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Terms of Service

Terms and Conditions

By using Tax.com, you agree to abide by the conditions of this User Agreement. Please read this Agreement before use. If you do not agree to these conditions, please exit this Service.

TAX.COM SERVICE USER AGREEMENT

1. General Rules and Definitions

1.1 Welcome to Tax.com, an Internet Service of Tax Analysts (“TA”, “Service” or “we”). By using this Service, you agree to be bound by all of the terms of this User Agreement and Privacy Policy (the “User Agreement”). “User” means each person who visits any portion of Tax.com or establishes or accesses a connection for access to and use of Tax.com. “Content” refers to any ideas, suggestions, text, designs, items, images, designs, illustrations, icons, logos, videos, information, or any other type of content placed on the site by anyone.

1.2 We reserve the right to change the terms of this User Agreement or to modify any features of this Service, and you agree to be bound by such changes. Any changes to this User Agreement will be indicated with a notation that the Agreement has been revised, and shall become a part of this User Agreement and apply as soon as they are posted. The most current version of the User Agreement can be viewed at any time on this Service. It is your responsibility to review this User Agreement prior to each use of the Service and your subsequent use constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and policies. Any use of Tax.com by User after such notice shall be deemed to constitute acceptance by User of such changes, modifications, or additions. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features or functionality (including, without limitation, video and related projects) that augment or enhance the Service, shall be subject to this User Agreement.

1.3 TA reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that TA shall not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.

1.4 Minors using this Service must be supervised by a parent or legal guardian, and the parent or guardian must agree on their behalf, and on behalf of the minor, to these Terms. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to post to the Service. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to post or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address. If you become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, please provide notice to us at privacy@tax.com.

2. Tax.com Content

2.1 The contents of Tax.com are intended for your personal, noncommercial use. You shall not, for example, without the express approval of TA, distribute or otherwise publish any Service material containing any solicitation of funds, advertising, or solicitation for goods or services.

This Service (including, without limitation, text, photographs, graphics, video and audio content) is protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under the copyright laws of the United States and other countries, and TA (subject to the rights of its licensors and licensees under applicable agreements, understandings and arrangements) has rights therein. All individual articles, videos, content and other elements comprising this Service are also copyrighted works, and TA (subject to the rights of its licensors and licensees under applicable agreements, understandings and arrangements) has rights therein. TA makes no claim to U.S. government works.

2.2 Use of Content on Tax.com Created by TA

Subject to the restrictions below, you may copy, reproduce, transmit, distribute, display and perform any part of this Service created by TA or Tax.com. You may not alter, edit, adapt, or create derivative works of any part of this Service without prior written approval from TA. Your use of the Content on Tax.com is subject to the following restrictions: (i) such use must be for a personal, non-commercial purpose only and not, for example, for resale, (ii) You are not providing a product or service similar to or competitive with TA or Tax.com (i.e. creating and publishing tax and/or financial reporting, commentary, education, and analysis), (iii) full attribution of source is included, and (iv) any copied Content from Tax.com remains subject to these restrictions and You agree to conspicuously display them alongside any Content from the Service. Full attribution must include the following information which shall be placed by You in a prominent location alongside the Content: "(C) Tax Analysts 2009 (or other appropriate year of publication). All Rights Reserved." In addition, these files may not be archived to construct any kind of database.

2.3 Use of Content on Tax.com Created by Third Parties

Tax.com may contain content licensed to it by third parties which may be governed by different usage restrictions than those found in Section 2.2 (above). You agree to comply with any such restrictions, which can be found at the bottom of the Tax.com webpage hosting the third party content.

2.4 The Content of the Service is owned or licensed by Tax.com. Certain content may be furnished by third parties, and neither TA nor the third parties shall be liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in any such Content, or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof, or for any damages arising therefrom.

2.5 The Service shall be used only in a personal, noncommercial manner.

3. User-Generated Content

3.1 You shall be solely responsible for your own submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them.

3.2 In connection with each of your submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that:

(i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize TA to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all such submissions to enable inclusion and use of such submissions in the manner contemplated by TA and this User Agreement; and

(ii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in such submissions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of such submissions in the manner contemplated by TA and this User Agreement.

3.3 In furtherance of the foregoing, you agree that you will not:

(i) submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have written permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant TA all of the rights granted herein;

(ii) publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage TA or any third party;

(iii) submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate;

(iv) post irrelevant, meaningless, or repetitive messages;

(v) post advertisements, spam, or solicitations of business;

(vi) impersonate any other person or entity, provide false or misleading identification or address information;

(vii) engage in any conduct that, in TA's sole discretion, restricts or inhibits any other User from using or enjoying Tax.com; or

(viii) use Tax.com to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, including, but not limited to, the solicitation of users to become subscribers of other on-line information services competitive with Tax.com or TA.

If a User submits comments that violate any of the above terms, this is grounds, in TA’s sole discretion, for immediate and permanent suspension of access to all or part of the Service.

3.4 You acknowledge that any submissions you make to the Service (i.e., user-generated content including but not limited to, comments, text, video, audio and photographs) may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, performed and displayed by TA, and you waive any rights you may have in having the material altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you. TA reserves the right to remove or not publish submissions without prior notice.

3.5 You agree that TA will not provide compensation for, agree to consider, or agree in advance to keep confidential, any creative ideas, suggestions, text, designs, items, images, designs, illustrations, icons, logos, information or any other type of content placed on the site by any User.

3.6 You are solely responsible for the content of your Submissions. TA does not and cannot review every Submission and is not responsible for the content of these messages. That said, TA shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of Tax.com to determine compliance with this User Agreement and any operating rules established by TA and to satisfy any law, regulation, or authorized government request. TA reserves the right to delete, move, or edit Submissions that it, in its sole discretion, deems abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright or trademark laws, or otherwise unacceptable.

3.7 Tax.com is a distributor (and not a publisher) of content supplied by third parties and Users. Accordingly, TA has no more editorial control over such content than does a public library, bookstore, or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers or any Users of Tax.com, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of TA. Neither TA nor any third-party provider of information guarantees the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content, nor its merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. (Refer to Section 6 for the complete provisions governing limitation of liabilities and disclaimers of warranty.)

3.8 In many instances, the content available through Tax.com represents the opinions and judgments of the respective information provider or other Users. TA neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on Tax.com. Under no circumstances will TA be liable for any loss or damage caused by a User's reliance on information obtained through Tax.com. It is the responsibility of Users to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content available through Tax.com. Please seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific information, opinion, advice or other content.

3.9 You grant TA a perpetual, nonexclusive, world-wide, royalty free, sub-licensable license to any User-generated content, which includes without limitation the right for Tax.com, TA, or any third party TA designates, to use, copy, transmit, excerpt, publish, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of, host, index, cache, tag, encode, modify and adapt (including without limitation the right to adapt to streaming, downloading, broadcast, mobile, digital, thumbnail, scanning or other technologies) in any form or media now known or hereinafter developed, any content posted by you on or to Tax.com (or a successor site), including any content posted on Tax.com through a third party.

4. Copyrights and Copyright Agent

A. Notice

If you are a copyright owner or agent thereof and believe that any User Submission or other content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit notice, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)) to our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing: (i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (iii) the URL of the location containing the material that you claim is infringing; (iv) your address, telephone number, and email address; (v) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (vi) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Our designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is:

By mail: Tax Analysts, Attn: Elliott Alderman, General Counsel, 400 S. Maple Avenue, Suite 400, Falls Church, VA 22046.
By phone: (703) 533-4400
By fax: (703) 533-4629
By email: copyrightagent@tax.com

This contact information is only for suspected copyright infringement. Contact information for other matters is provided elsewhere on this site. Any personal information you provide in your email will be used only for purposes related to your email. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section, your DMCA notice may not be valid.

B. Counter-Notice

If you believe that your User Submission that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the content in your User Submission, you may send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Copyright Agent: (i) your physical or electronic signature; (ii) identification of the content that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the content appeared before it was removed or disabled; (iii) a statement that you have a good faith belief that the content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the content; and (iv) your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia, and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.

If a counter-notice is received by the Copyright Agent, TA may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that it may replace the removed content or cease disabling it in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the content provider, member or User, the removed content may be replaced, or access to it restored, in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, at TA's sole discretion.

5. Links and the Use of Tax.com Content and Links on Other Sites

Tax.com contains links to other related websites, resources, and Service sponsors. Since Tax.com is not responsible for the availability of these outside resources, or their contents, you should direct any concerns regarding any external link to the site administrator or webmaster of such site.

Any third party trademarks and trade names mentioned in the Service are the property of their respective owners. We have no affiliation with these companies and do not endorse their websites or links.

We are not responsible for the availability or content of other services that may be linked to this Service. Because we have no control over such services, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such external services, and that we do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, accuracy, quality, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such services. You further acknowledge and agree that TA shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services available on or through such services. In summary, any use of links is at your sole discretion and risk.

You may generally link to Tax.com, except through the process of framing or other distortion or obscuring of TA’s content, branding or other intellectual property information. We reserve the right however, to revoke permission for such links at any time in our sole discretion.

We are concerned about the integrity of our Service when it is viewed in a setting created by a third party that includes advertising or other materials that we have not authorized to be displayed with our Service. Neither you nor any third party shall make use of the contents of the Service in any manner that constitutes an infringement of our rights, including copyright, or that has not been authorized by us in writing.

6. Representations, Warranties, and Indemnifications

6.1 WARRANTY DISCLAIMER. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. THERE MAY BE DELAYS, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS AND INACCURACIES IN THE NEWS, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIALS AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SERVICE. TA AND ITS EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS, SUBCONTRACTORS, CONTRIBUTORS AND THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS (THE "TA RELATED PARTIES") DO NOT WARRANT, GUARANTEE OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING THE SERVICE, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION CONCERNING THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, OR FUNCTIONALITY OF THE SERVICE. TA AND THE TA RELATED PARTIES DO NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR ANY INFORMATION OR GOODS THAT ARE AVAILABLE OR ADVERTISED OR SOLD THROUGH THIS SERVICE. TA AND THE TA RELATED PARTIES DO NOT WARRANT THE SERVICE TO BE FREE OF ANY ERROR OR DEFECT. YOU SPECIFICALLY: (1) ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE SUITABILITY, USE, RESULTS OF USE, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICE; (2) WAIVE ANY CLAIM OF DETRIMENTAL RELIANCE UPON THE SERVICE; AND (3) AGREE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY, THROUGH OTHER SOURCES, THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND CURRENTNESS OF THE SERVICE. IN ADDITION, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE PARTIES SPECIFICALLY WAIVE ANY AND ALL RIGHTS UNDER THE UNIFORM COMPUTER INFORMATION TRANSACTIONS ACT ("UCITA'').

WE DO NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS, NOR DO WE ENDORSE THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS OR RELIABILITY OF ANY ADVICE, OPINION, STATEMENT OR OTHER MATERIAL OR DATABASE DISPLAYED, UPLOADED OR DISTRIBUTED IN THIS SERVICE OR AVAILABLE THROUGH LINKS IN THIS SERVICE. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CORRECT ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THIS SERVICE. ALTHOUGH WE INTEND TO TAKE REASONABLE STEPS TO PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF VIRUSES, WORMS, “TROJAN HORSES” OR OTHER DESTRUCTIVE MATERIALS TO THIS SERVICE, WE DO NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT THIS SERVICE OR MATERIALS THAT MAY BE DOWNLOADED FROM THIS SERVICE DO NOT CONTAIN SUCH DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. SPECIFICALLY, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR HARM ATTRIBUTABLE TO SUCH FEATURES. IF YOU RELY ON THIS SERVICE AND ANY MATERIALS AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SERVICE, YOU DO SO SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

THIS SERVICE MAY CONTAIN VARIOUS COMBINATIONS OF TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS, OPINIONS, STATEMENTS, FACTS, ARTICLES, MARKET DATA, STOCK QUOTES OR OTHER INFORMATION CREATED BY TA OR BY THIRD-PARTIES. DUE TO THE NUMBER OF SOURCES FROM WHICH CONTENT IN THIS SERVICE IS OBTAINED, AND THE INHERENT HAZARDS OF ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION, THERE MAY BE DELAYS, OMISSIONS OR INACCURACIES IN SUCH CONTENT. MOREOVER, SUCH CONTENT, INCLUDING THE MARKET DATA, IS PROVIDED FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY AND MAY NOT BE RELIED UPON AS TAX, INVESTMENT, LEGAL, OR OTHER ADVICE NOR DOES IT ADVOCATE THE PURCHASE OR SALE OF ANY SECURITY OR INVESTMENT. CONSULT YOUR TAX, INVESTMENT, LEGAL, OR OTHER PROVIDER FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE RELATED TO YOUR INDIVIDUAL SITUATION. INFORMATION CREATED BY THIRD PARTIES THAT YOU MAY ACCESS ON THE SERVICE OR THROUGH LINKS IS NOT ADOPTED OR ENDORSED BY TA AND REMAINS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SUCH THIRD PARTIES.

6.2 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY, AND TA’S AND THE TA RELATED PARTIES' ENTIRE LIABILITY, SHALL BE A REFUND OF ANY CHARGE FOR USING OR ADVERTISING ON THE SERVICE. IN NO EVENT SHALL TA AND/OR THE TA RELATED PARTIES HAVE ANY LIABILITY, IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE) ARISING OUT OF ANY INACCURACY OR DEFECT IN THE SERVICE OR YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL TA OR THE TA RELATED PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES.

6.3 Indemnification. For any third party or User submitted Content, You agree to indemnify and hold harmless TA and its affiliates, and their respective members, directors, officers, managers, employees, shareholders, agents, and licensors (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”), from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any violation by you of this Agreement. We reserve the right at our own expense to take over the exclusive defense and control of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification under this Section. In such event, you shall provide us with such cooperation as is reasonably requested by us. You agree to be responsible for any damages assessed due to violation of the Terms by You or others that gain access to the site through your system or to whom you have provided access to site contents. You shall not enter into any settlement agreement which affects the rights of any of the Indemnified Parties or requires the taking of any action by any of them, without TA’s prior written approval.

6.4 Products and Services

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH THIS SERVICE OR SHOWN OR DISCUSSED ON TAX.COM MAY BE SUBJECT TO DISCLAIMERS AND LICENSE TERMS AND TERMS OF USE OR SALE THAT ARE IN ADDITION TO, OR DISTINCT FROM, THESE TERMS. THEREFORE, THE PROVISION AND ACCEPTANCE OF ANY SUCH PRODUCT OR SERVICE SHALL BE SUBJECT TO ANY ADDITIONAL OR DISTINCT TERMS SUPPLIED BY TA OR THE THIRD-PARTY SUPPLIER(S) OF THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.

7. Software License

You shall have no rights to the proprietary software and related documentation, or any enhancements or modifications thereto, provided to you in order to access the Service ("Access Software"). You may not sublicense, assign or transfer any licenses granted by Tax.com, and any attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer shall be deemed void ab initio. You may not otherwise copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the Access Software.

8. Proprietary Rights

You agree that all right, title and interest (including all copyrights, trademarks, service marks and other intellectual property rights) in and to the Service, belong exclusively to TA. You agree that access and use of Tax.com by you does not grant to you any license except as may be expressly set forth in these Terms. All rights not expressly granted to You by these Terms are reserved by TA and Tax.com.

You agree to ensure that all marks, notices or legends pertaining to the origin, identity or ownership of the Service shall remain intact and clearly legible on any copies of authorized copy of the Content.

Subject to Section 2.1, above, TA makes no copyright claim for content that You or another third-party information provider have posted on the Service. TA also makes no copyright claim for U.S. government works.

9. Termination

This Agreement may be terminated by either party for any reason at any time. Without limiting the foregoing, TA shall have the right to immediately terminate User's Access and/or Account in the event of any conduct by User which TA, in its sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in the event of any breach by User of this Agreement. The provisions of Sections 1-3 and 5-14 shall survive termination of this Agreement.

10. Governing Law & Forum

THIS USER AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA AND THE UNITED STATES, EXCLUDING LAWS RELATING TO CONFLICT OF LAWS. YOU IRREVOCABLY AGREE THAT ANY ACTION BY YOU HEREUNDER SHALL BE INITIATED AND MAINTAINED IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS IN VIRGINIA, AND YOU HEREBY SUBMIT TO PERSONAL JURISDICTION IN SUCH FORUM IN ANY ACTION BROUGHT BY TA AND/OR THE TA RELATED PARTIES. ANY ACTION BY YOU RELATING TO THE SERVICE MUST BE INITIATED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION AROSE.

11. Injunctive Relief

You agree that legal remedies alone provide inadequate protection of the Service and intellectual property rights embodied therein, and that in addition to other relief, TA and/or the TA Related Parties may seek temporary or permanent injunctions to enforce their rights, and You hereby waive the requirement of any bond.

12. Severability

Any provision hereof found by a tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be illegal or unenforceable shall be automatically conformed to the minimum requirements of law and all other provisions shall remain in full force and effect. Waiver of any provision hereof in one instance shall not preclude enforcement on future occasions. Headings and subheadings are for purposes of reference and convenience and have no substantive effect.

13. Transferability

You may not transfer, sell, or otherwise assign your rights or obligations under this Agreement. Any such attempt shall be deemed void ab initio.

14. Entire Agreement

This Agreement: (1) constitutes the complete and exclusive agreement among the parties with respect to the Service; and (2) supersedes all other communications, representations, statements and understandings, whether oral or written, among the parties concerning its subject matter.

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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