Privacy Policy
Privacy Notice – Last updated 01 APRIL 2024
Hussains CPA Ltd (“Hussains CPA Ltd”, “we”, or “us”) is a UK private limited company. We are committed to protecting your personal data and ensuring your privacy in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR.
1. How We Collect Personal Data
We collect personal data directly from you in various ways, including:
Forms you complete online.
When you register for events or webinars.
During meetings or communications.
Through recruitment processes or professional services.
We may also collect personal data indirectly from public sources, clients, or third parties.
2. Types of Personal Data We Collect
We may collect the following personal data:
Contact details: Name, address, phone number, email address, job title, company name.
Professional details: Job history, educational background, and professional memberships.
Financial details: Payroll, tax, bank details, investments.
Special categories of data (only when necessary): Nationality, criminal convictions, or health data (for legal compliance or specific services).
3. How We Use Personal Data
We use your personal data to:
Provide professional services (e.g., accounting, tax, audit).
Communicate with you about services, events, and webinars.
Comply with legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations.
Prevent fraud and money laundering.
4. Legal Grounds for Processing Data
We process personal data based on:
Contractual obligations: To provide services under our contract with you.
Consent: When you provide your explicit consent (e.g., for marketing).
Legitimate interests: To manage our business, improve services, and communicate with clients.
Legal obligations: To comply with laws such as anti-money laundering.
5. Sharing Personal Data
We may share your data with trusted third parties, including:
Suppliers and service providers who help us deliver services (e.g., IT support, cloud services).
Professional advisers such as lawyers or auditors.
Regulatory authorities when required by law (e.g., HMRC).
Money Laundering Compliance: For identity verification, we may share data with third-party services such as GBG Group, Exiger, and Dow Jones.
For more information about how these third parties process your data, please refer to their privacy policies.
6. Money Laundering Privacy Statement
In accordance with the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017, we are required to collect certain personal data for customer due diligence, including:
Personal information: Name, address, date of birth.
Identification documents: These may reveal nationality or other personal details.
Criminal convictions (if applicable).
This data is used to verify your identity and prevent money laundering or terrorist financing. We may share this information with third parties like GBG Group, Exiger, and Dow Jones for compliance purposes.
We are required to retain customer due diligence files for at least 5 years after the business relationship ends, in line with regulatory requirements.
7. Your Rights
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
Access: Request details of the personal data we hold about you.
Correction: Ask us to correct or update inaccurate or incomplete data.
Erasure: Request that we delete your data (subject to legal obligations).
Restrict Processing: Ask us to limit how we process your data in certain circumstances.
Portability: Request your data in a machine-readable format to transfer to another provider.
Object to Marketing: Opt-out of direct marketing or profiling.
Withdraw Consent: If you’ve given consent for us to process your data, you can withdraw it at any time.
To exercise your rights, please contact us at info@hussainscpa.uk.
8. Data Security
We take reasonable precautions to protect your personal data. While we implement security measures, please note that no transmission of data via the internet is fully secure. Any data you provide to us is at your own risk.
9. Data Retention
We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including legal and regulatory requirements. We typically retain personal data for a period of 7 years unless a longer retention period is required for legal or business reasons.
10. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Notice or how we handle your personal data, please contact us at:
Hussains CPA Ltd
38 Devonshire Street, Keighley,
West Yorkshire BD21 2AU
Email: info@hussainscpa.uk