Privacy Notice

What personal information do you collect when I visit https://www.bdo.com.pa?

We do not require you to register to access https://www.bdo.com.pa, but if you participate in any of the activities or services offered by https://www.bdo.com.pa, we will collect the personal information we need to provide those services to you. Failure to provide the information we need to complete registration may prevent or delay the provision of any services to you.

The categories of information we collect from you are:

  • Contact details, such as your name, job title, email address, employer name and telephone number.

  • Contact details, such as your name, job title, email address, employer name and telephone number.


Technical Information

When you visit this website, we may collect technical information such as your IP (Internet Protocol) address, details of the pages you visit on https://www.bdo.com.pa, other pages you visit on the web and the browser you used to view https://www.bdo.com.pa.

This website collects standard Internet log and technical data to measure and improve the effectiveness of this website, to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer this website, to see where website traffic is coming from and to identify our users. We may also collect other information through https://www.bdo.com.pa, such as website activity and usage preferences, also known as demographic or profile data. In this regard, we may use "cookies" to collect this information. For more information, please see our Cookie Policy here.
 

When do you collect personal information through https://www.bdo.com.pa?

We collect personal information from you in the following circumstances:

  • When you subscribe to any of our insights.

  • When you subscribe to any of our blogs.

  • When you register to attend an event or webinar.

  • When you enter a discussion forum.

  • When you contact us to request more information.

  • When signing up to receive newsletters or communications from our firm.

We collect the minimum amount of information in order to fulfill your request or provide you with a service. We will indicate whether the provision of information is voluntary or mandatory. We usually only request additional information so that we can provide the most appropriate response to your request.
 

How do you use my personal information?

We use your personal information to:

  • Identify you and create a profile for you when you register with us to use our services or to request information from us.
  • Verify your identity when you contact us.
  • Fulfill our contractual obligations to you under BDO's terms and conditions.
  • To provide , improve and personalize our services by analyzing information about your use of the website to understand how users use it so that we can make it more intuitive.
  • To deal with your queries and requests.
  • Comply with the legal obligations to which we are subject and cooperate with the regulatory and enforcement bodies of Law 81 of 26 March 2019.
  • Contact you to send you advertising and offers related to the products and services we offer (unless you have opted out of receiving advertising or we are prevented by law from doing so)
  • Personalize the marketing messages we send you to make them more relevant and interesting by analyzing details of the services and information you are receiving, as well as your transaction history, to make suggestions for other information that may be of interest
  • To exercise our legal rights where necessary, for example, to detect violations of Act 81 of March 26, 2019.

We must have a lawful basis for processing your personal information. In most cases the lawful basis will be one of the following:

  • To provide services to you in accordance with https://www.bdo.com.pa's terms of use.

  • To meet our legitimate interests, for example to understand how you use our services and our website and to help us gain insights to help us develop new services. When we process your personal data to meet our legitimate interests, we put in place robust safeguards to ensure that your privacy is protected and to ensure that our legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. For more information about the balancing test we undertake to process your personal information to meet our legitimate interests, please contact us using the details below.

  • We may obtain your consent to collect and use certain types of personal information where we are required to do so by law (for example, in connection with our direct marketing activities, or our use of cookies and tracking technologies). If we ask for your consent to process your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the details at the end of this Privacy Statement.


Your rights

You have certain rights in relation to your personal information, subject to local law. These include the following rights: to request access to the personal information we may process at https://www.bdo.com.pa, to update or correct your data, to restrict our use of your personal information, to object to our use of your personal information, to receive your personal information in a usable electronic format and transmit it to a third party, or to request that your personal information be deleted from our systems.

You may exercise these rights by sending an email to privacidad@bdo.com.pa. We will treat all such requests in accordance with applicable local law.

If you wish to opt-out of receiving marketing or promotional emails from us in the future, you may let us know by sending an email to marketing@bdo.com.pa indicating the email address you wish to be removed from our mailing list. However, your choice not to receive promotional and marketing email will not prevent us from corresponding with you, by email or otherwise, in connection with your current relationship with us.
 

Will you provide my information to a third party?

We may engage other companies or individuals to handle your inquiry or to manage this website or our business activities (for example, to conduct marketing campaigns, host our databases, provide email and messaging services, and analyze information). We may give those companies access to your personal information in connection with those purposes on our behalf. We may also share your personal information with other member firms of the BDO network (for example, for client insight or service optimization purposes) provided that this is consistent with the basis on which we have collected your personal information.

From time to time, we may disclose personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, government investigation or if required or permitted by law and for compliance with the provisions of Act 81 of March 26, 2019.

We do not provide information to third parties for their own marketing purposes and we do not conduct mailings for third parties.

We may, as a result of a sale, merger, consolidation, change of control, transfer of assets, reorganization or liquidation of our company (a "Reorganization Event"), transfer, sell or assign your personal information to third parties involved in the Reorganization Event.
 

How long do you keep my information?

We will retain your personal information for as long as we have a relationship with you. Once our relationship with you has ended, we will retain your personal information for a period of time to allow us to: maintain our business records for analysis and/or audit purposes; comply with statutory record retention requirements; defend or pursue any legal claims; and address any claims.

We will delete your personal data when it is no longer needed for these purposes. If there is any information that, for technical reasons, we cannot completely remove from our systems, we will put in place appropriate measures to prevent any further processing or use of the data.
 

Is my information secure?

We have implemented generally accepted technological and operational security standards to protect personal information against loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. We require all employees and directors to maintain the confidentiality of personal information and only authorized personnel have access to this information.
 

Updating this Privacy Statement

We may modify or update this Privacy Statement from time to time. You will be able to see when we last updated the Privacy Statement because we will include a revision date. Changes and additions to this Privacy Statement are effective as of the date they are posted.