Privacy policy.
Your privacy is important to us. Here are our fundamental principles:
We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.
Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.
Who We Are and What This Policy Covers
Lis Lee Accounting LLC offers a variety of products and services designed to allow clients–from creatives, to small business owners, non-profits and government entities, and entrepreneurs–to build and manage a financial system to support their operations and growth.
This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use our website lisleeaccounting.com.
Throughout this Privacy Policy we’ll refer to our website as “Site” and other products and services collectively as “Services.”
Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to any of our products or services that have a separate privacy policy.
Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.
Information We Collect
We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so–for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.
We collect information in three ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information that you provide to us. The amount and type of information depends on the context and how we use the information. Here are some examples:
Follower and Subscriber Information: When a you sign up to follow or subscribe to our Site and/or newsletter, we collect the sign-up information requested, which typically includes your name and an email address.
Site Comments: When a you leave a comment on our Site, we collect that comment, and other information that you provide along with the comment, such as your name and email address.
Transaction and Billing Information: If you buy something from us–a subscription to a plan or contract services, for example–you will provide additional personal and payment information that is required to process the transaction and your payment, such as your name, credit card information, and contact information.
Other Information Entered on the Site: We may also collect other information that you enter on the Site–such as a contact form submission, a search query, or website registration.
Information We Collect Automatically
We also collect some information automatically:
Technical Data from a Visitor’s Computer and Etcetera: We collect the information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available about visitors to a website, such as the IP address, browser type, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We use this information to administer our Site and track aggregate patterns.
Visitor Interactions: We collect information about your interactions with our Site, including the “likes” and “ratings” left by visitors.
Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of a visitor’s device from the IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, tally how many people visit our website from certain geographic regions.
Akismet Commenter Information: We use Akismet anti-spam service on our Site. This helps us prevent spam in the comment sections. We collect information about visitors who comment. The information we collect typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Other Site Owners: If you have an account with an Autommatic company (WordPress.com, etc.) and leave a comment on our Site (hosted by WordPress.com), your IP address and the email address associated with your WordPress.com account may be shared with the administrator(s) of the Site.
Information from Cookies and Other Technologies: 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. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites. Our website uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help identify and track visitors and website usage. For more information about our use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how visitors can control the use of cookies, please see our hosting provider's (Automattic) Cookie Policy.
How And Why We Use Information
Purposes for Using Information
We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:
To provide our Services–for example, to set up and maintain your account, provide content, or charge you for any of our paid Services;
To further develop and improve our Services–for example by adding new services that we think our clients will enjoy or will help them to organize and manage their business more efficiently;
To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our Site, which helps us improve our Site and Services and make them easier to use;
To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our marketing, and better understand user retention and attrition–for example, we may analyze how many individuals purchased a plan or subscription after receiving a marketing message;
To monitor and prevent any problems with our Site, protect the security of our Site and Services, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of Lis Lee Accounting LLC and others, which may result in us declining a transaction or the use of our Site and Services;
To communicate with you, for example through an email about offers and promotions offered by Lis Lee Accounting LLC and others we think will be of interest to you, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date on Lis Lee Accounting LLC and our products; and
To personalize your experience using our Services, target our marketing messages to groups of our clients (for example, those who have a particular plan with us or have been our client for a certain length of time).
Legal Basis for Collecting and Using Information
A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:
(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under our Terms of Service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account–for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you for a paid plan; or
(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information–for example, to provide and update our Site and Services, to improve our Site and Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience, to safeguard our Site and Services, to communicate with you, to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition, to monitor and prevent any problems with our Site and Services, and to personalize your experience; or
(5) You have given us your consent–for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in our hosting provider's (Automattic) Cookie Policy.
Sharing Information
How We Share Information
We do not sell our users’ private personal information.
We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:
Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our Services or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
Third Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information, fraud prevention services that allow us to analyze fraudulent payment transactions, postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you), those that assist us with our marketing efforts (e.g. by providing tools for identifying a specific marketing target group or improving our marketing campaigns), those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers). We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them. Other vendors are listed in our more specific policies.
Legal Requests: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other valid governmental request.
To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Lis Lee Accounting LLC, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Lis Lee Accounting LLC goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply
to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties with which you authorize us to do so.
Aggregated or De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services.
Information Shared Publicly
Information that you choose to make public is–you guessed it–disclosed publicly. That means, of course, that information like comments and “likes” are all available to others, including information about you that is displayed in connection with a comment or “like”. Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.
Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.
How Long We Keep Information
We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it–which are described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information–and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.
Security
We take commercially reasonable measures to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction.
Choices
You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:
Limit the Information that You Provide: If you have an account with us, you can choose not to provide the optional account information, profile information, and transaction and billing information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, certain features of our Site and Services may not be accessible.
Opt-Out of Electronic Communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional messages from us. Just follow the instructions in those messages. If you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices.
Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using websites that use cookies, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. For more information about how to manage and delete cookies, visitaboutcookies.org, and for more information on interest-based ads, including information about how visitors may be able to opt out of having their web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit aboutads.info/choices (US based) and youronlinechoices.eu (EU based).
Close Your Account: While we would be very sad to see you go, if you no longer want to use our Services, you can close your account with us. Please keep in mind that we may continue to retain your information after closing your account, as described in How Long We Keep Information above–for example, when that information is reasonably needed to comply with (or demonstrate our compliance with) legal obligations such as law enforcement requests, or reasonably needed for our legitimate business interests.
Your Rights
If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:
Request access to your personal data;
Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
Request portability of your personal data.
If you would like to contact us to access, correct, or delete your personal data or you would like to contact us about one of the other rights, please email info@lisleeaccounting.com.
EU individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.
Controllers and Responsible Companies
Lis Lee Accounting LLC is the controller of personal information, which means that we are the company responsible for collecting and using your information.
How to Reach Us
If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the Your Rights section above, please contact us.
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Transferring Information
Because our Services are offered worldwide, the information about you that we process when you use the Services in the EU may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who work for us or third party data processors. This is required for the purposes listed in the How and Why We Use Information section above. When providing information about you to entities outside the EEA, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that the recipient protects your personal information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law. These measures include:
In the case of US based entities, entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with them, or ensuring they have signed up to the EU-US Privacy Shield; or
In the case of entities based in other countries outside the EEA, entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with them.
You can ask us for more information about the steps we take to protect your personal information when transferring it from the EU.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Lis Lee Accounting LLC may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. Lis Lee Accounting LLC encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or the blog, or sending you a notification through email). Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.
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