Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") is integrated into the Site’s Terms and Conditions. By using this Website, you accept the Site’s Terms and Conditions, including the Privacy Policy, in full. If you disagree with any part of these terms, you must not use this Website.

1. Introduction

CoinsTax, LLC (“BitcoinTaxes”) is dedicated to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we use your information. This privacy policy applies to your use of the BitcoinTaxes website and all other related services exclusive to the operation of the Website (collectively the “Site” or “Website”). This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions and is integrated into the Terms and Conditions. All capitalized proper nouns not defined in this Agreement will have the same definitions and meanings as defined by the Terms and Conditions.

Please review this Privacy Policy periodically as we may revise it from time to time. If you do not agree with or accept our Privacy Policy in its entirety, you must not access or use the Site. If you use the Site following a change to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you agree to accept the revised policies. If you disagree with part of these terms, you must not use this Website.

2. Information Collected

At BitcoinTaxes, we collect personally identifiable information (“PII”) and non-personally identifiable information (“Non-PII”) from you. Personally identifiable information is information that can be used to identify you personally. Non-personally identifiable information is information that must be combined with other information to identify you personally.

Personally Identifiable Information Collected

Personal information is information that identifies you as an individual, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number. We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to when the following events occur:

  • When you send us an application or other form;
  • When you conduct a transaction with us, our affiliates, or others;
  • When you sign up for a subscription service with our Site;
  • When we collect information about you in support of a transaction, such as credit card information; and
  • In some places on this Site you have the opportunity to send us personal information about yourself, to elect to receive particular information, to purchase access to one of our products or services, or to participate in an activity.

Non-Identifying Information

Non-personal information (“Non-PII”) is information that cannot identify you. Whenever you use our Website, we may collect Non-PII from you, such as your IP address, zip code, gender, browsing history, search history, and registration history, interactions with the Site, usage information, location, referring URL, browser, operating system, data usage, data transferred, and Internet service provider. We may also collect information including but not limited to messages you send to us, inputs of information into the Site, and correspondence we receive from affiliates or third parties about your activities or postings.

Use of Your Information

Some of your information will be visible to us to facilitate communication. We use various tracking mechanisms to track the use of customers on our Site. We will never sell your information without your permission; however, you agree that we may use your information in the following ways:

  • To provide any services offered and to operate the BitcoinTaxes Site.
  • To enhance or improve our users’ experiences.
  • To contact you via email or other electronic communications where you have an inquiry.
  • To notify you of additional BitcoinTaxes updates.
  • To share your information with affiliates or third-party partners hired by us to perform functions, market additional products and services, and provide services to us subject to the obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and on the condition that the third parties use your information only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions.

Methods we, or a third-party affiliate, may use to contact you are via: phone call, e-mail, telephone auto-dialing system, or SMS/MMS messaging, by BitcoinTaxes or one of its affiliate(s) or marketing partners. You may opt-out of receiving communications at any time by contacting BitcoinTaxes or any of its marketing partners or affiliate(s).

Personal information collected online may be combined with information you provide to us through other sources We may also remove your personal identifiers (your name, email address, etc.). In this case, you would no longer be identified as a single unique individual. Once we have de-identified information, it is non-personal information and we may treat it like other non-personal information. Finally, we may use your personal information to protect our rights or property, or to protect someone’s health, safety or welfare, and to comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process.

3. Cookies and Tracking

We may use cookies and related technologies, such as web beacons, to collect information on our web site. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you register with us, a cookie helps BitcoinTaxes to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same BitcoinTaxes website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized. A web beacon is a small graphic image that allows the party that set the web beacon to monitor and collect certain information about the viewer of the web page, web-based document or e-mail message, such as the type of browser requesting the web beacon, the IP address of the computer that the web beacon is sent to and the time the web beacon was viewed. Web beacons can be very small and invisible to the user, but, in general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page or e-mail, including HTML based content, can act as a web beacon. We may use web beacons to count visitors to the web pages on the Website or to monitor how our users navigate the Website, and we may include web beacons in e-mail messages in order to count how many messages sent were opened, acted upon or forwarded.

BitcoinTaxes and/or its marketing partners/affiliates also may use cookies on our Website. For instance, we may contract with our marketing partners/affiliates who will use cookies on our Website to track and analyze anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and members. Such information is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. Marketing partners/affiliates use persistent cookies to help us to improve the visitor experience, to manage our site content, and to track visitor behavior. We may also contract with a third party to send e-mail to our users.

To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, our marketing partners/affiliates sets cookies. All data collected by our marketing partners/affiliates on behalf of BitcoinTaxes is used solely by or on behalf of BitcoinTaxes and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. From time to time, we may allow our marketing partners/affiliates to post advertisements on our Website, and those our marketing partners/affiliates advertisements may include a cookie or web beacon served by our marketing partners/affiliates. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of information collected from you by our marketing partners/affiliates ad servers. We do not control cookies in such marketing partners/affiliates ads, and you should check the privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad. We will not share your personal information with these companies, but these companies may use information about your visits to this Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you, and they may share your personal information that you provide to them with others.

4. Third Party and Affiliate Access to Your Information

Although you are entering into an Agreement with BitcoinTaxes to disclose your information to us, we may use affiliates and third-party partners to assist us, including contractors, web hosts, and others to allow you to access the Site.

Throughout the course of the provision of our services to you, we may delegate our authority to collect, access, use, and disseminate your information. It is therefore necessary that you grant the third parties we may use in the course of our business the same rights that you afford us under this Privacy Policy. For this reason, you hereby agree that for every authorization which you grant to us in this Privacy Policy, you also grant to any third party that we may hire, contract, or otherwise retain the services of for the purpose of operating, maintaining, repairing, or otherwise improving or preserving our Website or its underlying files or systems. You agree not to hold us, our affiliates, or our third-party partners liable for the actions of any of these third parties, even if we would normally be held vicariously liable for their actions, and that you must take legal action against them directly should they commit any tort or other actionable wrong against you.

For instance, in the ordinary course of business, we may share some personal information with companies that we hire to perform services or functions on our behalf. In all cases in which we share your personal information with a third party for the purpose of providing a service to us, we will not authorize them to keep, disclose or use your information with others except for the purpose of providing the services we asked them to provide.

We will not sell, exchange or publish your personal information, except in conjunction with one of our marketing partners or affiliate(s). For some sorts of transactions, in addition to our direct collection of information, our third-party service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect personal information directly from you to assist you with your transaction. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use your personal information before they collect it.

We may cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting Website visitors who violate our rules or engage in behavior, which is harmful to other visitors (or illegal). We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we feel that the disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect someone’s health, safety or welfare, or to comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process. As discussed in the section on cookies and other technologies, from time to time we may allow a third party to serve advertisements on this Website.

If you share information with any affiliate or third party, including by clicking on their website links, this Privacy Policy does not control those affiliates or third parties’ use of your personal information, and you should check the privacy policies of those affiliates or third parties to learn about their use of cookies and other technology before using their website or services.

5. Reviews and Testimonials

You agree that we may disclose and post the customer testimonials or reviews that you post to the Site or on third-party websites such as Google, Yelp, Facebook, or other public review websites. The owner may obtain customer consent prior to posting the testimonial or review. If you would like to request the removal of your testimonial or review from the Site please contact us at [email protected].

6. Law Enforcement

You agree that we may disclose your information to authorities if compelled to by a court order. Additionally, you agree that we may disclose your information if we reasonably believe that you have violated US laws, the terms of our Terms of Use or our Privacy Policy, or if we believe that a third party is at risk of bodily or economic harm. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you and release your information without receiving any request to third parties where we believe that it is proper to do so for legal reasons, where your actions violate any US laws or any other country having jurisdiction over us, our Site, or our Terms and Conditions. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants. We may release your information under the conditions listed in this paragraph whether it is to individuals or entities and to any state or federal authorities, as required.

7. Opt Out of Commercial, Non-Commercial Communications, and Do Not Track

If you decide to provide us with your contact information, you agree that we may send you communications via text and emails. However, you may unsubscribe from certain communications by notifying BitcoinTaxes that you no longer wish to receive these communications and we will endeavor to promptly remove you from our mailing list or communications once we have received that request. We currently do not offer functionality for you to opt-out through “do not track” listings. If you wish to opt-out of certain communications or information collection, please contact us at [email protected].

8. Affiliates & Third Parties

BitcoinTaxes or other users may post links to affiliate and third-party websites on Site, which may include information that we have no control over. When accessing an affiliate third party site through our Site, you acknowledge that you are aware that these third-party websites are not screened for privacy or security issues by us.

BitcoinTaxes bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any affiliate or third-party website. You must review their electronic agreements and privacy policies to understand how their information collection practices work.

9. Security Measures

We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized personnel and third-party vendors have access to your personal information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal information. For this reason, we recommend that you use anti-virus software, routine credit checks, firewalls, and other precautions to protect yourself from security and privacy threats.

10. Retention and Deletion of Account Information

When your Site account is canceled, either voluntarily or involuntarily, your account is placed in a 'deactivated' status within our database. However, you should know that the deactivation of an account does not mean personally identifiable information has been deleted from our systems entirely. We will retain and use your personally identifiable information, if necessary, in order to resolve any support issues, disputes, keep backups, enforce our agreements and/or as required by laws or regulations. Therefore, it may not be immediately deleted upon request and is an approved exception to GDPR deletion rights. By creating an account with us, using third-party payment system, using our support services and/or purchasing services on the Website, you acknowledge and agree to these terms of retention.

11. Your California Privacy Rights

BitcoinTaxes permits residents of the State of California to use its Site and complies with the California Business and Professions Code §§ 22575-22579. If you are a California resident, you may request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to any third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Various provisions throughout this Privacy Policy address requirements of the Californian privacy statutes. Although we do not disseminate your information to third parties without permission, you must presume that we collect electronic information from all visitors. You may contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

12. Age Compliance

We intend to fully comply with American and international laws respecting children’s privacy including COPPA. Therefore, we do not collect or process any information for any persons under the age of 18. If you are under 18 and using our Site, please stop immediately and do not submit any information to us. In the event that you become aware that we have inadvertently collected any information from users under the age of 18, please contact us immediately.

13. International Transfer

Your information may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. PII and Non-PII that are submitted to BitcoinTaxes will be collected, processed, stored, disclosed, and disposed of in accordance with applicable U.S. law and this policy. If you are a non-U.S. user, you acknowledge and agree that BitcoinTaxes may collect and use your Information and disclose it to other entities outside your resident jurisdiction. In addition, such information may be stored on servers located outside your resident jurisdiction. U.S. law may not provide the degree of protection for information that is available in other countries.

14. Merger and Acquisition

In the event that BitcoinTaxes is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. Please be aware that once the information is transferred your privacy rights may change.

15. Amendments

Like our Terms and Conditions, we may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will modify the date listed on this Agreement or we may contact you. You must agree to the amendments as a condition of your continued use of our Site. If you do not agree, you must immediately cease using our Site and notify us of your refusal to agree by e-mailing us at [email protected].

16. Information

If you have any questions or require additional information related to our information collection practices, please contact us at [email protected].

2022-03-29