We at Easy-Tax recognise the importance that our customers place on the privacy and confidentiality of their business information that we process.   New technologies allow us to more efficiently serve you the client.   We are also committed to maintaining rigorous privacy standards that are synonymous with our established and trusted name.

Aside from tax directive information, we collect the following:

• Company Details
• User Details
• Billing Details

The information that we gather is used strictly for communication with you regarding the status of your tax directives when used in connection with the Easy-Tax service.   The information is gathered when you fill in the information for a tax directive.   Your information remains strictly confidential and in total compliance with all lawful business purposes.   We do not share this information with any third party for any purpose.   Only employees whose immediate job responsibilities necessitate having access to this information will be granted such access.

SSL (Secured Sockets Layer) is an established and mature Internet security standard with two dominant features: data encryption and Web server authentication.   When transmitting information between you and the Easy-Tax server, data security is handled through the SSL security protocol.

Authentic and accurate identification of a secured Web server is done by issuing an SSL certificate.   This translates into a digital ID, or electronic fingerprint, that is included in the key used to encrypt the data.   Only the Easy-Tax Web server, in this case, is able to decrypt the data that you transmit because it's the intended (and digitally certified) secured web server for the data transmission.

Data encryption transforms legible information into illegible information.   In order to make this data legible and useful again we have to decrypt it (reverse the process of encryption).   The data encryption aspect of SSL does this.   It uses a private/public key combination to encrypt data when it is sent, and then to decrypt data when it is received.   A mathematical formula is used to encrypt data.   This formula is also referred to as a "key".   Using the SSL protocol, data transmission between you and the Easy-Tax service is performed at the highest possible level of encryption strength.   The length of the key used to encrypt the data measures encryption strength.   The longer the key, the more effective the encryption.