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Privacy Policy

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The U.S. Tax Education Portal ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. Please read this policy carefully.

1. Information We Collect

Information You Voluntarily Provide

When you use our contact form, we collect the name (optional), email address, subject, and message you provide. We do not request, collect, or store any sensitive financial information, including Social Security Numbers, ITIN numbers, income amounts, or any personal tax information.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our site, we may automatically collect certain technical data, including your anonymized IP address, browser type and version, pages viewed, time spent on pages, referring URLs, and general geographic region (country or state level only). This data is collected in aggregate and cannot identify you personally.

What we NEVER collect: Social Security Numbers, ITIN numbers, bank account details, specific income amounts, tax return information, or any other sensitive financial data.

2. How We Use Information

  • To improve user experience and site content based on aggregate usage patterns
  • To respond to questions or feedback submitted through the contact form
  • To analyze site performance and identify technical issues
  • For anonymous analytics to understand which educational topics are most helpful

We do not use your information for marketing, profiling, or automated decision-making.

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use a minimal number of cookies necessary for basic site functionality:

  • Essential cookies: Required for the site to function properly (e.g., remembering your cookie consent choice, legal banner preference)
  • Analytics cookies (optional): We may use anonymized analytics tools to understand how visitors use the site. You can opt out by declining cookies in our consent banner.

We do not use advertising cookies, tracking pixels for ad targeting, or any form of behavioral advertising technology.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect certain site features.

4. Data Sharing

We do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise share your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes. We may share anonymized, aggregate data with analytics service providers who assist us in operating the site. These providers operate under their own privacy policies and are contractually prohibited from using your data for any other purpose.

5. Data Retention

Contact form submissions are retained only as long as necessary to respond to your inquiry, typically no longer than 90 days. Anonymized technical logs are deleted within 30 days. We do not retain personal data longer than needed for the purposes described in this policy.

6. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right to access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
  • Right to rectification: Request correction of inaccurate data
  • Right to erasure: Request deletion of your personal data ("right to be forgotten")
  • Right to object: Object to processing of your personal data
  • Right to data portability: Request your data in a portable format
  • California residents (CCPA): Right to know, right to delete, right to opt-out of sale (we do not sell data)

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact form. We will respond within 30 days.

7. Information Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Our site uses HTTPS encryption for all data transmitted between your browser and our servers. However, no method of internet transmission or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

8. Children's Privacy

This site is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately and we will delete that information.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

10. Contact Us About Privacy

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please use our contact form. We take all privacy inquiries seriously and will respond within 30 days.