Terms Of Use

By using this website you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of this website. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use or contribute to this website.

The information on this website is intended solely to provide general guidance on matters of interest for the personal use of the reader, who accepts full responsibility for its use. The information on this website is provided with the understanding that the authors and publishers are not herein engaged in rendering professional advice or services. As such, it should not be used as a substitute for consultation with professional competent advisers.

We have made every attempt to ensure that the information contained on this website is from reliable sources but Allen Sykes is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of this information. All information on this website is provided "as is", with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, timeliness or of the results obtained from the use of this information, and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to warranties of performance, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Nothing herein shall to any extent substitute for the independent investigations and the sound technical and business judgment of the reader. In no event will Allen Sykes or its employees or agents, be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken in reliance on the information on this website or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Certain links on this web site connect to other websites maintained by third parties over whom Allen Sykes has no control. Allen Sykes makes no representations as to the accuracy or any other aspect of information contained in other Web sites.

We use cookies placed on your hard drives to enable us to improve the content of this website.  The information collected is anonymous in that it will not be traced back to you.

Your web browser may give you the ability to refuse a cookie in which case you will still be able to use our website.

In order to maintain and manage this website we may anonymously log information that identifies categories of visitors by, for example, domains and browser types. This information is unlikely to contain anything that could be used to identify you and we have no intention of using it to do so. The only purpose of gathering this information is to improve our website for visitors.
Provision of Services Regulations 2009 Disclosure

In accordance with the disclosure requirements of the Provision of Services Regulations 2009, our professional indemnity insurer is Travelers Insurance Company Ltd, 61-63 London Road, Redhill, Surrey RH1 1NA. The territorial coverage is worldwide excluding professional business carried out from an office in the United States of America or Canada and excludes any action for a claim brought in any court in the United States of America or Canada.
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Privacy Statement – Personal Data

We are committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

We process personal data for several purposes and the means of collection, lawful basis of processing, use, disclosure, and retention periods for each purpose may differ.

Our policy is to collect only the personal data necessary for agreed purposes and we ask clients to only share personal data where it is strictly needed for those purposes. We collect personal data from our clients or from third parties acting on the instructions of the relevant client. 

We process personal data to provide professional services such as tax advice, general or specific business advice as part of the range of services we offer. We also process personal data in the administration and management of our business.

Your business contact details are used to provide you with information about our services and other information which we think will be of interest to you, provided you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

We are subject to legal, regulatory and professional obligations.  We need to keep certain records to demonstrate that our services are provided in compliance with those obligations and those records may contain personal data.

Personal data processed is kept by us for as long as is considered necessary for the purpose for which it was collected (including as required by applicable law or regulation).  In the absence of specific legal, regulatory or contractual requirements, our retention policy period for records and other documentary evidence created in the provision of services is 7 years.   

We take the security of your data we hold seriously.  We have a policy including procedures and training in place covering data protection, confidentiality and security and regularly review the appropriateness of the measures we have in place to keep the data we hold secure.

We will only share personal data with others when we are legally permitted to do so.  When we share data with others, we put contractual arrangements and security mechanisms in place to protect your data. We use third parties located in other countries to help us run our business.  As a result, personal data may be transferred outside the countries where we and our clients are located.  This includes countries outside the European Union ("EU").

Under the DPA (2018) and GDPR, Individuals have certain rights over their personal data and data controllers are responsible for fulfilling these rights. 

Access to data

You have a right to access your personal data held by us and you can exercise that right by contacting us below. Our aim is to respond a request promptly and within the legally required limit of 40 days.

Update of personal data

If you wish to update personal data submitted to us, please contact us below. Once we are informed that any personal data held by us is no longer accurate we will make changes based on your updated information.

Withdrawal of consent

Where we hold data based on consent, individuals have a right to withdraw consent at any time. To withdraw consent to our processing of your personal data please contact us below.

Other rights

This statement is intended to provide information about what personal data we collect about you and how it is used.  As well as rights of access and amendment referred to above, individuals may have other rights in relation to the personal data we hold, such as a right to erasure/deletion, to restrict or object to our processing of personal data and the right to data portability. For further information on these rights please contact us below.

Complaints

If you do want to complain about our use of your personal data, please contact us below with the details of your complaint. You also have the right to register a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (“ICO”).  For further information on your rights and how to complain to the ICO, please refer to their website.

Contacting us about your data

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or how and why we process personal data, please contact us at:

Name:           Beverley Wood

Email:            beverleywood@allensykes.co.uk

Telephone:    01388 777877