We value your trust and
confidence and we want to assure you your personal
information is kept completely confidential by us. As
Certified Public Accountants and members of the American
Institute of CPAs, the New Jersey State Society of CPAs,
and the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants we adhere to the highest level of professional ethical
responsibility and obligations to protect the confidentiality
of all client information.
This Privacy Policy is to help
you understand what information we collect about you, the
limited times we may share it with others, and what measures
we take to protect your privacy.
What Personal
Information Do We Collect?
In order to meet your needs in
the course of tax return preparation, tax and financial
planning and tax compliance engagements for you, we collect
various types of personal information about you from the
following sources:
Information we receive from you
in person, by the phone, mail or e-mail, through our
web-site, on tax preparation worksheets, and on other
documents or forms we use in preparing your tax return or
providing other services for you. Such information includes,
for instance, your name, address, social security number,
income, investment and other assets, and other tax and
financial information about you.
Information we receive from
others about your transactions or relationships with them.
Such information includes, for instance, investment, loan or
banking activity, balances or account numbers, legal
agreements and documents, and other information we gather in
the course of providing services to you.
Information we receive from you
when your browser interacts with our web-site. This could
include information transmitted on an internet "cookie," such
as your password to our site, your preferences on the site,
and your Internet service provider's address.
Information we receive from a
consumer reporting agency, such as your credit history and
outstanding loan balances.
Is Personal Information
Shared with Others?
We do not share any personal
information about you with anyone without your express
consent, except as permitted by law and as described
below.
The law permits or requires
disclosures in certain instances, such as if we must share
information to protect against fraud, in response to a court,
subpoena, or as part of actual or threatened legal
proceedings or alternate dispute
resolution.
We may share any information we
collect (except for consumer reporting agency information,
which we do not disclose) to nonaffiliated companies which
perform support services on our behalf (such as tax or data
processing, transmission of electronic returns or data,
records retention and mailing services.) We do not sell or
otherwise disclose our client list or any of your information
to outside companies for their marketing or solicitation
use.
We may also share your
information with other parties who help assure our compliance
with professional accounting standards (such as peer review),
or who conduct due diligence procedures, such as if we
consider a sale or merger of our practice.
How Do We Protect the
Confidentiality and Security of Your Personal
Information?
Keeping your information
confidential and secure is of utmost importance to us. We
follow standard industry practices to actively protect the
confidentiality, security, and integrity of your personal
information. We also maintain physical, electronic and
procedural safeguards to guard your personal information. Our
employees are bound by internal confidentiality policies and
are subject to disciplinary action for any policy violations.
And we take appropriate precautions such as confidentiality
agreements before sharing your information with any outside
parties.
Security
We take reasonable technical
and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or
alteration of your personal information. However, as information
transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, we
cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the
internet.
Conditions of Use and
Your Consent
When you use this site, you
consent to the transmission of personally identifying
information and to its use as described herein. As this website may be
hosted outside your geographic region, any email
communications or communications you send us through this
website may be directed to a server that is not located
within your home country. Regardless of your
geographic location, use of our website and any dispute over
privacy is subject to this Policy and application of the laws
of the state of New Jersey.
Should you become an inactive
client or should our relationship end, we will continue to
protect the confidentiality and security of your personal
information in accordance with this privacy
policy.
Links to Third Party
Websites
For your convenience, this site
may provide hyperlinks to websites and servers maintained by
third parties.
We do not control, evaluate, endorse or guarantee content
found in such sites. We do not assume any
responsibility or liability for the actions, products,
services and content of these sites or the parties that
operate them.
Your use of such sites is entirely at your own
risk.
Our Pledge to
You
As CPAs, our professional
ethical obligations and responsibilities have always demanded
no less than the highest regard and duties for the
confidentiality of your personal information and the security
of your privacy. We will protect your personal information,
use it only as necessary, and perform our engagements so as
to always maintain your trust and confidence to
us.
Thank you for allowing us to be
of service, we truly value our relationship with you. We hope
you view our firm as your most trusted advisor, and we will
work to continue earning that trust. Please call us anytime
you have questions or we may be of further
service.
This is to advise you that this
communication or any information that appears on this website
(a) is not intended or written to be used, and it cannot be
used, by you or any other taxpayer, for the purpose of
avoiding penalties that may be imposed under the internal
revenue code of 1986, as amended, (b) is not to be treated as
a reliance opinion or a covered opinion as defined in section
10.35(b)(4) of 31 CFR part 10, and (c) cannot be used or
referred to by you, or any other person, in promoting,
marketing, or recommending a partnership or any other entity,
investment plan or arrangement, to one or more taxpayers.
Under current regulations of the U.S. Treasury department, we
are permitted to provide written tax advice for one of these
purposes only if certain stringent requirements are complied
with. If you would like us to provide written tax advice for
any or all of these purposes, please
contact
us and we will be pleased to discuss this with
you.
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LLC are intended to provide general guidance and
information only. We made every effort to provide timely and
accurate information; however, errors or omissions may occur.
Tax-chick.com and Ellen Binen-Milbrod CPA LLC will take no
responsibility for any errors, omissions or for the results
obtained from using the information provided.
All information on this web site is provided "as is," with no express or implied warranties.