At Wermer, Rogers, Doran and Ruzon your privacy is important to us, please review the following and email us with any questions.
We highly value your trust and confidence in WRDR and want to assure you that your personal information is kept completely confidential. As a Certified Public Accounting firm, we adhere to the highest level of professional ethical responsibility and obligations to protect the confidentiality of your information. While this policy is specifically directed to individuals who inquire about or to whom we provide services for personal or family purposes, we adhere to confidentiality standards for our business clients under strict ethical responsibilities.
This Privacy Policy summarizes what information we collect about you, the limited times when we may share it with others, and how we protect your privacy.
Types Of Personal Information WRDR Collects
In order to meet your needs in the course of tax preparation, tax and financial planning, and tax compliance engagements, we collect various types of personal information about you from the following sources:
Information that we receive from you when we meet with you in person or over the telephone, when you send us information by mail or email, on tax preparation worksheets or other documents used in preparing your tax returns or in providing other services to you. Such information may include, for instance, your name, address, birth date, social security number, income and investment sources and amounts, and other tax and financial attributes about you.
Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others. Such information may include, for instance, investment allocations and performance, investment objectives, parties to transactions, account balances, and payment history.
Information we receive from you, or send to you, at your request if you contact us online. We will retain the information you provide us to deliver email messages to you. We may retain the content of your email messages, your email address, and our subsequent response to you.
Information we receive from you, or send to you, at your request if you contact us via text messaging. We will retain the information you provide us to deliver text messages to you. We may retain the content of your text messages, your phone number, and our subsequent response to you. By texting WRDR at the provided phone numbers, you are opting that you have read the WRDR privacy policy and are opting into conversational text messaging from WRDR.
Collection of Information Through Cookie Use and Google Analytics
We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a “cookie” file. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive. If you do not agree, you can choose to not receive a cookie file by enabling your web browser to refuse cookies or to prompt you before you accept a cookie.
The following types of cookies may be used on our websites:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for our websites to work properly. They are usually only set in response to actions you take such as logging in or completing online forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of our sites will not function if these cookies are blocked.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies enhance the functionality of our websites by storing your preferences (such as your preferred language or the region that you are in) and allow us to provide enhanced features on our sites such as videos. These cookies may be set by us or by third-party content that we have placed within our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, some of the features on our websites may not function properly and you may not receive a personalized experience when visiting our sites.
- Performance Cookies and Google Analytics: These cookies allow us to count page visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our sites. They help us to understand which pages are visited most frequently and how visitors interact with our sites. Any information collected by performance cookies is aggregated and therefore not identifiable. If you do not allow these cookies we will not receive data related to your visits to our sites.
All major browsers allow you to block or delete cookies from your system. To learn more about your ability to manage your preferences related to cookies, please consult the privacy features within your browser.
Parties To Whom We Disclose Information
We may share personal information with our affiliates to assist in our contact with you and to aid in providing tax and financial planning solutions and opportunities to you. We do not share personal information with unaffiliated third parties without your express consent, except as permitted by law and as described below.
The law permits disclosure in certain circumstances, such as if we must share information to protect against fraud or to protect against credit risk, in response to a court subpoena, and sharing with others who may be assisting us in compliance with professional standards or who assist us in providing tax preparation and other services to you.
Protecting The Confidentiality And Security Of Your Personal Information
Keeping your information confidential and secure is of utmost importance to us. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your personal information. In doing so, we restrict access to your personal information to those employees who need to know that information to provide services to you and to the aforementioned support service companies. Those companies are, in turn, legally and contractually bound to maintain the privacy of any information shared with them. Our employees are bound by internal confidentiality policies and are subject to disciplinary action for any policy violations. Should your status become inactive or should our relationship end, we will continue to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.
WRDR’s Pledge To You
Our professional ethical obligations and responsibilities demand the highest regard and duty toward the confidentiality of your personal information and security of your privacy. We will protect your personal information, use it appropriately, and accomplish our engagements with you in such manner as to always maintain your trust and confidence. Please call us if you have any questions.
If you need information regarding our privacy policy, please e-mail us.