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How We Protect Your Privacy

This website privacy policy tells you how we collect, use, and protect your personal information. By visiting our website (tardytax.com), you accept and agree to the terms and conditions of this website privacy policy. In particular, you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this website privacy policy.

We do not provide services or sell products to children. Our Company Commitment to Children's Privacy. It is our policy to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Therefore we restrict our Web site to persons eighteen years or older.

YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THIS WEB SITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THIS WEB SITE, FALLS WITHIN THE CHILD ONLINE PRIVACY ACT (COPA) AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.

Our website privacy policy is a part of, and subject to, our website’s terms and conditions of use. You may view these terms and conditions on our website.

We use information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

You agree that you will provide to us accurate, current and complete information about yourself. Information that is not accurate may not be subject to privacy protection.

When using our website’s services, you may be asked certain information, such as to provide an e-mail address and creating a password in order to sign in. We also may ask you on certain pages of our website additional information such as name, home and/or business address and/or telephone or cell telephone number. It is also possible that we may ask you your age, gender, preferences, interests, and personal financial information. If you make a purchase, we may ask for your credit card number and expiration date, billing address and two forms of secure ID.

Like most places on the Internet, simply by visiting our website you automatically tell us certain information. This includes basic information such as your IP address, when you visited, the website from where you came prior to visiting us, the website where you go when you leave our website, your computer’s operating system, and the type of web browser that you are using. Our website automatically records this basic information about you.

And like many other websites, we may use cookies. In plain English, this means information that our website’s server transfers to your computer. This information can be used to track your session on our website. Cookies may also be used to customize our website content for you as an individual. If you are using one of the common internet web browsers, you can set up your browser to either let you know when you receive a cookie or to deny cookie access to your computer.

We may also collect any data that you provide us by posting it at our website or by sending to us via email. You can always choose not to provide us with information. However, if you do withhold information, we may deny you access to some or all of our website’s services and features.

Some transactions between you and our website may involve payment by credit card, debit card, checks, money orders, and/or third party online payment services. In such transactions, we will collect information related to the transaction as part of the course of doing business with you, including your billing address, telephone number, and other information related to the transaction.

We use your information to operate our website’s business activities. For example, we may use this data to contact you about changes to our website, new products and services, special offers, resolve disputes, troubleshoot issues, and enforce our website’s terms and conditions.

We may, in our sole discretion, provide information about you to law enforcement or other government officials for purposes of fraud investigations, alleged intellectual property infringement, or any other suspected illegal activity or matters that may expose us to legal liability.

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, and we establish and exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action against illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, and as otherwise required by law.

We may transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company.

We may disclose aggregate data about our website’s visitors to advertisers or other third parties for marketing and promotional purposes.

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to our service that are considered part of your account, such as service announcements, administrative messages, auto responders and our daily newsletter.

Voluntary Customer Surveys: We may periodically conduct both business and individual customer surveys. We encourage our customers to participate in these surveys because they provide us with important information that helps us to improve the types of products and services we offer and how we provide them to you. We reserve the rights to use your survey comments as public testimonial for marketing purposes. Participation in our customer surveys is voluntary.

We may take the information we receive from individuals responding to our Customer Surveys and combine (or aggregate) it with the responses of other customers we may have, to create broader, generic responses to the survey questions (such as gender, age, residence, hobbies, education, employment, industry sector, or other demographic information). We then use the aggregated information to improve the quality of our services to you, and to develop new services and products. This aggregated, non-personally identifying information may be shared with third parties.

We reserve the right to use any part of any response to our surveys or emails to us or chats with us as a public testimonial.

Our Company Partners and Sponsors: Some products and services may be offered to Visitors and Members in conjunction with an affiliate, independent contractor seller or non-affiliated partner. To provide Visitors and Members some of these products and services, the partner may need to collect and maintain personal information.

Additionally, our partners may have advertisements or co-branded Web Pages that are cosponsored by an affiliate, independent contractor seller, or non-affiliated partner.

We may disclose personal information about Visitors or Members, or information regarding your use of the Services or Web sites accessible through our Services, for any reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so, including: credit agencies, collection agencies, merchant database agencies, law enforcement, or to satisfy laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Child Online Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such information; to disclose information that is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Acceptable Use Policy or Terms Of Service, or other user policies; to operate the Services properly; or to protect our company and our Members.

Interest-Based Advertising, Remarketing, and Dynamic Ad Serving

When you visit our website, you may view advertisements posted on the site by Google or other companies. These advertising companies may collect information about you while you are visiting this website and other websites. They may use this data to show you advertisements on this website and elsewhere on the Internet about products and services you might like.

This website does not collect the information or control the content of the advertisements that you will see. You may be able to opt out of such advertising. To find out more about Google privacy policies and its DoubleClick DART cookie used to generate interest-based advertising, go tohttp://www.google.com/privacy/ads/.

This website may use a remarketing tag to advertise online. This means that Google and other third-party vendors may show our ads to you on sites across the Internet. These third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads to you based upon your past visits to our website.

If you would like to opt out of Google’s use of cookies, you can visit the company’s Ad Preferences Manager at https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.

In the alternative, you can opt out of the use of cookies by third-party vendors by going to the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page located athttp://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

Advertisers and partners may also use their own cookies. We do not control use of these cookies and expressly disclaim responsibility for information collected through them.

Our website may use Google’s Dynamic Ad Serving feature. This ad serving feature uses the Teracent cookie. You can opt-out of the Teracent cookie at the Teracent opt-out page located at http://www.teracent.com/about-us/opt-out.

Our website may use DoubleClick’s remarketing pixels. If you would like to opt out of DoubleClick’s use of cookies, you can visit the DoubleClick opt-out page at https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb#display_optout.

In the alternative, you can opt out of use of cookies by third-party vendors by going to the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page located athttp://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

Your use of this website without opting out means that you understand and agree to data collection to provide you with interest-based advertising.

Your access to parts of our website may be protected by a user name and a password. Do not give your password to anyone. If you enter a section of our website that requires a password, you should log out when you leave. As a safety precaution, you should also close out of your web browser completely and re-open it before viewing other parts of the Internet.

Registration: You may be asked to provide certain personal information when you sign up for our Products or Services including name, address, telephone number, billing information (such as a credit card number), and the type of personal computer being used to access our services. The personal information collected from you during the registration process is used to manage your account (such as for billing purposes).

However, in instances where our company and a partner jointly promote our services, we may provide the partner certain personal information, such as the name, address, and username of persons who subscribed to the services as a result of the joint promotion for the sole purpose of allowing us and the partner to assess the results of the promotion.

We may also generate non-identifying and aggregate profiles from personal information you provide during registration (such as the total number, but not the names, of Members). As explained in more detail below, we may use this aggregated and non-identifying information to sell advertisements that appear on the Services.

You have the responsibility to protect your personal information, particularly in the context of use of the Websites, to protect your user name, password and any other confidential access codes. We do not have responsibility for your actions in failing to protect your user name, password or any other confidential access codes.

It is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of what you submit to us. Please be sure to properly sign out to ensure your account is not accessed by accident.

Our Company's Commitment to Data Security: Services and Web sites we sponsor have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. We cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this information.

If you obtain personally identifiable information about another website user, you are not allowed to disclose this information to anyone else without the consent of the user and our consent too.

We hate junk email (spam). Information you obtain from our website about us or other site users cannot be used by you or others to send unsolicited commercial email or to send unsolicited commercial communications via our website’s posting or other communication systems.

You may choose to provide personal information to website visitors or other third parties who are not our suppliers. Please use caution when doing so. The privacy policies and customs of these third parties determine what is done with your information.

We may use auto-responders to communicate with you by email. To protect your privacy, we use a verified opt-in system for such communications and you can always opt-out of such communications using the links contained in each autoresponder message. If you have difficulties opting out, you may contact us by sending an email to privacy@tardytax.com, or sending us mail to the address listed below:

There may be an opportunity in the future where all or part of our business might be sold, including your personal information. Should this opportunity materialize, you will be notified by a notice posted on the appropriate Websites at least 30 days prior to the transfer of the data.

It is possible that in the event of a sale or transfer of any part or all of our assets to a 3rd party, your personal information might also be transferred to a 3rd party, pursuant to an agreement that the 3rd party acquirer agrees to continue this privacy policy or use one that provides reasonably similar protection.

Any questions or concerns about this website privacy policy should be brought to our attention by sending an email to privacy@tardytax.com and providing us with information relating to your concern.

You may also mail your concerns to us at the following address:

If you are a California resident and our customer, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83 permits you to request certain information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To request this information, please send an email to privacy@tardytax.com or write us at the following address:

This website privacy policy was last updated on September 13, 2013.

Revisions to This Policy: Our company reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy, our Terms Of Service agreement, and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner, by updating this posting. Your use of this site after such changes are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of these changes. Please consult this privacy statement prior to every use for any changes.

This document is Copyright © 2008-2015 Law Office of Michael E. Young PLLC, and licensed for use by the owner of this website at tardytax.com. All Rights Reserved.

No portion of this document may be copied or used by anyone other than the licensee without the express written permission of the copyright owner.

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