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This privacy policy indicates that your personal information, including sensitive tax data, may be transferred during business transitions (risk_flags-1) and that your data will be retained for up to eight years (risk_flags-2). Files uploaded to 'My Tax Files' are retained for two years. Your browsing activity may be shared for cross-context behavioral advertising (data_use-1), and customer review data you provide may be shared publicly for marketing (data_use-2).
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Personal information may be transferred during business transitions.
User personal information may be transferred as part of the assets in the event of a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy.
Why it matters: Your personal information, including sensitive tax data, may be transferred to another company if TaxHawk undergoes a merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy.
In the event TaxHawk evaluates or conducts a business transition whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, the personal information of users will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.
Data security, paragraph 1 · Citation strength: strong
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Data retained for up to eight years.
All data collected will be retained for a maximum of eight years from October 31st of the IRS tax filing year, plus a short administrative period for deletion.
Why it matters: Your tax return data and associated personal information may be stored for up to eight years after the tax filing year.
All data collected by us will be retained for a maximum period of eight (8) years calculated from October 31st of the IRS tax filing year in which the return is due, plus a short administrative period for scheduled deletion (the "Deletion Date").
Data retention policy, paragraph 1 · Citation strength: strong
Data Use
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How your data is collected, processed, and shared with others.
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Browsing activity is shared for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Information about your browsing activity may be considered "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising under some state privacy laws, even though tax return information is not involved.
Why it matters: Your browsing activity may be shared with advertising partners for personalized ads on other websites.
Under some state privacy laws, providing information about your browsing activity to our advertising partners so they can show you ads on other websites may be considered "sharing" your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, even though no tax return information or personally identifiable financial information is involved and no money changes hands.
Customer review data may be shared publicly for marketing.
If you choose to provide a review, it and some details you provide may be shared with the public for marketing use on the website.
Why it matters: Your customer reviews and associated details might be published publicly on the website for marketing purposes.
If you choose to provide a review, you consent to its publication. We may use AI to assist in categorizing and analyzing customer review data. We take steps to exclude sensitive information from this analysis. The review and some details provided by you may be shared with the public for marketing use on our website.
Data storage, paragraph 1 · Citation strength: strong
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Protections
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User control over optional communications.
You can specify whether or not you wish to receive optional communications, such as promotional material, when creating your account, by editing your user profile, or by unsubscribing.
Why it helps: You have control over receiving promotional emails, allowing you to manage unwanted communications.
These are considered optional communications and you, as the recipient, can specify whether or not you wish to receive this type of communication. This can be done while creating your account, by using the Edit User Profile portion of the application after signing in, by clicking on the "Unsubscribe" link in the footer of every optional email or by following the instructions found at the following link: https://www..com/unsubscribe .
What Data We Use, paragraph 2 · Citation strength: strong
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Right to access, amend, or delete personal information.
You have the right to amend or update inaccurate or incomplete personal information, request deletion of your personal information, or request that TaxHawk no longer use it.
Why it helps: This gives you control over your personal data, allowing you to correct inaccuracies or request its removal.
You also have the right to amend or update inaccurate or incomplete personal information, request deletion of your personal information, or request that we no longer use it.
What Data We Use, paragraph 2 · Citation strength: strong
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