Privacy Policy

We are always concerned with assuring the privacy of all data we receive and process for our clients, wherever they are in the world.

We are registered in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program to further provide assurance that we protect client data.

The following are the details of the coverage of our privacy program.

1. Any information we obtain is used only for specified and lawful purposes only in the performance of the services for which we have been engaged.
2. We ask only for information that is reasonably adequate, relevant, and not excessive to allow us to perform the services for which we have been engaged.
3. We maintain information accurately and where necessary take steps to maintain and/or ensure its accuracy.
4. We process information in accordance with your rights (which are detailed below) and by the explicit permissions given to us to use your data on your behalf.
5. We keep data in secure, audited and GlobeTax controlled systems pursuant to ISO27001 compliant policies.
6. All data is housed at our secure U.S. facilities.

There are seven principles of data protection in U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Program and we comply with each of them as follows:

1. Notice: GlobeTax notifies you about the purposes for which we collect and use information about you. We provide information about how you can contact us with any inquiries or complaints, the types of third parties to which we disclose the information and the choices and means GlobeTax offers for limiting its use and disclosure. We do this through limited powers of attorney, letters of authority used with any custodians that manage your assets, our services agreements and other documents.
   
2. Choice: GlobeTax gives you the opportunity to choose whether your personal information will be disclosed to a third party. We do this by explicitly stating the use and disclosure of information in our contracts and letters of authority. By engaging GlobeTax to perform services you have opted to allow such disclosures as required for us to perform our services.
   
3. Onward Transfer (Transfers to Third Parties): We do not disclose any of your data to any third party except as required in the performance of the services for which we have been engaged. The transfer of information for reporting purposes are limited to you and/or your agents.
   
4. Access: You have access to personal information that we hold about you and you are able to correct, amend, or delete that information where it is inaccurate, except where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to your privacy in the case in question, or where the rights of persons other than you would be violated.
   
5. Security: In accordance with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program, we take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.
   
6. Data integrity: In accordance with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program, any personal information we hold about you is relevant for the purposes for which it is to be used. As required in the course of the performance of our services, we take reasonable steps to ensure that data is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current.
   
7. Enforcement: In order to ensure compliance with the principles of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program, we have (a) readily available and affordable independent recourse mechanisms so that if you have a complaint any disputes can be investigated and resolved; (b) procedures for verifying that the commitments we make to adhere to those principles have been implemented; and (c) obligations to remedy problems arising out of a failure to comply with those principles. If we fail to provide annual self-certification letters, GlobeTax will no longer appear in the list of participants in the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program. We, however, warrant that the benefits of the principles of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program will continue to be assured as they applied at the time data was provided to us.