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PRIVACY POLICIES

Montes & Company, CPA Inc. (MCI) is committed to keeping personal information accurate, secure and confidential. This Web Site and SMS Privacy Policy applies to personal information that you may provide to us. Any personal information that MCI receives from you through this web site, SMS text messages, or otherwise will be handled and stored in a secure manner to protect it from unauthorized access or disclosure. Please be advised, however, that the Internet and other various networking communication media are not entirely secure, and your information may therefore be subject to interception or loss beyond our control.

Website Privacy Policy

MCI uses their website to provide information about our service offerings and to provide a means to communicate with us. During your visit to our web site, you may send MCI personal information that is used to identify you and respond to your inquiries. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

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  • Email address

  • First name and last name

  • Company or Entity

  • Phone number

  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

  • Usage Data

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MCI will use your personal information to contact and correspond with you, to respond to your questions, to process inquiries and instructions, and to facilitate and enhance your use of the web site. MCI may send to you, from time to time, e-mail or other communications containing information about MCI and other matters MCI believes will interest you. At any time you may ask MCI to stop sending you unsolicited e-mail and other information by contacting us at ricardo@montesandcompany.com.

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MCI’s web site may contain links to other web sites. We try our best to ensure that these links are safe for everyone, but the privacy and data collection practices on any linked web site are entirely separate from MCI and are not covered by this Web Site Privacy Policy. Other web sites may also link to the MCI web site. MCI has no responsibility for the content, policies or actions of web sites that link to MCIs web site or that MCI provides a link to through MCI’s web site.

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MCI may periodically review the appropriateness of this Web Site Privacy Policy and make, at its discretion and without announcement, such changes as are necessary.

SMS Privacy Policy

MCI is committed to protecting your privacy in conjunction with SMS communication. This SMS Privacy Policy (the “SMS Policy”) governs how we treat the Personal Information that we collect and receive from you in connection with your use of the SMS Service (“SMS Service”), which we make available to you through a third-party service provider.

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By using the SMS Service, you agree to the terms of this SMS Policy. MCI reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify or change this SMS Policy at any time with or without prior notice to you. Your continued use of the SMS Service following any changes to the SMS Policy constitutes your full acceptance of those changes.

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“Personal Information” is information that individually identifies you, such as your mobile phone number or user/screen name, as well as the any Personal Information that you choose to include in messages you send through the SMS Service.

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Through the use of the SMS Service, MCI will receive the following information from our third-party service provider: your mobile phone number when you send a text message to us, as well as any comments or feedback regarding the SMS Service that you send to us.

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We use Personal Information to (a) provide you with the SMS Service, (b) process and respond to inquiries, (c) improve the SMS Service, and (d) if necessary, contact you with important announcements or messages.

 

Each message that you send through the SMS Service (either to us or to other users of the SMS Service) is stored on servers. MCI utilizes servers and services owned by third parties.

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We will not rent or sell your Personal Information to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may use or disclose such information in any of the following limited circumstances:

 

  • We have your consent.

  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights, or the legal rights of others, or defend against legal claims.

  • We transfer Personal Information about you if MCI is, or its assets are, acquired by or merged with another company.

 

MCI takes precautions to ensure the security of your Personal Information, including ensuring that our third party service providers protect the security of your Personal Information. However, we cannot guarantee that hackers or unauthorized personnel will not gain access to your Personal Information despite our efforts. You should note that in using the SMS Service, your information will travel through third party infrastructures which are not under our control (such as a third party SMS delivery platform or your carrier network).

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We cannot protect, nor does this SMS Policy apply to, any information that you transmit to other users. You should never transmit personal or identifying information to other users.

 

A mobile user might opt-in by sending an SMS message to one of our business phone numbers

 

A mobile user may opt out of the SMS Service for any reason. You can opt out by texting “STOP” to us.

 

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the SMS Service, such as announcements and administrative messages, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

 

The SMS Service is not intended for children under 13, and MCI does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. Children aged 13 or older should not submit any Personal Information without the permission of their parents or guardians. By using the SMS Service, you are representing that you are at least 18, or that you are at least 13 years old and have your parents’ permission to use the SMS service.

 

MCI requires that users of this SMS service be limited to US residents only.

 

If you have any additional questions regarding this SMS Policy, please feel free to contact us any time by calling us at (818) 558-6210 or email at ricardo@montesandcompany.com.

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