Penalty of Perjury Statement
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this
notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make
about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy
to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where
personally identifiable information may be requested. “Personally Identifiable
Information” is information that can be used to identify you such as your name
or email address.
1040Now is a Licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent
organization whose mission is to build users trust and confidence in the
internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This Privacy
Statement covers the Site www.1040now.com . Because 1040Now wants to
demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its
information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by
TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Statement, you should first
contact us at privacy@1040now.com. If
you don’t receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry hasn’t been
satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at
http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php . TRUSTe will
then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
The Information We Collect:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on
www.1040now.com. We collect the information in connection with processing our
clients’ requests for tax preparation or tax-related products or services. The
types of personal information collected at these pages include name, date of
birth, and social security number of taxpayer, spouse and dependents personally
identifiable information such as their social security number considered third
party personally identifiable information; physical address; email address;
phone number; and any other information required to prepare and file federal
and state tax returns such as income, marital status and other information
pertinent to processing your request to complete a tax return on our Site.
The Way We Use Information:
In accordance to your authorization and acceptance of the terms and conditions
of our online tax preparation and/or tax-related service, we use the
information submitted in order to prepare and transmit your federal and/or
state income tax return to the IRS.
Subject to applicable laws, we may disclose the information to our affiliates.
Our affiliates may collaborate with us in providing services that you have
requested, or they may offer tax-related or financial services, such as
mortgages, investment accounts, and banking products.
In the event that 1040Now sells a portion or all of its assets to a third party,
your personally identifiable information could be part of the transferred
assets. In the event of such an occurrence, we shall notify you via a prominent
notice on our Site as well as by email.
We may be legally obligated to disclose information to the government or to
third parties under certain circumstances, such as illegal activity on our
Site. 1040Now reserves the right to disclose your personally identifiable
information to law enforcement or other government officials as applicable by
law or in response to a formal request in a civil action, court order, or
judicial proceeding.
We take precautions to ensure that your personally identifiable information is
only accessible to employees at 1040Now who require access to perform their job
functions in servicing your account, and we do nor sell or rent, or share your
information for commercial purposes.
Testimonials
We post customer testimonials on our Site which may contain personally
identifiable information such as the customers’ City and State. We obtain the
customers consent prior to posting the testimonial on our Site. If a customer
selects to post personally identifiable information to our Site within their
testimonial, it may be used by other users of this Site to send you unsolicited
messages. www.1040Now.com is not responsible for the personally identifiable
information users select to post within their testimonials.
Cookies
This Site does not employ the use of cookies on our Site. A cookie is a file
that a web browser places on a computers hard drive and are used to indicate
whether a user has previously visited a Site. Choices about Cookies: You can
configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you
when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of
your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
Third Party Sites
This Site may contain links to other Websites. 1040Now is not responsible for
the privacy practices or content of these other Sites. We encourage you to read
the privacy policies of these other Sites prior to providing them with your
information. 1040Now or its affiliates may contact the clients using the
contact information provided by the clients for the purpose of notifying the
clients with information regarding new products, services, and/or upcoming
events. If you do not wish to receive such information, click update
your e-mail preferences.
Our Commitment To Data Security:
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure
the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical,
electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information
we collect online that comply with applicable law and federal standards.
Whenever our clients send or submit sensitive information to our computer
server, we employ industry-standard EV Secure Socket Layers (SSL) protocol
which provides data encryption, message integrity, and server authentication to
safeguard such information from loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration.
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with
applicable law and federal standards.
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For
that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those
we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to
attract anyone under 13.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
You can access, change or correct your personally identifiable
information by signing into your account on our Site. In the event that you no
longer require our Services and would like to delete your account on our Site,
please contact us using the information provided below.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy
policies, please contact us:
1040Now, Inc
325 Bainbridge Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
cs@1040now.com
Penalty of Perjury
Statement
Under penalties of perjury,
I (taxpayer) declare that the information I'm about to enter and
accompanying schedules and statement, and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, they are true, correct, and complete. Declaration of preparer (other
than taxpayer) is based on all information of which preparer has any knowledge.