Privacy Policy for International Tax Advisory
Welcome to our international tax advisory website. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our site or utilise our services, in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection laws.
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our international tax advisory services to businesses. The data we collect depends on your interactions with our site and services.
- Personal Data You Provide Directly: This includes information you submit when you fill out contact forms, request a consultation, subscribe to our newsletters, or engage with our services. This may include your name, company name, email address, phone number, and any details you provide regarding your tax advisory needs.
- Automatically Collected Data: When you visit our online platform, we automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates/times of your visits. This data helps us understand how our site is used and to improve its functionality.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and hold certain information. These are used to enhance your experience, analyze site usage, and support our marketing efforts.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes related to providing expert international tax advisory services:
- To Provide Services: To deliver the international tax advisory services you request, including responding to your inquiries, providing consultations, and managing client relationships.
- To Communicate With You: To send you relevant information about our services, updates, newsletters, and respond to your queries.
- For Marketing and Analytics: To analyze how our site is used, improve our content and services, tailor our marketing efforts, and understand user preferences. This includes tracking website performance and user engagement.
- For Legal Compliance: To comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under GDPR
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal data described in this Privacy Policy depends on the personal data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it:
- Consent: You have given us explicit consent to process your personal data for one or more specific purposes.
- Contract: The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
- Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
- Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your information with limited third parties under specific circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may engage third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our service, provide service on our behalf, perform service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our service is used (e.g., website hosting, analytics, CRM systems). These parties are bound by strict confidentiality agreements and are authorised to use your personal data only as necessary to provide these services to us.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
- Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
5. International Data Transfers
As an international tax advisory firm, we may process and store your information in countries other than your own. When we transfer your personal data out of the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
- We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
- Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
6. Data Security
We are committed to securing your personal data. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, accidental loss, destruction, or alteration. Despite our efforts, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
7. Your Data Protection Rights Under GDPR
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The right to withdraw consent: You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where our processing is based on your consent.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
8. Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We advise you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
[Company Name]
[Street Address (e.g., 123 Global Business Hub)]
[City, Postal Code, Country (e.g., London, SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom)]