Personalized Accounting Total Services Privacy Policy

You have entered the Personailzed Accounting Total Service's (PATS )website. PATS uses this website to provide information about our services and programs. This website includes specific applications which provide more services or enable us to respond to specific questions from web site visitors.

We will not collect personal information about you just because you visit this Internet site. 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.

Your Privacy Rights

PATS is committed to protecting the privacy rights of America's taxpayers.

Statistical Information

In order to improve service on our website, we automatically collect and maintain statistical information in our site's data logs that show network traffic flow and volume. These logs do not identify individuals who visit our website. This information is:

• The name of the domain from which the visitor accesses the Internet (for example, 'company.com' if you use a private Internet access account 'yourschool.edu' if you connect from an educational domain or, 'agency.gov' if you connect from a US government domain).
• The Internet Protocol (IP) Address from which you access our website.
• The date and time (with time zone) that you access our website.
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our website.
• The Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our website.
• The web pages on www.patsonline.com that you visit. This helps to determine which information on our site the public finds most useful and enables us to make it easier to access.
• Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) packet data. This information is used to detect malicious activity on our website.
• Session cookie ID. This helps us determine which sequences of pages users typically view. We use this information to make the site easier to use.
• Other cookies used to validate voluntary customer survey results.  These are of limited duration and cannot be used to identify survey participants or track their page or web site visits.  
• Number of bytes received helps determine the computer and network capacity required to make the site available to the public.

If You Send Us Information On-line

Our website offers the opportunity to ask questions, request information, or to obtain other services. Use of these options is voluntary. By furnishing the requested information, you are deemed to have consented to use of your data. We will use the information you provide only for the reasons you provided it.

To enable us to respond to your requests, you may need to provide personal or tax information. Please read the supplemental Privacy statements that appear and know that whenever we request such information, it will be used only for the purposes you provide it.

Your personal information will not be retained any longer than is necessary to provide the service. And, your personal information will not be sold or shared with any other party except as required by law.

Cookies

'Persistent cookies' collect personal information to recognize your computer in the future. PATS does not use 'persistent cookies' or other technology to collect personally identifiable information about visitors to our website.   Cookies of a limited nature may be used for voluntary customer surveys.  Their purpose is to validate feedback, and cannot be used to identify survey participants or track web usage.

'Temporary session' cookies are used on all PATS web pages. These cookies are stored in memory and are only available during an active browser session.  Session cookies are used by some of the applications deployed on our website as well to accurately analyze how visitors navigate through our website at an aggregated-level. These cookies do not collect personal information on visitors, and they are erased as soon as you close your web browser.  No personally identifiable information about you is maintained as a result of a temporary or session cookie.

You can configure your web browser to accept or decline cookies, or to alert you when cookies are in use. You do not have to accept cookies from us, but if you choose not to, some of the functions on our site may not be available to you.

Links to Other Sites

This website provides access to other websites outside our control. When you link to these websites, you leave our website and your communications no longer are protected by our privacy policy. PATS online is not responsible for the privacy practices nor the content of non-PATS websites. We recommend that you review the privacy policy or terms and conditions of those sites to fully understand what information is collected and how it is used. PATS provides links to other websites as a service but does not endorse those websites or validate their content.