Privacy Policy

 

ATS Taxation Services (ABN: 55 167 271 061) respects and values the importance of privacy and protects the personal information of others, including clients, customers, employees, contractors and other individuals, including visitors to our website. This privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, store and otherwise manage your personal information and comply with our obligations under the Privacy Act 1988.

 

How We Collect Your Information

 

The kinds of personal information we may collect include your name and birth date; your contact information, including postal and residential addresses, telephone, and email addresses; where relevant your financial information as well as your tax file number, ABN or registered business names.

 

The main purposes for which we collect personal information are:

• where it is necessary for us to provide our services;

• to maintain contact with clients;

• to keep clients and contacts informed of the services we offer and of current developments;

• for recruitment and employment (including expressions of interest in working for us);

• for administration and management purposes; and

• to provide you with information about other services we offer that may be relevant to you.  

 

Generally we will collect personal information directly from you. Sometimes it may be necessary for us to collect your personal information from a third party, or from a publicly available source. We will only collect personal information in that way where you have consented, you would reasonably expect us to collect personal information in that way, or if it is necessary for a specific purpose in the performance of our services.  

We may also collect personal information about you from your use of our websites and information you provide to us through contact mailboxes or through the registration process on our websites.

We will only use your personal information to perform professional services, respond to your requests or to provide you with further information about ATS Taxation Services.

We may use your information to market our services, including by email. If we have contacted you by email, and you no longer wish us to do so, you may use the unsubscribe function in that email to notify us that you do not want to receive further marketing information from us by email.

We will hold your personal information for only as long as is required to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected or as required by law.
 

Security of Your Information

 

We will take reasonable commercial measures to ensure the security of your personal information, whether kept in electronic form or hard copy.

We use a range of physical and electronic procedures to ensure the privacy of your personal information is safeguarded. These include restricting physical access to our offices, maintaining a secure database system, passwords, encryption and firewalls. However, the internet is not secure and we cannot guarantee the security of any information sent to us via the internet.

 

How You Can Access Your Information

 

If you are a client of ATS Taxation Services, in most cases you can access the personal information we hold about you by contacting the partner who manages your account. Requests will be dealt with as quickly as possible and we will endeavour to respond within 21 days. In some circumstances we may refuse to give you access to personal information and in these circumstances we will explain why (e.g. it may be a conflict of interest to provide the information).

If you believe that any personal information which ATS Taxation Services has collected about you is inaccurate, incomplete or not up-to-date, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to correct it in accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act.