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Privacy & Disclosure
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Disclosure Statement
The information contained in this site is published for clients of Wink
Tax Services as well as friends, other business associates and prospective
clients in general. Our goal is to present tax topics and general business
information. When we prepare the information at this website, we endeavor to
ensure that all information is current, accurate and conforms to all applicable
legislation.
This information is not intended to be for advisory services. Any
information contained in these sections SHOULD NOT BE ACTED UPON WITHOUT a
detailed review of your specific situation by a competent advisor. Please
consult your professional advisor or a Wink Tax Service representative at (800)
878-4036 before acting on any information or suggestions contained herein.
Privacy Statement
Revised and posted as of:
March 11, 2018
Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. is committed to safeguarding your privacy
online. Please read the following statement to understand how your personal
information will be treated as you make full use of the Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink
Inc.
Web site. The Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. Web site is owned and operated by
Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to
contact us by e-mail at derrick.winke@winke.com
Gathering of Information
Voluntary Submission
Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. does not collect personally identifying
information about any individual Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. Web site user
except when knowingly provided by such individual. For example, we may ask you
for information when you register for a contest or survey or to receive a
newsletter. You always have the option not to provide the information we
request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still
visit most of the Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. Web site, but you may be
unable to access certain options and services.
Cookies
A cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to your computer's hard
drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as
a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have
visited. Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc.
DOES
NOT USE COOKIES.
Please note sites linked to this web site may
utilize cookies, these cookies are related specifically to those sites and are
not collected by or pass through this web site.
Most Web site browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change
your browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, or to
refuse all cookies.
Browser Level Information
Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. Web servers automatically collect information
about a site user's IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this information from the user's browser (information
provided by every user's browser). This information is collected in a log and
used--in an aggregated, anonymous manner--in our internal analysis of traffic
patterns within our Web site. This information is automatically logged by most
Web sites.
Electronic Mail
When you send us personal identifying information via e-mail
(that is, in a message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a
form that e-mails us this information, Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. use it to
respond to your requests. We do not retain or distribute lists of e-mail
addresses to any parties out side of Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. or its
affiliated companies.
Use of Information
Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience on
our Web site. We achieve this goal by, among other things, providing interactive
communications such as our electronic newsletters to the e-mail address that you
provide to us, and developing future editorial content based on your interests.
To develop content targeted to your interests, we use aggregated user
information to determine which areas of our Web site users prefer based upon
traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but instead
how well each page or content area performs overall.
Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. is a free Web site. We do not disclose
personally identifying information about our users to any other site or business
entity not affiliated with Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc.
Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. may also disclose information about our users
when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is required by law or in the
event of a suspected attempt to deliberately bypass our server's security with
the intent to gain unauthorized access or to do physical damage. System
security will upon the detection of an attempted intrusion attempt to
specifically identify the individual computer system utilized in the
unauthorized access.
When you are on an area of Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. and are asked for
personal information, you are sharing that information with Wink Tax Services
DBA/Wink Inc.
If you do not want your information to be shared, you can choose not to
allow the transfer of your information by not using that particular
service.
Please be aware that Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. sponsors, advertisers or
Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable
information about you. The information practices of those parties and Web sites
linked to Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. are not covered by this privacy
statement. Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. users should also be aware that,
when you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas or bulletin
boards, that information may be collected by others and may result in
unsolicited messages from others. Kids under 13: Do not send any information about yourself to us--including
information such as your name, address, or e-mail address. We do not knowingly
collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the event
that we learn we have collected any personal information from a child under the
age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that
information from our database as quickly as possible.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to
contact us by e-mail at Derrick.winke@winke.com
This statement may change from time to time, so please check back
periodically.
DEFINITIONS:
IP address:
Every computer connected to the Internet has a numeric address called an IP
address." This may or may not correspond uniquely to a particular computer.
In some cases, IP addresses can be resolved to domain names, which may indicate
a site visitor's Internet service provider, employer, university, etc. As part
of its database analysis Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. resolves IP addresses
to domain names.
Browser type:
A users browser is a software program running on a computer that allows users to
access documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers can be either text or graphic.
They read HTML coded pages that reside on a server and interpret the coding into
what the user sees as Web pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet
Explorer are examples of Web browsers. Browser type typically discloses hardware
platform, operating system, and browser software and version.
Referrer:
The referrer is the URI of the Internet resource or page that causes a browser
to request a page or image from Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. servers.
NIC:
Network Interface Card
MAC:
Media Access Control - a.k.a. hardware or node address; the last 6 digits
are, in effect, the NIC's "serial number". Each NIC has a unique serial number.
Wink Tax Services DBA/Wink Inc. security systems will attempt to gather this
information during an attempted security breach.
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