Privacy Policy and data
Privacy policy
This Privacy Statement explains our practices, including your choices, regarding the collection, use and disclosure of certain information, including your personal information, by Accounting Genie.
Contacting us
If you have questions specifically about this Privacy Statement, or the use of your personal information, cookies or similar technologies, please contact me by using the contact page.
Data Protection principles
Accounting Genie complies with data protection law. This says that the personal information we hold about you must be:
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Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
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Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained
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Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited to those purposes
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Accurate and kept up-to-date
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Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
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Kept securely
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Personal data means any information about an individual and from which that person can be identified
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Collection of information
Accounting Genie receives and stores information about you such as:
Your name, email, address, telephone number, and certain personal information such as your national insurance number. This is collected when you agree to become a client of Accounting Genie and in the process of providing accounting and tax services.
Information we collect automatically via the use of cookies for example:
Information about your use of the website
The requested web page or download with date and time you accessed the website
The Internet address from which you accessed the website
Details about your device, browser and operating system for support purposes
Use of cookies
In order to do this, we may send cookies to your device. Cookies are text files that let us identify your device, carry out transactions and capture the information above. You can adjust the settings on your device to decline use of cookies by the Accounting Genie. Please contact the supplier of your device for instructions on how to do this.
Information from other sources:
We might supplement the information described above with information we obtain from other sources, such as HMRC.
Use of information:
We use your information to provide, administer and improve our services and marketing to you, to process your tax affairs, and to communicate with you.
Consent – your choices
Accounting Genie will only contact your personal email address if we have your consent to do so. You can opt out of communications at any time by using the Contact page.
Disclosure of information
Information collected by us will be used by Accounting Genie only and not passed to third parties unless you have given consent, except where the product or service is delivered by a third party on our behalf, or we are obliged by law to do so. If those third parties are based outside the EU, we will ensure that their data processing activities are compliant with EU law. We will only keep data for as long as necessary. We share your information for certain purposes and to third parties, as described below:
Retention of information
We retain your information for as long as required either by UK or EU law and/or as long as we need it to fulfil the terms of Accounting Genie’s services.
Use of Accounting Genie website
Every effort is made to ensure that viruses, malware and other malicious software is excluded from the website, however we advise that you take appropriate precautions to protect your device. Accounting Genie cannot be held responsible for any consequential damage from malicious software or any other use of our website.
Your information and rights
You have the right to access any information held relating to you. You can request access to personal information or details of any transfers to third parties by emailing us You may also request that we delete personal information that we hold about you. Requests may be rejected that are unreasonable or not required by law, including those that would be extremely impractical or could require disproportionate technical effort.