Privacy Policy

You can read every page of this website without filling in the contact form.

The only information you type that we receive through this site is what you put in the contact form. We use it to reply to you. We do not sell it, rent it, or give it to anyone for advertising.

Separately, we use Google Analytics 4 on every page so we can see whether the site is useful.

Your name, your email address, and your phone number if you choose to give one. Whether you are asking as an individual or a business, and if a business, the entity type. How you would prefer we reach you. And whatever you write in the message box.

That is the complete list. There are no accounts on this site, no payments, no file uploads, and nothing to log in to.

No Social Security numbers, no tax documents, no bank or account numbers. A web form and ordinary email are not secure enough for those, and you should not send them to any accountant that way, including us.

Tell us you have documents and we will arrange a secure way to get them.

The form is handled by Formspree, a United States company that processes the submission and emails it to Vandana. Your message is stored in Formspree and in her email account until it is deleted.

This website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, it may keep standard server logs, which can include your IP address, for security and reliability. We do not read those logs, and we do not use them to build any picture of you.

We use Google Analytics 4 (gtag) on every page. Google Analytics sets cookies on this site and gives the browser a client ID, which Google uses to recognise repeat visits. It records the pages you visit, your approximate location, your device, and similar data so we can tell whether the site is useful. We do not use this to show you ads. We do not sell this. Google's privacy policy is at https://policies.google.com/privacy (opens another website) and explains how they handle that data. You can opt out of Google Analytics with Google's browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout (opens another website).

The outside companies involved in running this website are Formspree, Cloudflare, and Google (Analytics). That is the list for the website. It is not a list of who handles client files. The booking page is hosted by Microsoft but is not part of this website; see Booking a call below.

The site links to a booking page hosted by Microsoft Bookings. If you use that link, you leave this website. Microsoft collects your name, email, and any other details you enter there, and puts the appointment on Vandana's calendar.

We do not embed that calendar on this site, so Microsoft does not set cookies here when you only read the page. Microsoft's privacy statement is at https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement (opens another website).

Email vandana@vpatelcpa.com and ask. She will remove your submission from Formspree and from her inbox. If you booked a call, cancel it from the confirmation Microsoft sent you, or ask her to cancel it. You do not need to give a reason.

This policy is about visitors to this website. It is not the privacy notice that governs a client engagement.

When you engage us, you receive a separate privacy notice describing how your financial information is handled, along with any consents the law requires before your tax return information is used or disclosed. Those protections are stronger than this page, and they are given to you directly rather than published on a website.

This site is meant for adults seeking accounting services. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. There is no other version of it anywhere.