Privacy policy
1. Important Information
Purpose of this Privacy Policy: This privacy policy is designed to provide you with information on how ZipTax collects and processes your personal data through your use of our website. It is crucial that you read this privacy policy alongside any other privacy or fair processing policies we may provide on specific occasions when collecting or processing personal data about you. This ensures that you are fully aware of how and why we use your data.
Controller: ZipTax Ltd is the controller and is responsible for your personal data ("we," "us," or "our" in this privacy policy).
Contact Details: If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our data privacy manager using the following details:
ZipTax Ltd
Email Address: info@ziptax.co.uk
Postal Address: 70 Bellona Drive PE2 8FU, Peterborough, UK
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). However, we would appreciate the chance to address your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us first.
2. The Data We Collect About You
Personal data, or personal information, refers to any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, and store personal data about you, including:
• Identity Data: Name, national insurance number, and unique taxpayer reference.
• Contact Data: Address and email address.
• Financial Data: Bank account and payment card details.
• Transaction Data: Details about payments to and from you and other details of services you have purchased from us.
• Accounting Data: Financial information and documents such as P60s and invoices, as well as financial details like your income and expenses.
• Communications Data
3. How Your Personal Data is Collected
We use various methods to collect data from and about you, including:
• Direct Interactions: You may provide us with your Identity, Contact, Financial, and Accounting Data by filling in forms or corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or other means.
• Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns using cookies and similar technologies.
• Accounting Data: Obtained from HMRC and other government bodies.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
5. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed.
6. Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
7. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws regarding your personal data. You have the right to:
• Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”).
• Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.