How Tax Pandey, Chartered Accountants collects, uses, and protects personal information through this website, in accordance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
This Privacy Policy describes how Tax Pandey, Chartered Accountants ("we", "us", "the Firm") collects, uses, stores, and discloses personal information that you provide through the website taxpandey.com (the "Website"). The Firm is a sole proprietorship of CA Kuldeep Pandey, an ICAI member (Membership No. 548802), with its office at SCO 75, 2nd Floor, Omaxe World Street, Sector 79, Faridabad, Haryana 121004, India.
This Policy is published in accordance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) and the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011. By using this Website or submitting an enquiry, you confirm that you have read and understood this Policy.
When you submit an enquiry or otherwise interact with the Website, we may collect the following categories of personal data:
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 18. If you are under 18, please do not submit information through this Website.
We process the personal data you provide solely for the following purposes, on the lawful basis of your consent (Section 4 read with Section 6 of the DPDP Act, 2023) and for performance of the professional engagement you request:
We do not use your information for marketing or for any purpose unrelated to your enquiry without separate, specific consent.
We share your personal data only with the following categories of recipients, and only to the minimum extent necessary:
We do not sell, rent, or trade personal data with any third party for any commercial purpose.
We retain enquiry data only as long as necessary for the purposes described in Section 3, or as required by professional record-keeping obligations under ICAI guidance and applicable Indian law. Where you do not engage the Firm and no further follow-up is needed, enquiry records are typically deleted within 24 months of last contact.
Where you do engage the Firm, the engagement file is retained for the longer of (a) 8 years from completion of the engagement, in line with the standard record-retention norm under the Income Tax Act and ICAI's guidance for working papers, or (b) the period required by any specific statute applicable to that engagement.
Subject to the conditions and exceptions of the DPDP Act, 2023, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
We follow reasonable security practices and procedures to protect personal data from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These include limiting access to personal data on a need-to-know basis, using secure transmission channels for document exchange, and following the confidentiality standards required by the ICAI Code of Ethics. No method of transmission over the internet is fully secure, and you accept that residual risk by using the Website.
The Website does not currently set first-party tracking cookies, run analytics scripts (such as Google Analytics), or use advertising pixels. Embedded third-party content (such as the Google Maps iframe on the Contact section, the Google Fonts CSS link, or the Google review link in the Reviews section) may set its own cookies and is governed by the privacy policies of the respective providers.
We may revise this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in law, professional regulation, or our practices. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page indicates when the Policy was most recently revised. Continued use of the Website after revisions constitutes acceptance of the updated Policy.
If you have a question, concern, or complaint about how your personal data has been handled, please contact the Grievance Officer at:
CA Kuldeep Pandey — Grievance Officer
Tax Pandey, Chartered Accountants
SCO 75, 2nd Floor, Omaxe World Street, Sector 79, Faridabad, Haryana 121004, India
Email: contact@taxpandey.com
Phone: +91 76782 22474
If we are unable to resolve your concern, you may approach the Data Protection Board of India once it is operational, in accordance with Section 27 of the DPDP Act, 2023.