Workful Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement


At Workful.com (collectively "We", "Us", "Our or "Workful"), we are committed to safeguarding customer information on www.workful.com. Since your privacy is a priority to us, Workful will not share nonpublic information about you with third parties outside of the Workful corporate family without your consent, except as explained in our Privacy Policy.

If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.

PRIVACY POLICY

Protecting your privacy is important to Workful. We want you to understand what information we may gather and how we may it. This Privacy Policy explains Workful collection, use, retention and security of information about you.

How We Collect Information

Visiting our Web Site

We will not collect personal information about you just because you visit this site. In order to improve the usefulness of our web site for our visitors, we automatically collect and maintain statistical information from our site's data logs that concern network traffic flow and volume. This information consists of:

  • The name of the domain from which the visitor accesses the Internet (e.g., "a company.com"; "a school.edu"; or "an agency.gov")
  • The Internet Protocol Number
  • The date and time our website is visited
  • Browser type
  • Internet service provider
  • Referring/exit pages
  • Operating system
  • Clickstream data

This information does not identify individual visitors and is used to enhance and improve your experience on our site. No attempts are made to identify individual users unless illegal behavior is suspected.

Mobile

When you download and use our Services, we automatically collect information on the type of device you use, system and performance information and operating system version. We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our Mobile Software on your phone. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We do not link the information we store within the analytics software to any personally identifiable information you submit within the mobile app.

Location Information

In order to perform our Services, we or our service providers are required to receive or infer information about the customer's location from a variety of sources. For example, we may use the customer's IP address to identify their general location or we may receive more precise location data from their mobile device (such as via GPS, wireless networks, cell towers, Wi-Fi access points). We may use location data to analyze certain information, and to improve our Services and relevance of the information we provide via the Services. Please note that if the customer, does not share location information then the functionality of the Services will be limited.

Purchasing our Products

The purpose of this site is to market and sell our software. As a result, you may have to provide us your personal information and/or email address. We do not share or disseminate this information to other vendors or clients. This information is kept in strictest, secure, confidence. If you choose to purchase our products online, you will be asked for personal information as well as your credit card number. The forms requesting this information are on a secure server. All steps are taken to safeguard your information.

Tracking Technologies

Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags, scripts or similar technologies are used by Workful and our partners affiliates, or analytics or service providers. For an updated list of these providers please contact our marketing team. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis. We use cookies for [our shopping cart, to remember users’ settings (e.g. language preference), for authentication]. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.

Behavioral Advertising

We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.

Information Gathering

The information we gather includes:

  • Credit Card including:
    Cardholder's name, credit card type, credit card number, expiration date, billing address, email address. Credit card data is used to complete our transactions and none of this information is shared with anyone else.
  • Technical Assistance
    User name, user ID, email address, operating system, connection, browser.

We may also collect, from you, the following personal information about your contacts:

  • [Name and email address], in order to refer our products or services
  • [Email address], in order to share an article, blog post or other content

When you provide us with personal information about your contacts we will only use this information for the specific reason for which it is provided.

If you believe that one of your contacts has provided us with your personal information and you would like to request that it be removed from our database, please contact us at (706) 868-7021.

Newsletters

We will use your name and email address to send newsletters to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please visit http://workful.us16.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=6b3083b7ba61256b177e14b41&id=d32f9c98dd&e=&c=2005cff4c9 to opt out.

Sharing Information

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

  • Within Workful Corporate Family

    We may share information about you and the products and services you have purchased from us, among members of the Workful Corporate family and our parent company of Rhodes Financial Services, all of whom follow our Privacy Policy. However, this information will not be provided to third parties outside our corporate family, except as noted below:

  • With Our Service Providers

    In some cases, we employ service providers to provide a product you order, to fulfill a service you request, or to market one of our products or services. Examples include using Web analytical software, Web beacons, delivering downloadable products, offering online software applications, or sending e-mails on our behalf. While this may require us to share information, these service providers are strictly prohibited from using your information other than to act on our behalf.

  • For Legal Reasons

    We may be required to provide information about you to third parties outside of the Workful corporate family without your consent as provided by law, such as, to respond to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, a subpoena or court order, judicial process or bankruptcy proceedings, regulatory authorities, to protect against fraud.

  • In Case of Sale of Company

    Your information may be transferred in connection with a proposed or actual sale, merger, or transfer of all or a portion of a business or operating unit. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.

Testimonials

We post customer testimonials on our web site which may contain personal information such as the customer's name. We do obtain the customer's consent prior to posting the testimonial to post their name along with their testimonial. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at [email protected].

Blog / Forum

Our web site offers publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at [email protected]. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why. Alternatively, if you used a third party application to post such information, you can remove it, by either logging into the said application and removing the information or by contacting the appropriate third party application.

Links

As a service to our customers, we have installed links to various tax agencies/services. These include IRS.Gov, and various state agencies and organizations. The links provided are maintained by these separate entities and are not the property of, or affiliated with, Workful.com. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Web site you visit.

Social Media Widgets

Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Our Former Customers

Even if you are no longer a Workful customer, our Privacy Policy will continue to apply to you.

Our Security Practices and Information Accuracy

We take every step available to safeguard customer information. All forms accepting user information are processed on our secure servers.

Workful’s electronic filing process is encrypted to avoid any unwanted detection. All acknowledgements are handled by e-mail with only general information given. Acknowledgements can also be retrieved via our website again without general information provided. (Example: IRS accepted or rejected, acceptance date, etc.) Workful will not issue a refund for forms rejected by the IRS or any state agency. Confidential information such as refund amounts, names, addresses, and account numbers are not displayed or e-mailed.

Incomplete tax forms or forms that are not accepted by the IRS will be deleted.

Workful.com takes industry standard measures to protect the personal information we collect. We provide high level types of security measures including, but not limited to, firewalls and protected facilities. Our Web site uses SSL encryption to transmit sensitive information. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable law and federal standards.

We strive to keep our customer information as accurate and complete as we can. If you believe any of the information about you is not accurate or if you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at [email protected].

Data Retention

We will retain your information for up to three tax years as long as your account is active, or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at [email protected]. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Web Analytics Tracking

This website uses Hotjar web analytics service. Hotjar may record mouse clicks, mouse movements and scrolling activity. Hotjar collects information regarding pages visited, actions which are taken, country, device used, operating system, and browser used. Hotjar does not collect personally identifiable information (PII) that you do not voluntarily enter in this website. Hotjar does not track your browsing habits across web sites which do not use Hotjar services.

How to Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, you should first contact customer support at [email protected].

You can also write us at:

Workful.com Privacy
945 Broad Street, Augusta, GA 30901

Changes in this Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy applies to products and services of Workful.com. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy, and any of the policies described above, at any time. Any changes to our policy will be immediately posted and made available to consumers at our website and these changes will not take effect for 15 days after their initial posting. We will also email users with this information. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail Other Types of Information We Gather, address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. The examples contained within this Privacy Policy are illustrations; they are not intended to be exclusive.

Approved and Effective 09/27/16