Bean Accounting
are committed to respecting the privacy of your personal information.
This Website Privacy Notice explains our policy for dealing with
personal information that we collect through our websites; www.beanaccounting.co.uk
and other related websites (collectively "Websites").
Throughout this Policy, we refer to your "personal information" which
means information which identifies you as an individual or from which
your identity can be reasonably ascertained. Your home address and
home telephone number are examples of personal information.
We will post any changes to this Website Privacy Notice on the Websites,
so we encourage you to check this Website Privacy Notice from time
to time. In addition to the provisions of this Website Privacy Notice,
there may also be specific and additional privacy provisions that
apply to certain sections of the Websites. Because those specific
and additional provisions also relate to your privacy protection,
we recommend that you review them wherever they appear. In the event
of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Website Privacy
Notice and those other specific and additional provisions, the specific
and additional provisions will prevail.
Information collected
The information about you which we may collect through the Websites
includes:
Information collected when you register or update an online profile,
which may include personal information such as your name and contact
details;
The content of electronic forms you submit via the Websites, requesting
us to provide services or information, or take actions, for example
the Online Registration Service;
Any messages or comments you submit to us via the Websites, eg. through
an email or "Contact form”;
Information collected when you participate in an online survey; and
Information you provide to our electronic mail addresses, where you
have used that website to register to attend or acquire Bean Accounting
owned and/or licensed content presented and/or delivered in the format
of seminars, lectures or workshops and/or acquire books or other
publications (collectively “Education Services”) or apply
for a position with Bean Accounting.
You may browse some information-only areas of the Websites without
providing any personal information, however we may not be able to
provide the full range of services through the Websites if we are
not provided with the information outlined above.
In common with many commercial websites we may also collect aggregated
information which tells us about visitors to the Websites For example,
we may collect information about the date, time and duration of visits
and which pages of the Websites are most commonly accessed. This
information is used by us to help to administer and improve the Websites.
No cookies
The Websites do not use "cookies" (other than for membership
identification), small text files which are placed on your hard drive
by some websites to store information.
Use & Disclosure of information
We may share personal information with other Bean Accounting entities
and with third parties including our correspondent offices,
your professional advisers and organisations with whom we have
co-promotional arrangements (and any third parties used in administering
those arrangements). We may also share personal information with
other service providers including organisations that assist us
by providing archival, auditing, consulting, mailhouse, delivery,
technology and security services. In addition to providing our
services to you, we may use or disclose personal information that
we collect about you:
For the purposes for which it was collected;
Where you have consented to the use or disclosure;
To maintain our relationship with you;
For purposes related to Bean Accounting's research, planning,
service development, security and risk management;
Where a third party acquires or wishes to acquire, or makes inquiries
in relation to acquiring, an interest in Bean Accounting;
or
To the extent that we are required or authorised by law to do so.
We may also use your personal information to keep you informed of
our services, events, developments in the area of interest and other
matters. If you do not wish to be contacted for those purposes, please
let us know using the contact details set out below. We aim to provide
you with information and invitations that we consider may be of interest
or relevance to your business.
Links
The Websites may, from time to time, contain links to the websites
of other organisations which may be of interest to you. Linked
websites are responsible for their own privacy practices and you
should check those websites for their respective privacy statements.
Security
We use a number of mechanisms to protect the security and integrity
of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission
over the Internet can be guaranteed as completely secure. So while
we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant
the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so
at your own risk. Once any personal information comes into our
possession, we will take reasonable steps to protect that information
from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification
or disclosure.
Some sections of the Websites protect your personal information
by requiring you to use a password. For your own protection, we require
you to keep this confidential and to change your password regularly.
Your email address (your login) is required as a registered user
of the Websites which entitle you to receive our publications, but
only if you request it. If you decide that you no longer wish to
receive it, we'll take you off the distribution list immediately.
Access to information
If you are a registered user of the Online Subscription Service,
you can access and update the information on your profile by logging
into the service using your email address and password. You can
change your preferences there about what sorts of notifications
you would like to receive from Bean Accounting.
If you wish to request access to any other personal information
which we hold about you as a result of our information collection
practices outlined in this Website Privacy Notice, please contact
us using the "Contact details" set out below. Please provide
as much detail as you can about the particular information you seek,
in order to help us retrieve it. An access fee may be charged to
cover our costs of providing the information to you.
Governing law
This document shall be governed and construed by the laws applicable
to the UK and the parties submit to the non-exclusive
jurisdiction of the courts of the UK in respect of any dispute
arising under this document or its implementation or enforcement.
Contact details
If you have any questions or feedback about privacy, or wish to make
a complaint about the way in which we have handled your personal
information, contact us at info@beanaccounting.co.uk or telephone
on 08451 70 80 60.
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