0100 · Privacy Policy

Your information, guarded like a license depends on it.

Because one does. This page summarizes how the firm handles the information clients entrust to it. The full legal framework — IRC §7216, AICPA rules, and firm practice — is documented in our confidentiality standard.

0110 · The Commitments

Plain-language privacy.

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What We Collect

The information needed to perform the engagement you’ve authorized: identity and contact details, and the financial and tax records you provide. Nothing is collected for resale or advertising — ever.

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How It’s Protected

Encrypted portal exchange with identity verification, multi-factor authentication, and hardened infrastructure. Client data moves only through technology vendors vetted and qualified in writing.

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Consent Comes First

Where federal law — including the tax-return-information rules — requires your written consent before information is used or disclosed beyond preparing your return, that consent is obtained in plain language, before the use. Not after, not buried.

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What We Never Do

Sell client information. Share it with advertisers. Feed it to public AI tools. Retain client files as test or training data absent the consent federal law requires.

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Website Visitors

This site is quiet by design: no advertising trackers, no marketing cookies, no analytics that identify you — which is why there is no cookie banner to click. The site is served from edge infrastructure that keeps standard, short-lived server logs (IP address, request time) for security and abuse prevention. Page typography is self-hosted from this domain. Loading a page sends no request to any third party.

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Third-Party Services You May Use

Booking a meeting happens on Microsoft’s Bookings service; document exchange happens in the SecureFilePro client portal; email travels through Microsoft 365. Each operates under its own privacy terms, and each was qualified in writing before touching client work. Links to outside businesses (see Shop Local) are provided without endorsement — their sites, their policies.

✓ QUESTIONS  Privacy questions or requests: INFO@HEMINGWAYCPA.COM or 281-753-0117. Effective July 30, 2026.