Privacy policy

This privacy notice outlines how we collect, process, and store your personal data through the use of our website, www.therecruitersaccountant.co.uk.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the “Data Controller” is George Simmonds T/A The Recruiters’ Accountant. Contact information is displayed below:  

Name: George Simmonds
Address: 6A Lower Sales, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1 2AH
Phone Number: 07401 480 040
E-mail: george@therecruitersaccountant.co.uk

How and what personal data is collected

Contact forms

When you submit information to this website via our webform, we collect the data requested in the webform to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online web hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Technical data

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, which may include information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website and your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, timestamps.

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

User data

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form.

Lawful basis

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful basis we rely on for processing your data is our legitimate interests.

Our legitimate interests include:

  • Replying to communications sent to us in a view of providing business services.

  • Allowing us to properly administer our website and our business.

  • To grow our business and decide on our marketing strategy.

Retention of personal data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. This may include the need to settle any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for, we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.

For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers.

In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Third parties

We share your personal data with Squarespace as outlined in the section covering how your personal data is collected. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your personal information here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.

We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use our website. You can read more about how Google uses your personal information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout .

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

We will request written authority from you, should we need to supply your data to any other third party, unless we are prohibited from doing so by law.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

  • Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

  • Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us using the contact details set out at the start of this policy if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details set out at the start of this policy.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

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Analytics and performance cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Last updated

Our privacy policy was last updated on 9th November 2023.