Privacy Policy–last modified: September 23, 2019
R&A CPAs (“R&A”) is committed to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect, handle, store, and protect your information when you use our website, or when we perform any other activities that form part of the operation of this website, what information we gather about you, how we use and protect that information, and with whom we may share that information. It also explains your rights in relation to your information and whom you may contact for more information or with questions.
What this Privacy Policy includes
This Policy applies only to information that is collected on R&A CPAs’ website, www.randacpas.com (“Website”). If you have hired us as your accounting firm, our privacy and confidentiality obligations are described in our engagement letter with you. This Policy only addresses what happens when you visit us online. The Policy does not apply to information collected by:
- us offline or through any other means; or
- any third-party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
This Privacy Policy sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
What information do we collect?
Like most website operators, R&A CPAs collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. R&A CPAs' purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how R&A CPAs visitors use its Website. From time to time, R&A CPAs may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
R&A CPAs also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on https://randacpas.com/ blog posts. R&A CPAs only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally Identifying Information (PII)
Certain visitors to R&A CPAs’ website choose to interact with R&A CPAs in ways that require R&A CPAs to gather personally identifiable information (PII). The amount and type of information that R&A CPAs gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we use personal information you provide solely to respond to your inquiry or process an application for you have completed on our Website. We use PII to fulfill the purpose(s) for which you have provided it, to respond to and process your specific requests for information, and for any other purpose that we disclose to you at the time we collect your PII. If you elect to correspond with us through email by submitting form requests, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone. We may also share PII with our contracted vendors and service providers whom we retain to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep PII confidential and to use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
We do not disclose your PII to anyone outside of our firm without your permission. We never sell or rent your email address or other personally identifiable information.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is vitally important to us, but 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 PII, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites 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 and terms and conditions 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, products or services.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, R&A CPAs uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content and to store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the Website each time the visitor returns. R&A CPAs uses cookies to help R&A CPAs identify and track visitors, their usage of https://randacpas.com/, and their website access preferences. R&A CPAs visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using R&A CPAs' website, with the drawback that certain features of R&A CPAs' websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to R&A CPAs' use of cookies.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Although most changes are likely to be minor, R&A CPAs may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. To let you know when we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will amend the revision date at the top of this page. We encourage you to periodically review this policy to be informed about how we are protecting your information. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
For questions
Please direct any questions or concerns you may have regarding our Website to or this Privacy Policy to hello@randacpas.com or 520.881.4900.