Bookountants

1. Consent

1.1 By using our website, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions, including without limitation this privacy policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

2. Collecting personal information

2.1 In addition to the information that you provide to us for the purpose of delivering services to you and/or your business, we may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

(a) information about your visits to and use of our website;

(b) information relating to any purchases from us that you make;

(c) information that we may collect about your from other public sources or other available resources.

2.2 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person or entity, you must obtain the other party’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

3. Using personal information

3.1 Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

3.2 We may also use your personal information to:

(a) administer our website and business;

(b) personalize our website and business for you;

(c) enable your use of the services available on our website;

(d) deliver to you the goods and services purchased through our website;

(e) send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;

(f) send you commercial communications;

(g) keep our website secure and prevent fraud; and

(h) verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website.

3.3 If you submit personal information for publication on our website or other use, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the permission you grant to us, including the implied consent to use it in according with this privacy policy.

3.4 You can tell us if you would like to alter the use of your private information, if some part of our privacy policy is not acceptable to you or if you would like to revoke your permission to use your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.

3.5 We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

3.6 In the course of doing business with us, third parties such as our payment processing service may also collect, store and use your personal information, whether provided to them by you or as a function of our business or website.

We have no control over their activity, and you should be aware of the terms of their privacy policies, which may differ from ours.

4. Disclosing personal information

4.1 We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, partners, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy, including without limitation the operation of our business.

4.2 We may disclose your personal information: 

(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.

4.3 We currently have no practice or intention of selling any of the personal information that we collect to any third party for any purpose, nor do we anticipate doing so in the foreseeable future.

5. Security of personal information

5.1 We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

5.2 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

5.3 You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

6. Amendments 

6.1 We may update our privacy policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. 

6.2 We cannot ensure that you will receive a notice of any changes made to our privacy policy. Except with respect to current customers of our business, we have no policy or procedure for providing notice of changes. Therefore, you should check our privacy policy occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to our privacy policy.

7. Updating information

7.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

8. Cookies

8.1 Our website uses cookies.

8.2 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

8.3 Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

8.4 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

8.5 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example: 

(a) in Internet Explorer you may be able to block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;

(b) in Firefox you may be able to block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and

(c) in Chrome you may be able to block all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.

8.6 You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:

(a) in Internet Explorer you may be able to manually delete cookie files (you may find instructions for doing so at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11); 

(b) in Firefox may be able to delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, clicking “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and

(c) in Chrome you may be able to delete all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.

8.7 Blocking or deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

9. Our details

9.1 This website is owned and operated by Girina Inc. dba Bookountants.