Privacy Policy

A legal disclaimer

We Ridge Bookkeeping Services are the data controllers. The firm’s Data Protection Officer is Helen Ridge and can be contacted via email at ridgebooks55@outlook.com. We collect the data you give us and which we receive from your customers and other advisers, Electoral Register, Credit Reference Agencies, Local Authorities, HMRC. We use your personal data to set up and manage our relationship, to carry out required checks, to meet professional obligations and to comply with the law. This may include informing HMRC, the police and others.

Your data is stored on the systems we use including cloud based systems. On some occasions, we may have to use services outside of the United Kingdom or EU. When this occurs, we will put in place all measures required by law. We share data with our insurers, external parties we use to provide us with services and various local and national authorities, We keep your data for the period we have a relationship with you plus 7 years unless there are reasons to retain it for longer.

You have the right of access to data, to rectify it, challenge or block its use, to its erasure, move it to another provider and to withdraw consent. You can access these rights by contacting us above. We do not use automated profiling.