part of the Privacy Shield. This is a framework that sets privacy standards for data sent between the US and EU countries. It makes sure those standards are similar to what is used within the EEA. You can find out more about data protection on the European Commission Justice website.

 

Marketing

We may use your personal information to tell you about relevant services. This is what we mean when we talk about marketing.

The personal information we have for you is made up of what you tell us, and data we collect when you use our services, or from third parties we work with.

We study this to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which services may be relevant for you.

We can only use your personal information to send you marketing messages if we have either your consent or a legitimate interest. This is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. It must not unfairly go against what is right and best for you.

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages by contacting us at any time.

Whatever you choose, you will still receive invoices, and other important information such as changes to your existing services.

We may ask you to confirm or update your choices, if you take out any new services with us in the future. We will also ask you to do this if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.

If you change your mind you can update your choices at any time by contacting us.

 

How long we keep your personal information

We will keep your personal information for as long as you are a client of Above & Beyond Bookkeeping Limited.

After you stop being a client, we may keep your data for up to 15 years for one of these reasons:

To respond to any questions or complaints

To maintain records according to the rules that apply to us

We may keep your data for longer than 15 years if we cannot delete it for legal, regulatory or technical reasons. We may also keep it for research or statistical purposes. If we do, we will make sure that your privacy is protected and only use it for those purposes.

 

How to get a copy of your personal information

You can access your personal information we hold by writing to us at this address:

Above & Beyond Bookkeeping Limited

22 Avon Green

Chandlers Ford

Eastleigh

SO53 2NL

 

Letting us know if your personal information is incorrect

You have the right to question any information we have about you that you think is wrong or incomplete. Please contact us if you want to do this.

If you do, we will take reasonable steps to check its accuracy and correct it.

 

If you want us to stop using your personal information

You have the right to object to our use of your personal information, or to ask us to delete, remove or stop using your personal information if there is no need for us to keep it. This is known as the right to object and right to erasure, or the right to be forgotten.

There may be legal or other official reasons why we need to keep or use your data. But please tell us if you think that we should not be using it.

We may sometimes be able to restrict the use of your data. This means that it can only be used for certain things, such as legal claims or to exercise legal rights. In this situation, we would not use or share your information in other ways while it is restricted.

 

You can ask us to restrict the use of your personal information if:

It is inaccurate

It has been used unlawfully but you do not want us to delete it

It is not relevant anymore, but you want us to keep it for use in legal claims

You have already asked us to stop using your data, but you are waiting for us to tell you if we are allowed to keep on using it

If you want to object to how we use your data, or ask us to delete it, or restrict how we use it, please contact us.

 

How to withdraw your consent 

You can withdraw your consent at any time. Please contact us if you wish to do so.

If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. If this is the case, we will tell you.

 

How to complain

Please let us know if you are unhappy with how we have used your personal information. You can contact us in writing at this address:

Above & Beyond Bookkeeping Limited

22 Avon Green

Chandlers Ford

Eastleigh

SO53 2NL

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Find out on their website how to report a concern.