Owens Professional, Hammerain House, Harrogate, HG2 8ER
We ask that you read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
Owens Professional Partnership Limited collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
In the course of providing our services to you, we collect the following personal information when you provide it to us:
We also obtain personal information from other sources as follows:
We use your personal information to:
We routinely share personal data with:
We only allow our service providers to handle your personal data if we are satisfied that they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data.
We may also need to share some personal data with other parties, such as potential sellers and buyers of accountancy practices/fees.
We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.
We will not share your personal information with any other third party.
We will hold personal data for the period we are required to hold this information as required by tax law or a statute of limitations.
We rely on performance of a contract and legitimate interests as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal data. Our legitimate interests are providing you with an efficient service.
We may transfer your personal information to the following which are located outside the European Economic Area (EEA) as follows:
Such countries do not have the same data protection laws as the United Kingdom and EEA although the EU and the USA have entered in to the Privacy Shield mechanism for transfer of data.
If you would like further information please contact us.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
We hope that can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.
This privacy notice was published in May 2018.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time. Please check the website for the most up to date version, as we will not be under any duty to tell you of any changes to our privacy policy while we carry out work for you.
Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us, please send an email to rachel@owensprofessional.co.uk or write to Hammerain House, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG2 8ER.
If you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ above).
There are instances where we may use cookies to gather information regarding our services in a mathematical collection for our website and our advertisers.
Any information collected will not have any identifying data. It is statistical data about our visitors and how they have used our site. No personal details will be shared that could identify you.
We may assemble information about your common internet use with a cookie file. When used, the cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. The cookie is stored on the hard drive, with transferred information. The data sought by the cookie helps us improve our website and any service offered to you.
Under the EU Cookie Directive 2012, you as a user have the right to decline the use of cookies during your visit to our site. In order to do this, do not check the ‘I Accept’ checkbox that appears when our site loads. Whilst this is your right, it may result in you not being able to use all of the functionality of our site.
Your browser has the ability to decline cookies. This is done by setting your browser options to decline all cookies. Note: if you do decline the download of cookies, some aspects of our site may not work or allow you access.
Listed below is a list of the cookies that we use on this site.
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Hammerain House
Harrogate HG2 8ER
T: 01423 876 314
E: rachel@owensprofessional.co.uk
david@owensprofessional.co.uk
Owens Professional, Hammerain House, Harrogate, HG2 8ER