Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 2025

Hyde Accountancy Ltd ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your data when you engage with our services or visit our website.

1. Who We Are

Hyde Accountancy Ltd is a registered accounting firm based in the United Kingdom, providing accounting, tax, and advisory services to individuals and businesses.

2. What Personal Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of personal information:

  • Contact details: name, address, phone number, email address

  • Identification information: date of birth, national insurance number, UTR

  • Financial information: income details, bank details, tax information, business accounts

  • Service-related information: documents provided by you for accounting, tax, or advisory services

  • Website usage data: cookies, IP address, and browsing behaviour

3. How We Use Your Data

We collect and use your data for the following purposes:

  • To provide accounting, tax, and advisory services

  • To comply with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., HMRC obligations)

  • To communicate with you regarding your account or enquiries

  • To improve our services and website experience

  • With your consent, to send relevant updates or marketing communications (you may opt out at any time)

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data based on:

  • The performance of a contract

  • Compliance with legal obligations

  • Our legitimate business interests

  • Your explicit consent (where applicable)

5. Data Sharing

We only share your data with trusted third parties where necessary to deliver our services, including:

  • HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)

  • Financial institutions and software providers

  • Legal or regulatory bodies (where required)

  • Third-party service providers acting on our behalf (e.g., IT support)

We never sell your personal data to third parties.

6. International Data Transfers

Where we transfer data outside the UK, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with data protection law.

7. Data Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, loss, or misuse.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal data only as long as necessary to fulfil our obligations, including legal, regulatory, and tax requirements.

9. Your Rights

Under UK data protection law, you have the right to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you

  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data

  • Request erasure of your data (subject to legal obligations)

  • Restrict or object to the processing of your data

  • Data portability (in certain circumstances)

  • Withdraw consent at any time (where processing is based on consent)

  • Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

10. Cookies

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