Privacy Statement
Compass Malta is committed to protect personal data. Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person. This Privacy Statement describes how we collect and use personal information about you in accordance with data protection law. Please read it carefully.
Data protection law says that the personal information we hold about you must be:
- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
- Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
- Accurate and kept up to date.
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
- Kept securely
At Compass Malta, we use personal data for the following purposes:
- Providing professional services: We provide (i) quality control reviews; (ii) in-house training and (iii) technical advice to professionals, mainly auditors. Some of our services require us to process personal data in order to provide advice and deliverables. For example, we review audit files holding third party information, as part of our work and we also provide technical advice to statutory auditors based on third party information as provided to us by statutory auditors.. Compass Malta is dedicated to protecting the confidentiality and privacy of information entrusted to it.
- Transfer to Third Parties: We do not share any personal information, except as necessary for our legitimate professional and business needs, to carry out your requests, and/or as required or permitted by law or professional standards. This would include:
- Courts, tribunals, law enforcement or regulatory bodies (Accountancy Board):Compass Malta may disclose personal information in order to respond to requests of courts, tribunals, government or law enforcement agencies or where it is necessary or prudent to comply with applicable laws, court or tribunal orders or rules, or government regulations. Any deliverable on a statutory auditor with the Accountancy Board is strictly carried out with the prior consent of the statutory auditor, unless prohibited by law to do so.
- If we are reorganized or sold to another organization: Compass Malta may also disclose personal information in connection with the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the business; and
- Reviews of audit files:disclosures of personal information may also be needed for quality control reviews and/or to investigate or respond to a complaint or to provide technical advice on a matter concerning a third party.
- Administering, managing and developing our services: We also administer personal data for the effective running of our business, which includes managing our clients; developing new services; communicating CPE events and managing our website.
Data retention
We retain the personal data processed by us for as long as is considered necessary for the purpose for which it was collected (including as required by applicable law or regulation).
In the absence of specific legal, regulatory or contractual requirements, our baseline retention period for records and other documentary evidence created in the provision of services is 10 years.
Cookies In Use on This Site
Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
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We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Remembering your search settings
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use: Google Analytics
Turning Cookies Off
You can switch cookies off by clicking on the ‘Privacy & Cookies Policy’ tab at the bottom of our website and selecting the ‘Reject’ button. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. You can re-enable the cookies any time you want by clicking on the ‘Accept’ button in the same tab.
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.