Alkane Group operates websites including https://alkanegroup.com. It is Alkane Group’s policy to protect your privacy and ensure your personal data is secure with relation to any information we may collect while operating our websites or providing services.
Certain visitors to Alkane Gropup’s websites choose to interact with Alkane Group in ways that require Alkane Group to gather personally-identifying information. Those who engage in transactions with Alkane Group– by purchasing access to the Alkane Group US income tax preparation services, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including, as necessary, the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Alkane Group collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Alknane Group. Alkane Group does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Alkane Group discloses potentially personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Alkane Group’s behalf or to provide services available at Alkane Group’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Alkane Group takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying information.
Alkane Group uses high-level SHA-256 and AES-256 encryption to ensure that data transmitted between your web browser and our servers, and data stored on our servers, is secure. This is the same level of encryption used by global banks, worldwide.
As part of its data security strategy, Alkane Group has identified and assessed the risks to information security in each relevant area of the company’s operation and established commensurate safeguards to mitigate these risks.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Alkane Group uses cookies to help Alkane Group identify and track visitors, their usage of Alkane Group website, and their website access preferences. Alkane Group visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Alkane Group’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Alkane Group’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
The information below is required pursuant to the EEA law regarding privacy and data protection. The terms below apply to EEA clients in addition to the terms in the rest of this Policy.
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the data controller is Alkane Group, Inc. If you have any questions about this Policy, please email our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at info@alkanegroup.com.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Alkane Group may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Alkane Group’s sole discretion. Alkane Group encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.