Privacy policy

Disclaimer

We make every effort to ensure that we accurately represent our products and services and their potential for helping individuals and business owners. Examples of client gains, income generated and other results are not necessarily average or typical nor intended as representations of your potential growth. As with any product or service, results may vary significantly. Each individual’s results will depend on his or her ambitions, background, dedication, motivation and desire. Significant financial risk is possible with any supplier if you don’t do your own due diligence and get suitable professional advice. No guarantees of specific results are expressly made or implied. ALL Rights Reserved.

Anti-Spam Policy - Effective Date: 25/05/2018

Bloom Accounting is strongly opposed to SPAM. We provide free special reports and newsletters and newsletters, no-obligation meeting requests and other products and services but ONLY to those who sign up for them. All these lists can be opted-out of at any time. We NEVER share or sell its e-mail lists to third parties. Each email that you receive from us has simple instructions on how to unsubscribe from our e-mail list.

If you have any questions regarding our e-mail policy, please get in touch with us.

Privacy Policy - Effective Date: 25/05/2018

Who We Are:

This privacy policy sets out how we use and protect any information that you give us when you use this website. Bloom Accounting ('we' or 'us' or 'our') gather and process your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and in compliance with the relevant data protection regulations and law. This notice provides you with the necessary information regarding your rights and obligations and explains how, why and when we collect and process your personal data.

Bloom Accounting's registered office is at Lancelot House, 1-3 Upper King Street, Leicester, LE1 6XF and we are a company, registered in England and Wales under company number 08276696. We are registered on the Information Commissioner's Office Register of Data Controllers under registration number A1013635, and act as the data controller. Our designated Compliance Officer for the organisation is Shafiq Khan and we can be contacted at our registered office address or by telephone on 0116 326 3131.

What Information We Collect

Bloom Accounting processes your personal information to meet our legal, statutory and contractual obligations and to provide you with our products and services. We will never collect any unnecessary personal data from you and do not process your information in any way other than as specified in this notice.

The personal data that we may collect from you is:

Name
Date of Birth
Home Address
Personal Email
Business Email
Home Telephone Number
Work Telephone Number
Mobile Telephone Number
Skype Address
National Insurance Number
Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR)
Passport Number
Driving Licence Number
Computer IP address

We collect information in the following ways:

Face to face
Letter
Email
Text

How We Use Your Personal Data

Bloom Accounting processes your personal information lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. The purposes and reasons for processing your personal data are:

We process personal data necessarily in the performance of a contract which may involve providing a range of professional services.
With consent, we use personal data to provide information that we consider will be of interest to our clients or about the services that we provide.
We are subject to a range of legal, regulatory and professional obligations. We need to maintain certain records to demonstrate compliance with our legal obligations.

Your Rights

You have the right to access any personal information that Bloom Accounting retains about you and to request information about:

What personal data we hold about you
The purposes for which the personal data is held
The categories of personal data concerned
The recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed
How long we intend to store your personal data
If we did not collect the data directly from you, information about the source

If you believe that we hold any incomplete or inaccurate data about you, you have the right to ask us to correct and/or complete the information and we will strive to update/correct it as quickly as possible unless there is a valid reason for not doing so, in which case you will be notified appropriately.

You also have the right to request erasure of your personal data or to restrict processing in accordance with data protection laws, as well as to object to any direct marketing from us and to be informed about any automated decision-making that we use. If we receive a request from you to exercise any of the above rights, we may ask you to verify your identity before acting on the relevant request; this is to ensure that your data is protected and kept secure.

Sharing and Disclosing Your Personal Information

We do not share or disclose any of your personal information without your consent, other than for the purposes specified in this notice or where there is a legal requirement. Bloom Accounting uses third-parties to provide the services and business functions described below. All processors acting on our behalf only process your data in accordance with instructions from us and comply fully with this privacy notice, the data protection laws and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures:

We use Breakthrough Funding Limited to assist with tax planning matters and they act in the capacity of a processor on our behalf. The only information we provide them with is your name, email address and mobile telephone number to meet business and legal requirements, though we may need to provide additional information in some circumstances.

Safegaurding Measures

Bloom Accounting takes your privacy seriously and we take every reasonable measure and precaution to protect and secure your personal data. We work hard to protect you and your information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction and have several layers of security measures in place, including:

Password protected IT systems

Restricted and controlled access to our building

Clear desk policy

Consequences of Not Providing Your Data

You are not obliged to provide your personal information to Bloom Accounting, however, as this information may be required for us to provide you with our services, we may not be able to offer some, or all, of our services without it.

How Long We Keep Your Data

Bloom Accounting only ever retains personal information for as long as is necessary and we have strict review and retention policies in place to meet these obligations. Where you have consented to us using your details to contact you with details of our services, newsletters and other relevant matters, we will keep such data until you notify us otherwise and/or withdraw your consent.

Lodging A Complaint

Bloom Accounting only processes your personal information in compliance with this privacy notice and in accordance with the relevant data protection laws. If, however you wish to raise a complaint regarding the processing of your personal data, or are unsatisfied with how we have handled your information, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.