GENERAL PRIVACY PRINCIPLES Diversified Taxes & Financial Services has established the following general privacy principles. They are the basis of Diversified Taxes &
Financial Services privacy policy.
SCOPE This privacy policy applies to all websites owned and operated by Diversified Taxes & Financial Services and to any personal information
collected by Diversified Taxes & Financial Services. This policy is designed to inform you when, why, how and for what purpose Diversified Taxes & Financial
Services collects personal information from visitors to its websites. This policy is also designed to inform you about the types of information that are
collected about you at Diversified Taxes & Financial Services websites, about our use of personal information collected at Company websites, and to whom access
to such personal information may be given.
Please note that Diversified Taxes & Financial Services is not responsible in any way for the privacy practices and policies of other websites
and suggests that you review the privacy policies of those other companies' websites before using them.
ACCOUNTABILITY Diversified Taxes & Financial Services is responsible for your personal information under its control.
CONSENT Your knowledge and consent are required for the collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information.
LIMITING COLLECTION Diversified Taxes & Financial Services collects only the information that it needs to deliver services to you.
LIMITING USE, DISCLOSURE AND RETENTION We may collect personal information when you prepare your tax return using our Web-based tax program. This information, referred to in this
policy as "tax return information," includes, for example, your name, address and certain other data such as your social security number, income and deductions
data, and other information about you and your dependents that you provide to prepare or file your tax return.
We may collect other information in connection with transactions beyond tax-return filing that you complete or propose to complete with us.
This information may include, for example, your name, address and certain other "nonpublic personal information" such as checking, debit and credit account
numbers, balances and payment history, income, assets, and social security number. This information may also include system information, such as your operating
system version, internet protocol (IP) address and the number of times you electronically file using Diversified Taxes & Financial Services. Certain system
information is required to be collected for the Internal Revenue Service in connection with electronic filing.
We may collect information about you from the IRS and other third parties such as credit reporting agencies in connection with transactions
you complete or propose to complete with us or non-affiliated third parties. This information may include, for example, information about the status of your tax
return, tax refund, or refund anticipation loans.
Both Diversified Taxes & Financial Services and non-affiliated third parties with whom it has business relationships may collect information
about you when you inquire about services or request information from us, or when you enter our contests, seek technical support, submit rebate forms, or
register on our Website. This information may include, for example, your name, telephone number, mailing address and e-mail address, system information and
configuration, account number, and demographic information.
We may collect information from your browser or computer when you visit our Websites, use links from within our programs in connection with
your browser, or when you register for certain products or features on our Website. We also may collect information through Internet cookies, clear GIFs, and
other technologies such as referring pages, Internet protocol addresses, pages visited and time spent on our Website. The information we collect is used to
enhance and improve your experience on our Website.
ACCURACY Your personal information is kept as accurately and completely as is necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used. You have the right
to update, modify, amend or correct errors in your personal information by contacting Diversified Taxes & Financial Services.
SAFEGUARDS Diversified Taxes & Financial Services protects your personal information by using safeguards that are appropriate to the sensitivity of the
information. Each of our employees who has access to your personal information is informed about our privacy policy and procedures for protecting personal
information.
OPENNESS Diversified Taxes & Financial Services will make its complete policies and practices relating to the management of your personal information
readily available to you.
ACCESS Upon request in writing, either by e-mail or letter, you will be informed of the existence, use or disclosure of your personal information and
you will be given access to that information. Diversified Taxes & Financial Services will assist customers who inform us that they need assistance in preparing
a request concerning personal information. You may also challenge, in writing either by e-mail or letter, the accuracy and completeness of the information and
have it amended as appropriate, or request that Diversified Taxes & Financial Services delete or correct any personal information contained in your file.
SPECIFIC PRIVACY POLICY The following paragraphs describe how Diversified Taxes & Financial Services applies the foregoing privacy principles and set forth
Diversified Taxes & Financial Services's specific privacy policy.
HOW WE MAY DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION Our disclosure of your information is governed by Section 7216 of the Internal Revenue Code, the Gramm Leach Bliley Act of 1999, certain
other laws, and our policies.
Section 7216 of the Internal Revenue Code requires that we have your consent ("opt in") before we disclose your tax-return information to
affiliates or third parties except the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and law enforcement officials, and except for certain other lawful purposes. Some
information that is identical to some of your tax-return information, such as name and address, may not be subject to Section 7216 if we also collect this
information for purposes other than filing your tax return.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires us to give you the option to limit the sharing of "non-experience information" with our
affiliates. Such information includes information that is used, expected to be used, or collected for the purpose of establishing your eligibility of consumer
credit, insurance and related products and services, and not related solely to your transactions or other communications with us. You may direct that
non-experience information not be disclosed to TCA affiliates by not signing the Section 7216 consent described above.
We may disclose your information as described below where you have provided consent under Section 7216, or as otherwise permitted by
applicable laws:
We may disclose your information to TCA affiliates engaged in other financial services or activities in order to provide you with service
enhancements and product opportunities that we believe may interest you. We may disclose your information to service providers who perform business functions
on our behalf, or to financial institutions with which we have joint marketing agreements. Services such organizations could perform on our behalf may include,
for example, check printing, data processing and analysis, contest supervisions, and surface or e-mail production. We require all TCA service providers and
joint marketers to have written contracts with us that specify appropriate use of your information, require them to safeguard your data, and prohibit them from
making unauthorized or unlawful use of your information. We may disclose your information to affiliates or non-affiliated third parties for other purposes
permitted or required by law. Such purposes may include, for example, processing or fulfilling a service you request, or selling or transferring our business
or assets. The IRS requires that we disclose certain information to it in connection with your electronic filing of a tax return. This information may include
your internet protocol (IP) address. If you use the IRS filing program through the irs.gov Website, we must disclose this fact to the IRS. We may disclose your
information to affiliates or non-affiliated third parties when we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is required by law. This may occur in connection
with a court order, legal process, or other judicial, administrative or investigative proceeding that produces a request for information from TCA.
WHAT ABOUT COOKIES? Diversified Taxes & Financial Services reserves the right to use cookies in connection with Company websites. A "cookie" is a persistent,
client side hypertext transfer protocol file. Cookies are pieces of information that a website can transfer to a visitor's hard drive for record-keeping purposes.
Cookies help Web surfing by saving visitor preferences and other information. The use of cookies is a widespread industry standard and thus many major websites
use cookies. Most Web browsers are configured to accept and process cookies. You can configure your browser to refuse cookies.
Diversified Taxes & Financial Services uses cookies to store non-personal information, such as language and connection speed settings, and
to "remember" things like whether a visitor has responded to a particular element of a Company website. Diversified Taxes & Financial Services collects this
information in non-identifying, anonymous and aggregate form to enhance the design of our websites and to collect general statistical information. Diversified
Taxes & Financial Services does not use cookies to access, trace or track any personal information.
OPTING OUT Even after you have granted Diversified Taxes & Financial Services your consent to collect personal information, you may opt out of having
your personal information collected by contacting us by e-mail or regular mail. Please note that in order to fulfill certain obligations, we may need to
continue sending you notices or other important information concerning product orders, services orders or information requests made prior to the time you opted
out.
If not, we have branches all over the United States ready to help you. Please select your State from the list below:
Our quote of the state fees may include the following costs, where applicable: state expedited fees, recording/publishing fees, the cost to obtain a
copy of the evidence of filing, and/or fees to obtain walk-in service.
LLC owners can elect for the IRS to tax the LLC as a sole proprietorship, partnership, C Corporation, or S Corporation. Owners make this election
through the IRS after the company forms with the state.
After we have completed your state filing, you may elect federal Subchapter S tax treatment through the IRS using Form 2553. We will send you this form
with your official state documents. Check with your state's Department of Revenue or equivalent office to determine your state's procedures for
electing Subchapter S status at the state level.
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