We are committed to protecting your privacy and securing the personal information made available to us when you visit our website. This Privacy Policy explains our online information practices. We won’t collect personal information about you just because you visit this site.
Some applications on this website provide you with the opportunity to complete a tax questionnaire, ask questions requiring a response and sign up for our newsletters. Using these services is voluntary and may require that you provide additional personal information to us. Providing the requested information implies your consent for us to use this data in order to respond to your specific request.
If you communicate with us by sending an email, your email address may be retained for further communication with you in connection with processing your request or as provided by law. Do not send any sensitive or confidential information in the body of, or as an attachment to, an electronic mail message unless we have directed that you do so.
Data sent via email is not inherently secured or encrypted. Any information contained in an email message or attachment may be retained and stored by this firm pursuant to the applicable retention period or as provided by law, O & G collects the email addresses of those visitors who voluntarily provide their email address on this site and on other platforms, such as our YouTube channel or Facebook.
Further, email addresses and other volunteered information may be used to send newsletters, and other information to those who request it.
We use Google Analytics to capture information about the effectiveness of this websites. Google Analytics collects information from your browser like the language setting, the type of browser (such as Chrome or Safari), and the device and operating system on which your browser is running. It can even collect the “traffic source,” which brought you to this site in the first place.
Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, but this cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use (as amended for government websites) and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.
We will not disclose any personally identifiable information collected online to third parties except where you have given us permission, or where the information is public information and readily available for public inspection.
Several tools, policies and protocols are used to safeguard the submission of information through this website. Security measures have been integrated into the design, implementation and day-to-day operations of the entire operating environment as part of our continuing commitment to the security of electronic content as well as the electronic transmission of information.
For services requiring financial transactions, this site uses the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption protocol to safeguard your sensitive personal information, including your credit card number. Information is encrypted from your computer to the Portal computer processing your request.
To further secure your privacy, do not disclose any passwords or sensitive information (e.g., credit card number) to anyone in a phone call or email. When you are finished with those applications that are password protected or required the input of your credit card information, always close the browser page.
