Privacy Policy

D A R & CO LLP is not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive Your Personal Information.

D A R & CO LLP is concerned and values Your Personal Information and privacy. However, notwithstanding anything contained in this Privacy Policy or elsewhere, D A R & CO LLP shall not be held responsible for any loss, damage, or misuse of Your Personal Information, if such loss, damage, or misuse is attributable to a Force Majeure Event (as defined below).
A “Force Majeure Event” shall mean any event that is beyond the reasonable control of D A R & CO LLP and shall include, without limitation, sabotage, fire, flood, explosion, acts of God, inevitable accidents, civil commotion, strikes or industrial action of any kind, riots, insurrection, war, acts of government, computer hacking, system hacking, unauthorized access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, etc.

D A R & CO LLP will take reasonable steps to protect that information from misuse and loss and unauthorized access, modification, or disclosure.

Information D A R & CO LLP collects and uses

1. When You visit Our Platform, You are not required to provide any Personal Information unless You choose to avail of Our online services or sign up for Our blog free newsletter or other services which are described below. For availing of Our online services, you hereby consent to the collection, use, storage, disclosure, and otherwise processing of your information (including sensitive personal information) on the Platform by this Privacy Policy. If you disclose to us any Personal Information (including sensitive personal information) relating to another person, you represent that you have the authority and consent from the other person to do so and to permit us to use such Personal Information (including sensitive personal information) provided by this Privacy Policy.
2. Blog and Newsletters: When You subscribe to Our blog or newsletters we collect Your email address to e-mail You the newsletters. If at any time You wish to limit the communication You receive from D A R & CO LLP, You can click on the “Unsubscribe” link or follow the instructions in each promotional or marketing e-mail message.
3. Availing a Service related to Tax return filing and another related service- When availing services of D A R & CO LLP for filing returns, advisory, or any other service, certain information; such as Your name, address, email address, phone number, permanent account number (“PAN”), bank account number, IFSC Code, income and deductions data, expenses data, asset and income details, vouchers, bank statements, form 16/ form 16A, tax payment challans, debit and credit account numbers and its expiration and any other information as may be required to prepare Your tax return is required to be shared by You; all the information provided are critical and required at the time of filing any income tax return. This information is collected for the preparation and filing of Your Income Tax Return, to complete the payment transaction, customer service purposes, and marketing communication with You, both online and offline.
4. Registration: To avail of Our tax preparation and income tax return filing services You must register Yourself on the Website and You must provide Your contact number, email address, a password. At the time of registration D A R & CO LLP requires Your e-mail ID, and contact details which help in communicating the ITR acknowledgements, client’s refund status, any further notices, work status, and related details, etc. which may be required in the future for various critical reasons. This information is collected for personal identification, to provide tax preparation services, to allow Us to contact You for customer service purposes, to send you the tax update, and newsletter, and for marketing communication with You, both online and offline.
5. D A R & CO LLP may collect information on the viewed pages, links, and actions taken using the standard information that browsers send to each website You use such as IP address, browser type, and the previously visited web pages. All the information is used by D A R & CO LLP only to improve and enhance the return filing experience.
6. Towards the commitment to quality and for the better experience of the User, we record the journey of tax filing of the User. This activity is solely restricted to understanding the user behavior so that we can improve the product and simplify the process.
7. At the time of registering with D A R & CO LLP, the Platform will ask You for Personal Information such as Your name, email address, birth date, pin code, occupation, and industry. Once You register with D A R & CO LLP and sign in to the services, You are not anonymous to D A R & CO LLP.
8. D A R & CO LLP will only collect, store, use, and share Your Personal Information as it is defined under this Privacy Policy and as regulated by Indian laws. When filing a tax return online, in addition to entering Your Personal Information, You may be asked to enter the Personal Information of those who are either dependents or persons for whose income You are liable.
9. Only information provided by You is stored by D A R & CO LLP. D A R & CO LLP does not supplement Your information with information from other companies. The exception to this would be when Your employer has bought the services/products for bulk use for its employees and to facilitate that We may upload information provided by Your employer.
10. When You use calculators and other tools on the Platform that may or may not require registration, D A R & CO LLP may collect non-identifiable data from such tools, to help customize offers and tools to Your particular interests.D A R & CO LLP will not record or track any data You enter into standalone tools and calculators in any way that identifies You personally unless We specifically inform You that We are doing so at the time You provide such data.
11. In case You avail of any other services of D A R & CO LLP wherein D A R & CO LLP is required to access Your form 16 either in physical or electronic form provided to D A R & CO LLP either physically through post, courier or any other mode or by email, it is presumed that You have read this Privacy Policy and has authorized D A R & CO LLP to access such information as is required for the service sought.
12. You agree and authorize D A R & CO LLP to save Your income tax platform user ID and password and, accordingly, D A R & CO LLP can use Your income tax platform account and other related accounts to provide You services and for research purposes.
    D A R & CO LLP uses Your information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content You see, fulfill Your requests for the provision of products and services, improve Our services, contact You, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. D A R & CO LLP reserves the right to make use of the Personal Information in any investigation or judicial process relating to fraud on account of such transactions during the period when D A R & CO LLP retains such information.
13. D A R & CO LLP reserves the right to track the information that is deleted from the Platform after when the investigation under any law has been initiated.
14. D A R & CO LLP do not and shall not at any point in time, either sell or rent Users’ Personal Information to third parties without Users’ explicit consent.
15. D A R & CO LLP uses Personal Information to protect the integrity of the Platform.
16. We analyze Your Personal Information to learn about the use of D A R & CO LLP products and services to help Us develop new products and services. We retain copies of Your completed and filed tax returns by D A R & CO LLP’s records and information management policy, subject to this Privacy Policy.