Privacy Policy Statement and Disclaimer

TXCPA Privacy Policy

The Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (“TXCPA”) is committed to protecting the privacy of its members. Information about members of the Texas Society of CPAs, including email addresses, telephone numbers, and other information stored in the TXCPA member database is solely the property of TXCPA.

We may share your information with companies (including our affiliates) that perform services on our behalf. Our service providers are required by contract to protect the confidentiality of the information we share with them and to use it only to provide specific services on our behalf.

The extraction of large amounts of information from the TXCPA database sometimes referred to as “data mining”, is expressly prohibited. No one, member or non-member, may gain access to the “Member Directory” on TXCPA Exchange in order to “mine” member data.

Members of TXCPA are allowed to search the member database through the “Member Directory” on TXCPA Exchange for individual members, subject to the provisions and restrictions of this Privacy Policy.

Non-members of the TXCPA are forbidden from utilizing the TXCPA website to search for member information.

Members of TXCPA will receive communications by email, text messages, and mail that are designed to keep them up-to-date on the profession and the benefits of membership in TXCPA. These communications may include commercial content such as information about educational courses, affinity programs, and other membership-related benefits. Members may manage their subscriptions to these communications by opting out of any or all messages.

This website uses cookies to store information about visitors' preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize web page content based upon visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

Specifically, cookies on the TXCPA site are used to enable enhanced features, such as the CPE shopping cart, member login process, member profile, and others. They also allow us to customize certain areas on the site based on each user's interests.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found on the browser’s website.

Purposeful attempts to subvert this policy are strictly prohibited.

View the privacy policy for TXCPA Exchange.

Disclaimer

The Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (TXCPA) created a website dedicated to serving its members and the general public. TXCPA does not make any warranties or guarantees as to the accuracy of this information and does not have any control over information that is obtained through hyperlinks outside of TXCPA's site. The user is responsible for verifying all sources to confirm the accuracy of any information found on this site. TXCPA, its employees, and officers are not liable for any damages caused by the use of inaccurate or misrepresented information that may be found on the pages of our website or for the information found through subsequent links pointing outside the TXCPA site.

Content of this website may not be reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, published, or transferred in any form or by any means, except with the prior permission of TXCPA. TXCPA members may download pages or other content for their own use, consistent with the mission and purpose of TXCPA. However, no part of such content may be otherwise or subsequently reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, published, or transferred in any form or by any means, except with the prior permission of, and with attribution to TXCPA.

TXCPA Houston Cookie and Web Beacons Policy

In order to help enhance the performance and functionality of TXCPA Houston's site, TXCPA Houston utilizes third-party “cookies” that store a small piece of data on a users’ computers and collect certain information about the users’ visit TXCPA Houston's site. TXCPA Houston also uses cookies to understand users’ browsing and buying activities so that TXCPA Houston can measure the success of online advertising campaigns TXCPA Houston runs on TXCPA Houston's site. TXCPA Houston's site also uses web beacons (either directly or from our partners), along with cookies, to determine if a user has visited a particular website. These beacons aid in providing more relevant advertising to the user, as well as measuring the success of an advertising campaign, but provide no personally identifiable information.

The cookies and web beacons TXCPA Houston uses collect non-personally identifiable information about users of TXCPA Houston's site, including the browser used to access the site, date and time, the URL of the page being loaded, users who have visited a particular website(s), any previously assigned cookie identification (a unique identifier assigned to a user to identify repeat visitors), browser window size, the geographic location of the user, device and operating system used to access TXCPA Houston's site. The information TXCPA Houston collects from these cookies and web beacons are used to determine information about a user’s visit to TXCPA Houston's site, including the number of visits, average time spent, pages viewed, navigation history through the website, and other statistics. This information is used to enhance the users experience while visiting TXCPA Houston's site and to improve the performance of TXCPA Houston's site by, among other things, allowing us to monitor TXCPA Houston's site performance, making TXCPA Houston's site easier to use, measuring the effectiveness of promotional placements, and tailoring TXCPA Houston's site (including the ads and offers a user receives) to better match a user’s interests and preferences.

Users who prefer not to accept cookies can set their Internet browser to notify them when they receive a cookie or to prevent cookies from being placed on their hard drive. If you consent to our collection of cookies and you subsequently wish to withdraw your consent, you will need to manage the settings on your web browser to delete all cookies and disallow further acceptance of cookies. Please note that disabling cookies on your browser will prevent TXCPA Houston from tracking your activities in relation to TXCPA Houston's site.

By continuing to use TXCPA Houston's site, you are agreeing to TXCPA Houston's site placing cookies and/or web beacons on your computer in order to analyze the way you use TXCPA Houston's site. Please read this cookie policy carefully for more details about the information TXCPA Houston collects when you use TXCPA Houston's site.

If you do not wish to accept cookies or web beacons in connection with your use of this Site, please discontinue the use of TXCPA Houston's site.