1. Introduction Crypto Taxes Chicago is committed to safeguarding your personal data and informing you of the ways we utilize your data. This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) aims to inform you, (“you”, “your” or “user(s)”), a user of the Website, www.gordonlaw.com (the “Website”), about our processes and practices pertaining to the collection, usage, processing, security, deletion, and sharing of personal data and information. This Privacy Policy should be reviewed alongside the Terms of Use and is fully incorporated into the Terms of Use. All capitalized terms not defined in this Agreement will have the same meanings ascribed in the Terms of Use. Your usage of the Website signifies your acceptance and understanding of this Privacy Policy. Should you disagree with any aspect of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use, you must not utilize the Crypto Taxes Chicago Group, Ltd. website. Should you have questions or complaints concerning our privacy policy or practices, kindly contact us at (847) 580-1279, or via email at [email protected]. Please review this Privacy Policy regularly, as we reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of the Website following any updates to the Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance and understanding of the updated Privacy Policy. 2. Information Collected At Crypto Taxes Chicago, we may collect personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) and non-personally identifiable information (“Non-Personal Information”) from you. The variety and extent of information we collect from you is contingent on your activities and use of the Website. Below, we detail the information we collect. Personal Information Collected Personal Information refers to information that identifies you individually, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, and fax number. We may collect the following Personal Information from you when you visit the Website or otherwise supply Crypto Taxes Chicago with Personal Information concerning the Website: Personal Information you supply when browsing the Website; Personal Information you provide when completing contact forms on the Website; Personal Information you supply when engaging in a transaction with us; Personal Information you provide when you contact Crypto Taxes Chicago; Personal Information you provide upon signing up for Crypto Taxes Chicago's newsletter (“Newsletter”); Personal Information you supply when applying for a position with Crypto Taxes Chicago; Personal Information connected to consultations, background verifications, and related data concerning your company, employees, and officers to facilitate service provision to you and meet our legal obligations; Non-Personal Information Non-Personal Information consists of data that does not personally identify you. As you utilize the Website, we may gather Non-Personal Information from you, such as your IP address, postal code, gender, browsing history, search history, and registration history, along with interactions with the Website and communications from the Website, usage information, location, referer URL, browser, operating system, data usage, data transfer, and Internet service provider. Additionally, we may collect information such as, but not limited to, messages you transmit to us or open from us, inputs of data into the Website, and correspondence we receive from affiliates or third parties about your activities or postings. 3. Use of Your Information We may deploy your Personal Information for the following purposes: To craft a more tailored experience for you; To provide legal advice and address inquiries; To occasionally deliver promotional news; To fulfill legal responsibilities or respond to judicial or administrative orders; To communicate with potential employees about job opportunities; To engage with clients and non-clients for marketing our legal services; To communicate with third-parties, like vendors or other attorneys; To enhance the Website and notify you of Website modifications; or To contact you via email, telephone, or other electronic means when you have an inquiry; Methods we, or a third-party associate, might employ to reach you include: phone call, e-mail, phone auto-dialing system, or SMS/MMS messaging, by Crypto Taxes Chicago or one of its affiliates or marketing associates. Personal Information accumulated online might be merged with information you provide through other mediums. We might also eliminate your personal identifiers (such as your name, email address, etc.). Consequently, you would no longer be recognized as a unique individual. When we have de-identified your data, it is categorized as Non-Personal information, and we might treat it like other Non-Personal data. Lastly, we might employ your Personal Information to protect our rights or property, or to secure someone’s health, safety, or welfare, and to comply with a law or regulation, court order, or another legal proceeding. 4. Cookies and Tracking We may utilize cookies and related technologies, like web beacons, to gather Website information. A cookie is a text file stored on a user’s device for record-keeping. Cookies cannot execute programs or spread viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely tied to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. A primary function of cookies is to offer a convenience feature that saves you time. The purpose of a cookie is to inform the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For instance, if you register with us, a cookie aids Crypto Taxes Chicago in recalling your specific information on future visits. This streamlines the process of logging your personal data, such as an email address, so you aren’t required to enter it repeatedly. When you revisit the Website, the information you previously provided is retrievable, enabling easier use of the features you customized. We employ both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. Session ID cookies simplify navigation throughout the Website. In contrast, a persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for a prolonged period. Persistent cookies enable us to monitor and target user interests to enhance the Website experience. You can eliminate persistent cookies by following instructions in your Internet browser’s “help” file. A web beacon is a small graphic image that allows the party that set the web beacon to observe and amass certain information about the viewership of the web page, web-based document, or e-mail message, including the browser kind triggering the web beacon, the IP address of the receiving device, and the viewing time of the web beacon. Web beacons can be minuscule and unnoticed by users, but generally, any electronic image as part of a web page or e-mail, including HTML based content, can serve as a web beacon. We might utilize web beacons to count Website page visitors or monitor site navigational behavior, and we may embed web beacons in e-mails to count opened, actioned, or forwarded messages. Crypto Taxes Chicago and/or its marketing affiliates may also apply cookies on the Website. For example, we might engage marketing partners who employ cookies on the Website to track usage and volume statistical data from visitors and members. Such data is shared externally solely on an anonymous, aggregated basis. Marketing partners/affiliates leverage persistent cookies to aid visitor experience improvement, manage Website content, and track visitor behavior. Furthermore, we may contract a third party to disseminate e-mails to our users. To assist in assessing and enhancing the efficiency of our e-mail communications, our marketing partners/affiliates install cookies. All data collected by our marketing partners/affiliates on behalf of Crypto Taxes Chicago is solely utilized by or on behalf of Crypto Taxes Chicago and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. 5. Third-Party and Affiliate Access to Your Information While entering into an agreement with Crypto Taxes Chicago to disclose your information to us, you should be aware that we might engage affiliates and third-party partners to assist us, encompassing contractors, web hosts, and others to facilitate your Website access. Over the course of our service provision to you, we might delegate our authority to gather, access, utilize, and disseminate your information. Consequently, it's necessary for you to grant the third parties we may employ in our business the same authorization that you afford us under this Privacy Policy. Therefore, you now agree for every permission you grant to us in this Privacy Policy, you likewise extend to any third party we might recruit, contract, or otherwise retain to operate, maintain, repair, or otherwise enhance or preserve the Website or its underlying files or systems. You agree not to hold us or our affiliates responsible for any third-party actions, even if we are customarily held vicariously liable for their actions; legal recourse lies directly against them should they commit a tort or other actionable wrong against you. For illustration, in ordinary business we might share some personal information with companies we hire to perform services or functions on our behalf. In every case where we share personal information with a third party to provide a service to us, we will not authorize them to retain, disclose or share your information with others except for the purpose of delivering our requested services. We will not sell, exchange, or disclose your personal data. For several transaction types, besides our direct data collection, our third-party service providers (like credit card firms, clearinghouses, or banks) who might offer credit, insurance, or escrow services might directly amass personal data from you to aid your transaction provision. We do not regulate how these third parties utilize such data, but we solicit them to disclose their personal information utilization prior to data collection. We might cooperate with law enforcement to investigate and prosecute Website visitors infringing our rules or indulging in harmful or illicit behavior. We might disclose your personal data to third parties if we deem the disclosure necessary to safeguard our rights or property, protect an individual's health, safety, or welfare, or comply with a law or regulation, court order, or other legal process. As detailed in the section on cookies, we may occasionally allow third-party advertisements on the Website. If you share details with any affiliate or third-party, including via their website links, this Privacy Policy does not govern the affiliates’ or third parties' personal information utilization, and you should review the privacy policies of those affiliates or third parties to understand their cookie and technology usage before accessing their website or services. 6. Reviews and Testimonials You agree that we might disclose and publicize customer testimonials or reviews you post on the Website or third-party sites like Google, Yelp, Facebook, Avvo, or other public review platforms. If you desire your testimonial or review removed from the Website, kindly contact us at [email protected]. 7. Law Enforcement You agree that we might disclose your details to authorities if compelled by a court order. Furthermore, you agree that we might disclose your data if we reasonably surmise you violated US laws, the Terms of Use, or our Privacy Policy, or if we suspect a third party faces physical or economic harm. If subpoenaed, we might choose to notify you to permit you to challenge the subpoena or we may endeavor to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to undertake either action. We might also proactively report and disclose your data without any request to third parties if we judge it appropriate for legal reasons, where your actions breach US laws or the laws of any other country having jurisdiction over us, the Website, or our Terms of Use. You discharge us from any damages arising from or relative to your information disclosure in response to law enforcement or private litigant requests. We might release your data under the conditions listed here to individuals or entities and any state or federal authority as required. 8. Opt Out of Commercial, Non-Commercial Communications and Do Not Track If you opt to share your contact details with us, you agree to receive communications via text messages and emails. Nonetheless, to unsubscribe from specific communications, notify Crypto Taxes Chicago that you no longer desire these communications, and we will strive to expedite your removal from our mailing list or communications upon receipt of that request. We presently do not provide functionality to opt out via “do not track” listings. To opt out of particular communications or information gathering, please reach us at [email protected]. 9. Affiliates & Third Parties Crypto Taxes Chicago might feature links to affiliate or third-party sites on the Website, which might contain information beyond our control. Upon accessing affiliate or third-party sites through the Website, it's acknowledged that you are conscious these third-party sites are neither screened for privacy nor security issues by us. Crypto Taxes Chicago assumes no responsibility for data collected or utilized by any affiliate or third-party site. Review their electronic agreements and privacy policies to comprehend their data collection practices. 10. Security Measures Be assured that Personal Information collected via the Website is secured and maintained following generally accepted technology and operational security standards to safeguard it against loss, unauthorized use, alteration, or destruction. The significance of securing all personal information associated with our subscribers is paramount to us. Personal information is shielded in multiple ways. Only authorized personnel and third-party vendors access your personal information, and these personnel and vendors must treat this data confidentially. Despite these security measures, we can't guarantee against unauthorized data access. Consequently, we advise anti-virus software, regular credit checks, firewalls, and other measures to protect against security and privacy threats. 11. Retention and Deletion of Personal Information We will retain and utilize your personally identifiable information if necessary, to resolve support issues, disputes, maintain backups, enforce agreements, and/or adhere to laws or regulations. Thus, immediate deletion upon request might be infeasible and is an accepted exception to GDPR deletion rights. By utilizing a third-party payment system, engaging our support, and/or purchasing services on the Website, or any related Website activity, you're acknowledging and consenting to these retention terms. 12. Age Compliance We intend to fully comply with American and international children's privacy laws, including COPPA. Therefore, we do not knowingly collect or process any information for individuals under 18. If you're under 18 accessing the Website, cease immediately and refrain from submitting information to us. If it comes to your attention that inadvertent information collection from users under 18 has occurred, contact us promptly. 13. International Transfer Your data might be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside your state, province, country, or governmental jurisdiction where privacy laws might not equal your jurisdiction's protection. Your consent to this Privacy Policy coupled with your data submission signifies your agreement to this transfer. Personal Information and Non-Personal Data submitted to Crypto Taxes Chicago will be collected, processed, stored, disclosed, and disposed of following U.S. law and this policy. If you're a non-U.S. user, you recognize and consent to Crypto Taxes Chicago collecting and using your Data and disclosing it to entities beyond your local jurisdiction. Moreover, such data might be stored on servers outside your local jurisdiction. U.S. law might offer a different level of data protection compared to other countries. 14. Merger and Acquisition In the event Crypto Taxes Chicago enters bankruptcy, merges, is acquired, reorganizes, or sells assets, your data might be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. Be aware that once your data is transferred, privacy rights may change.