Client Privacy Notice for Accountancy Firms

A UK GDPR privacy notice for accountancy and bookkeeping clients – individuals, sole traders and organisations – covering purposes, lawful bases, AML checks, sharing, retention, rights and complaints.

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Guidance notes included
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Accountancy practice – client documents

Client Privacy Notice for Accountancy Firms

About this document

What it’s for

The privacy notice that your engagement letters refer to. It tells clients – and the individuals connected with them, such as directors, partners, trustees, employees and family members – what personal data you collect, why, on what lawful basis, who you share it with, how long you keep it and what rights they have, as Articles 13 and 14 of the UK GDPR require.

When to use it

  • Send with every engagement letter and publish it on your website
  • Update it when you change software, suppliers or retention periods

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  1. Who we are
  2. The personal data we collect
  3. Why we use it and our lawful basis
  4. Who we share it with
  5. International transfers
  6. How long we keep it
  7. Your rights
  8. Complaints
  9. Changes to this notice

How to complete it

  • Insert your firm’s details and ICO registration number
  • List your actual suppliers and where they store data
  • Make retention periods match your records policy

Key points to check

  • The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 changes, including the requirement to have a data protection complaints process
  • Use the processor terms in the Standard Terms of Business for payroll and bookkeeping data

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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