As an accounting, bookkeeping and tax firm, we collect nonpublic personal information about you from some or all of the following sources:

• Personal interviews, meetings and conferences with you.
• Information received from you and others about your transactions with others and with us.
• Information received from consumer reporting agencies.

In addition, in the interest of facilitating our services to your company, we may communicate through this web site, by facsimile transmission or send electronic mail over the internet.

We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our clients or former clients to any third parties, except as permitted by you or required by law.

We restrict access to nonpublic personal and account information about you to those of our employees or contractors who need to know that information in order to provide products or services to you.

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information. We employ measures in the use of facsimile machines and computer technology designed to maintain data security, and will use our best efforts to keep such communications secure in accordance with our obligations under applicable laws and professional standards.

Communications and information transmitted through proper access to this web site (http://secure.RBarnesCPA.com) are guaranteed to be secure. If you choose to use other means of electronic communication, such as sending files as email attachments, you recognize and accept that we have no control over the unauthorized interception of these communications once they have been sent.

Please let us know if you have any questions about the above information. And thanks so much for the opportunity of serving you. We truly appreciate your patronage.