Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”) govern your use of Gordon Tax, LLC.’s website; by using this website, you accept these Terms of Use in full. If you disagree with these Terms of Use or any part of these Terms of Use, you must not use Gordon Tax, LLC. website.

1.Your Acceptance

Welcome to the Terms of Use for Gordon Tax Group website, www.gordontax.com. This is an agreement (“Agreement”) between Gordon Tax, LLC. (“Gordon Tax”), the owner and operator of the Gordon Tax website, gordontax.com (the “Site” or “Website”) and you (“you”, “your” or “user(s)”), a user of the Site.

Throughout this Agreement, the words “Gordon Tax,” “us,” “we,” and “our,” refer to our company, Gordon Tax, LLC.

By accessing this website, you accept these Terms of Use in full and without reservation. If you disagree with these Terms of Use, you must not use this website. If you require more information or have any questions about our Terms of Use, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected].

By clicking “I agree” or accessing the Site you agree to be bound by this Agreement and the Privacy Policy. We may amend this Agreement at any time and may notify you if we do so.

2. Content Disclaimer: No Tax or Legal Advice; No Client Relationship

Gordon Tax does not make any representations or warranties with respect to any the material contained on the Website. The material on the Website is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute individualized legal or tax advice. The materials on this site are not intended to, and should not, be used as a substitute for taking legal advice in any situation. Users should not act upon any information found on this site without seeking advice from a qualified tax professional. The materials provided on the Website are current as of the date on which the material was created, and relevant law may have changed since publication.

3. Information Submission

Portions of the Site may allow you to submit information to us. You must fully complete the information submission process by providing us with your current, complete, truthful, and accurate information as prompted by the applicable form.

4. Ownership

5. License to Use Website

Except for the foregoing license, you have no other rights in the Site or any materials and you must not:

• republish material from this website in either print or digital media or documents (including republication on another website);
• sell, rent, or sub-license material from the website;
• show any material from the website in public;
• reproduce, duplicate, copy, or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
• edit or otherwise modify any material on this website;
• redistribute material from this website – except for content specifically and expressly made for redistribution; or
• republish or reproduce any part of this website through the use of iframes or screen scrapers.

If you breach any of these terms, the above license will automatically terminate, and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials.

6. Privacy

Please read Gordon Tax’s Privacy Policy for more information regarding our collection and use of your information. The Gordon Tax Privacy Policy is available at this link and is fully integrated into this Agreement by reference and you must agree to all provisions of our Privacy Policy before using our Site.

7. Site Availability and Modification

Although we attempt to provide continuous Site availability to you, we do not guarantee that the Site will always be available, work, or be accessible at any particular time. We reserve the right to alter, modify, update, or remove portions of our Site at any time.  We may conduct such modifications to our Site for security reasons, intellectual property, legal reasons, or various other reasons at our discretion; however, nothing in this section obligates us to take measures to update the Site for security, legal, or other reasons.

8.Third Party Links

The Site may contain links to third party websites that are not owned or controlled by Gordon Tax. Gordon Tax has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites. In addition, Gordon Tax will not and cannot censor or edit the content of any third-party site.

This Site does not control those third parties’ services or products, and you should check the Terms & Conditions of those third parties to learn about their services and products before using their website or services.

9. Affiliate Links

The Site may contain links or offer services to affiliate websites that are not owned or controlled by Gordon Tax. Gordon Tax has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any affiliate websites. In addition, Gordon Tax will not and cannot censor or edit the content of any affiliate site. By using the Site, you expressly relieve Gordon Tax from any and all liability arising from your use of any affiliate website.

This Site does not control those affiliates’ services or products, and you should check the Terms & Conditions of those affiliate websites to learn about their services and products before using their website or services.

10. User Content

Under these Terms of Use, your content (“User Content”) means material that you submit to this website, including, without limitations, text, images, audio material, video material, and audio-visual material. You grant Gordon Tax a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to your User Content to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant Gordon Tax the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action of infringement of these rights.

Your User Content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against the Site or any affiliate or third party of the Site under any applicable law.

You must not submit any User Content that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

The Site reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to the Site, stored on the Site’s servers, or hosted or published on this Site.

Notwithstanding the Site’s rights under this Agreement in relation to User Content, the Site does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

11. Unauthorized Conduct

When accessing or using our Site, you are solely responsible for your actions, and you agree to abide by the following rules of conduct:

• You agree not to copy, distribute, or disclose any part of the Site in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated “scraping;”
• You agree not to attempt to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security, or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Site;
• You agree not to use any robot, spider, crawler, scraper, or other automated means or interface not provided by us to access the Site or to extract or export data collected through the Site;
• You agree not to take any action that imposes, or may impose at our sole discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; You agree that you will not hold Gordon Tax, any of its affiliates, or its third-party providers responsible for your use of the Site;
• You agree not to violate any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to Gordon Tax;
• You agree not to interfere with or disrupt the Site;
• You agree not to post anything contrary to our public image, goodwill, or reputation;
• You agree to not violate any US federal laws, state laws, or local laws while using the Site; and
• You agree not to use the Site in any way that is: misleading, unlawful, defamatory, obscene, invasive, threatening, harmful, or harassing.

If you are discovered to be undertaking any of the aforementioned actions, Gordon Tax reserves the right to take such actions as we deem appropriate to deal with this breach, including suspending your access to the Website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the Website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the Website, and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

12. Limitation of Liability; Representations and Warranties

GORDON TAX SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM YOUR DISPLAYING, COPYING, DOWNLOADING, OR OTHERWISE USING ANY MATERIALS OR INFORMATION FROM THIS SITE.

13. Release

IF YOU ARE A RESIDENT OF A JURISDICTION THAT REQUIRES A SPECIFIC STATEMENT REGARDING RELEASE THEN THE FOLLOWING APPLIES. FOR EXAMPLE, CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS MUST, AS A CONDITION OF THIS AGREEMENT, WAIVE THE APPLICABILITY OF CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH STATES, “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.”  YOU HEREBY WAIVE THIS SECTION OF THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE.  YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY SIMILAR PROVISION IN LAW, REGULATION, OR CODE THAT HAS THE SAME INTENT OR EFFECT AS THE AFOREMENTIONED RELEASE.  YOU RELEASE US FROM ANY LIABILITY RELATING TO OUR SITE OR GORDON TAX CONTENT, AND YOU RELEASE US, OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AND AGENTS FROM ANY CLAIMS AND DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY CLAIM YOU HAVE AGAINST US. THIS RELEASE DOES NOT APPLY TO NEW JERSEY USERS.

14. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Gordon Tax, its officers, directors, employees, affiliates, third-parties, and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising from:

• your use of any Gordon Tax Site;
• your use of any Gordon Tax’s affiliate services;
• your violation of any term of this Agreement; or
• arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these Terms of Use.

This defense and indemnification obligation will survive this Agreement. You also agree that you have a duty to defend us against such claims and we may require you to pay for an attorney(s) of our choice in such cases. You agree that this indemnity extends to requiring you to pay for our reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, and disbursements.  In the event of a claim such as one described in this paragraph, we may elect to settle with the party/parties making the claim and you shall be liable for the damages as though we had proceeded with a trial.

15. Copyrights

We take copyright infringement very seriously, if you live within the US or own any copyrighted material within the US and believe that your copyright has been infringed, please send us a message to [email protected] which contains:

• Your name.
• The name of the party whose copyright has been infringed, if different from your name.
• The name and description of the work that is being infringed.
• The location on our website of the infringing copy or image.
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted work described above is not authorized by the copyright owner (or by a third party who is legally entitled to do so on behalf of the copyright owner) and is not otherwise permitted by law.
• A statement that you swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information contained in this notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or have an exclusive right in law to bring infringement proceedings with respect to its use.

15. Choice of Law

This Agreement shall be governed by the laws in force in the State of Illinois and US Federal law. Foreign laws do not apply. The offer and acceptance of this contract is deemed to have occurred in the State of Illinois.

16. Forum

For more information on AAA and its Rules and Procedures, users may visit the AAA website at https://www.adr.org.  In the event that any portion of this arbitration provision is found to be unenforceable or void, both parties agree to settle any disputes arising out of this Agreement in a court of competent jurisdiction located in or near Skokie, Illinois.

17. Class Action Waiver

You and Gordon Tax agree that any proceedings to resolve or litigate any dispute whether through a court of law or arbitration shall be solely conducted on an individual basis.  You agree that you will not seek to have any dispute heard as a class action, representative action, collective action, or private attorney general action.

18. Severability

In the event that a provision of this Agreement is found to be unlawful, conflicting with another provision of the Agreement, or otherwise unenforceable, the Agreement will remain in force as though it had been entered into without that unenforceable provision being included in it.

19. Waiver

We reserve all rights permitted to us under this Agreement as well as under the provisions of any applicable law.  Our non-enforcement of any particular provision or provisions of this Agreement or any applicable law should not be construed as our waiver of the right to enforce that same provision under the same or different circumstances at any time in the future.

20. Survival

All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.  You agree that we are not required to provide you with access to our Site and may terminate our Site or your access to the Site at any time and for any reason.

21. Age

All users who access the Site must be 18 years of age or older.

22. Assignment of Rights

You may not assign or transfer your rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to any other party without our prior written consent.  We may assign our rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to any other party at our discretion.

23. Amendments

We may amend this Agreement from time to time.  When we amend this Agreement, we will update this page and indicate the date that it was last modified, or we may email you.  You may refuse to agree to the amendments, but if you do, you must immediately cease using our Site. Amended Terms of Use will apply to the use of this Site from the date of publication of the amended Terms of Use of this Site.

24. Electronic Communications

The communications between you and Gordon Tax use electronic means, whether you visit the Site or send Gordon Tax e-mails, or whether Gordon Tax posts notices on the Site or communicates with you via e-mail. The foregoing does not affect your statutory rights.

25. California Users

Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1789.3, any questions about pricing, complaints, or inquiries about Gordon Tax must be sent to our agent for notice to: [email protected]. Lastly, California users are also entitled to the following specific consumer rights notice: The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210.

26. Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1988

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the “DMCA”) provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under the U.S. copyright law. If you believe in good faith that materials hosted by Gordon Tax infringe your copyright, you, or your agent may send to Gordon Tax a notice requesting that the material be removed or access to it be blocked. All notices and counter notices must meet the then current statutory requirements imposed by the DMCA; see http://www.loc.gov/copyright for details. Gordon Tax’s Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement or counter notices can be reached as follows: [email protected].

27. Miscellaneous

No joint venture, partnership, employment, fiduciary, or agency relationship exists between you and Gordon Tax as a result of these Terms of Use or your use or access of the Services. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Gordon Tax with respect to your use of the Services. The failure of Gordon Tax to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provisions. You may not assign, delegate, or otherwise transfer your obligations under these Terms of Use to a third party without the prior written consent of Gordon Tax. Gordon Tax, in its absolute and sole discretion, has the right to transfer or assign all or any part of its rights under these Terms of Use and will have the right to