Integrity, honesty and trust are the prime principles on which The Accounting & Taxation Centre is built. We strongly believe that the responsible use of personal information collected from our clients is vital in the achievement of our business objectives and our reputation as an independent service provider. At The Accounting & Taxation Centre we respect your rights to privacy and are committed to meeting the needs and expectations of our clients. This privacy statement is intended to be in compliance with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). It outlines our privacy practices and explains how we protect your personal information.

Our user friendly web-based tax products are designed to help our clients save both time and money. Protecting your privacy is of utmost importance to us. At any time, should you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices please feel free to contact us. At The Accounting & Taxation Centre we believe in building long and trusting business relationships.

Collection of personal information

The Accounting & Taxation Centre gathers personal information from its clients, customers, employees and other individuals strictly for business purposes. We assure you that as a client of The Accounting & Taxation Centre we will guard every measure in order to protect the confidentiality of your personal information. The personal information that we collect comes directly from the source of interest when we deal with them. The personal information collected by us may be provided through forms filled out by the individuals, face to face meetings, e-mail messages or telephone conversations. Any personal information provided to us by third parties is subjected to the confirmation of the individual involved. The main types of personal information collected relates to contact and organisational details of our clients and other business contacts for example name, addresses, telephone numbers, date of birth, job titles etc. However, when providing more specialised services to our clients, we may request or collect more detailed personal information which can include financial history of our clients.

We guarantee you that under any circumstances we will not sell or release your exclusive information to any other individual or organisation without your consent or for the purposes of our own analysis. In the latter case, we will only release your personal information if we believe it is genuinely beneficial or of interest to our clients. If you have any question relating to this privacy statement, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Our primary objective as to why we collect your personal information is to be able to provide you with better and efficient service making your experience at The Accounting & Taxation Centre fast, friendly and easy.

Responsible use of personal information

We may use your personal information in the following ways:

• to provide our services;
• to respond to an individual’s request;
• with your consent, we may send you information about our products and services that we believe could potentially be beneficial or of interest to you;
• also upon consent, we may contact you from time to time to obtain feedback from you about our products and services;
• for general management and reporting purposes;
• all other business related purposes.

We may use information about individuals to market our services. However, an individual may, at any time, opt not to receive any further marketing information or promotional material from us by either writing to The Accounting & Taxation Centre, Suite 4/681 Pittwater Road, Dee Why NSW 2099 or by emailing us at info@taxationcentre.com.au.

We ensure you that if we collect or use your personal information in ways other than stated in this policy, we will do so in accordance with the Privacy Act.

Disclosure of personal information

We may disclose your personal information where it is required or authorised by or under law or where there is a duty to the public to disclose that information or where the interest of The Accounting & Taxation Centre require disclosure.