Your Privacy
At Jones CPA Group, P.C., we believe that, as our online visitor, you have a right to know our practices regarding the information we collect when you visit our websites, and what type of information is collected. The guidelines contained herein only apply to your visits to www.jonescpagroup.com, which is operated by Jones CPA Group, P.C. (“Jones CPA Group”). This includes web pages on www.jonescpagroup.com that contain “jonescpagroup.com” in their URLs, but does not include any redirect URLs that link the user to another internet domain. Other websites which are linked to/from www.jonescpagroup.com (including other Jones CPA Group affiliates, other Jones CPA Group websites, and via banner ads) may have different policies; therefore, please review the privacy policy notices on those websites for details.
Registration is not required for you to use our site. If you are merely a visitor to jonescpagroup.com, we do not collect any personal information about you, except to the limited extent through the use of cookies, which are described below. However, please note that in order to participate in some activities and/or to receive ongoing updates from Jones CPA Group, it will be necessary for you to provide this information.
Collection of Information: Cookies
For each visitor to an Jones CPA Group website, Jones CPA Group’s web server automatically recognizes and stores information, such as the visitor’s IP address/domain name combination and any referring websites. We use this information to understand visitor traffic patterns through our websites for purposes such as enhancing their usability. Your computer provides this information automatically each time you log on, unless you’ve activated blocking technology available in some browsers.
When you visit Jones CPA Group’s websites or advertisements appearing thereon, or use one or more of the Jones CPA Group website services, we may use an industry-wide technology called “cookies” which stores certain information on your computer and which will allow us to customize your experience to better match your interests and preferences, or to simply facilitate your signing in to use the services. Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. However, if you block or erase cookies, we may not be able to restore any preferences or customization settings you previously specified, and our ability to personalize your online experience would be limited. Please refer to your browser instructions or “help” screen to learn more about these functions.
Also, Jones CPA Group, or third parties on its behalf, may collect anonymous information from visits to our sites through the use of “Web Beacons.” Web Beacons are electronic Web Page images that enable us to record anonymous data about visits to our web site. This anonymous information is sometimes known as “clickstream data.” We may use this data to analyze trends and statistics to improve your online experience, or customer service. No personal data is collected through the use of Web Beacons on our sites.
Collection of Information: Personal
Additionally, Jones CPA Group may ask you to provide “personal information,” meaning individually identifiable information such as your e-mail address, name, mailing address, telephone number, social security number, credit card number, or persistent identifier (such as a customer number held in a cookie) which is associated with individually identifiable information, to enable you to fill out a registration, or to order products and services using these websites. Jones CPA Group may combine the information you provide on our websites with other information we may collect from you offline or from third parties so that we can more effectively tailor our website, services, and offerings to you. If you provide Jones CPA Group with personal information, you shall have the right, on reasonable prior notice, to inspect, change, amend, or delete such information. Instructions on how to update personal information will be given at the point of data collection.
Unless you instruct us otherwise, Jones CPA Group may contact you to provide information about products, services, promotions, contests, or other activities or offerings that may be of interest to you. You can instruct us whether or not you wish to be contacted by checking or removing the check from the box indicating your preference as applicable at the place where your information is collected, or by other means (such as an e-mail request). In addition, with each communication you receive from Jones CPA Group, you will be given the opportunity to indicate if you do not wish to receive future communications.
Jones CPA Group subscribes to the Safe Harbor Principles published by the U.S. Department of Commerce and will only disclose personal data to third parties that have agreed in writing to provide an adequate level of privacy protection. As such, we may disclose your personal information for the following reasons:
Note: Jones CPA Group does not collect or compile personal data or information obtained by this site for dissemination or sale to outside parties for consumer marketing purposes or host mailings on behalf of third parties.
Additionally and with your consent, Jones CPA Group may share your personal information with other affiliated Jones CPA Group companies — i.e., (i) Jones CPA Group Financial Group, (ii) any company of which more than 50% of its outstanding shares are owned by Jones CPA Group, directly or indirectly, or (iii) any company with the name “Jones CPA Group” as a part of its trade name — who may want to contact you about products, services, or other offerings that may be of interest to you. Further, only with your consent, Jones CPA Group may share your personal information with specific third parties outside of the Jones CPA Group group of companies who may want to contact you about products, services, or other offerings that may be of interest to you. Please consult the respective privacy policies of each of these companies for further clarification as to their own privacy policy. Jones CPA Group will seek to obtain your consent at the place where the information is collected either by an “opt-out” or “opt-in” method, or by other means (such as an e-mail request). If you consent to receiving communications from any of these affiliated Jones CPA Group companies, or third parties, you will need to communicate with them directly if you later decide that you no longer wish to receive their communications. Until we advise you, except as indicated above for the initial decision made with your consent to share your personal information with Jones CPA Group affiliates and/or specific third parties outside of the Jones CPA Group group of companies, changes or amendments to your personal information must be given both to Jones CPA Group and to each such Jones CPA Group affiliate or other company directly, as these changes, amendments, and/or deletions will not be exchanged among Jones CPA Group and other Jones CPA Group affiliates or third parties.
Third-party links
Please be aware that jonescpagroup.com sometimes contains links to other sites that are not governed by this privacy policy. Visitors to our site may be directed to third-party sites for more information, such as about financial calculators, newsletters, financial guides, internet links, tax center, and client portal. Jones CPA Group makes no representations or warranties regarding how user data is stored or used on third-party servers. We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of each third-party site linked from jonescpagroup.com to determine their use of your personal data.
Security
While Jones CPA Group cannot guarantee that unauthorized access will never occur, rest assured that Jones CPA Group takes great care in maintaining the security of your personal information and in preventing unauthorized access to it through the use of appropriate technology and internal procedures.
Children
This privacy statement is not intended for use by children. We understand the importance of protecting children’s information, especially in an online environment, and we do not knowingly collect or maintain information about children.
Consent to Processing
By providing any personal information to the Jones CPA Group websites, all users, including without limitation users in the member states of the European Union, fully understand and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in the United States of America.
Policy Governs Use; Changes to Privacy Policy
The terms of this policy will govern the use and any information collected while it is in place. Jones CPA Group reserves the right to change this policy at any time, so please re-visit this page as often as you wish. If changes to the statement are made, please note that it may take up to 30 business days before new privacy practices are implemented. Changes to this privacy policy are effective at the time they are posted to this Site, and your continued use of this Site after posting will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.
Questions
If you have any questions or comments about our personal information practices or about this privacy statement, please feel free to send us an e-mail at norfolk@jonescpagroup.com