Privacy Policy

At Clarity Tax (“we,” “our,” or “us”), we believe that the best way to protect your privacy is to not collect your personal data in the first place. This website, tryclaritytax.com (the “Site”), is designed to be an informational and self-service tool.

We do not prepare tax returns, we do not collect or store Social Security Numbers (SSNs), and we do not collect or maintain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as your name, financial accounts, or contact details.

This Privacy Policy explains the limited technical information collected through your use of our Site, primarily via Google Analytics, in compliance with the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA).

1. Data Minimization & Non-Collection of PII

In strict compliance with Maryland law’s data minimization mandates, we limit data collection exclusively to non-identifying technical data necessary to operate, maintain, and optimize our Site.

• No PII: We do not provide user accounts, contact forms, or inputs that request your name, physical address, email address, phone number, or financial documentation.
• No Sensitive Data: We do not collect, process, or infer any sensitive data as defined under Maryland law, including government-issued identifiers (SSNs, ITINs), biometric data, precise geolocation, or information from known minors. Any numerical inputs you enter into calculators on this Site are processed strictly in real-time within your browser session and are not stored or transmitted to our servers.

2. Information Collected Automatically (Google Analytics)

When you visit our Site, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, LLC (“Google”), to understand how visitors interact with our content. Google Analytics utilizes cookies (small text files placed on your device) to collect and analyze aggregate, non-identifying internet log and visitor behavior information.

The categories of data processed include:

• Technical Identifiers: Network information, browser type, device type, screen resolution, language settings, and operating system.
• Interaction Data: Pages viewed on our Site, time spent on specific pages, links clicked, and the referring website that directed you to us.
• Coarse Geolocation: General geographic data at the country or region/city level. We do not collect precise GPS geolocation.

Our Data Protection Settings: We configure Google Analytics to use IP anonymization/masking where technically supported, meaning your full IP address is truncated before storage. Furthermore, we do not enable Google Analytics data-sharing features for third-party targeted advertising or cross-context behavioral marketing.

3. Your Privacy Controls & Global Preference Signals

You have absolute control over the technical data collected during your visit:

• Global Privacy Control (GPC) & Universal Opt-Outs: Our Site is configured to automatically detect and honor universal opt-out preference signals, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC) transmitted by your browser. If your browser or privacy extension emits a GPC signal, our Site will automatically disable Google Analytics tracking for your entire session.
• Browser Settings: You can reject or delete cookies directly via your browser settings.
• Google Analytics Add-On: You can prevent your data from being utilized by Google Analytics across all websites by installing the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

4. Third-Party Links and Service Providers

We may utilize trusted infrastructure service providers (such as secure web hosting platforms) to keep our Site online and functional. These providers are strictly bound by contract to handle our technical infrastructure data with confidentiality and are prohibited from using this data for any secondary marketing purposes.

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites or financial tools. If you click an external link, you will be directed to a site operated by a third party. We do not control, review, or assume responsibility for the privacy practices, content, or data processing activities of any third-party websites.

5. Consumer Rights Under Maryland Law (MODPA)

Because our platform does not collect your name, email, phone number, or tax records, we do not possess a technical mechanism to link individual Site visitors to historical browsing data. Therefore, we cannot fulfill standard access, deletion, or portability requests, as doing so would require us to retroactively gather more personal information than we naturally collect, which violates Maryland’s data minimization principles.

However, we fully respect and uphold your statutory rights under MODPA:

• Right to Opt-Out: You may universally opt out of our technical data processing at any time by enabling GPC in your browser or disabling cookies.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will never deny services, alter website performance, or penalize you for exercising your privacy choices or utilizing privacy-focused browsers or extensions.

6. Technical Security

We maintain commercially reasonable physical, administrative, and technical controls to protect our website infrastructure. All connections to and from tryclaritytax.com are encrypted using standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/TLS) technology to protect data in transit between your browser and our servers.

7. Changes to this Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy to accurately reflect changes to our website or shifting legal requirements. Any updates will be published directly on this page with a revised “Effective Date.”

8. Contact Us

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our data minimization practices, you may reach out to us directly via our legal corporate entity processing channel:

• Mailing Address: Clarity Tax, 5850 Waterloo Rd STE 140, Columbia, MD 21045
• Telephone: 888-858-5697
• Email Support: support@tryclaritytax.com