We are committed to protecting your privacy and keeping your information secure. This policy provides transparent information about the personal information that Auker Hutton Accountancy Limited (“we”/”us”/”our”) collects, and the ways in which we use that personal information.
In handling your information:
- We will ensure your data is protected and your privacy is kept
- We will only collect and process your data when necessary
- We will not sell, let, or in any way distribute or, make public your personal information
- We will never spam you
Auker Hutton Accountancy Limited processes Personal Data as a Controller, as defined in the Directive and the GDPR.
If you have any questions or concerns, you can email us at ah@aukerhutton.co.uk.
Collecting Personal Information
Auker Hutton Accountancy Limited may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:
- Personal details and contact information
- Demographic Information, such as postcode, preferences and interests
- Information about your use of this website (including cookies)
- Financial Information, such as bank account numbers and sort codes, bank account balances and transactions, earnings from P60/P45
- Information about your business and personal goals and challenges
- Your website interaction information, such as anonymous IP Address, geological location, device and operating system, internet browser type and version, URLs with regards to how you came to this website, your activity on this website and where you exit to
- Information that you provide for completing a web form or mailing list subscription on the website
- Information about transactions carried out over this website
- “Cookies,” which enables the website to remember your information if you return to the site, such as to keep you logged in or to remember your login credentials if you return to the site
- And any other information that you send to the company
Using Personal Information
Auker Hutton Accountancy Limited may use your personal information:
- To supply the services that you purchase
- For internal record keeping and accounting
- For the improvement of our services
- For the transmission by email of promotional materials that may be of interest to you
- To contact you for market research purposes which may be done using email, telephone or mail. Such information may be used to customise or update the website
- To personalise the website for you
- To enable your access to and use of the website services
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. For information on what a cookie is, please see below in this policy.
Google Analytics is set to collect data anonymously, with the IP anonymisation configuration setting activated and will not record the full IP address.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, please note if you do this you may not be able to use the functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Senta
Auker Hutton Accountancy Limited use Senta as a database for storing client details, to manage our workflow, as a secure client file sharing portal, and to manage our bulk client communications. We will store some of your personal information including names, addresses, contact details, and certain information about your business, on a Senta server.
We will keep a record of consent for marketing communications. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We may email existing customers infrequently on the basis of the legitimate interests with non-marketing and essential communications.
There’s no third-party tracking in messages we send through Senta besides their own analytics. Neither we, nor Senta, will ever sell your email address or share it with any other party, unless we are legally compelled to do so.
Senta’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.senta.co/gb/about/privacy-policy
Software and Third-parties
Auker Hutton Accountancy Limited will use software and trusted third-parties to fulfil our contractual obligations to you in the performance of our services and completing transactions. By requesting information or delivery of a service and product, we process your data under the lawful basis of contract.
By registering with us, purchasing or requesting a service, you understand and agree that personal information you provide may be shared with third-party service providers where we are required by law, where it is necessary to administer the relationship between us or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so. We do not sell or rent your personal data to marketers or unaffiliated third parties.
We will ensure we have contracts with them that confirm your data will be processed following GDPR regulations. We do not allow third-parties to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.
In the future, we may sell, buy, merge, or partner with other companies or businesses. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.
Securing your data
Auker Hutton Accountancy Limited has a Data Governance Policy in operation and will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers. We will never provide access to our databases to a non-trusted third party detailed in this policy.
Under the GDPR rulings, we would inform our users within 72 hours if we become aware of any breach of security that might compromise your data.
How you can restrict or access your Personal Data
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information, including if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, by emailing us at ah@aukerhutton.co.uk.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you, by applying in writing to The Stables, Little Coldharbour Farm, Tong Lane, Lamberhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN3 8AD or email us at ah@aukerhutton.co.uk.
We will supply this information within 30 days. If any data is incorrect we will correct it as soon as we receive appropriate notice or evidence from you in writing.
The right to be forgotten
We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary, whilst retaining legal requirements for maintaining financial records.
You have the right to instruct us to delete all the personal information held. Should you wish to instruct us to delete please do so in writing to The Stables, Little Coldharbour Farm, Tong Lane, Lamberhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN3 8AD or email us at ah@aukerhutton.co.uk.
Any data no longer required will be deleted or destroyed securely and confidentially.
The right of rectification
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is current and accurate. If inaccurate or incomplete data is identified, we will takes steps to correct the data, or remove securely and confidentially.
You have the right to instruct us to remove incomplete personal data held. Should you wish to request incomplete data removal, please do so in writing to The Stables, Little Coldharbour Farm, Tong Lane, Lamberhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN3 8AD or email us at ah@aukerhutton.co.uk.
Cookies
What is a ‘cookie’? When you enter a site, your computer will automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not contain any personal identifying information about a visitor or their location. They just identify the computer used. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site in order to track traffic flows and patterns of behaviour of site visitors.
Social Media Policy & Usage
We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.
There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page.
Changes to this policy
Auker Hutton Accountancy Limited may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes. This policy is effective from 1 May 2020.
Other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Contact Auker Hutton Accountancy Limited
You can contact us at any point to:
- Request access to information that we have about you
- Correct any information that we have about you
- Request the deletion of information that we have about you
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write by email to ah@aukerhutton.co.uk.
Should you feel there may be a problem in how your data has been handled, you should contact Tony Burgoyne by email to ah@aukerhutton.co.uk. Should you still not be satisfied you have a right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).