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There are many questions that we are asked time and time again.
The purpose of this section of our website is to give general guidance
concerning these questions. We will be working on this list over the coming months,
so do keep coming back to this page. Please be aware, however, that
the answers provided here should not be viewed as dealing with individual
circumstances, and you should always contact us for specific advice
on how these issues affect you.
Fairholm and you
Fairholm and you
Q: What can a Chartered
Accountant do for me?
A: All Chartered Accountants, at some time during their career, worked as advisors in public practice, providing accounting and business advice to clients in areas such as small business tax, audit, information technology, personal financial planning, business valuation, receivership, insolvency and forensic investigation." Consequently, when you visit a chartered accountant, he/she can give you a professional opinion on such issues as setting up a company, complying with the local or national laws, business planning, tax planning, financing, buying & selling assets, and personal/family finances.
Fairholm & Company is committed to providing timely and quality information for our clients. We provide many accounting and management consulting services and we believe you will find services that suit your needs.
Q: What is your privacy policy?
A: OUR PRIVACY PROTECTION POLICY
Information provided to Fairholm & Company or collected from our Web site is used solely for the purpose of the service indicated.
Information Requested:
If a user wishes to receive information from our website, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. The submission of this information is voluntary. If you do not wish to submit information to our Web site, please contact us by telephone or facsimile.
Legal Disclaimer:
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process. We will not sell your personal information to third parties.
Links:
This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Fairholm & Company Inc. are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
Surveys/Questionnaires:
Our site requests information from users via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information through the Web site. The required information typically includes contact information such as name and address. Questions of a more sensitive nature can be skipped and submitted manually at a later stage. Users' personally identifiable information is not shared with third parties unless we give prior notice and choice.
Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating Personal Informationl:
If a user's personally identifiable information changes, or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate users' personally identifiable information. This can usually be done at the contact us page or by emailing fairholmadmin@telus.net . You may also contact us by telephone, facsimile or mail.
Notification of Changes:
If we decide to change our privacy protection policy, we will post those changes to this privacy protection policy, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy protection under which the information was collected.
If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. However, if users have opted out of all communication with the site, they will not be contacted, nor will their personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post a notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
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