Privacy Policy
We collect your information in order to fulfill the Terms of Service we have agreed upon with you for the use of our Websites and Service. In addition to monitoring compliance with the Terms of Service, this includes in particular the proper handling of your payment arrangements and to conduct statistical and performance analyses, and to prosecute unauthorized use of our website. The information remains anonymous whenever possible.
We collect and process your information only with your consent or to fulfill the Terms of Service, unless already permitted by applicable law. If you give consent by clicking the “accept” button, displayed at the bottom of our Websites when you access our Websites, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not click the “accept” button, you acknowledge that your access and use of our Websites and Service may be restricted or impossible.
1. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA PRIVACY RIGHTS
By applicable law, it is your right to request from us to correct, update and change, or delete your Personal Information and to release to you your Personal Information. Please review the following, which will allow you to understand which information we are collecting and how you can exercise your rights. If you have any questions relating to this Privacy Policy, please send these to privacy@Taxplow.com (see below for our company contacts and data).
1.1 WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Information means any information or data, which we have collected from you, or received from a third party, by which we can identify you, whether by itself or in conjunction with information in our possession or likely to come into our possession. This can be an identifier, for example your name, an identification number, location data, email address, or other factors of your identity, for example physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social factors.
1.2 NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
Non-Personal Information is any information that is not Personal Information.
1.3 PUBLIC INFORMATION
You may choose to disclose Personal or Non-Personal Information in the course of using our Websites and Service, such as, without limitation creating your own content for our Service, or any communication by you or by other users in our Forums, regarding information that you have freely chosen to disclose to these users. By submitting Public Information with your use of our Websites or Service, you acknowledge and agree that this Public Information becomes part of the public domain.
1.4 DISCLAIMER
Our Website may contain advertising or services which link to other websites such as without limitation Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. The fact that we link to a third party website is not an endorsement, authorization, or representation of our affiliation with that third party website or the operator of that third party website. If you click on a link to a third party site, including on an advertisement, you will leave our Websites and Service. Because we cannot control the activities of third parties, we cannot accept responsibility for any use of your Personal Information by such third parties, and we cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy and security practices as us. Party website that you access from an advertisement contained on our Websites. Both we and the owner or operator of that third party website will be the data controller in respect of any such information.
1.5 HOW WE PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS
The Personal Information that you provide to us directly or indirectly through integrated third party services, such as without limitation when you use your email or social media account to register with our Service, or when you embed or use links and content from third party services in our Service, will be collected and processed by us or by third party data processors appointed by us to undertake processing on our behalf.
Any Personal Information that you provide to us in accordance with this Privacy Policy will be adequately protected by this Privacy Policy. We have implemented physical, electronic and managerial procedures in order to help safeguard and prevent unauthorized access, use, alteration, modification and/or disclosure of your Personal Information. Although we use reasonable efforts to safeguard the security of your Personal Information, transmissions made on or through the internet and Personal Information stored on our servers or the servers of third parties that we use are vulnerable to attack and cannot be guaranteed to be secure. In addition, submissions made via e-mail are not protected by encryption and are vulnerable to interception during transmission.
Any Personal Information that we transfer to and/ or share with third parties is protected by our contract with these third party services, all of which implement the EU model clauses for data protection and, if these third party services are located within a country, state or region outside of the EU, certify adequate compliance with the EU data protection standards, such as, without limitation, the EU-US or EU-Swiss Data Privacy Shield.
Your Personal Information will be stored on servers which may be owned by third parties, that may be located outside of the EU, such as Amazon Web Services, Inc. and Google, Inc. and/or their respective affiliates all of which are for purposes of data protection under contractual control by us.
If you have any questions about security on our Websites, please contact us at privacy@Taxplow.com.
1.6 YOUR RIGHTS
You may correct, update and change, or delete your Personal Information through your Account or request from us to release to you your Personal Information, which is in our possession, by sending an email to privacy@taxplow.com. If you cannot change Personal Information through your Account, you may send your requests to privacy@taxplow.com. For privacy protection reasons, we will require identification before we take any action under this Section if you send a request by email to us.
2. COLLECTING INFORMATION: WHAT, WHEN, AND WHY
2.1 USE OF OUR WEBSITES
When you access and use our Websites, before you register an Account for use of our Service, we may collect the following information:
Local storage, such as cookies and HTML5 storage In order for our Websites to run properly, we may collect information by local storage by ourselves or through third party services. Local storage is stored temporarily or permanently on your internet enabled device or browser and allows us to then retrieve information on your computer or in your browser about your visit to our Websites (e.g. if you are logged in or not or website preferences). We will not store any information collected through local storage on our servers, but may transfer this information to a third party service (see below under Section 2.1 (c)), unless expressly stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy. We may use local storage to deliver content specific to your interest, to monitor website usage, or to simplify your visits to our Websites. This information is mandatory for your use of the Websites and if you disable the collection or decline this Privacy Policy, your use of the Websites will be restricted or impossible.
of such information by changing your browser settings. However, please note that this may affect the functionality of the Websites and your user experience.
2.1 (b) Log files
Like most standard website servers, we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.
2.1 (c) Third-party tools
We may use third party analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, to collect information about use of our Websites. These tools collect information such as how often users visit our Websites, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our Websites. We use this information to improve our Websites and Services. These third party tools may also transfer this information to their servers for further analysis. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners, and opt out by downloading the Google Analytics opt out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
2.2 REGISTRATION
When you register for an Account on our Websites, we may collect the following information:
(a) Personal identification information such as your name, email address, date of birth, gender, physical address, telephone number; (b) Business related information such as your company name, job title, industry, and company size; and (c) Financial information, like your credit card number or bank account information, may be collected when you sign up for a paid service, purchase a product, or engage in transactions on our Websites.
2.3 WHY WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION
We collect this information to:
(a) Provide and improve our Websites and Services; (b) Process your transactions; (c) Verify your identity and prevent fraud; (d) Customize your experience on our Websites and Services; (e) Communicate with you about our Services and promotions; and (f) Comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
3. SHARING AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
3.1 We may share your Personal Information with third parties only in the ways described in this Privacy Policy. We do not sell your Personal Information to third parties.
3.2 We may provide your Personal Information to third-party service providers who work on our behalf or with us to provide some of the services and features of the Websites and to help us communicate with you. Examples of such services include sending email, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing payments (including credit card payments), and providing customer service.
3.3 We may share your Personal Information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may also share your Personal Information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.
3.4 In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other sale of all or a portion of our assets, any user information owned or controlled by us may be one of the assets transferred to third parties. We reserve the right, as part of this type of transaction, to transfer or assign your Personal Information and other information we have collected from users of the Websites to third parties. Other than to the extent ordered by a bankruptcy or other court, or as otherwise agreed to by you, the use and disclosure of all transferred user information will be subject to this Privacy Policy. However, any information you submit or that is collected after this type of transfer may be subject to a new privacy policy adopted by the successor entity.
3.5 We may share aggregated demographic information and user statistics with our partners. This is not linked to any Personal Information that can identify any individual person.
4. SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
4.1 We understand that the security of your Personal Information is important. We provide reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security controls to protect your Personal Information. However, despite our efforts, no security controls are 100% effective and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of your Personal Information.
4.2 You are responsible for protecting the security of your login information, and for any transactions made or actions taken on your account. Please notify us immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account.
5. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
5.1 You have the right to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your Personal Information.
5.2 You have the right to object to processing of your Personal Information, ask us to restrict processing of your Personal Information, or request portability of your Personal Information.
5.3 If we have collected and process your Personal Information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your Personal Information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
5.4 You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your Personal Information.
6. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Our Websites and Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13 without obtaining parental consent. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information of a child under the age 13 without parental consent, we will take steps to delete such information from our files as soon as possible.
7. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy on our Websites, and any other places we deem appropriate, so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
8. CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data handling practices, please contact us at:
privacy@taxplow.com.
Effective date: January 1, 2024
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