Introduction

Blythe & Co Chartered Accountants, (“Blythe & Co”,“our”, “we”) are committed to protecting your data and personal information.

This privacy policy is issued on behalf Blythe & Co and refers to all Blythe & Co entities that are responsible in providing our services and processing your personal information.

This privacy policy explains how we may collect, use and share information that we collect about you when you use our website and when we provide services to you, as required by data privacy laws. Blythe & Co acts as data controller for any such information.

When you work with us for UK and US tax and accountancy services there will be separate data controllers that you will work with.

Our privacy policy does not apply to any potential third party websites that you may access via our website.

What data do we collect?

When you work with us we will collect personal information that you provide to us, information from third party sources such as government agencies and public domains when registering for our services.

When you seek to contact us via our website we collect information that you have provided for us in our contact us page.

We may also collect personal data about your other dealings with us and our clients, including any contact we have with you in person, by telephone, email or online. This may include storing recordings, and AI generated notes, of meetings we have with you via Google Meets.

We will handle any unsolicited information in accordance with law, including destroying or de-identifying such information where we are required to do so.

How will we use your data?

Blythe & Co has to collect you personal data to comply with legal obligations and to be able to provide the service that you seek to contract us for, in ways that aren’t limited to:

• to provide you with our bookkeeping and other tax services
• to effectively respond to your contact and to maintain and develop our relationship with you
• to ensure that we can legally work for you, based on regulatory compliance requirements.
• For our marketing and data analytical purposes
• To hire employees
• As we believe reasonably necessary or appropriate to: comply with our legal obligations; respond to legal process or requests for information issued by government authorities or other third parties; or protector your, our, or others’ rights.

How do we Store Your Data?

We always take reasonable steps to ensure your information is stored securely both electronically and in any physical formats.

Our data security policies comply with US and UK requirements and we are always seeking measures to improve our data security, and ensuring confidentiality among our partners, staff and subcontractors.

While we are always seeking to improve our systems the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and we can’t guarantee the security of the data transmitted to our online storage, which is used at your own risk.

We will always take reasonable steps to use procedures and security to prevent any unauthorised access.

What are your Data Protection Rights?

Blythe & Co would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights.
Every user is entitled to the following:

• Right to Access – you have a right to request from us copies of your personal data. We may charge a small fee for this service.
• Right to Rectification – You have the right to request that Blythe & Co correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request we complete information you believe is inaccurate.
• Right to Erasure – You have the right to request that Blythe & Co erase your personal data, where there is no good reason for us to continue processing it. However where there is a specific legal reason that we are not able to comply with your request for erasure we will provide you with specific legal reason.
• Right to Object to Processing – you have the right to object and restrict us processing your personal data. We may however demonstrate that we have legitimate grounds to process your data that overrides the objection.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

If you would like to exercise these rights please contact us at: privacy@blytheandco.com

What are Cookies?

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 to improve the user experience, as well as to provide certain information to the owners of the site.

How do we use Cookies?

Our company uses cookies to understand how you interact with our website. This helps us improve our site’s functionality, remember your preferences for future visits, and analyse website traffic.

What types of Cookies do we use?

We use two main types of cookies: Functionality Cookies and Analytical/Performance Cookies. Functionality cookies help our website remember your choices to improve your experience, while analytical cookies help us understand how you use our site to make it better.

How to Manage Cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and you can remove them from your browser. However it may be the case that some of our website features may not function as a result.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Our company keeps it’s privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about Our Company’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you ould like to exercise one of your data protection rights please do not hesitate to contact us:

Email us at: privacy@blytheandco.com

How to Contact the appropriate authority

If you feel that Blythe & Co has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioners Office.