Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy covers what we collect and how we use, disclose, transfer and store your information. 

Under GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 we will ensure that your personal data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently, without adversely affecting your rights.

1. Who are we?

OBS Accounting Ltd is a family-owned accounting firm. We are registered in England as a limited liability company under number: 13593726, and our registered address is: 2 Copse Lane Alford Cranleigh GU6 8UP

For the purpose of the Data Protection Legislation and this notice, we are the ‘data controller’. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal data about you. We are required under the Data Protection Legislation to notify you of the information contained in this privacy policy.

2. What information do we collect?

We collect Data in the following ways:

- Data is given to us by you

We will collect your Data in a number of ways, such as when you contact us through our Website, by telephone, e-mail or through any other means; in each case, in accordance with this privacy policy.

In order to fulfil the you have with us contract, we may ask for personal information, such as your name, email, addresses, contact details, or dentification details (eg, tax registration numbers).

- Data is collected automatically (see section 7)

To the extent that you access the Website, we automatically collect some information about your visit to the Website. This information helps us to make improvements to Website content and navigation, and includes your IP address, the date, times and frequency with which you access the Website and the way you use and interact with its content.

- From third parties and/or publicly available resources (for example, from Companies House)

3. How will we use your personal Data?

We may use your personal data in order to:

- Carry out our obligations arising from any agreements entered into between you and us (which will most usually be for the provision of our services);

- provide you with information related to our services and our events and activities that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, provided you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;

- seek your thoughts and opinions on the services we provide; and

- notify you about any changes to our services.

4. Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it is collected.

5. Disclosure of personal information to third parties

We may disclose personal information to third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, ad networks, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing or advertising providers, professional advisors and payment systems operators.

We will only share your personal data with third parties 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.

6. International transfers of personal information

We may transfer the personal data we collect about you to countries outside of the EEA.

Either, there is an adequacy decision by the European Commission in relation to these countries therefore they will be deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for your personal information for the purpose of the Data Protection Legislation or, where there is not an adequacy decision by the European Commission in relation to certain countries and they will not be deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for your personal information for the purpose of the Data Protection Legislation, we have put in place measures to ensure that your personal data is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with and which respects the Data Protection Legislation, such as binding corporate rules or model contract clauses.

7. Cookies

Our website uses cookies or similar technology to collect information about your access to the site. Cookies are pieces of information that include a unique reference code that a website transfers to your device to store and sometimes track information about you.

A few of the cookies we use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to the site and will last for longer.

Cookies help us serve you content based on preferences you have specified.

8. Data Security

We have put in place commercially reasonable and appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

9. Your duty to inform us of changes

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Should your personal information change, please notify us of any changes of which we need to be made aware by contacting us at info@myobsaccounting.com.

10. Limits of our policy

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

11. Changes to this policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy notice in the future will be updated on our website at: https://myobsaccounting.com/privacy-policy

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this policy or if you would like to speak to us about the manner in which we process your personal data, please email us at info@myobsaccounting.com .