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Privacy Policy

  • How we collect information
  • What type of information we collect
  • How is your information used
  • Who has access to your information
  • Third party service providers
  • Access and update of your information
  • Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information
  • Your choices
  • Your rights
  • Contact Information
  • Complaints

How we collect information

Minoshis Audit Tax Advisory Limited takes the protection of your privacy very seriously. We will only use your personal information to deliver the services you have requested from us. We obtain information about you when you engage us to deliver our services and/or when you contact us about our services by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.

What type of information we collect

The personal information we collect from you will vary depending on which services you engage us to deliver. The personal information we collect might include your name, registered address, telephone number, passport number, nationality, email address, your Tax Identification Number (TIC), your social insurance number, V.A.T number, bank account details.

How is your information used

In general terms, and depending on which services you engage us to deliver, as part of providing our agreed services we may use your information to:

  • Contact you by post, email or telephone
  • Verify your identity where this is required
  • Understand your needs and how they may be met
  • Maintain our records in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory obligations
  • Process financial transactions
  • Prevent and detect crime, fraud or corruption.

 We are required by legislation and other regulatory requirements to retain your data where we have ceased to act for you. The period of retention required with the applicable legislation (Income Tax Law, 2002, No.118(I)/2002) is six (6) years. To ensure compliance with all such requirements it is the policy of the firm to retain all data for a period of six (6) years from the end of the period concerned.

Who has access to your information

We will not sell or rent your information to third parties. We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. Any staff with access to your information have a duty of confidentiality under the ethical standards that this firm is required to follow.

Third party service providers

Please be assured that we will not release your information to third parties unless you have requested that we do so, or we are required to do so by law (i.e Inland Revenue Department, Social Insurance Department, Registrar of Companies), by a court order or for the purposes of prevention and detection of crime, fraud or corruption.

Access and update of your information

Keeping your information up to date and accurate is important to us. We commit to regularly review and correct where necessary, the information that we hold about you. If any of your information changes, please email or write to us, or call us using the ‘Contact information’ noted below.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information Minoshis Audit Tax Advisory Limited holds about you.

Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information

Whilst we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. We take the security of your data seriously and so all our systems have appropriate security in place that complies with all applicable legislative and regulatory requirements.

Your choices

We may occasionally contact you by post / email / telephone with details of any changes in legal and regulatory requirements or other developments that may be relevant to your affairs and, where applicable, how we may assist you further. If you do not wish to receive such information from us, please let us know by contacting us as indicated under ‘Contact information’ below.

Your rights

Access to your information: You have the right to request a copy of the personal information about you that we hold.

Correcting your information: We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate, complete and up to date and you may ask us to correct any personal information about you that you believe does not meet these standards.

Deletion of your information:

You have the right to ask us to delete personal information about you where:

  • you consider that we no longer require the information for the purposes for which it was obtained
  • you have validly objected to our use of your personal information - see ‘Objecting to how we may use your information’ below
  • our use of your personal information is contrary to law or our other legal obligations.

Restricting how we may use your information: In some cases, you may ask us to restrict how we use your personal information. This right might apply, for example, where we are checking the accuracy of personal information about you that we hold or assessing the validity of any objection you have made to our use of your information. The right might also apply where there is no longer a basis for using your personal information but you do not want us to delete the data. Where this right is validly exercised, we may only use the relevant personal information with your consent, for legal claims or where there are other public interest grounds to do so.

Objecting to how we may use your information: Where we use your personal information to perform tasks carried out in the public interest then, if you ask us to, we will stop using that personal information unless there are overriding legitimate grounds to continue.

Withdrawing consent to use your information: Where we use your personal information with your consent you may withdraw that consent at any time and we will stop using your personal information for the purpose(s) for which consent was given.

Please contact us in any of the ways set out in ‘Contact information’ below if you wish to exercise any of these rights.

Contact Information

Mr. Charalambos Christou

16 Stasikratous Street, Paloma Court

4th Floor, 1065, Nicosia

Cyprus

Telephone: +357 22661290

Fax: +357 22680590

Email address: christou@minoshis.com

Website: http://www.minoshis.com

Complaints

We seek to resolve directly all complaints about how we handle your personal information but you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office at:

Information Commissioner’s Office

1 Iasonos Street, 1082, Nicosia

P.O.Box. 23378, 1682, Nicosia

Cyprus

Telephone: +357 22818456

Fax: +357 22304565

Email address: commissioner@dataprotection.gov.cy

Website: http://www.dataprotection.gov.cy