GDPR Consent Form

We need your consent for GDPR purposes

The General Data Protection Regulation came into effect on 25th May 2018.

We are required to seek your consent for you to receive communication from us.

For the purposes of communicating with you, we will retain and process your personal data to contact you to for the following purposes:

    1. deliver our services to you as per your letter of engagement with us
    2. advise you on your services on an ongoing basis
    3. update you on issues relevant to you services and your business (e.g.business tips, tax updates)
    4. inform you about events, seminars, webinars or workshops we intend to run.

 

You may withdraw consent anytime by contacting in writing (email or post).

Select those methods of communication you are happy to use in the form below (or select all if that suits).

You can also sign up to our mailing lists below which is used to contact you from time to time about your services, business tips and advice, tax matters etc.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the European Union (EU)

We endeavour to ensure that the personal information we hold is accurate, complete and up-to-date. Changes inevitably are required and unfortunately errors do occur from time to time. You should contact us immediately in order to advise us of any changes to the personal information we hold about you.

 

Whately Accounting Taxation & Business Services complies with the principles of data protection set out in the GDPR for the purpose of fairness, transparency and lawful data collection and use. We apply the general principles of GDPR to all individuals that we hold personal information on, regardless of nationality. Under these principles:

 

  • We process your personal information as a Processor and/or to the extent that we are a Controller as defined in the GDPR.
  • We must establish a lawful basis for processing your personal information. The legal basis for which we collect your personal information depends on the data that we collect and how we use it.
  • We will only collect your personal information with your express consent for a specific purpose and any data collected will be to the extent necessary and not excessive for its purpose. We will keep your data safe and secure.
  • We will also process your personal information if it is necessary for our legitimate interests, or to fulfil a contractual or legal obligation.
  • We process your personal information if it is necessary to protect your life or in a medical situation, it is necessary to carry out a public function, a task of public interest or if the function has a clear basis in law.
  • We do not collect or process any personal information from you that is considered “Sensitive Personal Information” under the GDPR, such as personal information relating to your sexual orientation or ethnic origin unless we have obtained your explicit consent, or if it is being collected subject to and in accordance with the GDPR.
  • You must not provide us with your personal information if you are under the age of 16 without the consent of your parent or someone who has parental authority for you. We do not knowingly collect or process the personal information of children.

Your Rights Under the GDPR

If you are an individual residing in the EU, you have certain rights as to how your personal information is obtained and used. Whately Accounting Taxation & Business Services complies with your rights under the GDPR as to how your personal information is used and controlled if you are an individual residing in the EU. Except as otherwise provided in the GDPR, you have the following rights: 

  • To be informed how your personal information is being used;
  • Access your personal information (we will provide you with a free copy of it);
  • To correct your personal information if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
  • To delete your personal information (also known as “the right to be forgotten”);
  • To restrict processing of your personal information;
  • To retain and reuse your personal information for your own purposes;
  • To object to your personal information being used; and
  • To object against automated decision making and profiling.

Please contact us at any time to exercise your rights under the GDPR at the contact details in this Privacy Policy. We may ask you to verify your identity before acting on any of your requests.

Contact Details

The Privacy Officer Whately Accounting Taxation & Business Services
Suite 2, Level 2 80-84 Abbott Street, Cairns Qld 4870

+61 7 40417773

theaccountantsoffice@whatelyaccounting.com.au