Buzz Accounting Privacy Policy

Buzz Accounting hereinafter referred to as ‘Buzz Accounting’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’, is committed to respect your privacy and choices. The privacy statement (hereinafter “Privacy Statement” or “Statement”) highlights and explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information when you visit our website. We also explain your choices regarding your personal information in compliance with applicable data privacy regulations.

Information about us

We are 12 Arundel Street,
Manchester, M15 4JR
VAT number: 100261682,
Company number: 06695105,
Registration location: England & Wales

For more information, please see our “Contact Us” page and/or the footer of this website.

Your Data

What we collect

We do not collect any personal information about website users other than:

Information provided by Users when completing forms on the website, including but not limited to the contact and website registration forms.
that facilitated by the use of “cookie” technology. “Cookies” are designed to enhance your online visit and permit you to access the full service within the website.

How we collect your data

Each time you visit our site or interact with the emails we send to you, we may automatically collect the following information:

technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, operating system and platform.
information about your visit, including the URL clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); pages, resources and/or products you viewed or searched for; page response times, errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction, and methods used to browse away from the page.
information about your interaction with our emails, including whether you have opened the email, the number of times the email is accessed, and your interaction with email content, including the links you have clicked.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.

We may also build a picture of your digital data profile by taking information on you from public sources, such as your publicly available social media information and other third-party sources, such as Companies House. We do this to help us direct more targeted information and content to you.

Data from other sources

We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we or any of our group companies operate or the other services we provide. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, and credit reference agencies). We may receive information about you from them.
We also receive information about you from third-party telemarketing companies. We or our partners will only contact you where you have given the telemarketing companies your consent for us to do so.

Using your data

We may process your data because:

We are legally obliged to, e.g. to confirm your identity.
the processing is necessary for the performance of the contract with you to provide our services; or
it is in our or a third party’s legitimate interests to do so.

In some instances, we will rely on your consent to process personal data, and when we do this, it will be flagged to you at the time.

If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Data security & storage

This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline, with the data being stored on secure servers located within the European Economic Area (“EEA”). There are technological and operational security systems in place that provide protection for personally identifiable information from loss or misuse.

When our registration form asks users to enter information, that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry – SSL.

While we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal data, you acknowledge that the use of the internet is not entirely secure, and for this reason, we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data that are transferred from you or to you via the internet.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to Hello(AT)accountsdirect.uk

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us provide you with a good experience and allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use, see our Cookies Policy.

Retention

We keep your personal information for as long as we need to for the purposes for which it was collected or (if longer) for any period for which we are required to keep personal information to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements.

Marketing

We would like to send you information about our products and services that we think you may like. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt-out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to stop Buzz Accounting from contacting you for marketing purposes.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please send an email to Hello(AT)accountsdirect.uk

Your data protection rights

We want to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You can request Accounts Buzz Accounting for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Buzz Accounting correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Accounts Buzz Accounting to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Buzz Accounting erase your personal data under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Accounts Buzz Accounting restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Accounts Buzz Accounting processing of your personal data under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Accounts Buzz Accounting transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please email Hello(AT)accountsdirect.uk

Children

We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13 and believe he or she has disclosed personal information to us, please contact us via this link

Where processing of personal data is based on consent, if we learn that this data belongs to someone under the age of 13, we will cease processing and will take reasonable measures to delete the applicable information from our records unless a parent or guardian provides the consent.

Third-party Links

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications it should be noted that they are not and cannot be governed by our privacy statement. By clicking on these links or enabling these connections, third parties may collect or share data about you. We don’t control these third-party websites and aren’t responsible for their privacy statements.

Legal aspects

We comply with all applicable laws and regulations regarding the collection, use, and sharing of personal information. We also have a data retention policy in place to ensure that we only keep your personal information for as long as necessary.

Changes to our privacy policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so our users are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it.

This privacy policy was last updated on the 1st of August, 2023.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about our company’s privacy policy, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Email us at: hello@accountsdirect.uk
Call us: 0161 832 1399
Or write to us at 12 Arundel Street,
Manchester, M15 4JR

Contacting appropriate authorities

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that our Company has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office. Details are available here https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us.