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Business Risk
Grant Thornton Gibraltar’s Business Risk Services team brings together a group of specialists with an unrivalled depth of industry experience. Our solutions support clients in growing and protecting the inherent value of their businesses with practical risk management systems.
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Consulting
Our solutions focused team guarantees quick turnarounds, and with lower partner to staff ratio than most we can provide bespoke offerings tailored to your unique needs.
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Deal Advisory
Our experienced Deal Advisory team has provided a range of transaction, valuation, deal advisory and restructuring services to clients for the past two decades.
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Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS)
Our team of experts here at Grant Thornton is committed to providing best-in-class solutions to help our clients effectively overcome the hurdles associated with complex regulatory compliance requirements, especially when entering new markets.
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Fintech
Grant Thornton’s cross-functional, dynamic team of specialists can help with your FinTech needs. Whether in supporting existing market participants looking to innovate in products and services, or new entrants seeking to upscale their FinTech businesses within the complex financial services environment, we have the solution for you.
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Forensic Accounting
Organisations may undergo some type of dispute or internal investigation during their lifetime. Our Forensic and Investigation Services team can seek evidence that can make the difference between finding the truth or being left in the dark.
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Insolvency
At Grant Thornton we offer solutions for all insolvency matters. We have a team of experts who deliver innovative and practical solutions and who have assisted a range of organisations and individuals return to prosperity.
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Restructuring
Grant Thornton is a leading provider of insolvency and corporate recovery solutions.
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Risk Advisory
Our Risk Advisory team delivers innovative solutions and strategic insights for the Financial Services sector, addressing disruptive forces, regulatory changes, and emerging trends to enhance risk management and foster competitive advantage.
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Sustainability Advisory
Our Sustainability Advisory team works with clients to accelerate their sustainability journey through innovative and pragmatic solutions.
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Accountancy Services
The Accountancy function is critical to any modern business. Our team of qualified accounting professionals at Grant Thornton Gibraltar can draw on their depth of experience and knowledge to ensure your accounts are expertly prepared to meet with all local and international standards.
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Audit & Assurance
Grant Thornton is bringing a fresh approach to the audit process in Gibraltar by combining leading-edge technologies with a highly qualified team of audit professionals, all of whom are experts in key sectors of Gibraltar’s economy, and particularly in dealing with regulated entities.
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Company Tax
Our highly qualified and experienced team of tax professionals works closely with our clients to gain a deep understanding of their specific needs in order to ensure they are compliant in every aspect of their corporation tax requirements.
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Employment and Payroll Services
Here at Grant Thornton, we can minimise the hassles associated with the HR function for companies in Gibraltar. By taking care of all your company’s Employment, Payroll and associated requirements to the highest standards, you can focus on what you do best with the peace of mind that your local compliance needs are being taken care of by professionals.
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Global mobility Services
Our team of experts here at Grant Thornton provides a full range of professional services and advice to employers. Whether you require assistance in performing employment tax compliance reviews, or your business demands bespoke global mobility strategies tailored to your specific needs, we work closely with employers at every stage of the staff lifecycle thereby ensuring that all decisions are made giving consideration to both compliance and tax efficiency.
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International Tax
In a world where disaggregating a company’s tax and operational presences is increasingly challenging, Grant Thornton’s approach to managing your international tax obligations can add value to your business.
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Personal Tax Advisory
Our team of personal tax advisors have an unrivalled depth of knowledge and expertise in handling all your compliance requirements in a professional manner. Whether you need assistance with your CAT 2 status application as a High Net Worth Individual, or more general day-to-day tax preparation services and advice, we are here to help.
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Private Client
Grant Thornton’s experienced team of specialists can help to steer you successfully through a range of tax-related challenges. Whether you are establishing a business in Gibraltar, moving to or from the jurisdiction, transferring wealth, or need help with residence and domicile issues, we offer advice that can help you minimise the burden that taxes may have upon your personal wealth.
Privacy statement: Gibraltar Privacy Addendum
This Gibraltar Privacy Addendum (“Addendum”) supplements the Grant Thornton Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”).
Grant Thornton respects the rights to privacy established under the Gibraltar GDPR (“General Data Protection Regulation”) and applicable data protection laws has established a data privacy framework designed protect the privacy of individuals whose personal data is processed by Grant Thornton, including those who engage our services and those who view or interact with our website, www.grantthornton.gi.
This privacy statement is intended to inform users of our website and individuals who are resident in Gibraltar about how your information, including personal data (as defined below), will be processed by Grant Thornton and/or on its behalf by its third party service providers.
We will process your personal data when:
- you access or use our sites;
- you, or the organisation with which you are connected, are a potential client of our services; or
- you have engaged with, or subscribed to, our newsletters or other marketing communications or initiatives.
We are required to give you the information in this Addendum, including to inform you about your data protection rights, under the Gibraltar GDPR and applicable data protection laws.
We are committed to protecting your privacy. You should read this Addendum fully to understand the basis upon which we process your personal data, how we use it and to whom it will be disclosed. Additionally, details about our use of personal data in relation to professional engagements are available in our privacy statement: professional engagements.
All capitalised terms have the same meaning given to them in the Privacy Statement or this Addendum. In the event of a conflict between this Addendum and the Privacy Statement, this Addendum will prevail to the extent that you are resident in Gibraltar.
Who is responsible for your personal data?
References to Grant Thornton (including, "we", "us", "our" and "Grant Thornton Group") in this Addendum refer to the following entities, each of whom are part of a global alternative practices structure: Grant Thornton Advisors LLC, Grant Thornton LLP, Grant Thornton Corporate Finance Limited, Grant Thornton Ireland and/or their affiliates and subsidiaries.
Each of these entities are joint controllers and have an arrangement in place to ensure that your data protection rights are protected. For more details about these entities see 'Who we are: joint controllers'.
In some instances, these entities may be independent controllers of your personal data under the Gibraltar GDPR and applicable data protection laws.
If you have any questions about how we use your personal data or to exercise your data protection rights (as set out in this Addendum), please contact the Data Protection Team at dataprivacy@ie.gt.com or provide by hand to Grant Thornton Gibraltar to the attention of the Data Protection Team.
What is personal data?
Under GDPR, the term “personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable living natural person.
It can include information about you that can identify an individual, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors.
How and why do we use your personal data?
Personal data processed about you will vary according to our interactions and relationship with you, including services we offer (and the nature of our engagements).
The table below explains our processing activities, one or more of which may be apply to you. Please note that the personal data listed is non-exhaustive.
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First and last name, email address, mailing address or phone number, and current employer and role/job title (“Contact Information”).
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Contact information
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Contact Information and information confirming your identity and status within a company, (e.g., director / beneficial owner), your responsibilities, identify verification documents, tax information, and/or other information you provide to us.
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For further details please see our privacy statement: professional engagements.
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Contact Information and details about your contact preferences (e.g., areas of interest) and information relating to your subscription to, receipt of or interest in any of our mailing lists or newsletters, or registration to access any of our restricted content.
Publicly available personal data such as name, employer and job title and /or position
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Automatically collected information from your activity on our sites such as browser information, IP address, and browser type.
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Contact Information or other personal data
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Name, contact information, employment history and educational background, details of current immigration status and other information which you volunteer on your curriculum vitae or application
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Note:
When we process Personal Data based on our legitimate interests, we ensure that we consider and balance any potential impact on the rights of data subjects under the Gibraltar GDPR and applicable data protection laws.
We will not use your Personal Data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have appropriate consent or are otherwise required or permitted by law). Grant Thornton acknowledges data subjects’ rights under the Gibraltar GDPR when we process your Personal Data on this basis.
For more information on exercising your data protection rights please see ‘Your Data Protection Rights’.
Data retention
We will only process your personal data for as long as is needed or as permitted based on the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and in accordance with applicable law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
- the nature and length of our ongoing relationship with you and provide you/your organisation services;
- whether there is a legal obligation under applicable laws or a requirement under professional standards to which we are subject; and
- whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as with respect to statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
If you would like to find out more about our retention of your personal data, please contact us by e-mailing dataprivacy@ie.gt.com.
Unsubscribe and consent preferences
When you have consented receive any marketing material from us, we include an unsubscribe button in our communications, so you can opt out of receiving such communications or adjust your marketing consent preferences at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided in our communications or e-mailing us at dataprivacy@ie.gt.com.
Automated decision-making
We do not use profiling or make any decisions based solely on the automated processing of your personal information.
International data transfers
To facilitate our global operations, certain of our services and sites are provided from the United States and other locations.
If you are resident in Gibraltar, we may share, transfer or store personal data outside your country of residence to certain recipients (mainly our affiliates and external service providers) in the United States, India, and other countries which we deem appropriate from time to time.
Where the laws and practices in these countries may not have equivalent data protection and privacy rules to those under the Gibraltar GDPR, we will protect your personal data in accordance with this Addendum and our Privacy Statement.
Where these transfers of personal data occur, we ensure that a transfer mechanism and appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal data:
- For transfers (including, onward transfers) of personal data within the Grant Thornton Group to affiliates in the United States where your personal data is stored within the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and the UK-US Data Privacy Framework (UK and Gibraltar), as operated by the U.S. Department of Commerce. To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”), and to view our certification, please visit dataprivacyframework.gov. Please also visit our dedicated webpage for more information about our participation in the DPF: Data privacy framework.
- For transfers (including, onward transfers) of your personal data within the Grant Thornton Group to affiliates based in other, non-EEA countries we will transfer and process your data in accordance with the Gibraltar GDPR and EU GDPR requirements.
- For transfers (including, onward transfers) of your personal data within the Grant Thornton Group to affiliates based in other, non-EEA countries and where an appropriate data transfer adequacy decision has not been approved by the EU Commission, we rely on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses ("SCCs") or the UK Addendum to the EU SCCs (e.g., India and Bermuda).
- For transfers (including, onward transfers) of personal data to external providers, we rely on the DPF, the EU SCCs, UK Addendum, or adequacy decisions of the European Commission.
If you would like to find out more about any transfers relating to your personal data, please contact us by e-mailing dataprivacy@ie.gt.com.
Your data protection rights
We recognise that you are permitted to exercise a number of data protection rights under the Gibraltar GDPR, which are explained in the table below:
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You have the right to request a copy of the personal data held by us about you and to access the personal data which we hold about you.
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Right to object
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You have a right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data where we process your personal data on the legal basis of pursuing our legitimate interests.
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Right to rectification
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You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data which we hold about you updated or corrected.
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Right to erasure
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In certain circumstances, you may also have your personal data deleted. For example, if you exercise your right to object and we do not have an overriding legitimate interest to continue processing your personal data or if we no longer require your personal data for the purposes as set out in this Addendum.
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Right to restriction of processing
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You have the right to ask us to restrict processing your personal data in certain circumstances, including if you believe that the personal data that we hold about you is inaccurate or if our use of your personal data is unlawful.
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Right to data portability
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You may request us to provide you with your personal data which you have given Grant Thornton in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format where our processing is based on performance of a contract or consent.
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Right to object to automated decision-making, including profiling
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You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning Data Subjects or similarly significantly affects them. Please note that we do not use profiling or make any decisions based solely on the automated processing of your personal data.
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In acknowledgment of data subject rights, we are cognisant of our professional, legal, and regulatory obligations and duties which may result in certain limitations on the extent to which we are required to comply with specific rights requests, subject to restrictions as set out under the Gibraltar GDPR.
If you become aware that information we maintain about you is inaccurate, or if you would like to update or review your information, you may contact us using the contact information below. We will take reasonable steps to permit individuals to correct, amend, or delete information that is demonstrated to be inaccurate.
We may limit or deny access to personal information where providing such access would be unreasonably burdensome or inappropriate under the circumstances. All requests to change personal information will be handled in accordance with applicable legal requirements. If you would like to change your information you should contact us at dataprivacy@ie.gt.com.
How to submit a rights request, complaint or question
To submit a rights request, complaint or question or to have an Authorised Agent submit a rights request, complaint, or question on your behalf where permitted by applicable law, please contact us at dataprivacy@ie.gt.com or submit a request to Data Protection Team, 13-18 City Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland.
We may request that you provide proof of your identity for security reasons and to prevent the unauthorised disclosure or misuse of Personal Data. If, after contacting us, you are still not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority.
Addendum changes
We reserve the right to amend or modify this Addendum from time to time. We will post any revised Addendum on this site, or a similar website that replaces this site.
By continuing to use any of our sites, you acknowledge the terms of this Addendum and the Privacy Statement as of the effective date will apply to information, including personal data, previously collected, or collected in the future as permitted by applicable law.
Who we are: Joint Controllers
References to "Grant Thornton" in this Addendum refer to the brand name under which the Grant Thornton member firms operate the business, provide services to (prospective) clients and/or refers to one or more member firms, as the context requires. The below joint controllers practice as an alternative practice structure:
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Grant Thornton LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to clients.
Address: 171 N. Clark Street, Suite 200, Chicago, IL, 60601, United States.
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Grant Thornton Advisors LLC provides tax and business consulting services to clients.
Address: 171 N. Clark Street, Suite 200, Chicago, IL, 60601, United States.
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Grant Thornton Corporate Finance Limited provides tax and business consulting services to clients.
Address: 13-18 City Quay, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland.
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Grant Thornton Ireland provides audit services to clients.
Address: 13-18 City Quay, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland.
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