Tax Time Services Inc. - Website Privacy Policy
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using our Services (as defined below), you acknowledge that you have read, understand and agree to be legally bound by this Privacy Policy and other policies incorporated herein by reference.
This Privacy Policy was last updated and is effective on January 1, 2025.
Tax Time Services Inc. reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, in our sole discretion. We may modify this Privacy Policy by providing notice via one of the following methods: (i) by email to the email account used by you to access our Services, (ii) by updating the 'last updated' date listed above, or (iii) by your acknowledgement as part of your login to our Services. By continuing to use our Services you confirm that you agree to the modified Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the changes to this Privacy Policy, you must immediately stop using our Services and close your account within 30 days of the change.
Our Services and how this Privacy Policy applies
Tax Time Services Inc. offers financial information storage and reporting, bookkeeping, tax preparation and consulting and advisory services, and related communication services to entrepreneurs, businesses and individuals through its online platform, accessible via our website.
This Privacy Policy applies to our Services, and other interactions you may have with Tax Time Services Inc., such as visiting our websites, customer service inquiries, etc. By using our Services or otherwise interacting with Tax Time Services Inc. you agree to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Personal information is any information or data relating to you that may be used to identify you, either directly or indirectly, or to contact you.
Our Services may contain links to other websites, products, or services that we do not own or operate. When using our Services, you may decide to share your data and any related personal information with a third-party service. Any processing of your information by these third parties is governed by their own privacy policies and terms. We recommend you carefully review their privacy policies and terms, as Tax Time Services Inc. is not responsible for such third-party services.
Our Services are not intended for use by children and should only be accessed by individuals who are at least 18 years old and are using our Services for business or individual tax purposes. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information of persons under the age of 18 years old (other than for the purposes of preparing tax returns or providing tax advice), we shall immediately take steps to delete the information as soon as possible. If you learn that a child has provided us with personal information in violation of this Privacy Policy, then you may alert us at support@taxtimeservices.com
What information we collect about you and why
A. Customers
If you are a Customer using Tax Time Services Inc., we collect and use your personal and business information to provide you with our Services. We may collect the following personal and business information when you sign up for Tax Time Services Inc., when you use our Services, or when you otherwise provide us information:
• Information you provide us about you and your business, like your name, company name, email address, and phone number.
• Information of others that we process at your direction, such as the names and contact information of your clients, employees, etc.
• Payment and billing information that you provide us, or our third-party payment processor, such as your credit or debit card number.
• Information about products or services you purchased, obtained, or considered.
• Information about how you access our Services and your account, including information about the device and browser you use, your network connection, your IP address, and details about how you browse and interact with our websites and platform.
• Customer support information (such as questions and issues) and general feedback that you choose to provide.
• Audio information (such as recordings when you call us for customer support or participate in an online meeting via Zoom or Teams).
• Information, such as demographic information, we receive from other third parties, including referral, promotional, and joint marketing partners and business partners who provide complementary services or products to our Services.
• With your authorization we have access to your business bank account information, bank institution information (such as bank name and institution ID), business bank account information (for example, balances and last four digit of the account number), and transaction information (such as amount, vendor name, date, and category).
• Through our Tax service we may collect more specific information you provide us about you and your business, including
o personal characteristics (such as age, date of birth, gender, marital status, nationality)
o government-issued identification (such as your social security number, driver's license number, taxpayer identification number)
o professional and employment information (such as your occupation, employer identification number, corporate-held credit and debit card numbers, employment records and compensation information)
• Copies of government-issued identification about you or your business that you provide to us.
B. Visitors
We collect the following personal information about you when you visit our website or contact us through our website:
• Information about you that you provide us about yourself, like your name, address, email address, and phone number.
• Information about how you access our Services, including information about the device and browser you use, your network connection, your IP address, and details about how you browse through our apps and sites, including search terms you may enter.
• Information about products or services you purchased, obtained, or considered.
• Information you provide us for surveys, contests and events (such as webinars or in-person events), including your contact information, your business name and address, and general information about your organization that you choose to provide, such as annual company revenue, number of employees, and industry.
• Inferences that are drawn from your preferences, characteristics, or behavior while visiting or interacting with our website or our Services.
C. Prospective Customers
In order to offer our Services to prospective Customers who might find our Services useful, we collect personal information, such as names, emails addresses, and phone numbers, from business partners and public sources. We may also collect information about how you access our Services, including information about the device and browser you use, your network connection, your IP address, and details about how you browse and interact with our websites and platform.
How we use your information
We use the personal information we collect from you to provide you with our Services, to fulfill a contractual obligation (for example, to process your subscription payments), to improve our Services or where we need your personal information for a legitimate business interest, including to better understand business trends, such as how our products and services are used, and share these insights with our affiliates and business partners. These legitimate interests include:
• verifying your or your business' identity
• preventing risk and fraud (for example, to detect and protect Tax Time Services Inc. and other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, fraud, theft and other illegal activity, and to audit compliance with Tax Time Services Inc. policies and contractual obligations)
• answering questions or providing other types of support
• providing, securing, debugging and improving our Services and website
• providing reporting and analytics
• testing out features or additional services
• assisting with marketing, advertising, or other communications
• understanding your needs and eligibility for products and services
• personalizing your experience on our Services, such as presenting tailored content
• complying with legal and regulatory requirements
• enforcing our Terms of Use and / or compliance with this Privacy Policy
We may also collect and use your personal information for any other purpose to which you consent.
We only collect the personal information we consider necessary for achieving these purposes.
We may use information that is aggregated or de-identified so that it is no longer reasonably associated with an identified or identifiable natural person for any business purpose.
Your use of others' personal
information
In using our Services, you may provide us with the personal information of others (for example, the names and addresses of your employees), and if you are an employee of one of our Customers, we may receive your personal information from our Customers. In these circumstances, we are only a "service provider" of such information.
As your service provider, we process (collect, use, disclose, etc.) such information as directed by you for the purpose of providing you our Services. For example, we do not use your customers' or employees' information to independently market or advertise to them unless they are also using our Services directly.
You are responsible for the personal information of others that you disclose to us via our Services and for ensuring that your instructions regarding the processing of such information complies with applicable data protection laws.
Your rights over your information
Depending on your use of our Services and where you reside, you may have the right to request access to, correct, amend, delete, or object to certain uses of certain personal information (for example, by unsubscribing from direct marketing emails).
We strive to
provide you with the ability to exercise these rights yourself via our
Services. For example, you can access, update and correct most of your
information from your account settings pages. If you cannot exercise a
particular right via our Services, you can always email our team at
Please also note that there is a difference between the information we decide to collect for our own purposes (for example, your account sign-up information) and the information our Customers direct us to store or process via our Services (for example, names of employees or clients). If you are an individual who wishes to exercise your rights over information that one of our Customers may be storing or processing via our Services for their own purposes, you will need to contact the Customer directly. In this scenario, we are only a service provider acting at their direction, and we cannot decide how to process their information.
Your California privacy
rights
If you are a California resident, you may exercise the following rights with respect to personal information (as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (California Civil Code �� 1798.100 to 1798.199) and its implementing regulations, as amended or superseded from time to time ("CCPA")) that we collect as a business under California law.
A. Right to know and access personal information
You may submit a verifiable request to be informed about the (1) categories of personal information collected, sold, or disclosed by us, (2) purposes for which categories of personal information are collected or sold by us, (3) categories of sources from which we collect personal information, (4) categories of third parties with whom we disclosed or sold personal information, and (5) specific pieces of personal information that we collected about you during the prior twelve months.
B. Right to request deletion of personal information
Subject to certain exceptions, you may submit a verifiable request that we delete the personal information about you that we collected from you.
C. Verification
Requests for access to or deletion of personal Information are subject to our ability to reasonably verify your identity in light of the information requested and pursuant to relevant CCPA requirements, limitations, and regulations. To request access or deletion, you can email us at support@taxtimeservices.com or call us at 1-800-229-5102. To verify your identity based on information previously provided to Tax Time Services Inc., we may request additional information.
D. Right to opt-out of the sale of personal information
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information.
E. Right to equal service and price
You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by a business for the exercise of your CCPA privacy rights, subject to certain limitations.
F. Submit requests
If you are a California resident and would like to exercise your rights under the CCPA, please send your request by email to support@taxtimeservices.com with "Your California Privacy Rights" in the subject field of your email or call us toll-free at 1-800-229-5102.
G. Authorizing an agent
If you are acting as an authorized agent to make a request to know, delete, or opt out on behalf of a California resident, please send an email to support@taxtimeservices.com and attach a written authorization signed by the resident.
H. Do not track
There is no accepted standard on how to respond to Do Not Track signals, and we do not respond to such signals.
When and why we share your information with others
We restrict access to your information to authorized employees and contractors. We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances.
As a Customer, we may share all of the categories of personal information described in the "What information we collect about you and why" section with service providers.
We may also share all of the categories of your personal information described in the "What information we collect about you and why" section with the following categories of third parties for certain other business purposes:
• Other Service Providers, Partners, Contractors or Vendors: for analytics and reporting, marketing and advertising, auditing, communicating with you, managing our customer database, and providing you with professional services.
• Successor Entities: if we merge with or are acquired by another company, are involved in a bankruptcy, or if the ownership or control of all or part of our Services or their assets changes, information about you may be transferred to such entities.
• Law Enforcement, Government Agencies, and Professional Advisors: to prevent or investigate suspected fraud, threats to physical safety, illegal activity, or violations of a contract or our policies, or to comply with a law or regulation, or if we are otherwise legally required to do so, such as in response to a court order or legal process, or to establish, protect, or exercise our legal rights or to defend against legal claims or demands.
We also share certain categories of personal information with third parties to provide personalized online advertising and with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Under the CCPA, some of this information sharing may be broadly considered a "sale" of Personal Information. Except for this type of sharing, we do not sell your Personal Information. We share identifiers (such as name, email address, IP address and online identifiers), commercial information, internet or other electronic network activity information, and inferences drawn from personal information with third parties for these purposes. If you are a California resident, you can opt out of the sale of your personal information as described above.
Where your data resides
Our Services are hosted in the United States and individuals located within the United States are permitted to use our Services. If you circumvent Tax Time Services Inc. measures restricting our Services to the United States and use our Services from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your personal information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. Also, we may transfer your personal information from the United States to other countries or regions in connection with storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests, and operating our Services. By providing any information, including information from or about you or your devices, on or to our Services, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.
Data retention
Tax Time Services Inc. is a United States company, serving US persons and businesses, and as such, we and our third party affiliates may be subject to various legal compliance and reporting obligations that require us to retain your personal information for a specific period of time which may be beyond the time when you stop using our Services.
How we protect your information
We maintain security safeguards to protect your information, which are designed to ensure its confidentiality, integrity and availability. While we strive to protect your information on our Services, we cannot guarantee absolute security of your personal information.
How we use cookies and other tracking technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website and when providing our Services. For more information about how we use these technologies, and an explanation of how you can opt out of certain types of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect updates to our Services, applicable laws, and other factors. We will notify you as outlined above when we materially change the ways in which we use or share personal information previously collected from you through our Services, but we encourage you to stay informed by reviewing this policy periodically.
How you can reach us
If you would like to ask about, make a request relating to, or complain about how we process your personal information, you can contact us by email at support@taxtimeservices.com or by calling us toll-free at 1-800-229-5102.