Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 21-07-2024

Your privacy is important to us

CKM Partners is located at:

It is CKM Partners’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to ckmpartners.com.au (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “ckmpartners.com.au”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.

1. Website Visitors

Like most website operators, CKM Partners collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. CKM Partners’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how CKM Partners’s visitors use its website. From time to time, CKM Partners may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

CKM Partners also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://ckmpartners.com.au blog posts. CKM Partners only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

2. Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

3. Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, CKM Partners uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalised content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. CKM Partners uses cookies to help CKM Partners identify and track visitors, their usage of https://ckmpartners.com.au, and their website access preferences. CKM Partners visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using CKM Partners’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of CKM Partners’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to CKM Partners’s use of cookies.

4. Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, CKM Partners may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in CKM Partners’s sole discretion. CKM Partners encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

5. Other Policies

Tax agent terms

As a Tax Agent, our work for you is performed in accordance with the Tax Agent Services Act 2009. Under this Act, the Tax Agent Services (Code of Professional Conduct) Determination 2024 requires that we make the following disclosures to you:

1. Matters that could significantly influence your decision to engage us (or continue to engage us) for a Tax Agent Service from 1 July 2022 onward include the following:
   • None Applicable
2. The Tax Practitioner’s Board maintains a register of Tax Agents and BAS Agents. You can access and search this register here: https://www.tpb.gov.au/public-register
3. If you have a complaint about our Tax Agent services, you will need to contact your Accountant in the first instance with details by email. If they are unable to resolve your complaint within 3 business days, please contact Melinda Anderson or Christine Haikalis by email. Your complaint will be investigated by Melinda or Christine in the subject matter of the dispute. We will provide you with email acknowledgement of receipt of your complaint and our understanding of the circumstances. The email will inform you that we will attempt to resolve your complaint within 14 days and will outline the dispute resolution process. If you are unhappy with the outcome that we propose to you, you can then make a complaint to the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) using the link listed above. The TPB will send you an email to acknowledge the receipt of your complaint and review and risk assess your complaint. If you are unhappy with how the TPB has dealt with your complaint, the above link includes details about your review rights and who can further assist you.