Privacy policy

Introduction

• As a firm of Registered Auditors, we are responsible for processing a large volume of data, some of which is personal data.

• The personal data that we process may concern you as a client of our audit firm, but also as a business relationship of our clients (if you are a supplier or a client of our client, for example). We are required to inform you, as the data subject whose personal data we process, of the following.

• 1. Responsible for processing personal data

• The person responsible for processing personal data is Upline Consulting LLC.

• The head office of our compagny is located at Shams Business Center, Sharjah Media City Free Zone, Al Messaned, Sharjah and our company number is 2322430.01

• For any questions relating to the protection of personal data, please contact Upline Consulting LLC, by post to the above address or by email at contact@upline-consulting.com

• 2. Purposes of the processing of personal data

• The firm processes personal data for the following purposes:

• The obligations incumbent on the firm vis-à-vis Belgian authorities, foreign authorities or international institutions, in application of a legal or regulatory obligation, in application of a judicial decision or in the context of the defence of a legitimate interest, in particular, but not exclusively, if current and future tax (VAT listings, tax records, etc.) and social laws require us to process personal data within the framework of the assignment for which we have been designated.

• The processing of this personal data is a legal obligation. Without this data, we cannot enter into a business relationship.

• Execution of this contract relating to accounting, tax and audit services. The processing of personal data concerns the data of the customers themselves, of their staff members, of their directors, among others, as well as of other persons, such as customers and suppliers, involved in their activities.

• In the absence of communication and processing of this data, we are unable to carry out our mission as company.

• 3. What personal data and from whom?

• Within the framework of the purposes mentioned in point 2, our firm is authorized to process the following personal data: first name, last name, e-mail address, address, number of company, national number …

• The firm also processes personal data which has not been provided by the data subject, such as personal data transmitted by the client and concerning his employees, directors, clients, suppliers, or even shareholders.

• 4. Data recipient

• In accordance with the above, and except if it is necessary to communicate personal data to organizations or entities whose intervention as third party service providers on behalf and under the control of the person in charge is required for the purposes above, the firm will not transmit the personal data collected in this context, nor will it sell, rent or exchange it with any organization or entity, unless you have been informed in advance and that you have explicitly given your consent.
  The firm uses third-party service providers:

• ↘ the firm uses electronic software and related IT portals;
  ↘ the firm uses cloud computing software as a work interface;
  ↘ the firm uses the services of external experts to carry out certain tasks or specific missions.

• The firm can take all necessary measures to ensure proper management of the website and its IT system.

• The firm may transmit personal data at the request of any legally competent authority or on its own initiative if it considers in good faith that the transmission of this information is necessary in order to comply with the law or regulations or in order to defend and / or protect the rights or property of the firm, its clients, its website and / or yourself.

• 5. Security measures

• In order to prevent, as far as possible, any unauthorized access to personal data collected in this context, the firm has developed security and organizational procedures. These procedures concern both the collection and storage of this data.

• These procedures also apply to all subcontractors that the firm uses.

• 6. Complaints

• With regard to the processing of personal data by our firm, you can submit a complaint to the UAE Data Office Authority