Paper Tiger Back Office Solutions

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 1, 2024
Last Updated: October 11, 2026

Paper Tiger Back Office & Tax Services (“Paper Tiger,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal and business information entrusted to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit papertigersolutions.com, contact us, or use our services.

1. Our Mission Statement

Our mission at Paper Tiger Back Office & Tax Services is to empower small-business owners with reliable bookkeeping, accounting, and tax preparation services that bring clarity to their finances and confidence to their decisions. We strive to build lasting relationships through personalized service, professional integrity, and a commitment to helping our clients focus on what they do best: running and growing their businesses.

We believe that trust is the foundation of every successful client relationship. Protecting the confidentiality and security of your information is an important part of that commitment.

2. Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with Paper Tiger, we may collect the following categories of information:

Information You Provide Directly

  • Name, business name, email address, telephone number, and mailing address.
  • Information submitted through contact forms, consultation requests, or other website inquiries.
  • Details about your business, requested services, and general bookkeeping or accounting needs.
  • Information provided during client onboarding or while receiving our services.

Financial and Tax Information

When you become a client, we may collect financial records, accounting records, tax documents, taxpayer identification numbers, banking information, payroll records, and other information reasonably necessary to provide the services you request.

Please do not submit Social Security numbers, tax returns, bank account information, or other sensitive financial information through ordinary website contact forms.

Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically, including your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, referring website, and approximate geographic location. This information may be collected through website hosting services, server logs, cookies, or analytics tools, depending on the technologies enabled on our website.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use collected information to:

  • Respond to inquiries and consultation requests.
  • Communicate with prospective and existing clients.
  • Provide bookkeeping, accounting, tax preparation, and related services.
  • Prepare estimates, engagement agreements, invoices, and other business documents.
  • Maintain business records and fulfill contractual and legal obligations.
  • Improve our website, services, and customer experience.
  • Protect our business, website, clients, and systems against fraud, misuse, and security threats.
  • Comply with applicable tax, accounting, regulatory, and other legal requirements.

We will use information for purposes reasonably related to the reason it was collected, as permitted by applicable law.

4. How We Share Information

Paper Tiger does not sell your personal information to third parties for money.

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to provide services or operate our business, including to:

  • Service providers: Website hosting companies, email providers, accounting software providers, secure document storage services, payment processors, and other vendors supporting our operations.
  • Authorized third parties: Government agencies, financial institutions, or other parties when disclosure is authorized by you or necessary to perform services you have requested.
  • Professional advisers: Attorneys, insurers, or other advisers when reasonably necessary for legitimate business or legal purposes.
  • Legal authorities: Government agencies, courts, or law enforcement when required by law or valid legal process.

We seek to limit disclosures to information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose. Where applicable, we take steps to require service providers to protect information appropriately.

We do not use confidential client financial or tax information for unrelated marketing purposes.

5. Confidentiality of Client Financial and Tax Information

We recognize that bookkeeping, accounting, and tax preparation require access to sensitive information. We treat client financial and tax information as confidential and handle it in accordance with applicable legal and professional obligations.

We use client information only for authorized business purposes, the provision of requested services, and other purposes permitted or required by law.

Where appropriate, we may use secure portals or other controlled methods to receive, store, and exchange sensitive client documents. Clients should use the designated secure methods provided to them rather than ordinary website contact forms for confidential records.

6. Cookies and Website Analytics

Our website may use cookies or similar technologies to support website functionality, understand visitor activity, and improve the user experience.

Depending on the tools enabled on the website, these technologies may collect information about browsing behavior or interactions with website content.

You may be able to manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality. If we implement analytics, advertising, or other tracking services, this policy should be updated to identify the relevant technologies and explain applicable choices.

7. Data Security

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures designed to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.

These measures may include access controls, strong authentication, secure systems, appropriate backups, staff or contractor confidentiality practices, and secure document handling procedures, as applicable to our operations.

No method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure. Although we work to protect your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal and business information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy, provide services, maintain appropriate business and accounting records, resolve disputes, and comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations.

Retention periods vary depending on the nature of the information, the services provided, and applicable requirements. When information is no longer reasonably necessary and retention is not legally required, we will take appropriate steps to delete, destroy, or securely dispose of it.

9. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on applicable law and the circumstances, you may have the ability to:

  • Request information about the personal information we maintain about you.
  • Ask us to correct inaccurate contact or business information.
  • Request deletion of certain information, subject to legal, contractual, recordkeeping, and other applicable exceptions.
  • Opt out of nonessential marketing communications, where applicable.
  • Manage cookies through your browser or other available settings.

To make a privacy-related request, please contact us using the information in Section 12. We may need to verify your identity before responding.

10. Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, applications, or services. Those services operate under their own privacy policies and practices.

Paper Tiger is not responsible for the privacy, security, or content practices of independent third parties. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing them with personal information.

11. Children’s Privacy

Our website and professional services are intended for business owners, individuals seeking tax or accounting services, and other adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 for our own purposes. If you believe a child has provided personal information through our website, please contact us so that we can review the matter and take appropriate action.

12. Contact Information

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to make a privacy-related request, or have concerns about how your information is handled, please contact:

Paper Tiger Back Office & Tax Services
Website: https://papertigersolutions.com
Email: inquiries@papertigersolutions.com

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy as our business practices, website technologies, services, or legal obligations change. When updates are made, we will revise the “Last Updated” date above and publish the updated policy on our website.

We encourage visitors and clients to review this policy periodically.