Privacy Policy

Updated July 19, 2024

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use our Website and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You. We use Your Personal data to provide and improve our websites. By using the Website, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear singular or plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest, or other securities entitled to vote for the election of directors or other managing authority.

Business, for the purpose of CCPA/CPRA, refers to Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants as the legal entity that collects Consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers’ personal information or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information that does business in the State of California.

CCPA and/or CPRA refers to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CPRA”).

Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants (referred to as either “Grimbleby Coleman”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants at 200 W. Roseburg Ave., Modesto, CA 95350.

Consumer, for the purpose of the CCPA/CPRA, means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the U.S.A. for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the U.S.A. who is outside the U.S.A. for a temporary or transitory purpose.

Cookies are small files placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

Country refers to: California, United States

Device means any device that can access the Website, such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.

Do Not Track (D.N.T.) is a concept that has been promoted by U.S. regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (F.T.C.), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. For the purposes of the CCPA/CPRA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.

Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service, or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Website refers to Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants, accessible from grimbleby-coleman.com or gccpas.net

You means the individual accessing or using the Website, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected:

Personal Data

While using Our Website, 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:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Website. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. I.P. address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Website by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device’s unique I.D., the I.P. address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Website or when You access the Website by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

The technologies We use include:

Cookies are small text files stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. When you visit, access, or use our site, we may – by means of cookies, beacons, tags, scripts, and/or similar technologies – automatically collect data. Cookies allow functions, like letting you navigate between web pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and improving your user experience. Most websites, including our site, employ cookies. If you choose not to accept the usage of cookies, it may limit your ability to fully access this site.

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Website. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Website may use Cookies.

Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline. Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

The cookies we use are essential to the proper functioning of the site and cannot be switched off when using our site. These capture and store users’ preferences, account settings, and certain log-in information (mainly for convenience, user verification, and account security). These cookies typically are set in response to actions made by you, such as a request for access to our site, setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.

For additional details about how we use cookies, click here.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Website, including monitoring the usage of our Website.
For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or websites You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Website.
To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted websites, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide You with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, websites, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
To deliver targeted advertising to You: We may use Your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third-party vendors who do so) tailored to Your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Website, products, websites, marketing, and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

With Website Providers: We may share Your personal information with Website Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website, to advertise on third-party websites to You after You visited our Website, for payment processing, to contact You.
For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Website, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Website may see Your name, profile, pictures, and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.
With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Website, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants’ operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to —and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by Your submission of such information, represents Your agreement to that transfer.

Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Deletion of Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account if you have one and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website
Protect the personal safety of Users of the Website or the public
Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data 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 Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

The Website Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about Your activity on Our Website in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Analytics

We may use third-party Website providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website.

Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics website offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google websites. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Hubspot: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed here on their website.

Email Marketing

We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt out of receiving any or all of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us. We may use Email Marketing Website Providers to manage and send emails to You.

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or websites within the Website. In that case, we may use third-party websites for payment processing (e.g., payment processors).

We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors, whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

Bill.com Their privacy policy can be found at https://www.bill.com/privacy
CPA Charge Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.cpacharge.com/terms/privacy/

Behavioral Remarketing

Grimbleby Coleman Advisors & Accountants uses remarketing websites to advertise to You after You access or visit our Website. We and Our third-party vendors use cookies and non-cookie technologies to help Us recognize Your Device and understand how You use our Website so that We can improve our Website to reflect Your interests and serve You advertisements that are likely to be of more interest to You.

These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about Your activity on Our Website in accordance with their Privacy Policies and to enable Us to:

Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on Our Website
Show advertisements for our products and/or websites to You on third-party websites or apps
Measure and analyze the performance of Our advertising campaigns

Some of these third-party vendors may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit You to block such technologies. You can use the following third-party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving You interest-based advertising:

You may opt out of all personalized advertising by enabling privacy features on Your mobile device, such as Limit Ad Tracking (iOS) and Opt Out of Ads Personalization (Android). See Your mobile device Help system for more information.

We may share information, such as hashed email addresses (if available) or other online identifiers collected on Our Website, with these third-party vendors. This allows Our third-party vendors to recognize and deliver You ads across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by these third-party vendors and their cross-device capabilities, please refer to the Privacy Policy of each vendor listed below.

The third-party vendors We use are:

Google Ads (AdWords): Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing website is provided by Google Inc. You can opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads.

Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Facebook: Facebook remarketing website is provided by Facebook Inc. You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/516147308587266.

To opt out from Facebook’s interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217. Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the U.S.A. http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

LinkedIn: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Facebook Insights: We use the Facebook Insights function in order to obtain anonymized statistical data about Our users. For this purpose, Facebook places a Cookie on the device of the User visiting Our Facebook Fan Page. Each Cookie contains a unique identifier code and remains active for a period of two years, except when it is deleted before the end of this period.

Facebook receives, records, and processes the information stored in the Cookie, especially when the User visits the Facebook websites, websites that are provided by other members of the Facebook Fan Page, and websites by other companies that use Facebook websites.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook Privacy Policy here: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

CCPA/CPRA Privacy Notice

This privacy notice section for California residents supplements the information contained in Our Privacy Policy, and it applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.

Under CCPA/CPRA, personal information does not include:

Publicly available information from government records
Deidentified or aggregated consumer information
Information excluded from the CCPA/CPRA’s scope, such as:
Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data
Personal Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994

Sources of Personal Information

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

Directly from You. For example, from the forms You complete on our Website, preferences You express or provide through our Website, or from Your purchases on our Website.
Indirectly from You. For example, from observing Your activity on our Website.
Automatically from You. For example, through cookies, We or our Website Providers set on Your Device as You navigate through our Website.
From Website Providers. For example, third-party vendors to monitor and analyze the use of our Website, third-party vendors to deliver targeted advertising to You, third-party vendors for payment processing, or other third-party vendors that We use to provide the Website to You.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose personal information We collect for “business purposes” or “commercial purposes” (as defined under the CCPA/CPRA), which may include the following examples:

To operate our Website and provide You with Our Website.
To provide You with support and to respond to Your inquiries, including to investigate and address Your concerns and monitor and improve our Website.
To fulfill or meet the reason You provided the information. For example, if You share Your contact information to ask a question about our Website, We will use that personal information to respond to Your inquiry. If You provide Your personal information to purchase a product or website, We will use that information to process Your payment and facilitate delivery.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
As described to You when collecting Your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA/CPRA.
For internal administrative and auditing purposes.
To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including, when necessary, to prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Other one-time uses.

Please note that the examples provided above are illustrative and not intended to be exhaustive. For more details on how we use this information, please refer to the “Use of Your Personal Data” section.

If We decide to collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information We collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes, We will update this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may use or disclose and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes:

Category A: Identifiers
Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)
Category D: Commercial information
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity

Please note that the categories listed above are those defined in the CCPA/CPRA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were, in fact, disclosed, but reflects our good faith belief, to the best of our knowledge, that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been disclosed.

When We disclose personal information for a business purpose or a commercial purpose, We enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

Sharing of Personal Information

We may share, and have shared in the last twelve (12) months, Your personal information identified in the above categories with the following categories of third parties:

Website Providers
Payment processors
Our affiliates
Our business partners
Third-party vendors to whom You or Your agents authorize Us to disclose Your personal information in connection with products or websites We provide to You

Sale of Personal Information

As defined in the CCPA/CPRA, “sell” and “sale” mean selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer’s personal information by the Business to a third party for valuable consideration. This means that We may have received some kind of benefit in return for sharing personal information, but not necessarily a monetary benefit.

We do not sell personal information as the term sell is commonly understood.

We do allow Website Providers to use Your personal information for the business purposes described in Our Privacy Policy for activities such as advertising, marketing, and analytics, and these may be deemed a sale under CCPA/CPRA.

Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under 16 Years of Age

We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under the age of 16 through our Website, although certain third-party websites that we link to may do so. These third-party websites have their own terms of use and privacy policies, and We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and instruct their children never to provide information on other websites without their permission.

We do not sell the personal information of Consumers We actually know are less than 16 years of age unless We receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt-in”) from either the Consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age or the parent or guardian of a Consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt into the sale of personal information may opt out of future sales at any time. To exercise the right to opt out, You (or Your authorized representative) may submit a request to Us by contacting Us.

If You have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 (or 16) has provided Us with personal information, please contact Us with sufficient detail to enable Us to delete that information.

Your Rights under the CCPA/CPRA

The CCPA/CPRA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:

The right to notice. You have the right to be notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
The right to know/access. Under CCPA/CPRA, You have the right to request that We disclose information to You about Our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes and sharing of personal information. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will disclose to You:
The categories of personal information We collected about You
The categories of sources for the personal information We collected about You
Our business or commercial purposes for collecting or selling that personal information
The categories of third parties with whom We share that personal information
The specific pieces of personal information We collected about You
If we sell Your personal information or disclose Your personal information for a business purpose, We will disclose to You:
The categories of personal information categories sold
The categories of personal information categories disclosed
The right to say no to the sale or sharing of Personal Data (opt-out). You have the right to direct Us not to sell Your personal information. To submit an opt-out request, please see the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section or contact Us.
The right to correct Personal Data. You have the right to correct or rectify any any inaccurate personal information about You that We collected. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct (and direct our Website Providers to correct) Your personal information unless an exception applies.
The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive Personal Data. You have the right to request to limit the use or disclosure of certain sensitive personal information We collected about You unless an exception applies. To submit, please see the “Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information” section or contact Us.
The right to delete Personal Data. You have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data under certain circumstances, subject to certain exceptions. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will delete (and direct Our Website Providers to delete) Your personal information from our records unless an exception applies. We may deny Your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for Us or Our Website Providers to:
Complete the transaction for which We collected the personal information, provide a good or website that You requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with You, or otherwise perform our contract with You.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement if You previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on Your relationship with Us.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which You provided it.
The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your Consumer’s rights, including by:
Denying goods or websites to You
Charging different prices or rates for goods or websites, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties
Providing a different level or quality of goods or websites to You
Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or websites or a different level or quality of goods or websites

Exercising Your CCPA/CPRA Data Protection Rights

Please see the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section and “Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information” section for more information on how to opt-out and limit the use of sensitive information collected.

Additionally, in order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA/CPRA, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us:

By email: contactus@gccpas.net

Only You or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that You authorize to act on Your behalf may make a verifiable request related to Your personal information.

Your request to Us must:

Provide sufficient information that allows Us to reasonably verify You are the person about whom We collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe Your request with sufficient detail that allows Us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to Your request or provide You with the required information if We cannot:

Verify Your identity or authority to make the request
And confirm that the personal information relates to You

We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.

Any disclosures We provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request’s receipt.

For data portability requests, We will select a format to provide Your personal information that is readily usable and should allow You to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

We do not sell personal information as the term is commonly understood. However, we do allow Website Providers to use your personal information for the business purposes described in Our Privacy Policy, such as advertising, marketing, and analytics, which may be deemed a sale under CCPA/CPRA.

You have the right to opt out of the sale of Your personal information. Once We receive and confirm a verifiable consumer request from You, we will stop selling Your personal information. To exercise Your right to opt-out, please contact Us.

The Website Providers we partner with (for example, our analytics or advertising partners) may use technology on the Website that sells personal information as defined by the CCPA/CPRA law. If you wish to opt out of the use of Your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA/CPRA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.

Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser You use. You may need to opt out of every browser that You use.

Mobile Devices

Your mobile device may give You the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps You use in order to serve You ads that are targeted to Your interests:

“Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” on Android devices
“Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS devices

You can also stop the collection of location information from Your mobile device by changing the preferences on Your mobile device.

Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information

If You are a California resident, You have the right to limit the use and disclosure of Your sensitive personal information to that use which is necessary to perform the websites or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average Consumer who requests such websites or goods.

We collect, use, and disclose sensitive personal information in ways that are necessary to provide the Website. For more information on how We use Your personal information, please see the “Use of Your Personal Data” section or contact us.

“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

Our Website does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

However, some third-party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable D.N.T. by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.

Your California Privacy Rights (California’s Shine the Light law)

Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties direct marketing purposes.

If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below.

California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581): California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, websites, or applications to request and obtain the removal of content or information they have publicly posted.

To request the removal of such data, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below and include the email address associated with Your account. Be aware that Your request does not guarantee the complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

Children’s Privacy

Our Website does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or websites.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Website prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us by email: contactus@gccpas.net, or by phone at 209-527-4220 during regular business hours (Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm.