Privacy Policy

Effective date: June 25th, 2024

1. Introduction

Curve Accountancy (“we”, “our”, “us”) is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our clients, partners, and website visitors. This policy provides detailed information about how we handle your personal data when you interact with our services.

2. Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of personal data about you:

  • Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, and postal address.
  • Financial Information: Bank details, tax information, and financial statements.
  • Professional Information: Employment details, job title, and professional qualifications.
  • Technical Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, and other technical information from your use of our website.

3. How We Use Your Data

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Service Delivery: To provide accountancy and financial services.
  • Communication: To respond to inquiries, provide customer support, and send service-related notifications.
  • Compliance: To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
  • Improvement: To enhance our services, website performance, and user experience.
  • Marketing: To send you updates and promotional materials, if you have consented to receive such communications.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We rely on the following legal bases for processing your personal data:

  • Consent: Where you have provided explicit consent for specific purposes.
  • Contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
  • Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
  • Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override these interests.

5. Data Sharing

We may share your personal data with:

  • Service Providers: Third-party companies that provide services on our behalf.
  • Legal and Regulatory Authorities: When required by law or regulation.
  • Business Partners: With your consent, we may share your information with our business partners.

6. International Transfers

We do not typically transfer your personal data outside the UK. However, if such a transfer is necessary, we will ensure that it is protected to the same standard as if it were processed within the UK by implementing appropriate safeguards.

7. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal data from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Our security measures include encryption, access controls, and regular security assessments.

8. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and to comply with legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

9. Your Rights

You have the following rights concerning your personal data:

  • Access: The right to request access to your personal data.
  • Rectification: The right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Erasure: The right to request the deletion of your data under certain conditions.
  • Restriction: The right to request the restriction of processing your data.
  • Data Portability: The right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  • Objection: The right to object to the processing of your data under certain circumstances.
  • Withdraw Consent: The right to withdraw consent at any time, where we are relying on consent to process your data.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

Curve Accountancy
Email: welcome@curveaccountancy.co.uk
Phone: 01293 782800
Address: 65 Gales Drive, Three Bridges, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 1QA

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new policy on our website. Your continued use of our services after any changes to this policy constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms.

12. Microsoft Clarity Privacy Policy

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioural metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimisation, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.