Privacy

1.
Introduction
1.1
We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this policy we explain how we will treat your personal information.
2.
Credit
2.1
This document was created using a template from Docular (https://docular.net).
3.
Collecting personal information
3.1
We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
  1. information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths);
  2. information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address);
  3. information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services (including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use);
  4. information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication); and
  5. any other personal information that you choose to send to us.
3.2
Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
4.
Using personal information
4.1
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
4.2
We may use your personal information to:
  1. administer our website and business;
  2. personalise our website for you;
  3. enable your use of the services available on our website;
  4. send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
  5. send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
  6. provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information); and
  7. verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service).
4.3
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.
4.4
We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.
5.
Disclosing personal information
5.1
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
5.2
We may disclose your personal information:
  1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  2. in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
  4. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
  5. to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
5.3
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
6.
International data transfers
6.1
Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
6.2
Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
6.3
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 6.
7.
Retaining personal information
7.1
This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
7.2
Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
7.3
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
  1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  2. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
  3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
8.
Security of personal information
8.1
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
8.2
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
9.
Amendments
9.1
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
9.2
You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
10.
Your rights
10.1
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:
  1. the payment of a fee (currently fixed at GBP 10); and
  2. the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
10.2
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
10.3
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
10.4
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
11.
Third party websites
11.1
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
11.2
We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
12.
Our details
12.1
This website is owned and operated by Mark Giffard.
12.2
Our principal place of business is at The Fresh Accountancy, The Old Quarry, Caton, Ashburton, Devon TQ13 7LH.
12.3
You can contact us:
  1. by post, using the postal address given above; or
  2. using our website contact form.

Ezoic Services

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