Privacy notice

1. Introduction

Strathmore Accountants Ltd is an independent provider of accounting, tax and advisory services. The registered office is Ivy Mill, Crown Street, Failsworth, Manchester, M35 9BG.

Strathmore Accountants Ltd is registered as a data controller with the ICO. We operate as a controller when conducting professional & advisory services and as a data processor when undertaking financial outsourcing.

Strathmore Accountants Ltd respects your right to privacy. We ask that you read this Privacy policy carefully as it contains important information about what to expect when we collect personal information about you and how we will use your personal data.

This policy applies to information we collect about:

• Visitors to our website
• People who do business with us
• Professional contacts and suppliers of services to us or our clients
• Potential recruits

If you have any questions about data protection please contact Jo Holmes our Data Privacy Manager at jholmes@strathmore1.co.uk

2. The information we collect about you

When you do business with us, become a client of our firm, register for or attend any events or subscribe to our newsletters, or register an interest in any job vacancies with us, we collect some or all of the following personal information from you:

• Date of Birth
• Postal address, email address and telephone number
• Any information relevant to the matter upon which we may be instructed.
• If you choose to submit a job or work experience placement application, we will collect and hold the information that you provide in that application.
• Occasionally we may receive information about you from other sources (such as Smart Search or other similar bodies) which we will add to the information which we already hold about you in order to help us provide the required services or comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, in particular regarding anti-money laundering.
• IP addresses (internet protocol addresses) of visitors are logged for administration purposes. The IP address indicates the location of your computer on the Internet. This information may be used to provide statistical information about the users of our site. No individual user is identifiable from such information. Its purpose is to try to ensure that our site reflects the needs of our users. IP addresses may be used to track your session. We do not use Cookies. Strathmore Accountants Ltd does not require you to register to access any part of our website.

We do not collect sensitive information except where legally required as part of the recruitment process. Sensitive information includes data relating to race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other similar beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life or criminal records.

3. How we will use the information about you

We gather this information

• To provide the contracted services
• To process any application for employment
• To improve the quality of services
• To keep you updated as to relevant events or information which you may find of interest
• To maintain our records for administrative purposes
• When obliged to do so by statutory authorities
• To comply with statutory and/or regulatory obligations
• Where necessary to verify your identity.

Where we provide services to you, our legal basis for processing is contract. Where we wish to process details of individuals, sole traders or LLP’s who are not current clients, we will only do so on the basis of consent.

4. Marketing

We may also wish to provide you with relevant information about any services or events we think may be of interest to you. If you would rather not receive this information, please send an email message to: jholmes@strathmore1.co.uk.
If you agree to us providing you with marketing information, you can always opt out at a later date.

5. Preferences

You may change your preferences or withdraw your consent where provided for use of your personal information by contacting us at jholmes@strathmore1.co.uk.

6. Who we share your information with

We will only share information with third parties where necessary to conduct the services we provide. We share information with the following:

• Business associates and other professional advisers (where requested or under legitimate interest)
• Data processors
• Legal and regulatory authorities
• Central government

We will only share your information where necessary and only with firms who can evidence, they are compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

7. How we protect your information

We have put in place various security measures, both technical and organisational, to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, alternation or destruction. Our security and privacy policies are regularly reviewed.

All Strathmore Accountants Ltd employees have signed a confidentiality agreement and only authorised persons will have access to your personal data.

8. Overseas transfers

The information you provide will not be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

9. Your rights

Under the GDPR and The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) you have a number of rights with regard to your personal data.

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please send an email to jholmes@strathmore1.co.uk. or send a letter to The Data Protection Lead, Strathmore Accountants Ltd, Ivy Mill, Crown Street, Failsworth, Manchester, M35 9BG

We want to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. If any of the information that you have provided to us changes, for example, if you change your email address or name, please let us know the correct details by sending an email to jholmes@strathmore1.co.uk or send a letter to The Data Protection Lead, Strathmore Accountants Ltd, Ivy Mill, Crown Street, Failsworth, Manchester, M35 9BG. You may ask us, or we may ask you, to correct information you or we think is inaccurate, and you may also ask us to remove information which is inaccurate.

You also have the right to request from us erasure of your personal data, the right to restrict processing, object to processing as well as in certain circumstances the right to data portability. Please note we will retain and use your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

If you have provided consent for the processing of your data, you have the right (in certain circumstances) to withdraw that consent at any time which will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent was withdrawn.

You have the right to lodge a complaint to the Information Commissioners’ Office if you believe that we have not complied with the requirements of the GDPR or DPA with regard to your personal data.

10. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data to the extent we need to retain it or for as long as required to provide our services to you or under other legal and regulatory obligations to which we are subject. Different retention periods apply for different types of data, however, we will normally hold your data no longer than six years plus the current processing period.

11. Changes to Privacy Policy

We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on this page, and place notices on other pages of the website, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times. This Privacy policy was last updated in April 2022.

12. Links to other websites

Our website contains links to other websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to this firm’s website so when you access links to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

13. Cookies and other information-gathering technologies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

The information below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie: Google Analytics

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Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and 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. This information is shown to us through the Google Analytics tools and is not shared with anyone else. They are first-party cookies.