Current as of: August 16, 2026

This policy governs taxsmartpath.com. Taxsmartpath’s subject is Taxsmartpath; this page is about the information involved in publishing it and reading it.

What We Hold

• The data involved falls into two buckets. Passively collected: log and analytics information — IP address, device and browser — about the connection used to reach taxsmartpath.com, and the path taken through the site. Actively provided: an email address for the mailing list, comment details, or the contents of a message to us.
• Given what we write about, this is worth being explicit about: we ask readers not to send us sensitive personal details, and we delete rather than retain anything of that kind that reaches us unprompted.

Your Control

Readers in the UK and EU have GDPR rights; readers in California and other US states have comparable rights under CCPA/CPRA and similar statutes. In practice this means you can ask to see, correct, delete, or export your data, object to certain processing, and opt out of sale or sharing for advertising. We honour Global Privacy Control. The State Privacy Notice and Do Not Sell or Share pages have the detail.

Cookies and Tracking

The Cookie Policy explains which cookies may be set on taxsmartpath.com and how you can manage them.

Where advertising is served, third-party vendors including Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info.

How the Data Is Applied

Purposes are limited to running and improving taxsmartpath.com, measuring traffic in aggregate, delivering email that has been opted into, and supporting any advertising displayed on the site.

Retention & Security

Retention is purpose-bound: analytics records expire on their provider’s cycle, mailing-list entries persist only while you remain subscribed, and comment data stays as long as the comment does. We restrict who can reach the data, serve the site over encrypted connections, and apply safeguards proportionate to the (limited) sensitivity of what we hold — no system is completely secure.

Our Newsletter

Subscribing takes two steps: you submit an address, then confirm it from that address. All email includes an unsubscribe link and a postal address as required, and the list is never sold, rented, or shared for others’ marketing.

Others in the Chain

The parties that may receive data are our hosting provider, any analytics service in use, the email platform behind the newsletter, and advertising networks where advertising is served. Advertising and analytics vendors generally act as independent controllers; the rest act as processors on our instruction.

Children’s Privacy

This site is written for adults. It is not directed to children under 13 (or under 16 where local law sets that threshold), we do not knowingly collect data from them, and if we learn we have, we delete it.

Contacting Us

You can reach us at hello@taxsmartpath.com about this policy or to exercise any right described in it.