Blue Ridge Tax, Inc. Privacy Policy 

This Privacy Policy describes the information that Blue Ridge Tax, Inc. collects from you, what we do with the information, and our information security practices.  If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us atchartman@blueridgetaxes.com.

Information:
When you sign up for our service, we will ask you to provide contact information such as your name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses. 

We may ask you to complete user surveys, and to provide certain demographic information, such as age, gender, special interests, etc. You do not have to provide this type of information to use our service if you do not want to.

We will also place a cookie that will identify you to us as a repeat visitor or a customer when you visit our Web site. See “What is a Cookie” below. We may tie this cookie to the personally identifiable information we have about you.

If we send you an e-mail, we may include a marker that will allow identifying e-mail that is opened and viewed.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information:

We will use your personally identifiable information only as follows:
• For payment purposes and to provide customer support.
• To announce special offers or provide other information from time to time via e-mail. If you do not wish to receive these e-mails, you may opt out of future e-mails at any time by following the instructions included in the e-mail. 

We will not provide any personally identifiable information about you to any other person other than:

• an employee of the firm on an as needed to service your account;
• a law enforcement or regulatory agency at their request;
• a person or company who acquires our business;
• third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as payment processing), subject to the third party agreeing with us that it will keep your personally identifiable information confidential;

• our service bureau in connection with filing your electronic return or should our service bureau need to provide diagnostics relating to your electronic return locator;
• As otherwise needed to protect or enforce or rights or the rights of others.

We absolutely do not transfer or sell your information for inclusion on third party e-mail or other marketing lists.

Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Does this website use cookies to keep track of my information? Yes, this website uses cookies to collect information about the user's computer system, such as the web browser type, IP address, and operating system. They are also used for session management and for personalization (e.g. shopping cart features).

What is a Cookie?
A “cookie” is an alphanumeric identifier that is unique to your browser. The cookie will identify your browser to us when you visit our web site so that we may customize your visit.

What types of information does this website collect?

 We collect the following types of information:
• Third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as payment processing), subject to the third party agreeing with us that it will keep your personally identifiable information confidential.
• Traditional contact information such as mailing address, phone card number, email address, fax number other telecommunication data.

• Credit card infomation.
• Internet contact information such as email addresses.
• Information about the user's computer system, such as the web browser type, IP address, and operating system.

• We use a third party for our online scheduling tool.

Why is this website collecting traditional contact information?

We collect traditional contact information for the following purposes:
• For billing and support purposes.
• For domain registration account establishment.
• For website administration purposes.
• To customize the website for the user on multiple visits to the site.

Who will receive traditional contact information?
Our internal staff in connection with preforming of their job.

What if I think that you are not adhering to this statement?
If you believe we are not handling your information in accordance with our privacy policy, please contact us.