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Dear Client:

This office is required by the Federal Trade Commission under title 16 CFR part 313 to provide written notice of our privacy policy to all individual clients where we offer tax preparation and/or financial services.

Your privacy is important to us. At JPT Financial Solutions, we are committed to your privacy and retaining your trust. We respect your right to keep your personal information confidential and to avoid unwanted solicitations.

Nonpublic personal information is collected about you that is provided by you or obtained by us with your authorization to prepare your personal income tax returns and provide personal financial planning to you. Examples of sources from which we collect information are as follows:

1. CLIENT INTERVIEWS, TAX RETURN & FINANCIAL PLANNING ORGANIZERS, FINANCIAL HISTORY QUESTIONNAIRES
To properly prepare your income tax return or provide financial planning services, we receive information from you to complete your tax return or financial plan. This information is collected from you in written form, by phone, on line, by mail and in personal interviews and consultations conducted by us, as well as by information we collect from others with your authorization.

2. TRANSACTION INFORMATION
This is information about your transactions with us and includes information necessary for billing and payment for our income tax preparation and financial planning services, as well as all correspondence between you and us. Transaction information would also include your payment history with us, billing records and any collection effort engaged in by us for payment of services rendered to you.

We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our clients or former clients to our affiliates or to non affiliated third parties except as permitted by law, the Code of Professional Conduct of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA) and Ethics Rulings of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as follows:

1. Complying with a validly issued and enforceable subpoena or summons
2. In the course of a review of our practices under the New Jersey State Board of Accountancy authorization
3. Initiating a complaint or responding to an inquiry made by the Professional Conduct Committee of the NJSCPA, the ethics division or trial board of the AICPA or duly constituted investigative or disciplinary body of another State CPA Society or Board of Accountancy
4. A review of a professional practice in conjunction with a prospective purchase, sale or merger of all or part of our practice, provided that we take appropriate precautions (for example, through a written confidentiality agreement) so the prospective purchaser does not disclose information obtained in the course of the review.
5. Participating in actual or threatened legal proceedings or alternative dispute resolution proceedings either initiated by or against us, provided we disclose only the information necessary to file, pursue, or defend against the lawsuit, and take reasonable precautions to ensure that the information disclosed does not become a matter of public record.
6. Providing information to affiliates of the office and non-affiliated third parties who perform services or functions for us pursuant to a contractual agreement which prohibits the third party or affiliate from disclosing or using the information other than for the purposes for which the information was disclosed (for example, using an outside service bureau to process clients’ tax returns)

As tax preparers, we are prohibited by Internal Revenue Code section 7216 from disclosing your income tax return information without your consent, other than for the specific purpose of preparing, assisting in preparing or obtaining and providing services in connection with the preparation of an income tax return for you. Furthermore, as a member of the NJSCPA engaged in income tax preparation or financial planning, we are generally prohibited from disclosing confidential client information about you to affiliates and nonaffiliated third parties without your specific consent, with the exception of specific instances cited above.

We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees and other parties who must use that information to provide services to you. Their right to further disclose and use the information is limited by our employee code of conduct, applicable law, our code of professional conduct and nondisclosure agreements where appropriate. We also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in compliance with applicable laws and regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information.