Privacy policy
What personal data this website collects, why, who else handles it, how long it is kept, and the rights you have.
- We collect only what you send us through a form or by email, and what any web server records when a page loads.
- We use it to reply to you, to send The Brief if you asked for it, and to consider applications. We never sell it or use it for advertising.
- The IFRS 16 lease calculator and the audit-readiness diagnostic run in your browser. What you enter in them never reaches us.
- You can ask to see, correct, or erase your data, or withdraw consent, by writing to aditya@soniassociates.in.
01Who is responsible
Soni Aditya & Associates, Chartered Accountants, Office No. 502, Unit 507, 5th Floor, 45 Baner Street, Baner, Pune, Maharashtra 411045, India, decides why and how the personal data described in this policy is processed, and is the data fiduciary for it under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Questions about this policy or your personal data go to Aditya Soni, Founding Partner, at aditya@soniassociates.in.
02What we collect, and why
| When | What we receive | Why we use it | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|---|
| You send an enquiry | Name, organisation, role, country, email, phone, and your message | To reply, and to set up an engagement if one follows | Up to three years after our last exchange, unless an engagement follows |
| You subscribe to The Brief | Email address; if you give them, name, organisation, role, and topics | To send the newsletter on the topics you chose | Until you unsubscribe |
| You apply for a role | Name, email, phone, area of interest, your message, and your CV | To consider your application and contact you about it | Up to two years, then deleted |
| You become a client | The information the engagement needs | To carry out the engagement under its engagement letter | As long as professional and legal obligations require |
| You visit the website | IP address, browser type, pages requested, and time, in server logs | To run the website securely and fix faults | For the period our hosting provider keeps its logs |
We do not ask for sensitive personal data through this website. Please do not send documents, or personal data about other people, through a form; we will arrange a secure way to share them.
03Tools that run in your browser
The IFRS 16 lease calculator and the audit-readiness diagnostic calculate on your own device. The figures, answers, and reports they produce are not sent to us or stored by us, and they disappear when you close the page unless you save a report yourself.
04Consent
Where we rely on your consent, we ask for it clearly: the enquiry form has a consent box, and subscribing to The Brief is itself a request to receive it.
You can withdraw consent at any time by writing to aditya@soniassociates.in, or by replying to any issue of The Brief. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything we did with your data before, and we may keep what the law requires us to keep.
05Who else handles your data
A small number of service providers handle personal data so that this website can work:
- Form delivery: FormSubmit, for the enquiry and subscription forms, and Web3Forms, for career applications, pass what you submit to our email.
- Email: our email service provider stores the messages we send and receive.
- Hosting: our website hosting provider serves the pages and keeps server logs.
- Fonts: Google Fonts delivers the typefaces, and receives your IP address and browser details when a page loads.
Some of these providers process data outside India. We do not sell personal data or share it for advertising. We disclose it to others only where the law, a court, a regulator, or the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India requires it.
06How we protect it
Access to personal data is limited to the people who need it, and it is protected with safeguards suited to its sensitivity. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. If a breach affects your personal data, we will inform you and the Data Protection Board of India as the law requires.
07Your rights
Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, you can:
- ask what personal data we hold about you, and how it has been used;
- ask us to correct, complete, update, or erase it;
- withdraw consent you have given;
- nominate someone to exercise these rights if you die or become unable to; and
- raise a grievance with us, and, if our response does not resolve it, complain to the Data Protection Board of India.
Write to aditya@soniassociates.in. We will confirm your request and respond within 30 days. Some requests, such as erasure, may be limited where professional or legal obligations require us to keep records. If you live outside India, the law where you live may give you further rights, and we will respond under it where it applies.
08Children
This website is not intended for children. If you are under 18, please ask a parent or guardian to contact us before you send us personal data. If we learn that we hold a child’s data without verifiable consent, we will delete it.
09Cookies and tracking
We do not set cookies, and this website uses no analytics, advertising, or tracking tools. Apart from the form services when you submit a form, the only other service a page contacts is Google Fonts, described above.
10Changes to this policy
When this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change affects how we use data you have already given us, we will tell you before it takes effect.