At Added Bookkeeping Services we understand how important it is to protect the information that is provided to us by our clients. This Privacy Policy document governs the collection and use of the information provided to Added Bookkeeping Services by its clients and customers by setting out limits on how to respect the rights of our clients in compliance with the National Privacy Principles included in the Privacy Act of 1988.

Collection of Private Information

Added Bookkeeping Services may gather personal information about its customers through call centres, during interviews, through our website, our recruitment consultants, our franchisees as well as seminars, advertising and promotions, if you respond to any.

Collection of Personal Information

Personal information shall be collected by Added Bookkeeping Services in order to determine if you are suitable and/or eligible to become a franchisee of one of our systems or for the delivery of services provided by franchisees in our systems. Some of the types of personal information that Added Bookkeeping Services may collect is your name, occupation, telephone number, address, experience, education, personal preferences, self appraisal of attributes and financial information as well.

When your personal information is requested, we try to specify which information is necessary for you to provide and which information may be provided at your discretion. If you are not comfortable with providing any optional information, you may choose not to disclose such information. However, doing so may inhibit our ability to assist you.

When you disclose your personal information to us about another person, you confirm and represent that you have the authority to do so and have obtained consent from the person concerned for us to use and disclose their personal information and that they have the authority to gain access to any information that we hold about them.

Usage of Personal Information

Added Bookkeeping Services will use the personal information you disclosed by you in order to provide assistance to us in:

• Delegating a member of the Added Bookkeeping Services franchise network to contact you related to your inquiry, application or submission and or that particular franchisee to evaluate your requirements and the services needed by you.

• Evaluating your application to become one of the franchisees of our franchise program.

• Assessing your application and/or completing transactions to which the disclosure of that personal information relates for instance, completion of applications or forms required to be filled for any facilities or services offered or arranged by Added Bookkeeping Services from time to time.

• To provide you with the latest information related to the variety of products and services offered.

• To provide you with the latest information related to the variety of products and services offered.

You may opt to not to receive communications from us at any point in time excluding communications that are required for the operation of the business. In order to opt out receiving communications from us, you may contact our team via email as mentioned in our Contact Us section.

Access Rights of Clients to the Personal Information Held By Added Bookkeeping Services

Our clients may request us provide a list of any personal information collected by us about you as well as copies of all the personal information we have gathered about you over time. Such information will be provided to you within minimum thirty days after the request has been received. However, Added Bookkeeping Services may charge you a nominal fee as administrative charges for the cost incurred in providing you with the information requested by you.

If at any point you feel that the information we hold related to you is either inaccurate or incorrect, you may contact us to correct any such information. However, we will evaluate whether the previously held information needs any amendment or not. Consequently, if we do not feel that the information requires any amendment, we may attach a note in our personal information section that you disagree with the information held by us.

The nature of financial information is very volatile and is subject to change which is why we must update our information database from time to time by requesting you to provide us with your latest financial details for any ongoing or future deals we may have with you. However, Added Bookkeeping Services will de-identify and destroy all sensitive information as soon as it no longer remains essential for our business operations.

Disclosure of Personal Information

Added Bookkeeping Services promises to only use your personal and private information for the following purposes:

• To determine your eligibility to become a part of our franchise systems or;

• To help in assigning a franchisee to you according to the services required by you or;

• To process or submit your application for the various services and facilities offered by Added Bookkeeping Services from time to time;

• For administrative purposes like printing, mailing and data processing.

Added Bookkeeping Services will only disclose the information collected by us regarding you by acquiring your consent for in case it is necessary and implicit for them to perform the services related to your request, inquiry or application. In case your information is disclosed to any third party agents, these third party agents will be strictly prohibited to further disclose any information related to you to any individual or organisation for any purpose whatsoever.

No such private information will be disclosed by Added Bookkeeping Services unless forced to do so by the law or regulations applicable to the situation. Since Added Bookkeeping Services is a franchise network, your private and personal information may be circulated within the network or group to facilitate transactions or render services to which the delivery of such information relates to or to assist us in running our business smoothly.

The above mentioned is only related to the personal identifying information and is in no way related to any de-identified or aggregated information that may be developed or created internally by us, solely for research purposes.

Methods of Storing Personal Information

Added Bookkeeping Services takes all reasonable steps to protect the personal information of its clientele for misuse, loss, modification, exposure and unauthorized access. All staff members are required to maintain the confidentiality of every customer, franchisee and applicant information.

Electronic access to information is restricted to the employees of Added Bookkeeping Services for their job requires access to such information. All our computers are password and firewall protected to ensure the highest standards of security levels. When we no longer require your private information, we will destroy it or de-identify it accordingly.

Changes Made In the Privacy Policy

Added Bookkeeping Services reserves the exclusive right to make changes and modifications to this privacy policy statement as and when needed in their sole discretion without any prior notice. Changes made in the privacy policy will be published to the website immediately.

For more information on the personal information held by us regarding to our customers, please contact us on the mentioned contact details.