The EAS-CPA.COM Privacy Policy
This document (The EAS-CPA.COM Privacy Policy) explains what kinds of personal information we collect about people who visit our website (eas-cpa.com), why we collect the personal information, how it is collected and used, and the conditions under which we may disclose it to others. The policy stated below only applies to eas-cpa.com and not the general business operations of Emmanuel A Santos JD CPA Incorporated.
The Effective Date of this Privacy Policy is April 30, 2025. By using our website, you’re agreeing to be bound by this Policy. Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email. Changes may be made to this Policy from time to time, so we welcome you to check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes we might make.
Emmanuel A Santos JD CPA Incorporated (EAS, Inc.) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Should our website ask you to provide certain information, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy statement and with the requirements laid down by law in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998, the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PECR) 2003, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect in May 2018.
EAS, Inc. is the data controller and the entity responsible for your personal data (“we” “us” “our” in this privacy notice].
WHO WE ARE
Emmanuel A Santos JD CPA Incorporated (EAS, Inc.) is a certified public accounting firm providing comprehensive accounting, tax and business solutions to clients in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. We have strategically combined our tax services with business services in efforts to help clients strengthen their tax health and promote independence.
The purpose of our website is to disseminate information about our business and its services, and to provide a means for the public to inquire about our services. Use of the eas-cpa.com website is voluntary, and does not require account registration, a means of enrollment, nor other "gateway" steps necessary in order to access the website. Therefore we ask for no usernames or passwords. Furthermore, no sales or financial transactions are conducted through the website.
Our address is:
Emmanuel A Santos JD CPA Incorporated
447 Sutter Street, Suite 714
San Francisco, CA 94108
WHAT DATA WE COLLECT
The personal information we collect might include your name, company name, address, email address, phone number, internet IP address, and information related to business inquiries you make via communications through our website.
HOW YOUR DATA IS COLLECTED
We obtain information about you when you use the Contact Form on our website to inquire about our services.
WHAT WE DO WITH THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE GATHER
If you have contacted us with questions about our services using eas-cpa.com's Contact Form, we will use the personal information you provide to communicate with you in response to your inquiry.
HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
For general inquiries from those who never engage our services, we may retain the personal information submitted to us in logs after it is used to contact you. The logs are retained and subsequently archived. We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis.
For our business clients, we are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfill our statutory obligations (such as tax and accounting records). Your personal information is held in our systems as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as permission grants.
WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Members of our staff can access your information so that they may respond to your business inquiries.
- We do not sell or rent your information to third parties.
- We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
- We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use our website. You can read more about how Google uses your personal information on their website. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics tracking.
DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Your personal information may be transferred to a third party or law enforcement agency if we’re under duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property or safety of our supporters and customers. If so, we will take such steps with the goal of ensuring your privacy rights continue to be protected. We may transfer your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of some or all of our business and assets to any third party, or as part of any business restructuring or reorganization
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION - YOUR RIGHTS
You may choose at any time to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
SMS COMMUNICATIONS
We may use SMS text messages in certain instances when communicating with you. Message and data rates may apply according to a visitor's particular phone service. Messaging frequency may vary.
- If one wishes, they may revoke their SMS consent by opting-out of further messages by replying STOP to a message to them.
- SMS consent or non-consent and the phone number a user may provide is not shared with any third parties/affiliates for marketing purposes.
EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS
If you have engaged the services of EAS, Inc. as a client, we may contact you from time to time with email communications about our products, and/or promotions we might have.
You have a choice of whether or not you wish to receive these communications from us. If you do not wish to receive such communication from us, you can "opt out" by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email we send you, or by sending us an email stating you wish to be removed from our mail list. We will not email you for any marketing purposes if you have withdrawn your consent in this manner.
SECURITY
We are committed to ensuring that data is secure on eas-cpa.com. All pages on eas-cpa.com are protected by 256 Bit encryption on SSL. You can identify a secure page by the lock icon by the URL in your web browser. If you elect to provide personal information through the Contact Form on our website, data will be transferred to securely using the secured protocol.
Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure it is retained securely on our systems. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. All your information is stored either electronically on our secure servers or in the case of paper documentation, in secured cabinets only accessible by us or our staff.
HOW WE USE COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE
A cookie is a small text file a web browser uses to save browsing information. The main types of cookies are:
- Functional cookies allow a website to remember the online activity, device, and browsing preferences, enhancing the user experience of the website.
- Analytics cookies may also gather data about visitors, including demographics, time on site, and what pages they visited.
- Third-party (marketing) cookies can pose the biggest privacy issue because many also track browser activity of visitors after leaving a website.
Like most other websites, the eas-cpa.com website uses functional cookies to help us to improve our website and provide our visitors with a better website experience by enabling us to monitor which pages a user finds useful or not, thereby helping deliver a better, more personalized service.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use our website. You can read more about how Google uses your personal information on their website. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics tracking.
We not use marketing cookies, nor track the overall browsing activity of our website visitors in any way while they are not using our website.
You can choose whether to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. For more information on how to switch off cookies, check your browser documentation. Please note that turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality, and may prevent you from taking full advantage of the eas-cpa.com website, and other websites as well.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites that are run by other companies or organizations. The terms and declarations of eas-cpa.com's privacy policy applies only to our website.
Once you have used links to leave this website, we have no control over the privacy policies and practices of other websites and cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you may provide while visiting such sites—even if you access them using links from our website. Therefore when visiting them, we encourage you to read the privacy statements and policies set forth on these other websites.
If you have arrived at our website via a link from a third party site, note that we are not bound or responsible for privacy policies and practices used by the owners and operators of any third party site that has provided links to our website.
REVIEW OF THIS POLICY
This Policy is under regular review and may be amended from time to time without notice in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy we will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.
CONTACTING US
For more information about our privacy practices, or if you have questions or complaints, please contact us using our Contact Form, by email, by phone at 415-362-8921, or at the address listed above.
