Privacy Policy
At Accounting by Design (“Accounting by Design”, “Us”, “Our” or “We”) we're concerned about privacy matters and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose your personal information.
This Privacy Policy has been designed to comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) and addresses the privacy and security of personal information (as defined below) obtained when you have a relationship with us as a purchaser of our services and as a user of our website (as defined below).
Who we are
Our website address is: http://www.accountingbydesign.co.
What personal information/data we collect and why we collect it
Personal information/data means any information about an identifiable individual. Personal information/data includes such things as age, telephone number, e-mail addresses and mailing address.
Accounting by Design is responsible for all personal information within its possession or control, including any personal information that is transferred to third parties for legal, regulatory, processing, storage or other purposes.
Why we collect your personal information/data
We collect only the information required to provide Our products and services to you. We will collect personal information only by clear, fair and lawful means. We will not, as a condition of supplying you with a product or service, require you to consent to the collection, use or disclosure of information beyond that required to fulfill the specified, legitimate purpose.
All personal information collected by us from website visitors, customers and other individuals (as applicable) is collected, at a minimum, for the following purposes:
- to identify or contact customers, respond to customer inquiries and otherwise maintain business relations with customers, prospective customers, Website users;
- to provide services requested by Our customers;
- to provide customers and prospective customers with information about Our services;
- to bill, process and/or collect payment;
- to administer and manage Our business operations;
- to help prevent or investigate fraud, theft of power or other breaches of the law;
- to request customer and user participation in surveys or contests;
- to comply with legal and governmental requirements;
- to perform statistical analyses of user behaviour and characteristics, in order to measure interest in and use of the various sections of a Website so as to
- improve design, navigation and experience of such Website; and/or
- fulfilling any other purpose that would be reasonably apparent to the average person at the time that We collect it.
By accepting services from Us, using the Website, or otherwise providing Us with your personal information, you will be deemed to consent to Our use of your personal information for the purposes outlined above. If you have concerns about this, you should contact us at: sandra@accountingbydesign.co.
Accounting by Design will not use or disclose your personal information for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with your consent or as permitted or required by law or regulatory authorities. Your consent to the collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal information may be either express or implied, depending on the circumstances, the purposes for which such personal information is being collected and the sensitivity of the information.
We may collect the following types of information from you:
Your Personal Information includes your name, your mailing address, your billing address, your phone number, your e-mail address and any other demographic and personally identifiable information about you as an individual.
If you are a business customer, personal information will also include business information that you contribute which concerns business and personal relationships between yourself and other individuals and organizations (ie. Bookkeeping Data).
You can email or upload Personal Information to us so that we may fulfill your request to provide you with our services. We might also ask for other Personal Information if you request information about or order our products and services, participate in our marketing, sales or other promotional activities, or correspond with us. If you are in a part of our site that requires you to provide your Personal Information, it will be clear what Personal Information we are requesting.
We will retain your personal information only for so long as is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected and to meet Our legal and contractual obligations. We will employ explicit retention periods for closed accounts, after which the personal information is destroyed or made anonymous.
Your personal information/data and exceptional circumstances
Under certain exceptional circumstances, we may have a legal duty or right to collect, use or disclose your personal information without your knowledge or consent. In accordance with applicable laws, We will not disclose any consumer information (which may include personal information) without your written consent, except where consumer information is required to be disclosed: (i) for billing or market operation purposes; (ii) for law enforcement purposes; or (iii) for the purpose of complying with a legal requirement.
Cookies
We may also collect, process, store and analyse anonymous information about you obtained from your browser or through the use of “cookies” or other tools that track, measure and analyse the behaviours and usage patterns of visitors to our site and users of our services. We may use third-party tracking services to track and analyse such anonymous information from users of our service, and such third parties may use cookies to help track user behaviour.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
What rights you have over your data
You can request at any time that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Reviewing and updating your personal information/data
To review and update your Personal Information to ensure it is accurate, you may contact us. If we are unable to provide access or disclose information to you, we will explain why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
How to contact us
We welcome your comments and/or questions regarding this Privacy Policy and the use of your Personal Information. Please contact us via sanda@accountingbydesign.com.