Privacy Policy

Purpose

In this policy SamsTax Limited is described as "we", "us" or "our".

The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we use the information we collect about you and to tell you about procedures that we have in place to safeguard your privacy.

Collection and Use of Personal Information about Customers

The information we learn from customers helps us personalise and continually improve our services. We use the information to handle orders, deliver products and services, process payments, communicate with you about orders, products, services and promotional offers, update our records and generally maintain your accounts with us and recommend services that might be of interest to you. We also use this information to prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website and enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf.

What Types of Information do we Gather

• Information you give us: we receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features.
• Automatic information: we receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many websites, we use ‘cookies’ and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses samstax.co.uk. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit websites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalised experience at samstax.co.uk if we cannot recognise you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.

What About Cookies?

• Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser.
• The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of samstax.co.uk’s most innovative and useful features and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
• If you do leave cookies turned on, be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

• We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
• We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
• We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.
• It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
• If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• For the purpose of carrying out any contracts entered into between you and us for processing the data for administrative purposes, such as sorting data, monitoring use of the Website and issuing emails on our behalf. Third parties will not be allowed to use your personal information for their own purposes.
• If those third parties perform functions on our behalf in relation to the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy. Examples include credit/debit card validation and authorisation agencies, data analysis firms, customer support specialists and webhosting companies. Such third parties may be provided with access to your personal information if needed to perform their functions, but may not use such information for any other purpose. Such third parties may be located in countries both inside and outside Europe. Although countries outside of Europe may not require the same level of protection of personal information as countries within Europe, we always demand that third parties adhere to the same procedures that we follow ourselves with respect to your personal information, including this Privacy Policy.

Data Protection

We treat your personal information as confidential, complying with the UK Data Protection Act 1998. The personal information that we hold about you will be accurate and up to date. You can check the information that we hold about you by sending us an email to [ ]. If you find any inaccuracies in the information that we then supply we will delete or correct them promptly. The personal information that we hold about you will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy and the law.

Conditions of Use, Notices and Revisions

Our business changes constantly and our Privacy Policy and the Website Conditions of Use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our website frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.

Links

samstax.co.uk may contain links to or from other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to the information that we collect on this website. We encourage you to read the Privacy Policies of the other websites you link to from our website.

Jurisdiction

This Privacy Policy shall be construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.