Claritax Limited (“Claritax”) is a consultancy providing business and tax advisory, and tax compliance services.  The firm’s business address is 64 O’Connell Street, Limerick; Website: www.claritax.ie; Email: info@claritax.ie.

Claritax may gather private personal data in the course of its services to clients.  Claritax is committed to ensuring that clients’ privacy is protected and this statement (read in conjunction with our Terms of Engagement and Standard Terms & Conditions) sets out our practice in relation to the collection, storage and use of personal data relating to clients and other parties.  We may require you to provide personal information in meetings or by phone, e-mail or otherwise to enable the firm to provide tax and business advice.

Why We Process Your Data

• To comply with legal provisions such as anti-money laundering obligations – carrying out background checks
• To provide the taxation and business services that you have engaged us to provide
• To provide information about our services
• To review and improve our services

Information We Collect

We may collect your personal information from a variety of sources, including information we collect from you directly in order to perform contractual services, and/or information we collect about you from other sources, including commercially available sources, such as public databases where permitted by law.

Certain personal information is required as a consequence of any contractual relationship we have with you or your employer, to enable us to carry out our contractual obligations to you or your employer. Failure to provide this information may prevent or delay the completion of our services to you.

Personal information that we might collate and hold in respect of your affairs might typically include, but may not be limited to are; name(s), date of birth(s), marital status; addresses (including electronic), telephone number(s), statements of affairs (including tax), details on dependents, tax credits and other financial information necessary to perform our contractual services or to comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

Website Cookies

Claritax Limited website uses cookies, Google Analytics. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your computer’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only allows a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other websites. We may also use this data to make the site easier and more convenient to use. Users can set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. Information from cookies can help us to analyses the profile of our visitors and help us to provide a better user experience. Please take note of the following information (provided directly by Google) with regard to the third-party cookies used on our website.

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

Who We Share Data With

We will generally not share your data with third parties unless authorised and instructed to do so, apart from service providers acting on our behalf.

We may disclose or share your data to comply with any legal or regulatory obligations, or in order to enforce or apply our general terms and conditions of engagement.

When we share your personal information in this way, we will put in place appropriate measures to make sure that our service providers keep your personal information secure.

Data Storage

Physical files that are in active use are stored in Claritax’s office.  We reserve the right to store archived physical files offsite and before transferring physical files offsite for storage Claritax confirms with the service provider that appropriate safeguards are in place

Electronic files are stored on our servers and we reserve the right to store electronic data on external servers or in the cloud. Data held in the cloud may be stored outside the European Economic Area, but before data is transferred for storage on the cloud, we will confirm with the service provider that appropriate safeguards are in place.

Communicating electronically via the internet involves personal information passing through third parties.  Claritax endeavours to ensure that your personal data is protected but we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted electronically and it should be noted that any such transmission is made to and from you at your risk.   We may contact you by email with updates on tax and business issues, or on the services provided by Claritax. Where we contact you for marketing purposes then an option to unsubscribe from our marketing list is included on any such email that we send and can be availed of if you do not want to receive further emails from Claritax.

It is our aim to only hold your data for as long as this is necessary. Unless otherwise required under applicable law, we store your data for as long as we provide services to you and for a period of no less than six years beginning on the date we archive your file.

Your Rights

You have the right:

• To request access to the personal information that we hold about you
• A right to object to direct marketing
• A right to restrict the processing of information, including automated decision-making
• A right to rectify any inaccurate data that may be held without undue delay.
• A right to erase your personal data.
• You have the right to make a complaint to the data protection authority of Ireland using
  their website https://dataprotection.ie/

We will treat all such requests in accordance with applicable local law.

Limitation of Liability

This website is designed to provide general information and the services available from Claritax. The content of this site does not constitute professional advice.

In preparing this site, every effort has been made to ensure the content is up to date and accurate. However, law and regulations change continually and unintentional errors can occur and therefore the information may neither be up to date nor accurate.

Claritax accepts no liability for any loss arising as a result of any action taken or refrained from as a result of information contained on this site or any other sites to which this site may be linked.

Please contact Claritax for specific advice on any area of interest.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may modify or update this privacy notice from time to time.  Please review this privacy notice from time to time to check whether we have made any changes to the way in which we use your personal information.