Kaufman Rossin Website Privacy Policy

Last Reviewed: January 7, 2025

At Kaufman, Rossin & Co., A Professional Association, (“Company” or “We”), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) and Florida law.

Please note that this policy does not apply to the personal information of children, as our services are not intended for children under the age of 13, in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

This policy applies to information we collect:

On this Website.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates); or
Any third party [(including our affiliates)], including through any application or that may link to or be accessible from [or on] the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number (“personal information“);
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We may collect personal information from you in various ways, including:

When you use our services or products, such as when you engage us for accounting, auditing, tax, consulting, or other professional services.
When you contact us via email, phone, or other means of communication.
When you visit our website or use our online services, such as when you fill out forms, register for events, or subscribe to newsletters.
When we receive your personal information from third parties, such as our clients, vendors, or partners.
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, and web beacons.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our newsletter, registering for an event, participating in a survey, posting material, contacting us for more information or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and if you report a problem with our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users of the Website. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Identifiers, such as your name, address, phone number, or email address.
Professional or employment-related information, such as your job title, employer name, work address, or work email.
Financial information, such as your bank account number, credit card number, or payment history.
Internet or network activity, such as your IP address, device type, browser type, or website usage.
Geolocation data, such as your physical location or the location of your device.
Other information that identifies or relates to you, such as your date of birth, marital status, gender, or education.

We do not collect sensitive personal information, such as your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, or health information, unless required by law or with your explicit consent.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We use cookies and web beacons on our Website to collect and store certain information. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in your device memory that help us improve our Website and your experience, and to see which areas and features of our Website are popular. Web beacons are small electronic files embedded in web content that allow us to see which pages of our Website are viewed and how users interact with our Website.

The cookies we use on our Website include both session cookies (which expire when you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or device until you delete them). You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our Website.

We also use web beacons in our emails to track the success of our marketing campaigns and to see when emails are opened and clicked. This helps us understand which emails are most interesting to our subscribers and helps us improve our content.

We may also use cookies and web beacons from third-party providers, such as Meta and Google, to help us target our marketing and to track the performance of our advertisements on their platforms. You can opt-out of Meta and Google’s use of cookies for advertising by visiting their respective opt-out pages at the following links: Meta and Google.

This website uses Google AdWords

This web site uses the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to this website. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our services that may be of interest to you.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Kaufman Rossin’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Kaufman Rossin about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
We may share your personal information with the following categories of recipients:
To our affiliates, subsidiaries, or related entities, for business purposes only.
To our professional advisors, such as lawyers, accountants, or auditors, for business purposes only.
To our regulators, law enforcement agencies, or other third parties, as required by law or to protect our legal rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others.

We may also share your personal information in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, consolidation, or sale of assets, where the recipient agrees to comply with applicable data protection laws.

We may also disclose your personal information to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Kaufman Rossin, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Right to Use Data

We reserve the right to use any information we collect about you to secure the Website or other information on Kaufman Rossin networks or systems, to protect life, health, or safety, or to report criminal activity to appropriate law enforcement agencies.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites, including those of our partners, advertisers, and affiliates. We do not control the privacy practices of these other websites, and this privacy policy does not apply to them. You should check the privacy policies of these other websites before providing any personal information to them.

Your Rights and Choices

Under applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

Right to access: You have the right to request access to your personal information and to receive a copy of it.
Right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information about you.
Right to erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we provide you with a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, or to transfer it to another controller, where technically feasible.
Right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information, for reasons relating to your particular situation, unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing.
Right to withdraw consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on your consent before its withdrawal.

To exercise your rights, please contact us using the information provided in the “Contact Us” section below. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe and in accordance with applicable law.

Please note that some of these rights may not apply to you, or may be subject to limitations or exceptions under applicable law.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment will be processed by a third vendor, which shall be solely responsible for the security of such transactions.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible ensuring that your password is reasonably strong, that it is not stolen or compromised and for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Mandatory Arbitration

Any dispute arising out of or relating to this privacy policy, including but not limited to its validity, interpretation, performance, or breach, shall be resolved by final and binding arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association, and judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The arbitration shall be conducted in Miami-Dade County, Florida, applying Florida law, and shall be conducted by a single arbitrator appointed by the American Arbitration Association.

You and Kaufman Rossin agree to waive any right to a jury trial or to participate in a class action or other representative proceeding, and you and Kaufman Rossin agree to mutually and irrevocably waive any and all rights to participate in any capacity in a class, collective or representative action.

More Information About Privacy

For more information about privacy and protecting your personal information, you may wish to visit the Federal Trade Commission’s website at www.ftc.gov and the Florida Attorney General’ website at https://myfloridalegal.com/pages.nsf/Main/53D4216591361BCD85257F77004BE16C

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page, with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, you may contact us at privacy@kaufmanrossin.com.