Privacy Policy of www.yycadvisors.com

General Information

Your Privacy

Welcome to yycadvisors.com.

We are a group of professional chartered accountants, tax specialists and business consultants dedicated to advise and assist Malaysian businesses grow. Our professional accounting firm is located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur (KL) the capital of Malaysia.

As you can probably understand, we are absolutely determined that your privacy is maintained.  This is particularly important given the nature of our business and the sensitive material we care for.

This page outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use this website; yycadvisors.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information.

We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

yycadvisors.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers', consumers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.

Your Personal Information

yycadvisors.com collects personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information collected on a voluntary basis may include name, postal address, email address, company name and telephone number.

This information is collected if you request information from us, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, and sign up to join our email list or request some other service or information from us. The information collected is internally reviewed, and used to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries.

Once information is reviewed, we discard it or store it in our files. If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site.

Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that yycadvisors.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to yycadvisors.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Use of Cookies and Web Beacons

We use cookies to help you personalise your online experience.

Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable our system to recognise your browser.

The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have come to the site for the first time, or have returned to a specific page. If you personalise the site's pages, or register with any of our site's services, a cookie enables yycadvisors.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying settings in your browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. Beacons are also referred to as web bugs. They are commonly used by sites that use third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a website.

Google Analytics Cookies

yycadvisors.com uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website.

Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer.

We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

yycadvisors.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies.

We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on; https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse yycadvisors.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Identifiable Information

yycadvisors.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate our site.
• To display content on the site correctly.
• To improve customer service.
• To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
• To personalize your user experience.
• To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
• To improve our site.
• To improve our products and services.
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
• To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
• To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
• To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

yycadvisors.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically,

• if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.
• If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

Social Media

This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms.  When you click on them or leave a comment, your browser connects directly with that site and sends information such as your IP address, the date and time of your visit and information about how you use the social site.

Should you wish to prevent those platforms from collecting data, please view their individual policies by using the following links: 

Below are links to the privacy policies of

Facebook: See Privacy Policy.
LinkedIn: See Privacy Policy.
Twitter:   See Privacy Policy.
YouTube: See Privacy Policy.

Facebook: to prevent Facebook collecting your data, you should log out of your Facebook account while using this site.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

yycadvisors.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you.

However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites.

These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations.

Anyone under the age of 16 must have a parent or guardian provide consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell yycadvisors.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue.

In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honours any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers.

That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.  Their Privacy Policy can be reviewed here.

Some information is collected by third-party services. These include:

Get Response: See Privacy Policy

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, click on this link. 

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.

Updates and Effective Date

yycadvisors.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy.

We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to yycadvisors.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: October 26, 2018