Security, Privacy and Tax Data Protection
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Protect Your Tax Data and Stop Identity Theft with Your Own IP-PIN: Get a free Identity Protection Personal Identification Number from the IRS. Details on how to obtain your IP-PIN. Once you have this IP-PIN, you enter it when e-Filing your tax return and it will serve as an extra layer of security.
We at eFile.com follow industry and government specified security guidelines concerning the use of private and personal information. However, in simple terms, security and convenience don't like each other. Without compromising on data security, we do strive to keep the user experience easy and convenient, and we do regret if certain security measures might be inconvenient for you, including the inability to deliver a security code to a suspicious email address.
How Does eFile Keep Your Data Safe?
These security controls include the guidelines of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on the Protection of Data Privacy of Personal Data, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Commerce's Fair Information Practices, and the CAN-SPAM Act.
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eFile.com has been authorized by the IRS to be an official federal tax return e-file provider.
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Your tax information is secured through a Starfield Technologies® enabled 256-bit SSL encryption code between the eFile.com web servers and your browser. The eFile.com hardware servers are located at a non-disclosed, limited access, and highly bio-metric secured 24 hour monitored server location.
eFile.com is committed to keeping your tax information private and recognize the importance customers place on the privacy and confidentiality of their information.
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We don't do to others what we don't want to have done to ourselves: We dislike unwanted emails as much as most users. Thus, each time you enter your email address anywhere on eFile.com, you can be assured that we will not share your email address with external or third parties, nor will you receive emails from anybody but eFile.com.
Emails required to perform tax return transactions e.g. acceptance, payment, request, rejection, support etc. email notifications. Transactional emails essential for a tax return transaction, thus users cannot unsubscribe from transactional emails.
Tax newsletter, tax policy, service announcement emails are considered informational emails. Information on how to unsubscribe from Informational emails is listed via the link.
Fraud prevention: In early January, taxpayers can obtain their own IRS Identity Protection PIN or IP PIN for the current tax year return. See details on how to
obtain your IP-PIN.
In order to obtain an IP-PIN you register via ID.me on the IRS website.
Your rights as a taxpayer: You have the right to know what you need to do to comply with the US tax laws. Taxpayers are entitled to have access to all the laws and IRS procedures in all tax forms, instructions, publications, etc. We at eFile offer a database of
searchable IRS forms and instructions as well as
IRS publications. Taxpayers have the right to be informed of IRS decisions about personal income tax accounts and to receive clear explanations of the outcomes.
Review this flowchart and you will better understand the life cycle or roadmap of a taxpayer's IRS tax return from e-filing to notifications and appeals.
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