Under the Data Protection Act 1998 (until 24 May 2018) and under the General Data Protection Regulations (from 25 May 2018) , we have a legal duty to protect information we collect from you. You can visit our site without telling us who you are or giving us any personally identifiable information.

You are not required to provide any personal information on the public areas of this website. However you may choose to provide personal information by completing the sign-up forms on various sections of our website.

You should not complete any request form or contact us directly if you do not wish such information to be collected.

Use of your Data

Your information will be held by us and will be used by us for the following purposes:

• to send requested documents or information to you, to contact you or to deal with any other specific request you have; and
• for use in or to assist with marketing and business development activities.  For example  your information will be added to our marketing database so we can contact you by email, mail, phone or fax to tell you about products or services available from us, or to send you invites, information or publications (such as briefings and email alerts and updates) that may be of interest to you. Information and statistics generated about marketing activities may be used by us for planning and management purposes, to analyse our business and/or to conduct market research about our business
• as a client we will use your information to provide our tax, accountancy and business services to you

We will only disclose or allow access to your details to third parties who are acting on our behalf or providing services to us in confidence (e.g. to consultants or agents assisting with your accountancy and tax requirements, mailings or other marketing projects) or because we are required to do so by law .

Email alerts and updates

If you receive an email alert or update from us, we are able to track the receipt of, and access made to, such emails by your individual email address. This information will only be used by us for the purpose of conducting research about the use of such marketing tools within our business.

Cookies

What is a cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

The cookies used on this website have been categorised based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide.

A list of all the cookie types used on this website by category is set out below.

• Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for cannot be provided.

• Performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

Google Analytics

Web analytics that use cookies to gather data to enhance the performance of a website are rated as performance cookies.   We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. For further details visit: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

Removal of Cookies

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your internet browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. For more information about cookies including how to set your internet browser to reject cookies please go to www.allaboutcookies.org

To opt out of Google Analytics visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Any links to third party websites are not covered by this policy.

Last updated: 23rd May 2018