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This site is the front door. You decide what to send, and this page says what we do with it.

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People walking the sidewalk on East Sixth Street in Austin

What a note from this site contains

This site is the front door. This page says what we do with a name and a phone number you choose to give us. We do not buy a list of owners, and we do not ask the page to guess who you are. A note about one month is enough to start the conversation.

Sixth Street was originally Pecan Street, and the historic stretch runs from Lavaca east to the interstate. Texans know that sidewalk. We are not standing on it. A note you send after a Saturday there is still a private note, and we treat it as one.

If you send the form, you give us your name, your phone, the job you picked, and, on the longer form, an email, a size band, and a few words about how current the books are. That is the note. It is not a file of your whole year.

If you use the calendar, the booking page collects what it needs to hold a time. If you call the phone number in the footer, the call itself is the contact. We treat those as the same kind of request.

What the site collects on its own

The pages send a small beacon so we can tell which page was opened and whether a form was seen or sent. It stores a random visitor key and a session key in your browser. If you have asked your browser to signal do not track, the beacon stays quiet.

The beacon can include the page name, a referrer, and the usual campaign tags if they are present on the link you used. It does not include your name. Your name arrives only if you type it into a form or say it on a call.

Chat, if you open it, is a separate widget. What you type there is a message to the practice, held so we can reply. Do not put a password or a full account number in the chat. A month and a question are enough.

Why we hold it, and for how long

We hold the note so we can answer it, and so we can do the work if you later hire us. We do not sell it. We do not trade it for advertising about unrelated products. We do not hand it to a stranger who wants a list of companies.

If you ask us to delete a note and we have not started an engagement, we delete it. If an engagement exists, we keep what the work and the law require, and we say what that is when you ask. A vague promise of forever, or of instant forgetting, would both be lies.

A request about your note can come through the form or the phone number on this site, and it reaches the same practice the footer already names. Say you are asking about privacy, and name the phone or email you used, so we can find the right note. We answer that request in writing.

Changes to this page

If we change what we collect, we change this page. The page you are reading is the current one. We do not hide a change in a file nobody links.

Public pages stay noindex until the practice decides otherwise. That is a publishing choice, not a privacy trick. Your note is still private either way.

Nothing here is a contract. The terms page covers the visit. An engagement, if there is one later, is a separate writing. This page is only about the note and the beacon.

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A privacy question.

Steven Palmieri, Tax CFO

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