Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy of Accountancy Mentor’s Site

Effective Date: 28-11-2024

Your privacy is important to us

Welcome to https://www.accountancymentor.com (the “Website” or “Site”). Accountancy Mentor is the business name for Arzim Consulting & Training Sdn. Bhd. It is Accountancy Mentor’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.accountancymentor.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or ” www.accountancymentor.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

We understand that privacy online is important to users of our Site, especially when conducting business. This statement governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of the Site (“Visitors”) who visit without transacting business and Visitors who register to transact business on the Site and make use of the various services offered by Accountancy Mentor (collectively, “Services”) (“Authorised Customers”).

This Site is used to inform Visitors regarding Accountancy Mentor’s policy with the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Identifiable Information of Visitors of the site.

If you choose to use the Site’s Services, then you agree to the collection and use of information with this policy. The Personal Identifiable Information that are collected are used for providing and improving the Service. The Personal Identifiable Information will not be used or shared with anyone except as described in this privacy policy.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms & Conditions and the Disclaimer posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.

Contents

1. Website Visitors
2. Personally-Identifiable Information
3. Security
4. Advertisements
5. Links To External Sites
6. Accountancy Mentor uses Google AdWords for remarketing
7. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
8. Aggregated Statistics
9. Affiliate Disclosure
10. Cookies
11. E-commerce
12. Privacy Policy Changes
13. Your Rights

1. Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Accountancy Mentor collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each Visitor request. Accountancy Mentor’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Accountancy Mentor’s Visitors use its website. From time to time, Accountancy Mentor may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Accountancy Mentor also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.accountancymentor.com blog posts. Accountancy Mentor only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

2. Personally-Identifying Information

Certain Visitors to Accountancy Mentor’s websites choose to interact with Accountancy Mentor in ways that require Accountancy Mentor to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Accountancy Mentor gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask Visitors who leave a comment at https://www.accountancymentor.com to provide a username and email address.

“Personally Identifying Information”

refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial profiles, social security number, and credit card information. Personally Identifying Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.

What Personally Identifying Information is collected and why we collect it?

We may collect basic user profile information from all of our Visitors. We collect the following additional information from our Authorized Customers: the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of Authorized Customers, the nature and size of the business, and the nature and size of the advertising inventory that the Authorized Customer intends to purchase or sell.

For a better experience, while using the Site’s Service, Accountancy Mentor may require you to provide certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to name, email, age, addresses, work place and work position.

The Site does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you. Following are the list of third party service providers, but not limited to, used by the Site:

• Google Gmail
• Google Meet
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Youtube

The Site may employ third party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

• To facilitate the Service;
• To provide Services on its behalf;
• To perform service-related Services; or
• To assist Accountancy Mentor in analysing how its Service is used.

What organizations are collecting the information?

In addition to our direct collection of information, our third party service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect this information from our Visitors and Authorised Customers. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use personal information provided to them from Visitors and Authorised Customers. Some of these third parties may be intermediaries that act solely as links in the distribution chain, and do not store, retain, or use the information given to them.

How does the Site use Personally Identifying Information?

We use Personally Identifying Information to customize the Site, to make appropriate service offerings, and to fulfill buying and selling requests on the Site. We may email Visitors and Authorised Customers about research or purchase and selling opportunities on the Site or information related to the subject matter of the Site. We may also use Personally Identifying Information to contact Visitors and Authorised Customers in response to specific inquiries, or to provide requested information.

With whom may the information may be shared?

Personally Identifying Information about Authorised Customers may be shared with other Authorised Customers who wish to evaluate potential transactions with other Authorised Customers. We may share aggregated information about our Visitors, including the demographics of our Visitors and Authorised Customers, with our affiliated agencies and third party vendors. We also offer the opportunity to “opt out” of receiving information or being contacted by us or by any agency acting on our behalf.

How is Personally Identifying Information stored?

Personally Identifying Information collected by Accountancy Mentor is securely stored and is not accessible to third parties or employees of Accountancy Mentor except for use as indicated above.

What choices are available to Visitors regarding collection, use and distribution of the information?

Visitors and Authorised Customers may opt out of receiving unsolicited information from or being contacted by us and/or our vendors and affiliated agencies by responding to emails as instructed, or by contacting us at

What partners or service providers have access to Personally Identifying Information from Visitors and/or Authorised Customers on the Site?

Accountancy Mentor has entered into and will continue to enter into partnerships and other affiliations with a number of vendors. Such vendors may have access to certain Personally Identifying Information on a need to know the basis for evaluating Authorised Customers for service eligibility. Our privacy policy does not cover their collection or use of this information. Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information to comply with the law. We will disclose Personally Identifying Information in order to comply with a court order or subpoena or a request from a law enforcement agency to release information. We will also disclose Personally Identifying Information when reasonably necessary to protect the safety of our Visitors and Authorised Customers.

How does the Site keep Personally Identifying Information secure?

All of our employees are familiar with our security policy and practices. The Personally Identifying Information of our Visitors and Authorised Customers is only accessible to a limited number of qualified employees who are given a password in order to gain access to the information. We audit our security systems and processes on a regular basis. Sensitive information, such as credit card numbers or social security numbers, is protected by encryption protocols, in place to protect information sent over the Internet. While we take commercially reasonable measures to maintain a secure site, electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering, and break-ins, and we cannot guarantee or warrant that such events will not take place and we will not be liable to Visitors or Authorised Customers for any such occurrences.

How can Visitors correct any inaccuracies in Personally Identifying Information?

Visitors and Authorised Customers may contact us to update Personally Identifying Information about them or to correct any inaccuracies by emailing us at .

Can a Visitor delete or deactivate Personally Identifying Information collected by the Site?

We provide Visitors and Authorised Customers with a mechanism to delete/deactivate Personally Identifying Information from the Site’s database by contacting. However, because of backups and records of deletions, it may be impossible to delete a Visitor’s entry without retaining some residual information. An individual who requests to have Personally Identifying Information deactivated will have this information functionally deleted, and we will not sell, transfer, or use Personally Identifying Information relating to that individual in any way moving forward.

How does Accountancy Mentor use login information?

Accountancy Mentor uses login information, including, but not limited to, IP addresses, ISPs, and browser types, to analyze trends, administer the Site, track a user’s movement and use, and gather broad demographic information.

3. Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

4. Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Accountancy Mentor and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

5. Links to External Sites

Our Service, https://www.accountancymentor.com, may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms of service of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

6. Accountancy Mentor uses Google AdWords for remarketing

Accountancy Mentor uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous Visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous Visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

7. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Accountancy Mentor discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Accountancy Mentor’s behalf or to provide services available at Accountancy Mentor’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Accountancy Mentor’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Accountancy Mentor will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Accountancy Mentor discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Accountancy Mentor believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Accountancy Mentor, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://www.accountancymentor.com and have supplied your email address, Accountancy Mentor may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Accountancy Mentor and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Accountancy Mentor takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

8. Aggregated Statistics

Accountancy Mentor may collect statistics about the behavior of Visitors to its website. Accountancy Mentor may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Accountancy Mentor does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

9. Affiliate Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

10. Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Accountancy Mentor uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a Visitor’s computer, and that the Visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the Visitor returns. Accountancy Mentor uses cookies to help Accountancy Mentor identify and track Visitors, their usage of https://www.accountancymentor.com, and their website access preferences. Accountancy Mentor Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Accountancy Mentor’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Accountancy Mentor’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Accountancy Mentor’s use of cookies.

Are Cookies Used on the Site?

Cookies are used for a variety of reasons. We use Cookies to obtain information about the preferences of our Visitors and the services they select. We also use Cookies for security purposes to protect our Authorised Customers. For example, if an Authorised Customer is logged on and the site is unused for more than 10 minutes, we will automatically log the Authorised Customer off. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using https://www.accountancymentor.com, with the drawback that certain features of website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Cookies used by our service providers

Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website. You can find more details about which cookies are used in our cookies info page.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page or ’Contact Now’ page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the Visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

11. E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with Accountancy Mentor – by purchasing Accountancy Mentor’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Accountancy Mentor collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the Visitor’s interaction with Accountancy Mentor. Accountancy Mentor does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

12. Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Accountancy Mentor may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Accountancy Mentor’s sole discretion. Accountancy Mentor encourages Visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

What happens if the Privacy Policy Changes?

We will let our Visitors and Authorised Customers know about changes to our privacy policy by posting such changes on the Site. However, if we are changing our privacy policy in a manner that might cause disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information that a Visitor or Authorised Customer has previously requested not be disclosed, we will contact such Visitor or Authorized Customer to allow such https or Authorised Customer to prevent such disclosure.

13. Your Rights

These are summarized rights that you have under data protection law

• The right to access
• The right to rectification
• The right to erasure
• The right to restrict processing
• The right to object to processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to complain to a supervisory authority
• The right to withdraw consent

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.