Privacy Policy

Virtual Tax UK & Virtual Tax UK Ltd “We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting our website, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), we are the data controller.

Virtual Tax UK or Virtual Tax UK Ltd “We” to remain compliant with the Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA) and in line with our internal retention regulations we hold/store personal information on your behalf which directly relates to you and the service we provide to you, once you instruct us to undertake your personal tax or business tax requirements. We hold this information, so we can do business.

  • The information you may give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information.

Information we collect about you.

  • Each of your visits to our site we will 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, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
  • information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, and any phone number used to call our office number.

You should be aware we hold your records until you or we terminate our working relationship or the work we have undertaken is complete.

Virtual Tax UK or Virtual Tax UK Ltd is conscious and very security minded and ensure all emails are sent from our servers, virus free.

For the purposes of filing documentation to HM Revenue & Customs on your behalf, all personal data and personal tax details are retained on our server for 6years in addition to the current year including any correspondence supporting any work we have undertaken both personally and business related and on your behalf. After the 6year period your details and files will be encrypted and deleted from our server and computer system.

Where We Store Your Personal Data.

The data that we collect from you will be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It will also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. This includes staff engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of our working arrangement and support services.

By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Virtualtaxuk and Virtual Tax UK Ltd will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers in a datacentre in Canada, Montreal.

Our emails are secure with SSL.

Emails are securely backed up daily and retained by the hosting for 15days.

Any emails older than 12 months will be automatically encrypted and stored in a folder in a file and archived and appropriately deleted.

Any work which we have undertaken that falls outside the 6year period will be officially destroyed through a Commercial Confidential System or deleted from our secure server.

Virtual Tax UK or Virtual Tax UK Ltd are not in a position to store your personal hard copy paperwork therefore, all paperwork relating to our working arrangements will be returned to you each year for you to retain personally once we have completed your work for you to retain in a time period we advise as is set out by HM Revenue & Customs.

Some copies of documentation will be kept on file for compliance purposes and to support the work we have undertaken on your behalf.

We NEVER send emails requesting payment to alternative sort code and account numbers and will take no responsibility for monies transferred to alternative sources other than displayed on our official invoice.

Please always check with us first before transferring any funds.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. However, although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy [LINK]. 

Uses Made of the Information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

Information you give to us. We will use this information:

  • to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
  • to notify you about changes to our service;
  • to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

Information we collect about you.

We will use this information:

  • to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
  • to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer; as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
  • to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

Disclosure of Your Information

You agree that we have the right to share your personal information with:

  • Any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
  • Selected third parties including:
  • business partners, service providers, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter with you;
  • analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.

We will disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • If Virtual Tax UK or Virtual Tax UK Ltd or substantially all its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use [INSERT AS LINK TO WEBSITE’S TERMS OF USE] or terms and conditions of sale [INSERT AS LINK TO WEBSITE’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE] and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Virtualtaxuk or Virtualtaxuk Ltd, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your Rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.

You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us here.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Access to Information

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request will be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to us at info@virtualtaxuk.com