Common use of Outsourced Services Clause in Contracts

Outsourced Services. We may involve third party contractors from Australia, Philippines and Vietnam or outsourced service providers in providing various aspects of your accounting work. These services may include: • Accounting file preparation and/or Data entry into our accounting systems • Auditing of accounts (including Self-Managed Super Funds) • Financial Planning and dealing with Financial Institutions • Home Loan, Business Loan and Personal Loan Services • Investment and Insurance Services Acceptance of our services in conjunction with this engagement document indicates your acceptance of the use of outsourced services as described above. Where the outsourced service requires that the disclosure of personal information to an overseas recipient, a consequence of your consent is that we, your accountants, will be required to take reasonable steps to ensure that Australian Privacy Principles are complied with by the overseas recipients of the Personal Information. We use the below cloud computing systems. These systems store files on remote servers operated by third parties, including the use of hosting providers in the United States of America and in Singapore. • Xero (a cloud accounting system) • Xero Practice Manager (a cloud practice management system) • Xero Tax (a cloud tax return preparation system) • BGL Simple Fund (a cloud based super fund accounting and administration system) • Office 365 (a cloud email and calendar system) • Suitefiles, Dropbox and Hubdoc (cloud document management systems) • DocuSign, PDF Nitro, Suitefiles Sign and Adobe Sign (a digital signing systems) • BGL CAS / LightYear Docs / ACSIS (a cloud company record management system) • Change GPS and Go Proposal (a cloud Income Tax planning system) • Odyssey Resources (a cloud outsource SMSF administration) By agreeing to this engagement and accepting these services you acknowledge and agree that your personal information may be stored electronically overseas. We will take all reasonable precautions to ensure that any electronic data that contains your private information is securely stored and that any emails we send are protected and are not able to be intercepted by third parties. However, we cannot be held liable for any loss that you might incur as a consequence of any third party intervention that accesses, procures or copies any data that contains your private information from any medium or device we use to store or transmit this information. In the event that, despite our company having taken reasonable precautions to securely store your private information, you suffer any losses arising from unauthorised cyber-activity, you agree to forever release us from any claim for your losses. This engagement will start when you sign and accept the attached Engagement Letter and if requested make the specified upfront payment as listed in the Engagement Letter.

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Sources: Terms of Engagement

Outsourced Services. We may involve third party contractors from Australia, Philippines and Vietnam or outsourced service providers in providing various aspects of your accounting work. These services may include: • Accounting file preparation and/or Data entry into our accounting systems • Auditing of accounts (including Self-Managed Super Funds) • Financial Planning and dealing with Financial Institutions • Home Loan, Business Loan and Personal Loan Services • Investment and Insurance Services Acceptance of our services in conjunction with this engagement document indicates your acceptance of the use of outsourced services as described above. Where the outsourced service requires that the disclosure of personal information to an overseas recipient, a consequence of your consent is that we, your accountants, will be required to take reasonable steps to ensure that Australian Privacy Principles are complied with by the overseas recipients of the Personal Information. We use the below cloud computing systems. These systems store files on remote servers operated by third parties, including the use of hosting providers in the United States of America and in Singapore. • Xero (a cloud accounting system) • Xero Practice Manager (a cloud practice management system) • Xero Tax (a cloud tax return preparation system) • Class Super and BGL Simple Fund (a cloud based super fund accounting and administration system) • Office 365 (a cloud email and calendar system) • Suitefiles, Box and Dropbox and Hubdoc (cloud document management systems) • DocuSign, PDF Nitro, Suitefiles Sign and Adobe Sign (a digital signing systems) • BGL CAS / LightYear Docs / ACSIS NowInfinity (a cloud company record management system) • Change GPS Docusign and Go Proposal Adobe Sign (a cloud Income Tax planning electronic signature system) • Odyssey Resources (a We will notify you of any change to this list from time to time. By reading this you authorise us to disclose information relating to such external cloud outsource SMSF administration) accounting software. By agreeing to this engagement and accepting these services you acknowledge and agree that your personal information may be stored electronically overseas. We will take all reasonable precautions to ensure that any electronic data that contains your private information is securely stored and that any emails we send are protected and are not able to be intercepted by third parties. However, we cannot be held liable for any loss that you might incur as a consequence of any third party intervention that accesses, procures or copies any data that contains your private information from any medium or device we use to store or transmit this information. In the event that, despite our company having taken reasonable precautions to securely store your private information, you suffer any losses arising from unauthorised cyber-activity, you agree to forever release us from any claim for your losses. This engagement will start when you sign and accept the attached Engagement Letter and if requested make the specified upfront payment as listed in the Engagement Letter.

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Sources: Terms of Engagement