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PRIVACY POLICY

Updated March 13, 2025

These changes strengthen our commitment to you and more clearly define how you are in control of the data captured and stored on our website. These changes align with our commitment to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This Privacy Policy discloses LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us privacy policy and contains detailed information about the following:

We respect the privacy of our website visitors

What types of information do we collect?

What are cookies and how does Legalnextgroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us use them?

How Legalnextgroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us use your information?

How to opt-out from your subscriptions and communications

How Legalnextgroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us protects your personal information

Who Legalnextgroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us shares your information with

Access to Your Information / Your Data Subject Rights

Using Legalnextgroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us website blogs, message boards, discussion forums, and moderated chats

Other websites

1. We respect the privacy of our website visitors

LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us and its affiliates and partners respect the privacy of its visitors. The following process explains our information gathering and disseminating practices at LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us. Please read this information so that you can feel comfortable about participating in our community.

2. What types of information do we collect?

Personal Information: As a LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us member you may be required to provide certain information about yourself upon registration such as your name, company, and email address, and in the instance of a purchase, your credit card information. Upon further visits to LegalNextGroup.com and or GoldenTax.us, we may ask you to further complete your profile with the following information: address, areas and topics of interest, company name, job title, and your function in the human resources field (i.e., LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us solution provider). By providing any personal information to this website, you fully understand and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in any country.

In some cases, LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us. may also leverage third party tools to collect additional (publicly available) information for your profile, or to update existing data and information which you have provided LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us. The type(s) of data that we could collect using these tools are only those that LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us asks for during website registration. LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us does not aim to collect additional person information on users which we do not ask for upfront; upon registration to our website. 

Some personal information may be collected about you if you choose to participate in our industry research surveys. In particular, your responses to survey questions, as well as details about how you connected to this survey website, including your IP address, and the date and time when you connected may be collected.

Our Web server collects the IP address, operating system and browser software used by our visitors. An IP address (which is different than an email address) can tell us the user’s Internet service provider and based on that, can suggest the geographic location of the connection. We also collect information about which pages they visit, the order in which they were visited, and which hyperlinks they click. This information helps us evaluate the effectiveness of various parts of the site.

3. What are cookies and how does LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us use them?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer’s hard drive – to help track your usage of our site. Cookies don’t include personal information about you, but they are unique to each user, which allows LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us computers to distinguish between users and can save you time when you return to a part of the site and repeat an activity. Cookies placed on your computer by third parties by or LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us though the Site, if any, are not the responsibility of LegalNextGroup.com.

While LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us does not require you to use cookies, keep in mind that certain services will not function properly if you set your browser to refuse all cookies. To help serve you better, LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us generally uses cookies to:

• Identify return visitors. Cookies let us remember your web browser so we can provide personalized member services. Cookies also allow us to identify LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us members who are returning to the site.
• Display advertisements. LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us uses an outside ad company to display LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us-approved ads on our website and other websites. While we use cookies on other parts of our website(s) such as LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us, the cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company. These cookies allow LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us to manage the delivery of ads.

4. How LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us uses your information

We collect this information in order to provide you with our services more easily, and in a more personalized manner. We may share personal information in the following ways:

1. We may make blogs, message boards and discussion forums available to you
2. Your registration information is captured in our database when you become a LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us member. This personal information will be used to process orders and to contact you regarding technical updates, upcoming program information, special offers and upcoming events.
3. When members register to participate in our live or archived sponsor webcasts, download white papers from the website, or respond to our vendor email marketing campaigns, full contact information of the user may be provided to the vendor according to any contract agreement with that particular vendor/sponsor. Members can opt-out of email campaigns at any time LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us though a one-click unsubscribe link in the email or LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us though their Manage Subscriptions preferences on their LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us membership profile. The revenue derived from these promotions sponsored by vendors enables us to supply leading-edge content, subsidize the production of our Website and support research and development efforts.
4. When members participate in our industry research surveys, full contact information and survey answers may be provided to the vendor according to any contract agreement with that particular vendor/sponsor. All promotions are sent out to LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us through LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us Members can opt-out of research survey promotions at any time LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us though a one-click unsubscribe link in the email or LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us though their Manage Subscriptions preferences on their LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us membership profile.
5. We disclose site use information (i.e., impressions and click-LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us though on a company’s advertisement) to third-party sponsors/advertisers aggregate statistics. In addition, we may share aggregate website statistics with the media or other third parties. We do not disclose personal information to these sponsors/advertisers or other third parties as part of this process, only information in an aggregate form.
6. LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us may place “cookies” in visitor’s web browser. They allow LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us (via AdRoll) to display relevant display ads to our potential customers as they visit our websites.

5. How to opt-out from your subscriptions and communications

As a part of the LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us network, you will receive a minimum of 2 pieces of email a week. This email is our General e-NewsLetter and LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us Promotions mail stream which is a direct advertising mailout from one or more of our valued advertisers or it may contain news and interviews related to the industry from a vendor. Registered users of LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us will also be offered a variety of other email or mail streams such as industry-specific e-NewsLetter and LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us announcements and surveys. You have the option to remove yourself from these particular mail-outs whenever you wish.

If you no longer wish to receive specific communications or subscriptions, you have the following opt-out options:

1. By unsubscribing LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us through the one-click unsubscribe link or Manage Subscriptions link in an email
2. By logging in to your account at LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us and updating your preferences in the Manage Subscriptions tab of your profile
3. By emailing FreeFile@GoldenTax.us or faxing 1-818-660-2400.

6. How LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us protects your personal information?

For all our transactions, we employ reasonable and current Internet security methods and technologies. Where appropriate, we password protect, use SSL encryption techniques for credit card information and install firewalls. We strive to protect you. We encourage our participating service providers to adopt and honor their own consumer privacy policies. For all our efforts to safeguard your privacy, no system can be guaranteed. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us, or that we transmit to you, or guarantee that it will be free from unauthorized access by third parties. Once we receive your information, we use reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

7. Whom LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us share your information with?

In order to provide you with co-branded services, and to improve our features, we will sometimes share your information with our partners.

We reserve the right to disclose any information if such action is necessary (a) to conform to the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process or subpoena served on LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us, (b) to protect and defend the legal rights or property of LegalNextGroup.com, the Site, or its users, or (c) in an emergency, to protect the health and safety of its users or the general public. We further reserve the right to release any information concerning any user if that user participates (or is reasonably suspected of participating) in any illegal activity, even without a subpoena, warrant, or other court order. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who may be using our servers or services for illegal activities. We also reserve the right to report any suspected illegal activity to law enforcement for investigation or prosecution.

It is possible that LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us, its subsidiaries, its joint ventures, or any combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide the service. Notice of any such event (to the extent it occurs) will be posted on the LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us website, and we will require that the new combined entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

8. Access to Your Information /Your Data Subject Rights

At any time, LegalNextGroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us members may directly access their online profiles and other personal details to amend, update, add, or delete information themselves by logging in to their account at www.Legalnextgroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us and selecting “Update My Profile” or “Manage Subscriptions” under your profile picture in the upper right-hand corner of the header.

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data, as fully compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can also request access to information we hold about you, ask us Legalnextgroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us through fax to correct any information that may be inaccurate and/or ask us to block or delete such information, and object to the processing of information (within the limits of applicable law).

To raise inquiries about your information in our possession, please email us at FrontDesk@LegalNextGroup.com, or fax us at 1-818-660-2400. We may require you to prove your identity with approved identification before fulfilling your request. We will respond to your request within thirty (30) days. Please note that we need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such access, change or deletion.

9. Using Legalnextgroup.com and/or GoldenTax.us website blogs, message boards, discussion forums, and comments on newsletters

These services are available to all members on the website. If you choose to voluntarily disclose certain information on any such public area of the Site, this Privacy Policy will not cover such disclosure of information. We urge exercising caution when disclosing information on blogs, public message boards or discussion forums.

10. Other websites

The Site may also contain links to other websites and advertising. The privacy policies of those websites and advertisers may significantly differ from that of our Site. It is your responsibility to contact such website operator or advertiser directly to determine their privacy policy.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.