Privacy

GC Consultants, Inc. – Giuseppe Brusa CPA LLC

Last updated: May 22, 2026

GC Consultants, Inc (“Company“, “we“, “our“, or “us“) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you when providing services to you through our websites, products, and services that link to this policy (our “Services“) and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies only to information we collect:

• Through the Services.
• In communications, including letters and email, text, chat, and other electronic messages, between you and the Services.
• In interviews with you.
• In tax returns you, or an authorized person, provide to us.
• In financial planning or other financial documents, you, or an authorized person, provide to us.
• Via information provided to us by trusted advisors (with your consent).

We may provide additional or different privacy policies that are specific to certain features, services, or activities.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Services or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see How We Retain Your Personal Data). Your continued use of the Services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children’s and Minors’ Data

Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of 18, unless the parent or guardian is providing the information directly to us. If we learn we have collected or received personal data directly from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

The Personal Data That We Collect or Process

“Personal data” is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, home address, or payment information (for example, account information such as name, postal address, and email address, credit card number, or social security number).

The types and categories of personal data we collect or process include:

• Account and contact information, including name, address (such as home address, work address, or other address), email address, phone number, and other contact information you provide us with.
• Payment information, including credit card or debit card information and information about the payment methods and services (such asZelle) you use in connection with the Services.
• Account history, including information about your prior tax filings and financial information.
• Demographic information, including your age, gender, income level, education, or family or marital status, if you have consented to such information collection.
• Location information, including general geographic location such as country, state or province, or city.
• Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and version, preferred language, hardware identifiers, browser type and settings, and other device information.
• Content and information you elect to provide as part of your profile.
• Identity document information, such as Passports, Social Security, and driver’s license numbers, if you have consented to such information collection.

If you are a California resident, to access our supplemental California privacy statement, visit our California Privacy Policy.

Some of the information identified above, including identification document information, may be considered sensitive data under certain laws. If required under applicable law, we will collect and process sensitive personal data only with your consent. If you choose not to provide or allow us to collect some information, we may not be able to provide you with requested features, services, or information.

We also collect:

• Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Services feature.
• Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Services, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Services (including date and time), products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.

If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.

How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data

You Provide Information to Us

We collect information about you when you interact with our Services, such as when you meet with us or access the Sharefile folder that we create for you and to which we will provide access credentials to you.

Automatically Through Our Services

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies including details of your interactions with our Services, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and which resources and Services features that you access and use.

We may use these automatic collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party sites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Services. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Services.
• Web Beacons. Some parts of the Services and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those parts or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity). We use the following technologies: Google Analytics 4 for aggregated and technical website usage analytics and ShareThis for social sharing buttons and pageview analytics (data is processed in accordance with its privacy policy at https://sharethis.com/privacy/). Google Analytics 4 does not pass data to Google for personalized advertising and does not log full IP addresses. GDPR settings are implemented and the DMA compliance signal is recognized.

To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a personal data sale, targeted advertising, or profiling under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may select an opt-out mechanism. Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) and other mechanisms that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data sharing and sales as defined under certain laws. When we detect such a signal, we will respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting or other setting as required by applicable law. Please note that some Services features may be unavailable as a result.

Via Third Parties

When you interact with the Services, you may authorize third parties to provide us with information. These third parties include:

• Tax preparers
• Trusted advisors

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data, to:

• Provide you with the Services and any contents, features, information, products, or services that we make available through the Services.
• Fulfill and manage payments.
• Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide the information.
• Provide you with notices about your account.
• Improve our Services, including by analyzing your information and creating aggregated data derived from your information) to develop, maintain, analyze, improve, optimize, measure, and report on our Services and their features and how users interact with them.
• Promote our Services, business, and offerings by publishing advertising about our own Services.
• Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• Notify you when Services updates are available and about changes to any products or services, we offer or provide through them.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal data or not, helps us improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:

• Estimate our visitor sizes and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Services according to your individual needs and interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Services.

We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact us at privacy@gcconsultants.com or add a note to your personal Sharefile folder. For more information, see Your Rights and Choices About Your Information.

To Whom We Disclose Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may also disclose personal data that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of GC Consultants, Inc.’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by GC Consultants, Inc is among the assets transferred, where the information is kept confidential.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide the information, such as audit and review, income tax preparation and compliance, sales tax, transfer pricing, accounting services, bookkeeping services, preparation of financial statements, tax due diligence, back office consulting, business management consulting, advisory services, valuation, payroll services, and management of benefit plans, or other services.
• To the IRS or applicable states when we file your income tax returns, whether by mail or electronically. Electronically filed returns are processed through an e-file service provider.
• In the course of a review of our firm’s practices under the authorization of a state or national licensing board, or as necessary to properly respond to an inquiry from such a licensing board or organization.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal data:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our engagement letter or personal checklist including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

The categories of personal information we may disclose to the Internal Revenue Service or state tax authorities include personal name, address (personal and business), banking information, Social Security Number, financial information, and EIN.

Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

Advertising, marketing, cookies, and other tracking technologies choices:

• Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. You can choose whether or not to allow the Services to collect information through other tracking technologies by using the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) or other opt-out mechanisms. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Services features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Because there is not a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, our Services may not respond to all browser DNT signals. Instead, you can use the range of other tools to control data collection and use, including the cookie controls and advertising controls described in this policy.
• Promotions by the Company. If you do not wish us to use your information to promote our own, you can opt out by emailing Paola Frachessa at privacy@gcconsultants.com or adding a note to your personal Sharefile folder.
• Targeted Advertising by the Company or Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target audience preferences, or to share your personal data with unaffiliated or non-agent third-parties for advertising and marketing purposes, you can opt out by selecting an opt-out mechanism. Some browsers and browser extensions support the GPC and other mechanisms that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data sharing and sales as defined under certain laws. When we detect such a signal, we will respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting or other setting as required by applicable law. You may also email us at privacy@gcconsultants.com or add a note to your personal Sharefile folder.

Location data choices:

• Location Data. You can choose whether or not to allow the Services to collect and use real-time information about your device’s location through the device’s privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some Services features may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Information Exchange

It is possible for us, with your authorization, to transmit tax returns and information to you in digital form. Our firm only recommends utilizing secure forms of data exchange. We have several methods of secure data transmission available for our clients. Our staff can consult with you and present options for secure transmittal methods. However, if you request and authorize a non-secure method of transmittal and file exchange, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted. Examples of this would be unencrypted protocols and unverified third-party systems. Non-recommended transmission methods include, but are not limited to FTP servers, SMTP based emails, and HTTP based web services. The protocols used by these services are unencrypted, therefore they are not recommended by our firm for the transmittal of confidential information.

Your State Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residency (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington), you may have certain rights related to your personal data, including the following.

• Right to Know / Access – Request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect about you.
• Right to Correct / Rectify – Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Right to Delete – Request deletion of your personal information, subject to exceptions permitted by law.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information – Request that we not sell or share your personal information, including for targeted advertising.
• Right to Opt-Out of Targeted Advertising – Request that we not use your personal information for targeted advertising (excluding Iowa).
• Data Portability – Request that we send you your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format enabling you to move data between service providers.
• Right to Appeal – Appeal our decision if we decline to act on a privacy request (where state law requires this right).
• Right to Non-Discrimination – Exercise your privacy rights without discrimination.
• Right to Opt Out of Profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce a legal or a similarly significant effect (excluding Iowa and Utah).

Additional State-Specific Rights

• California Residents: You also have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). These include the Shine the Light Law (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.83), which allows you to request details about how we share your personal information with third parties for direct marketing purposes. To exercise this right, email us at privacy@gcconsultants.com and include “California Privacy Rights Request” in your communication, and provide your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code.
• Connecticut, Delaware, Oregon Residents: You have rights similar to those described above, including the right to appeal if we decline to act on your request.
• Nevada Residents: You have the right to opt out of the sale of certain pieces of information to third parties who sell or license that information to others.

Important: The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.

We may require you to verify your identity before processing certain requests. Verification may consist of matching the information you provide with data already in our records. If you authorize an agent to submit a request on your behalf, we may require proof of authorization and may also require you to verify your identity directly with us. To exercise any of these rights, please email to privacy@gcconsultants.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request email to privacy@gcconsultants.com.

You can opt out by selecting an opt-out mechanism. Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) and other mechanisms that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data sharing and sales as defined under certain laws. When we detect such a signal, we will respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting or other setting as required by applicable law. You may also email us at privacy@gcconsultants.com or add a note to your personal Sharefile folder. Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt out of certain personal data sales. Residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: email to privacy@gcconsultants.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.

If you are a California resident, additional information applies to you. To access our supplemental California privacy statement and learn more about California residents’ privacy rights, visit our California Privacy Policy.

EU GDPR and UK GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation refers to the specific rights of people in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom regarding how we collect and process personal data.

In accordance with the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation you have the:

• Right to access information – You have the right to ask us for an overview of your personal data that we process.
• Right to data portability – You have the right to ask us to transfer your personal data directly to you or to another entity. This applies to personal data we process by automated means and with your consent or on the basis of a contract with you. We will transfer your personal data where it is technically feasible.
• Right to erasure – You may ask us to erase your personal data if we no longer need it for its original purpose, you object to us processing your data for our own legitimate interests or for personalized commercial messages, you withdraw your consent for processing your data, we unlawfully process your personal data, or a law of the European Union or a member state of the European Union requires us to erase your personal data.
• Right to object to processing – You can object to us using your personal data for its own legitimate interests. We will consider your objection and whether processing your information has any undue impact on you that requires us to stop doing so. You can also object to receiving personalized commercial messages from us. When you become a customer, we may ask you whether you want to receive personalized offers. Should you later change your mind, you can choose to opt out of receiving these messages by using the “unsubscribe” link located at the bottom of each marketing email. You cannot object to us processing your personal data if we are legally required to do so, for example, if we are obliged to fulfill a contract with you such as shipping an order.
• Right to object to automated decisions – We sometimes use IT systems to make automated decisions based on your personal information if this is necessary to fulfil a contract with you or if you gave us consent to do so. You have the right to object to such automated decisions and ask for an actual person to make the decision instead.
• Right to rectification – If your personal data is incorrect, you have the right to ask us to rectify it. If we share data about you with a third party, it is our obligation to notify this change to the third party.
• Right to restrict processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict using your personal data if in your opinion the information is inaccurate, we are processing the data unlawfully, you have objected to us processing your data for our own legitimate interests.
• Right to complain – Should you not be satisfied with the way we have responded to your concerns you have the right to submit a complaint to us. If you are still unhappy with our reaction to your complaint, you can also contact the data protection authority in your country.

Your data controller is GC Consultants, Inc.

How We Protect Your Personal Data

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.

The safety and security of your information also depend on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.

How We Retain Your Personal Data

We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or identified.

If you are a California resident, visit our California Privacy Policy for more information about the retention periods that apply to the personal data categories we collect.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the “last updated” date and posting the updated policy on the Services. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our Services periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.

Contact Information

To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, to register a complaint or concern, please email privacy@gcconsultants.com.

Paola Frachessa is your contact for these purposes.