Data Protection Act                                                                                                                                    

 

Peter Brown & Co are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 to hold and process information for the purposes of marketing, dealing with the affairs of clients, and complying with statutory and regulatory requirements relevant to the conduct of an accounting practice.

 

Data will be held about existing clients. past clients and prospective clients and relevant third parties with whom they have had transactions. The data will include data which the clients themselves have produced and processed for the purposes of preparing accounts and returns. Any such data may be kept in a variety of media, and will be retained for as long as there is any possibility of the making of claims either against the firm or the clients or any third party, by either the firm or their clients. In normal circumstances, this may mean that such data will be retained for a period of six years from the last entry in the record or file concerned.

 

Such data will only be communicated to clients, or to third parties on their written authority, or where required by statute or other process of law.

 

Under the Data Protection Act 1998 we are required to take reasonable steps to check the accuracy of personal information. If you have any reason to believe that we have failed to correct or remove wrong information about you, you have the right to ask the Information Commissioner to check whether our dealing with your information has met this requirement.

 

Any person having a lawful right to require under the provisions of the legislation that the firm provide a copy of any personal data in a file held by the firm shall approach the Data Controller, Peter Brown, in the first instance. A fee not more than the statutory maximum may be charged.

 

This statement is only an extract from the full statement relating to Data Protection made by the firm, and the full text is available upon request from the Data Controller.

 

 

Any notice under the legislation should be sent in writing to :-

 

The Data Controller

Peter Brown & Co

Acomb Grange

Grange Lane

York

                                                   YO23 3QZ

 

 

 

 

Peter Brown & Co is a trading name of Undershot Ltd, registered in England , no 4114468. Director :-  P.Brown FCCA, FCIE,DchA,BSc.The registered office is Acomb Grange, Grange Lane, York, YO23 3QZ.

 

Last modified 07/02/09