
eTAX-VC Website
Cookie Policy
Cookies are small pieces of data we use to streamline your web experience. Cookies also assist us with our marketing and advertising activities.
Last Update: January, tax year 2025
To stay up-to-date with our Cookie Policy, please check back periodically.
The purpose of this cookie policy is to help you understand how an organization intends to use cookies ("Cookies") and similar technology, as well as how you can manage them. The eTAX-VC online tax preparation and filing service offered by VauntCourier LLC may use cookies when you interact with our websites, products, mobile apps or other services such as emails (collectively "Services").
What are Cookies
'Cookies' are small files created by websites and stored on your computer. Cookies often contain a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identify your device, but they may also contain other information. The purpose of cookies varies from helping to remember your preferences to enabling the proper functioning of our Services.
These are the different types of Cookies:
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Cookies are “persistent”, “permanent” or “session”:
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Even when you're offline, persistent and permanent Cookies stay on your device. Until you manually delete them or until your browser deletes them based on the time frame stated in the Cookie file itself, these Cookies will stay on your device.
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Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
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Cookies can also be “first-party” or “third-party”:
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First-party Cookies are Cookies that are placed by VauntCourier LLC or a third party for us.
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Third-party Cookies are placed by our partners and other third parties. We have no control over how third parties may collect or use data in the future via third-party Cookies.
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For marketing, analytics and technology, we use certain control and tracking technologies (such as beacons, pixels, tags and scripts) which typically work in conjunction with Cookies. We use these technologies to continuously maintain, provide, and improve our services to our visitors, our users, and our users' users, and to improve the user experience. For example, thanks to these technologies, we are able to track preferences and authenticated sessions of our visitors and users in order to better secure our services, identify technical problems, user trends and campaign efficiency, and to check and improve the overall performance of our services.
Similar technologies are those that allow the entity that uses them to track your user behavior. A variety of web application software techniques, including HTML5 Local Storage, pixels, tags, Flash Cookies (sometimes referred to as "local shared objects" or "LSOs"), and others can accomplish this by storing data in your browser or device. In certain situations where Flash is beeing used to provide video clips or animation, we may employ Flash Cookies.
How we use Cookies
Depending on the function that the Cookies serve in connection with our Services, we classify them whether they are “Essential”, “Functional”, “Improved Performance”, or “Marketing”.
ESSENTIAL COOKIES
To allow the technical operation of our Services Essential Cookies are necessary. We use them to:
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run your session securely while you’re logged in,
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authenticate you,
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help detect and prevent fraud, and
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to provide you with our Services (e.g. move around on our website and use its features).
FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
These Cookies:
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serve as proof that you have used our services in order for us to comply with legal requirements and keep our contractual responsibilities to partners,
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remember the choices you have made (e.g. language, region, login information …)
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improve and monitor the performance of our Services, and
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offer enhanced functionality when using our Services (e.g. 'stay logged in’ function).
IMPROVED PERFORMANCE COOKIES
These are Cookies which:
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collect data to track the use of our Services,
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assess the effectiveness of campaigns, and
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understand how people found our Services.
MARKETING COOKIES
allow us and our ad network partners, such as social media platforms, to display advertising that is personalized to you and avoid you from seeing the same ads too often. Please click the "Your Cookie Settings" link on the bottom left of any eTAX-VC.com page and deselect "Enable Marketing Cookies" to stop us from using marketing cookies.
Managing Your Cookie Settings
Please note that even if you opt-out of Cookies or interest-based marketing, you will still receive advertisements, they just won't be tailored to your interests. In addition, you may need to update your Cookie preferences if you decided to opt out, remove your Cookies later, use a different browser, or use a new or different device. It might also have an impact on the functionality and accessibility of our Services.
Cookies on eTAX-VC.com
Since our website is GDPR compliant, all visitors can decide whether to accept Cookies (besides the necessary Essential Cookies) when using our Services. You can manage the Cookies on eTAX-VC.com at any time by clicking on the link “Your Cookie Settings” at the bottom left. You also have the option to delete Cookies from your browser or device at any time.
Information on how to opt-out of automatically accepted Cookies on your device and/or internet browsers can be found in your browser/device settings. If you use different devices to access our website, you will need to ensure that each browser of each device is set to your Cookie preferences.
Most mobile operating systems provide you an option in the device settings to limit ad tracking associated with the device ID they may share with us. Please reference your mobile operating system’s help center to learn more.
To learn more about the Cookie technology go visit:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie or www.allaboutcookies.org
Resources for Controlling Third-Party Cookies
The following websites provide choices to opt-out of tracking through certain third-party marketing and analytics Cookies:
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For Users in the US: https://preferences-mgr.truste.com/
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For Users in the UK or EU: https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
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Visit the Digital Advertising Alliance's or Network Advertising Initiative's opt-out pages.
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For users in Canada, please visit https://youradchoices.ca/
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Opt-out of targeted ads on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsettings%2F%3Ftab%3Dads
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Opt-out of Google Analytics for display advertising or to customize Google Display Network ads:
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous?sig=ACi0TCjUd8LZFkdlUmLhuzgMv-W5yE7FzAdGSuCVT6NBjpHCsAFYUVMPb1B2xOFYjqdhGHrJtJBz9iNYcedDwZcLdNK0A1cuOGfVbPzL5qzKl6GQTWxJXxo&hl=en
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Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout (requires you to install a browser add-on).
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Info on how Google uses data when you use our partners’ websites and apps: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners
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For mobile apps, please refer to your mobile device’s settings, or download the AppChoices app.
You have more questions about Cookies?
For further information on how we protect your privacy in our use of cookies and other personal information, or if you would like to contact us, please see our Global Privacy Statement for details.
Last Update: January, tax year 2025
How to Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about our Website Cookie Policy, please contact us.