Privacy policy

1. Who we are

scofiabarrk.com ("Scof Iabarrk", "we", "us") is operated by Creators S uck At Taxes LLC, a limited liability company with its registered address at 17155 Newhope St Ste J, Fountain Valley, California 92708-4232, United States. Our D-U-N-S® Number is 11-917-8574.

For the purposes of data protection law, Creators S uck At Taxes LLC is the controller of personal information processed through this website. You can contact us about privacy at info@scofiabarrk.com.

2. Scope of this policy

This policy covers the website scofiabarrk.com. It does not cover third-party websites you reach through links from our pages; those operate under their own policies, and we have no control over them.

We want to be clear about what this site is not. There are no user accounts, no logins, no paywall, no newsletter and no member area. We do not ask for or store financial account details, Social Security numbers, portfolio holdings or any similar information, and you should not send such information to us.

3. Information we process

3.1 Information you give us voluntarily

If you contact us by email — including via the contact form, which opens a message in your own email application rather than submitting to a server — we receive whatever you choose to include: typically your name, email address and the content of your message. The contact form itself performs validation in your browser and transmits nothing to us.

3.2 Information collected automatically

When a page is requested, our hosting infrastructure processes standard technical information, which may include your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referring page, the pages requested, and the date and time of the request. This is ordinary web server activity, necessary to deliver the site and to keep it secure.

3.3 Information from cookies and similar technologies

Subject to your consent choices, cookies and similar technologies may collect information about how the site is used and, in the case of advertising technologies, information used to select and measure advertisements. Section 6 and our cookie policy describe this in detail.

3.4 Information we deliberately do not collect

• Financial account numbers, balances, holdings or transaction data
• Government identifiers such as Social Security or passport numbers
• Payment card details (we sell nothing and take no payments)
• Health information
• Precise geolocation

4. Why we process it

5. Legal bases (EEA and UK visitors)

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies to our processing, we rely on the following bases:

• Legitimate interests — operating, securing and maintaining the website, and responding to enquiries you send us. We balance these interests against your rights and freedoms.
• Consent — for analytics and advertising cookies and any similar non-essential technologies. Consent is requested before those are set and can be withdrawn at any time.
• Legal obligation — where we must retain or disclose information to comply with applicable law.

6. Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. We group them into three categories:

• Strictly necessary — required for the site to function and to remember your privacy choices. These are set without consent because the site cannot operate without them.
• Analytics — help us understand which guides are read and where people leave. Set only with your consent.
• Advertising — may be set by advertising partners to select, deliver, cap the frequency of and measure advertisements. Set only with your consent.

When you first visit, a banner asks for your choices. You can accept all, reject everything non-essential, or select categories individually. Your choice is stored in your browser's local storage and is not transmitted to us as an identifier. You can change or withdraw it at any time using the cookie settings link in the footer of every page, or by clearing site data in your browser.

Full detail, including how to manage cookies in each major browser, is in our cookie policy.

7. Advertising partners

This site is free to read and funded by advertising. Where you have consented to advertising cookies, third-party advertising technology providers may process information — including cookie identifiers, IP address, device and browser characteristics, and pages viewed — in order to select advertisements, limit how often you see the same one, and measure whether an advertisement was delivered and viewed.

These providers act as independent controllers of the data they collect through their own technologies, and their handling of it is governed by their own privacy policies. Where Google advertising products are used, you can review Google's explanation of how it uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and manage ad personalisation at My Ad Center.

You can also opt out of interest-based advertising from many participating companies through industry tools such as the Digital Advertising Alliance and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance. Opting out reduces personalisation; it does not remove advertising.

8. Who we share information with

We do not sell personal information for money. Information may be shared with:

• Hosting and infrastructure providers that operate the servers and networks delivering this site.
• Analytics providers, where you have consented to analytics cookies.
• Advertising technology providers, where you have consented to advertising cookies. Note that under some US state laws, sharing information with advertising partners for cross-context behavioural advertising may be treated as a "sale" or "sharing" — see section 14.
• Professional advisers such as lawyers and accountants, where necessary.
• Authorities, where we are legally required to disclose information or need to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
• A successor entity, in the event of a reorganisation, merger or sale of the business, subject to this policy continuing to apply.

9. Retention

• Server logs — retained for a limited period for security and diagnostic purposes, then deleted or aggregated.
• Email correspondence — retained for as long as needed to handle your enquiry and to keep a record of any correction it produced, then deleted.
• Consent record — stored in your browser until you clear it or change your choice.
• Third-party cookies — retained according to the setting party's own schedule, described in our cookie policy.

10. Security

We apply appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect information, including encryption of traffic in transit, restricted access to systems, and keeping the published site as a set of static files with no user database to compromise. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. Please do not send sensitive personal or financial information to us by email.

11. International transfers

We are based in the United States and our infrastructure and service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. Where information is transferred from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, that transfer is made on the basis of an appropriate safeguard recognised under applicable law, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or on another lawful basis.

12. Children

This website is intended for adults and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact info@scofiabarrk.com and we will delete it.

13. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights in relation to your personal information:

• Access — to know what we hold about you and obtain a copy.
• Rectification — to have inaccurate information corrected.
• Erasure — to have information deleted in certain circumstances.
• Restriction — to limit how we process information in certain circumstances.
• Objection — to object to processing based on legitimate interests, and to object to direct marketing at any time.
• Portability — to receive certain information in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Withdraw consent — at any time, without affecting processing already carried out.
• Complain — to your local supervisory authority.

To exercise any of these, email info@scofiabarrk.com. We will respond within the period required by applicable law — generally one month under the GDPR and 45 days under California law, each extendable where permitted. We may need to ask for information to verify your identity before acting, and we will not charge a fee except where the law allows it. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.

14. California residents (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act gives you specific rights.

Categories of personal information. In the past twelve months we may have collected: identifiers (such as IP address and cookie identifiers); internet or other electronic network activity information (such as pages viewed and referring pages); and, where you email us, the identifiers and contents of that communication. Inferences may be drawn by advertising partners through their own technologies.

Sources. Directly from you, automatically from your device when you visit, and from cookies and similar technologies where consented.

Business purposes. Delivering and securing the site, understanding content usage, displaying and measuring advertising, and responding to enquiries.

Sale or sharing. We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration. However, allowing advertising partners to set cookies for interest-based advertising may constitute "sharing" for cross-context behavioural advertising under California law. You can prevent this by rejecting advertising cookies in our cookie settings, or by using a Global Privacy Control signal (see section 15).

Sensitive personal information. We do not collect or use sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics.

Your California rights include the right to know, the right to delete, the right to correct, the right to opt out of sale or sharing, the right to limit use of sensitive personal information, and the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising them. Submit a request to info@scofiabarrk.com with "California privacy request" in the subject line. An authorised agent may submit a request on your behalf with written proof of authorisation.

15. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

There is no industry consensus on how to respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals, and we do not currently respond to them. Where we detect a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, to the extent required by applicable law.

16. External links

Our guides link to third-party resources, including government and regulator websites, for your convenience. We do not control those sites, are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices, and a link is not an endorsement. Read their policies before providing information to them.

17. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy to reflect changes in our practices or the law. The effective date at the top of the page shows when the current version took effect. Material changes will be signalled prominently on the site. Continued use after a change takes effect indicates acceptance of the updated policy.

18. How to contact us

For any privacy question, request or complaint:

Creators S uck At Taxes LLC
Privacy — Scof Iabarrk
17155 Newhope St Ste J
Fountain Valley, California 92708-4232
United States
Email: info@scofiabarrk.com

If you are in the EEA or the UK and are unsatisfied with our response, you may lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.