Privacy Policy

Legal Information | October 16, 2023

Tax Alchemy (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://www.taxlogicians.com (the “Site”) .

Tax Alchemy is the name of the parent holding company of Tax Logicians. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. We use your Personal Information only for providing a service and improving the Site. Our Site is independent of any party, institution, or interest groups. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

 

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, date of birth, tax reference numbers, phone number, mailing address (“Personal Information”).

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information about the Site. We will not share your data with other third parties, except where necessary to use our services; essentially transmitting data to FinCEN or the IRS through the functions of our website and related application; in such instances we will share your information with FinCEN or the IRS as dictated by your filing. Both FinCEN and the IRS are divisions of the United States Department of Treasury. 

For business purposes such as:

  • To provide the services you request.
  • To manage our sites and services.

We do not sell your personal information to marketing companies

We may share your information:

  •  To protect and defend our firms and enforce our Terms and Conditions).
  • Comply with our statutory and regulatory obligations.

If you do not wish to provide your personal information to us, we may not be able to provide the services you request or tell you about other services that we offer.

If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. 

For a complete list and more details, please check out https://www.taxlogicians.com/gdpr
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The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

We have security measures in place to protect our and our clients’ information (including personal data), which involve detecting, investigating and resolving security threats. Personal data may be processed as part of the security monitoring that we undertake; for example, automated scans to identify harmful emails. We monitor the services provided to clients for quality purposes, which may involve processing personal data stored in the relevant client file. We have policies and procedures in place to monitor the quality of our services and manage risks in relation to client engagements. We collect and hold personal data as part of our client engagement and acceptance procedures. As part of those procedures, we carry out searches using publicly available sources (e.g. the internet and sanctions lists) to identify politically exposed persons and individuals and organisations involving heightened risk. Such searches are used to check there are no issues that would prevent us from working with a particular client (such as sanctions, criminal convictions –including in respect of company directors – or conduct or other reputational issues).

This Privacy Policy is effective as of its creation (October 16, 2023) and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and we encourage you to check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
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You can reach out to us via email, or through one of our social media sites, like LinkedIn. Please note that if you reach out to us, we will store the data you provide us with to answer your requests. This will typically include only your name and email address (or other means by which to contact you), but depending on your specific inquiry we may have to ask for additional information.

Whatever data we collect through this contact, we will not share it with any third party without your express permission.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@logic.tax.

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

By using our Site and our services, you have entered your data willingly and we process your data with the purpose of:

  • Determining service eligibility – are both parties able to enter a contract
  • Contract fulfillment – allowing us to fulfill the service you signed up for
  • Answering your inqueries
  • Sending you additional information and newsletters (see chapter 10).

You may rescind your agreement to all or some of the items above at any point.

Note that withdrawing your consent to all or some of these items may hinder our ability to provide you our services to the point where are unable to fulfill them.

You may also request that we delete your data from our system. Please be aware, once your data has been deleted, we will no longer be able to fulfill our services. To rescind your agreement, please send an email to contact@logic.tax.

We forward your tax-relevant data to the IRS when you e-file your returns through us, as part of the contractual necessity to deliver our service to you. Please check https://www.taxlogicians.com/gdpr for details.

Beyond that, we will only forward your data to legal authorities as dictated by law or if necessary to press legal claims of Tax Alchemy, especially if necessary to press claims regarding contractual obligations.

Finally, we may disclose your data to third parties in the following situations:

  • Third party organisations that provide applications/functionality, data processing or IT services to us
    – We use third parties to support us in providing our services and to help provide, run and manage our internal IT systems in Europe and abroad. We shall take appropriate precautions to maintain confidentiality and to protect data.
  • Third parties that otherwise assist us in providing goods, services or information but also support and make our business development activities more effective.
  • Auditors and other professional advisers
  • Law enforcement or other government and regulatory agencies or other third parties as required by, and in accordance with, applicable laws or regulations

Regarding all data relating to you, you have the right to get a report on it, correct it, have it deleted or amended. You may rescind your agreement to have your data transferred to any third party as well.

According to US law, we have to retain the PDFs of your tax returns filed through us for a period of no shorter than 10 years even if your account has been deleted. All reference to you and your data will be removed, but the filled-out PDF has to be retained.

If you believe that processing your data by us is violating data protection laws or that your data protection claims have been violated in any kind, you may reach out to the appropriate authority. In France, this is the “Commission National de l’Informatique et des Libertés” Particulier | CNIL.

Tax Logicians understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment. Our website is not intentionally designed for or directed at children 16 years of age or younger. It is our practice never knowingly to collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 16.

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, please be aware that you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

This website uses Matomo Analytics. Matomo is an open source web analytics platform. A web analytics platform is used by a website owner in order to measure, collect, analyse and report visitors data for purposes of understanding and optimizing their website. If you would like to see what Matomo looks like, you can access a demo version at: https://demo.matomo.org.

Matomo is used to analyze the behavior of the website visitors to identify potential pitfalls; not found pages, search engine indexing issues, which contents are the most appreciated. Once the data is processed , Matomo is generating reports for website owners to take action, for example changing the layout of the pages, publishing some fresh content, etc.

Matomo is processing the following personal data:

  • Cookies
  • IP address (anonymized)
  • Title of the page being viewed
  • URL of the page being viewed
  • URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page
  • Pages generation time
  • Main Language of the browser

The processing of personal data with Matomo is based on legitimate interests. Processing your personal data such as cookies is helping us identify what is working and what is not on our website. For example, it helps us identify if the way we are communicating is engaging or not and how we can organize the structure of the website better. Our team is benefiting from the processing of your personal data, and they are directly acting on the website. By processing your personal data, you can profit from a website which is getting better and better.

 

Without the data, we would not be able to provide you the service we are currently offering to you. Your data will be used only to improve the user experience on our website and help you find the information you are looking for.

The personal data received through Matomo are sent to us only. The data is hosted in a data center in Germany (as of November 2023) . We are keeping the personal data captured within Matomo for a period of six months.

 

Matomo Analytics is integrated on https://taxlogicians.com.

 

If you have any questions, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@logic.tax

 

As Matomo is processing personal data on legitimate interests, you can exercise the following rights:

  • Right of access: you can ask us at any time to access your personal data.
  • Right to erasure: you can ask us at any time to delete all the personal data we are processing about you.
  • Right to object: you can object to the tracking of your personal data by using the following:
Matomo Analytics Tracker opt-in / opt-out

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

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