Last Modified:  1/14/2016

This privacy notice applies to States Sales Tax (“States Sales Tax”) at www.statessalestax.com.  "We," "our", “us” and "States Sales Tax" refer to States Sales Tax, the terms "you" and "your" refer to all visitors.  We do not collect personally identifiable information (PII) about you unless you choose to provide that information to us.

• Any personal information you chose to provide is protected by security practices.
• Non-personal information related to your visit to our websitemay be automatically collected and temporarily stored.
• States Sales Tax does not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about our visitors unless required for law enforcement or by Federal law.

Personal Information Voluntarily Submitted to States Sales Tax

If you choose to provide States Sales Tax with personal information -- for example by completing a “Contact Us” form, leaving a comment, sending email, registering an account, or completing a survey -- we may use that information to respond to your message and/or help us get you the information or services you requested. Submitting personal information (name, address, telephone number, email address, etc.) is voluntary and is not required to access information on our website unless you apply for an account.

We retain the information for as long as we can. Information may be subject to disclosure in certain cases (for example, if required by court order, or Congressional access request, or if authorized by a Privacy Act System of Records Notice). It is subject to the Privacy Act if maintained in a Privacy Act system.

Interaction with Children Online

This Site is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register for an account. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to us. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

Visiting an Official States Sales Tax Page on Third-Party Websites

We maintain accounts on third-party websites, such as social media sites, as tools to better interact with the public. The security and privacy policies of third-party websites apply to your activity on those sites. Users of third-party websites often share information with the general public, user community, and/or the third-party operating the website. You should review the privacy policies of all websites before using them and ensure that you understand how your information may be used. You should also adjust privacy settings on your account on any third-party website to match your preferences.

Information Collected and Used from Third-Party Websites

If you have an account/profile with a third-party website, and choose to follow, like, friend, or comment on a third-party website managed by States Sales Tax, certain personal information associated with your account may be made available to us based on the privacy policies of the third-party website and your privacy settings within that website. We do not share personally identifiable information made available through these websites.

States Sales Tax conducts and publishes a Privacy Impact Assessment for each use of a third-party website. Each use of a third-party website may have unique features or practices. States Sales Tax sometimes collects and uses the information made available through third-party websites.

Information Automatically Collected and Stored

When you browse through our website, we use Google Analytics software to gather and temporarily store a variety of information about your visit. However, this information cannot be used to identify you as an individual. The basic information we collect during your visit includes:

• The name of the domain you use to access the Internet (for example, Verizon.com, if you are using a Verizon online account, or stanford.edu, if you are connecting from Stanford University's domain);
• The date and time of your visit to our website;
• The pages and documents you viewed on our website;
• The URL of the website you visited prior to ours;
• The type and version of your Web browser and operating system; and
• Your location at the time of your visit, down to the city-level

We do not associate any of the data we collect with you as an individual. Instead, we aggregate this data from all visits in order to improve our website and provide a better user experience to our visitors. The aggregate data is available only to Web managers and other designated staff who require this information to perform their duties. It is retained only for as long as needed for proper analysis.  The Google Analytics Privacy Policy is available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Demographic and Interest Data

On some portions of our website we have enabled Google Analytics and other third-party software to provide aggregate demographic and interest data of our visitors. This information cannot be used to identify you as an individual. While these tools are used by some websites to serve advertisements, States Sales Tax only uses them to measure demographic data. States Sales Tax has no control over advertisements served on other websites. 

Other Web Measurement and Customization Tools

We use the specified software and features below:

Bit.ly: States Sales Tax uses Bit.ly to shorten long URLs for use in email  and social media messages. Bit.ly provides analytics on how many people clicked on the URLs distributed by States Sales Tax.  Bit.ly analytics do not provide any personally identifiable information about the visitors who click the shortened links. The Bit.ly Privacy Policy is available at http://bit.ly/pages/privacy   

Google AdWords: States Sales Tax occasionally uses Google AdWords to provide online advertisement delivery and tracking. States Sales Tax may employ tools provided by Google AdWords to support Display Advertising, including Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, data collection via advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. In general, this means that third-party vendors, including Google, may show States Sales Tax ads on sites across the Internet based upon visits to States Sales Tax websites. To implement these tools, States Sales Tax and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third- party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on past visits to States Sales Tax websites.  The Google AdWords Privacy Policy is available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Google Analytics: States Sales Tax may employ tools provided by Google Analytics to support Display Advertising, including Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, data collection via advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. In general, this means that third-party vendors, including Google, may show States Sales Tax ads on sites across the Internet based upon visits to States Sales Tax websites. To implement these tools, States Sales Tax and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third- party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on past visits to States Sales Tax websites. The Google Analytics Privacy Policy is available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Disqus: States Sales Tax uses Disqus, an online discussion network to foster discussions on various topics. Privacy Policy is available at https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466259-privacy-policy

Cookies

Websites can automatically place small text files, known as “cookies,” on the computers of their visitors.  So long as they do not expire or get deleted, cookies identify the unique browser used by the visitor.  On each subsequent visit to the website, the visitor’s browser will retrieve the cookie, allowing us to aggregate the number of return visitors. States Sales Tax uses “cookies” to test and optimize our website design and content. We use two types of cookies on our websites:

• We use session cookiesto gather data for technical purposes, such as improving navigation through our website and generating statistics about how the website is used. Session cookies are temporary text files that expire when you leave our website. When cookies expire, they are automatically deleted from your computer. We do not use session cookies to collect personal information, and we do not share data collected from session cookies.
• We use multi-session cookies, or persistent cookies, to customize our website for frequent visitors and to test variations of website design and content. Multi-session cookies are cookies that are stored over more than a single session on your computer. We do not use multi-session cookies to collect personal information, and we do not share data collected from multi-session cookies. States Sales Tax is unable to identify an individual by using such technologies.

You can take actions to block cookies by opting out . Blocking session cookies from your computer will not affect your access to the content and tools on our website. Blocking multi-session or persistent cookies may affect the personalization of the information on those sites. 

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via the contact form.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may, in its sole discretion, modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this page periodically. When we change the policy, we will update the ‘last modified’ date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of any changes to this policy means you accept such changes.

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