Privacy Policy

Last modified: August 9, 2024

Moore Colson CPAs and Advisors (“Moore Colson,” “Company,” “We” or “Us“) recognizes that your privacy is important. We understand that our current and prospective clients expect us to provide accurate and timely service while protecting their private information.

This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from or about you when you visit the website, www.moorecolson.com (our “Site“) or utilize our Services as well as our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By using the Site and/or the Services, you consent to having your Personal Information processed in the manner and for the purposes described in this Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices or do not consent to this processing of your Personal Information, do not use the Site.

We reserve the right to change this Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes in the way we treat Personal Information by either sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, if you have an account with us, by placing a prominent notice on the Site, or by updating the Policy on this Page. Your continued use of the Site or Services after such notice constitutes your acknowledgement of the modified Policy and your agreement to abide and be bound by this Policy. Please check the Policy periodically for updates.

Applicability

This Policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this Site.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Site.
  • Through the Services provided from the Site.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website we operate; or
  • Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Site.

Children Under the Age of 16

Our Site is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Site or through the Services. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at privacy@moorecolson.com.

Personal Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

“Personal Information” includes any information by which you may be personally identified, such as a name, postal address, email address, telephone number, user ID, biometrics, or other information.

Personal Information does not include information that is publicly available, is aggregated or is deidentified.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us, such as when you register for or maintain an account with us, sign-up to receive newsletters or attend events, or complete our online forms.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the Site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
  • From third parties, for example, our clients, vendors, and external sources such as data brokers and publicly available government records. Our clients may provide Personal Information about you if they provide Personal Information about their own employees, customers or suppliers. Our vendors may provide us with your Personal Information in the process of providing services to us. Data resellers and government records may be used to obtain Personal Information where such information is publicly available.
  • Our vendors may have access to your Personal Information or may share your Personal Information with us if needed to perform the services for which they were engaged.
  • Automatically through tracking technologies, such as the use of cookies when you visit our Site in order to help facilitate and personalize your visit to the Site.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Site may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Site, applying for jobs on our Site, subscribing to our Services such as our newsletters, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Site.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
  • Your search queries on the Site.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Click on the Sites’s Cookie Banner for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this Site and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.

The information we collect automatically may include Personal Information, or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Site according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Site.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you refuse to accept cookies you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site or certain parts of our Site may not function as intended. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Site. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, click on the Site’s Cookie Banner.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our Site and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us to determine, for example, the number of users who have visited those pages or opened an email or other similar Site statistics, recording the popularity of certain Site content and verifying system and server integrity.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:

  • To present our Site and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, including evaluating you for a job position if you have applied.
  • To provide you with notices about your account or subscriptions.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to our Site or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Site.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other lawful purposes.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our Services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated or deidentified information about our users without restriction.

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information we hold about our Site users is among the assets transferred.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Site, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Moore Colson, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

In the last 12 months, we have sourced and disclosed Personal Information for the following purposes.

Category of Personal information  

Sources of Personal Information

Purposes for Collection and Use  

Purposes for Disclosure 

 

Identifiers You

Our clients

Our vendors

Tracking technologies

External sources

Access to the Site features

Internal functions, such as records maintenance and developing or improving the Site

Communicate with you

Respond to your requests 

Prevent and detect fraud

Verify identity

Comply with legal obligations or exercise legal rights or as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

Security and integrity

Debugging to identify and repair errors 

Performing services to operate our business

Internal research 

Verifying or maintaining the quality or safety of our systems and services

Improve, upgrade, or enhance our systems and Site

Personal Records

 

 

You

Our clients

Our vendors

External sources

Internal functions, such as records maintenance and developing or improving the Site

Prevent and detect fraud

Verify identity

Comply with legal obligations or exercise legal rights or as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

Performing services to operate our business
Commercial Information You

Our clients

Our vendors

Internal functions, such as records maintenance and administration of services Performing services to operate our business
Characteristics of Protected Classifications

 

You

Our clients

Our vendors

External sources

Internal functions, such as records maintenance and administration of services Performing services to operate our business
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity

 

Tracking technologies Access to the Site features

Internal functions, such as records maintenance and access to Site

Prevent and detect fraud

Verify identity

Comply with legal obligations or exercise legal rights or as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

Security and integrity

Debugging to identify and repair errors 

Performing services to operate our business

Internal research 

Verifying or maintaining the quality or safety of our systems and services

Improving, upgrading, or enhancing our Site

Geolocation Tracking technologies Access to Website features

Internal functions, such as developing or improving the Site

Prevent and detect fraud

Verify identity

Comply with legal obligations or exercise legal rights or as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

Security and integrity

Identifying and repairing errors 

Performing services to operate our business

Internal research 

Verifying or maintaining the quality or safety of our systems and services

Improving, upgrading, or enhancing our systems and Site

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, or similar information

 

You

Our clients

Our vendors

External sources

Internal functions, such as records maintenance

Prevent and detect fraud

Verify identity

Comply with legal obligations or exercise legal rights or as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

Health and safety obligations

Security and integrity

Performing services operate our business

Verifying or maintaining the quality or safety of our systems and premises

Improving, upgrading, or enhancing our systems and Site

Professional or Employment-Related Information

 

You

Our clients

Our vendors

External sources

Internal functions, such as records maintenance

Prevent and detect fraud

Verify identity

Comply with legal obligations or exercise legal rights or as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

Performing services to operate our business
Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this section to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes

 

 

You

Our clients

Our vendors

External sources

Tracking technologies

Internal functions, such as records maintenance and developing or improving the Site Performing services to operate our business

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
  • Promotional Offers from Us. If you do not want us to use your contact information to promote our own products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or by emailing us at privacy@moorecolson.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions or you may unsubscribe using the link provided in the email message. This opt out does not apply to information we provide as a result of any Services you have contracted us to perform.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“) on the NAI’s website.

In addition, we provide all users with certain rights and choices regarding their Personal Information.

Your Rights for your Information/State Privacy Rights

Certain state laws provide consumers with rights to control the collection and processing of their Personal Information. In addition to the rights to make choices regarding the use and sharing of your information, we provide the following rights:

Right to Know/Access

You have the right to know if we have collected any Personal Information about you and if so, how we have used that Personal Information. You also have the right to obtain a copy of your Personal Information in our possession. You may make such a request no more than twice in any 12-month period. If we receive a verifiable request to know, we will provide you with the following information:

  • The categories of Personal Information we have collected about you
  • The categories of sources from which the Personal Information was collected
  • Our business or commercial purposes for collecting or sharing your Personal Information
  • The categories of third parties to which we disclosed your Personal Information
  • The categories of Personal Information we sold or shared about you and the categories of third parties to which each category of Personal Information was sold or shared
  • The categories of Personal Information we disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to which it was disclosed
  • The specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you

Right to Rectify/Correct

If you believe the Personal Information we have about you is not accurate, you have the right to request we correct it. If we receive a verifiable request to correct your information, and it is not unlawful and does not result in incorrect information we will correct your Personal Information.

Right to Erasure/Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete or erase any information we have collected about you. There are certain cases where we are prohibited from complying with a request to delete your information or where we have a legal basis to retain such information, despite your request.

Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of Your Privacy Rights

We will not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise any of your privacy rights.

Exercising Your Rights

You may exercise any of these rights by emailing us at privacy@moorecolson.com.

Verifiable Requests

We will not respond to any request unless we can verify that the request is being made by you or by someone you have properly designated to make the request on your behalf. We will not honor any request if we believe doing so would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If we receive a verifiable request from you, we will respond to such request promptly and within the time frames specified by the applicable law. If we are unable to respond to your request, we will tell you and tell you why we are unable to respond. To appeal a decision regarding your consumer rights request please email us at privacy@moorecolson.com.

Information For Those Located Outside The United States

If you are located outside of the United States, you acknowledge that we collect, process, and store Personal Information in the United States, and that the data protection and privacy laws in the United States may not offer the same level of protection than the applicable laws in your jurisdiction. Where we transfer your Personal Information to an entity outside of your location, we take steps to comply with law in respect of that transfer, for example by ensuring that your Personal Information is protected by comparable safeguards to those provided under the law of your location.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is never completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to this Policy on this page. In the case of changes that have a material impact on the collection or processing of your Personal Information, a notice stating that this Policy has been updated will be posted on the Site home page. The date this Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Site and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: privacy@moorecolson.com