Privacy and Cookie Policy

Benson Wood & Co is a firm of chartered accountants and business advisers based in Central Scotland. For the purposes of data protection law, we are the “data controller” of the personal information you provide to us.

If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your data, please contact us using the details in the Contact us section below.

We only collect information we need in order to respond to you and provide our services. Depending on how you interact with us, this may include:

• Contact details you give us — such as your name, email address, phone number and company name — when you complete a form, book a call, or sign up for our insights.
• The content of your enquiry or correspondence with us.
• Information you provide when you become a client, as needed to deliver our accountancy and advisory services.
• Technical and usage information collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies (see the Cookies section below), such as your IP address, device and browser type, and how you use our site.

We use your personal information to:

• Respond to your enquiries and provide the information or services you ask for.
• Provide, administer and improve our services to clients, and meet our professional and legal obligations.
• Send you insights or updates where you have asked to receive them.
• Maintain the security of our site and understand how it is used so we can improve it.

We rely on one or more of the following legal bases to do this: your consent (for example, for optional cookies or marketing emails, which you can withdraw at any time); the performance of a contract with you; compliance with a legal obligation; and our legitimate interests in running and promoting our business in a way that respects your rights.

We do not sell your personal information. We may share it with trusted third parties who help us operate our business and this website — such as IT, hosting and email providers — and only so they can perform those services for us. We may also disclose information where we are required to do so by law or by our professional obligations.

Where any provider processes data outside the UK, we take steps to ensure it is protected by appropriate safeguards.

We keep your personal information only for as long as we need it for the purposes set out above, or for as long as we are required to by law and our professional and regulatory obligations. When we no longer need it, we securely delete or anonymise it.

Under data protection law you have rights over your personal information, including the right to:

• Ask for a copy of the information we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Ask us to delete your information in certain circumstances.
• Object to or restrict how we use your information.
• Withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on it.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection, at ico.org.uk.

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Please check back occasionally to stay informed.