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Tax.com Privacy Policy

At Tax.com we appreciate your readership and value your personal privacy. We respect the personal nature of the information you provide us on our web site and acknowledge the importance of protecting this information. In adopting this Privacy Policy (“Policy”), our intent is to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using your personal information with your reasonable expectations of privacy. We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time and without notice, but we will post any new policy here. We encourage you to check back often to ensure that you are familiar with the most recent version and the terms of our policy. By using or navigating Tax.com, you acknowledge that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by this Policy or any modified or substituted policy as posted, and agree to the collection of your Personal Information as described herein. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy, please contact us at privacy@tax.com. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use or visit Tax.com.

When does Tax.com collect my personal information?

You may provide personal information to Tax.com in several ways, such as by sharing personal information when you post comments on our posts or stories. We may also ask for other information at other times but at no time will you be required to share any personal information to gain access to Tax.com.

In addition to personal information that You choose to voluntarily share when You post comments, we also collect information that is in no way personally identifiable (“non-personally identifiable information”). This may include the operating system you are working on, the type of internet browser you are using, the domain name of your internet service provider, internet protocol (IP) addresses, date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, and track users’ movements around the site.

How does Tax.com use my personal and non-personal information?

The more we know about you, the better we are able to customize our web site to suit your personal preferences and interests. The e-mail address you may voluntarily provide may be used by Tax.com for any reason, such as contacting you for editorial purposes or to advise you of any changes to our site. We also reserve the right to send you offers and information about Tax.com, TA, and its affiliates. However, if you no longer wish to receive the foregoing, please send an email to privacy@tax.com to request removal from this list.

To maintain a site that is free of charge and does not require registration, we display advertisements on our web site. In particular, we use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We also use the information you give us to help our advertisers target the audience they want to reach. At no time does any party other than TA have access to your personally identifiable information, and you will not be contacted by any party other than TA. The only exceptions to the foregoing are that we may disclose personally identifiable information (i) in response to legal process; for example, in response to a court order or subpoena, (ii) in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take actions regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of another person, violations of our terms of service, or as otherwise required by law, or (iii) in the event we are acquired by or merged with another company.

When you sign up for our updates or other features from Tax.com, you will be given the chance to opt-out of special offers and site updates. You may change your preferences at any time and will only be contacted in manners consistent with your stated preferences.

Non-personally identifiable information (such as stated above) may be shared in aggregate form with Google Analytics, our advertisers, and/or marketing partners but your personally identifiable information will not be disclosed to them. Please note that any information you disclose voluntarily on our comments pages or in any forums we may develop in the future becomes public information so please exercise caution before submitting any personally identifiable information in comments or other submissions.

Cookies

Information about your visit to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), may be used for various purposes, including to serve ads to you on this site.

And, in the course of serving advertisements to this site, TA or third party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. Like most web sites and search engines, Tax.com uses cookies in order to provide services and advertising to our users, and to improve the user experience. Cookies record users’ preferences. Most users don’t want to re-set their computers every time they log on. Users who do not want to receive cookies can set their browsers to notify them when cookies are sent, refuse cookies from certain web sites, refuse cookies altogether, or delete cookies from their browser. Tax.com works without cookies, though a user may lose some functionality if they disable cookies.

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on Tax.com. Our advertising partners include Google AdSense.

In addition to cookies that are placed by Tax.com or other advertisers, Google, as a third-party vendor, uses its own cookies to serve ads on Tax.com. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to You based on Your visits to third party sites. The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher's website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. You can view, edit, and manage your ads preferences associated with this cookie by accessing the Ads Preferences Manager at http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.

We have also contracted with Google Analytics to monitor certain pages of our website and RSS feeds for the purpose of reporting website and RSS traffic, statistics, advertisement ‘click-throughs’, and/or other activities on our website. Where authorized by us and pursuant to Google’s policies, Google may use cookies, web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous statistics about our website visitors. No personally identifiable information is collected by or transferred to these network partners. For more information about how the information is collected and used, please see the following:

Google Analytic’s policies at http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html and http://www.google.com/privacy.html.

In addition, we have contracted with AddThis Analytics to monitor how users share content on Tax.com via the Share button located on the bottom of many articles on this Site for the purpose of reporting what articles are shared, which sharing services are most popular, and/or other activities on our website. Where authorized by us and pursuant to AddThis’ policies, AddThis may use cookies, web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous statistics about our website visitors. No personally identifiable information is collected by or transferred to any third parties without your consent or unless required to do so by law. For more information about how the information is collected and used, please see the following:

AddThis Analytic’s policies at http://www.addthis.com/tos and http://www.addthis.com/privacy.

Third parties and web sites that have links on our site may also collect or use information about you. The information practices of other companies or people that Tax.com does not employ or manage are not covered by this privacy statement.

We do not control nor are we responsible for the privacy policies of our advertisers, sponsors, or other sites or businesses to which we may provide hyperlinks or access. You are encouraged to visit the sites of these businesses to review their privacy policies.

Is there anything else I should know about my privacy and Tax.com?

Any information you disclose voluntarily on our comments pages or in any forums we may develop in the future becomes public information. We cannot control the actions of our site users and advise you to use your discretion in sharing information about yourself on the internet. All information sharing is optional and done so at your own risk. Privacy is a very personal matter and we encourage you to be careful and responsible when disclosing personal information online.

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