Privacy Policy

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting www.bbvat.co.uk you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy. For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018, the data controller is Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd of The Old Goat House, Dencross Farm, Roman Road, Marsh Green, Edenbridge, Kent, TN8 5PN.

Introduction & General Terms
This policy not only relates to any personal information you provide to our site; it also relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us via phone or text, by email, in letters, our social media or other correspondence.

Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 (these laws are referred to collectively in this policy as the “data protection laws”).

Our site may, from time to time, contain hyperlinks to and from websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, and are also likely to use cookies, and we therefore urge you to review their website privacy policies too before you submit any personal data to these websites. They will govern the use of personal information you submit, which may also be collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites, and your use of such websites is entirely at your own risk.

Who are we?
Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd provides VAT & Tax advice & recovery services plus training seminars. We are primarily located in the UK. When we refer to “we”’, “us” or “our”, we are referring to Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd.

What information will Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd collect about me and how will it be used?
We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give us:
You may give us personal information when you participate in, access or sign up to any of our products, services, activities, visit our site and/or complete any of our online forms, or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This can consist of information such as your name, email address, postal address, landline telephone or mobile number, depending on the activity involved.

Information we collect about you:
With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:

  • technical information, including Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet and is used to connect your computer to the Internet) from visitors to our website, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
  • information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); information you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Information we receive from other sources:
We may receive information about you if you use any of the other services we provide. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors, advertising networks, analytics providers, and search information providers) and may receive information about you from them.

Cookies:
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please read our Cookie Policy.

We will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:

  • To provide our products, services arising from any engagements entered into between you and us, activities or online content and to deal with your requests and enquiries.
  • For “service administration purposes”, which means that we may contact you for reasons related to the service, activity or online content you have signed up for, as set out in section 5 below.
  • To contact you about a submission you have made, including any content you provide.
  • To provide you with information about our services, activities or online content that you request from us and to provide you with information about other services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about.
  • To provide you with information about products or services we feel may interest you. We will not permit third parties to provide you with information. If you are an existing client, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail) with information about products and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous instruction or engagement or negotiations of such to you. If you are not an existing client, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.
  • To use IP addresses to identify the location of users, to block disruptive use, to establish the number of visits and generally to administer our site including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing and research.
  • To analyse and improve the services offered on our site and to notify you of changes.
  • To provide you with the most user-friendly navigation experience. We may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individuals are identified) for marketing and strategic development purposes.
  • To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

Where we propose using your personal information for any other uses, we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for the use of your personal information for purposes other than those listed above.

When will Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd contact me?
We may contact you:

  • in relation to any service, activity or online content you have signed up for in order to ensure that we can deliver the services to you;
  • in relation to any correspondence we receive from you or any comment or complaint you make about our products or services;
  • in relation to any contribution you have submitted to us, e.g. on our contact forms or by email or post;
  • to invite you to participate in surveys about our services (participation is always voluntary); and
  • for marketing purposes, as explained in section 4 above.

Will Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd share my personal information with anyone else?
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in this section.

We may share your personal information with other members of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006.

In addition, we will not share your information with selected third parties as follows:

  • to process your information on our behalf. Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd requires these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and we require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes;
  • with business partners, suppliers, government organisations and sub-contractors for the performance of any engagement we enter into with them or you;
  • advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others; and
  • analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
  • if our shareholders sell their shares in us to, or we sell substantially all of our assets to, a third party, in which case personal data held by it about our clients will be one of the transferred assets;
  • if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Offensive or inappropriate content on the Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd website
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to our site or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour with regards to any of our services, we may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.

Where Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any applicable laws (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), we may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school, email/internet provider, or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

Where is my personal data stored?
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this policy, though we must state that, unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet can never be guaranteed as being completely secure. Therefore, although we will always do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

International transfers of your personal data.
The hosting facilities for our website are situated in the UK. Where your personal data is transferred outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), we will ensure that any transfers will be protected by appropriate safeguards. We will also ensure that the European Commission has made an “adequacy decision” with respect to the data protection laws of the country to which it is transferred.

Retaining & deleting personal data.
Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. We may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

What if I am a user aged 16 or under?
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission before you provide any personal information to us. Users of this nature and without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

How do I find out what personal information Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd holds about me?
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We charge £10 for information requests and require you to prove your identity with two pieces of approved identification. We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for marketing purposes. You will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this policy to Berthold Bauer VAT Consultants Ltd, The Old Goat House, Dencross Farm, Roman Road, Marsh Green, Edenbridge, Kent TN8 5PN or email info@bbvat.co.uk.

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