This terms of use is our contract with you. Tax GO is referred to below as Tax GO. They include our commitment as a service provider and your obligations as a customer

Introduction

Welcome to Tax GO! We’re excited to have you here but before you start using Tax GO, we need you to look through and accept these terms. We’ve done our best to explain it all without using too much jargon, so it’s clear what we expect from you and what you can expect from us

To make things easier, we’ve included summary paragraphs at the top of each section to give you a heads up on what’s coming up

. These are your legal rights and obligations, so please read everything. If you can’t agree to our terms, then you can’t use our services

If you still have questions or comments after you’ve read these terms, please go to https://www.taxgoglobal.com/support to get in touch. We’d love to help

Joining and using Tax GO

In this section we explain how to subscribe to Tax GO and use our services. When you see a word in bold, it will have the same corresponding meaning every time it’s used within these terms

1. You and Tax GO When we say you or your, we mean both you and any entity or firm you’re authorized to represent. When we say Tax GO, we, our or us, we’re talking about the Tax GO Global entity you contract with and pay fees to based on the edition of the Tax GO product you’re using. Section 65 shows which Tax GO entity you contract with.
2. The right to use our services:. Our services consist of services we provide now or in the future, including our online and mobile accounting, retail, and financial products
3. Creating a subscription:. When you create a subscription to use our services and accept these terms, you become a subscriber. If you’re the subscriber, you’re the one responsible for paying for your subscription
4. People invited to use Tax GO: .An invited user is a person other than the subscriber who has been invited to use our services through a subscription. If you’re an invited user, you must also accept these terms to use our services
5. User roles and access: , you can subscribe on https://www.taxgoglobal.com/.
6. Partner program: .If you participate in our partner program, read our website
7. Online payments: .If you choose to connect your subscription to Stripe and other partners (so you can accept online payments from customers through your Tax GO invoices or Retail Xpress)
8. The right to use our services: .Whether you’re a subscriber or an invited user, we grant you the right to use our services (based on your subscription type, your user role, and the level of access you’ve been granted) for as long as the subscriber continues to pay for the subscription, until the subscription is terminated, or – if you’re an invited user – until your access is revoked
9. Subscriber role:: As a subscriber, you take responsibility for fully controlling how your subscription is managed and who can access it. It’s quite a big deal! For example
   • You can transfer a subscription
   • You can transfer a subscription
   • You control access to a subscription. You decide who’s invited to use our services you’ve subscribed to and what kind of access the invited user has. You can change or stop that access at any time
   • You’re responsible for resolving any disputes with any invited users over access to your subscription
10. Rules: .Whatever your role, when you use Tax GO you agree to follow the rules in section 46. Please read them and make sure you understand what you should and shouldn’t do
11. Your responsibilities: .You promise that you’ll keep your information (including a current email address) up to date. You’re responsible for providing true, accurate, and complete information and for verifying the accuracy of any information that you use from our services for your legal, tax, and compliance obligations. You’re also responsible for protecting your username and password from getting stolen or misused. Our service has minimum password standards, but you will ensure that passwords are very strong and not easily guessable. The stronger the password, the better! For more on security generally, check out the security section below
12. When we introduce new or revised services:. Since we’re always thinking about how to make Tax GO the best it can be – seriously, we’ve got teams dedicated to it – we regularly expand our services. For new or updated services, there might be additional terms. We’ll let you know what those terms are before you start using those services
13. What we own:. We own everything we’ve put into our services unless otherwise stated and excluding content owned by others. This includes rights in the design, compilation, and look and feel of our services. It also includes rights in all copyrighted works, trademarks, designs, inventions, and other intellectual property. You agree not to copy, distribute, modify or make derivative works of any of our content or use any of our intellectual property rights in any way not expressly permitted by us

Pricing

. Unless you’re in a free trial or other offer period, you’ll need to pay for a subscription based on the pricing of your selected plan. The pricing details and other terms of your subscription are explained when you select your plan

14. Trial subscriptions: When you first sign up, you can opt for a free trial, based on the terms specified at the time. If you choose to continue using our services after the trial, you’ll be billed when you add your billing details into our services, explained in more detail in the pricing plan and on https://www.taxgoglobal.com/plans.If you choose not to continue using our services following a trial, you may delete your organization .
15. Tax GO pricing plans:. Your use of our services generally requires you to pay a monthly subscription fee based on your subscription type (the subscription fee). The pricing plan consists of the subscription and subscription fees we offered you, including invoicing, payment, auto-renewal, and cancellation terms. The pricing plan may vary by region and includes information set out in the offer details and pricing page. We may update or amend the pricing plan from time to time. The terms of the pricing plan form part of these terms. As with any other changes to our terms, changes to the pricing plan won’t apply retrospectively and, if we make changes and you’re a subscriber, we’ll make every effort to let you know (take a look at section 63 to see how and when we’ll notify you). Depending on your region, subscription fees may be inclusive or exclusive of transactional taxes where relevant (like VAT and GST), as reflected in the pricing plan
16. Taxes for your use of our services: .You’re responsible for paying all other external fees and taxes associated with your use of our services wherever levied. Your responsibility includes withholding tax if it applies, unless we already process that withholding tax. We may collect geographical location information to determine your location, which may be used for tax purposes. This means location information you give us must be accurate for tax residency purposes
17. Additional services: .Depending on where you’re based and how you use our services, you may be able to take advantage of additional services that Tax GO offers – like retail, payroll, expenses, or projects. These might incur an additional fee that we’ll let you know about when you sign up for those services
18. Importance of timely payments:. In order to continue accessing our services, you need to make timely payments based on the pricing plan you selected. To avoid delayed or missed payments, please make sure we have accurate payment information. If we don’t receive timely payments, we may suspend access to your subscription until the payment is made

Data use and privacy

Tax GO uses your data to provide our services to you. Our privacy policy is on https://www.taxgoglobal.com/privacy is an important part of these terms and describes in more detail how we deal with personal data, like your name and email address.

19. Use of data: :When you enter or upload your data into our services, we don’t own that data but you grant us a license to use, copy, transmit, store, analyze, and back up all data you submit to us through our services, including personal data of yourself and others, to
    • enable you to use our services;
    • allow us to improve, develop, and protect our services;
    • create new services;
    • communicate with you about your subscription;
    • send you information we think may be of interest to you based on your marketing preferences; and
    • disclose to third party service providers and partners to enable and support such purposes .
20. Use of your own personal data: We respect your privacy and take data protection seriously. In addition to these terms, visit our privacy policy https://www.taxgoglobal.com/privacy sets out in detail how we process your own personal data that you enter into Tax GO, like your name and email address.
21. Use of personal data you enter about others: Depending on where your contacts are based, our data processing terms may also apply to the personal data of others (such as your customers, suppliers, and employees) that you enter into Tax GO .
22. Anonymized statistical data:When you use our services, we may create anonymized statistical data from your data and usage of our services, including through aggregation. Once anonymized, we may use it for our own purposes, such as to provide and improve our services, to develop new services or product offerings, to identify business trends, and for other uses we communicate to you.
23. Data breach notifications:. Where there has been unauthorized access to personal data that you’ve entered into Tax GO, we’ll let you know and, where possible, give you information about what has happened. Depending on the nature of the unauthorized access, and the location of your affected contacts, you may be required to assess whether the unauthorized access must be reported to the contact and/or a relevant authority. We think you’re best placed to make this decision because you’ll have the most knowledge about the personal data you have entered in your Tax GO subscription

Data breach notifications

Confidential information.

24. Keeping it confidential: While using our services, you may share confidential information with us, and you may become aware of confidential information about us. You and we both agree to take reasonable steps to protect the other party’s confidential information from being accessed by unauthorized individuals. You or we may share each other’s confidential information with legal or regulatory authorities if required to do so.

Security

We take security seriously and you should too! To help protect our services and your data, we offer added security features such as multi-factor authentication .

25. Security safeguards:. We’ve invested in technical, physical, and administrative safeguards to do our part to help keep your data safe and secure. While we’ve taken steps to help protect your data, no method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. We may notify you if we have reason to believe that someone has accessed (or may be able to access) your account without authorization, and we may also restrict access to certain parts of our services until you verify that access was by an authorized user
26. Account security features: .We may introduce security features to make your account more secure, such as multi-factor authentication. Depending on where you are in the world or what services you’re using, we may require you to adopt some of these features. Where we make the use of security features optional, you’re responsible (meaning we’re not liable) for any consequences of not using those features. We strongly encourage you to use all optional security features
27. Playing your part to secure your data:You have an important part to play by keeping your login details secure, not letting any other person use them, and by making sure you have strong security on your own systems. If you realize there’s been any unauthorized use of your password or any breach of security to your account or email address linked to your account, you need to let us know immediately. You also agree not to use free-form fields in any of Tax GO’s systems or services to store personal data (unless it’s a field explicitly asking for personal data - like a first name or a last name), credit card details, tax identifiers, or bank account details. More information on how to keep your data secure is available in our guides and on https://www.taxgoglobal.com/.

Apps and third-party products

To help make your Tax GO experience even more beautiful, the Tax GO library includes apps and other products and services made available by trusted partners through the App Store when available .

28. Other services: .Some of our services, such as our mobile apps or the multi-currency functionality, are available through other companies’ services, such as The Apple App Store or Google Playstore. These companies may have additional terms that apply to you, please visit their website to read their terms and conditions
29. Third-party products:. Along with the use of our services, you may use data, services, and apps from other companies (third-party products), for example, those we make available in the Tax GO Marketplace. Any third party providing a third-party product is a provider and is independent of us, so be aware that a provider may also charge you fees in addition to what you pay us
30. Tax GO Marketplace: .Depending on your region, you may be able to purchase our services or third-party products through the Tax GO Marketplace. When you connect your subscription to an app, you’re responsible for paying all fees and taxes associated with your use of that app. You authorize us to process these payments for you using the payment method you provide to us. Learn more about the Tax GO Marketplace
31. Third-party terms and descriptions: .Third-party products are subject to terms and conditions and privacy notices set by their providers. These include important things like pricing, refund policies, and how the provider will use your data that you make available to them. Be sure to read and make sure you agree to their terms and conditions and understand their approach before you connect to them. The descriptions of third-party products that we publish, and any associated links, have been provided to us by the providers. While we make reasonable efforts to check the accuracy of the descriptions, the providers are solely responsible for any representations contained in those descriptions. We don’t endorse or assume any responsibility for third-party products
32. Use of your data to connect you to third party products: If you choose to connect your subscription to third-party products, we will use your personal data for that connection. Where we receive data as a result of that connection, we will use that data in line with our privacy policy and these terms. If that third-party product is the Gmail app, our use of any data received from Gmail APIs will also comply with Google’s Limited Use Requirements .
33. Payments to Tax GO:. Just so you know, some third-party providers may pay Tax GO a fee that may be related to: referrals from Tax GO; revenue made by the provider; or data that the providers access about you through our services with your consent. One example would be you applying for a loan with a third-party lender using your Tax GO data

Maintenance, downtime and data loss

We really try to minimize any downtime, but sometimes it’s necessary so we can keep our services updated and secure. You also may have occasional access issues and may experience data loss, so backing up your data is important.

34. Availability: .We strive to maintain the availability of our services and provide online support 24 hours a day. On occasion, we need to perform maintenance on our services, and this may require a period of downtime. We try to minimize any such downtime. Where planned maintenance is being undertaken, we’ll attempt to notify you in advance but can’t guarantee it
35. Access issues: .You know how the internet works – occasionally you might not be able to access our services and your data. This might happen for any number of reasons, at any time
36. Data loss: .Data loss is an unavoidable risk when using any technology. You’re responsible for maintaining copies of your data entered into our services. For information on how to do that, contact customer care
37. No compensation: Whatever the cause of any downtime, access issues, or data loss, your only recourse is to discontinue using our services.
38. Problems and support:If you have a problem, we have excellent support articles available through https://www.taxgoglobal.com/support .
39. Modifications: .We frequently release new updates, modifications, and enhancements to our services, and in some cases discontinue features. Where this occurs, we’ll endeavor to notify you where practical (for example, by email, on our blog, or within our services when you log in)

Allowable and Not Allowed

.This section is super important because it outlines how you can (and can’t) use our services. Much of it will be common sense

40. Feedback: .We love your feedback and may use it without restriction.
41. Help using our services: .We provide a lot of guidance and support to help you use our services. You agree to use our services only for lawful business purposes and in line with the instructions and guidance we provide
42. Discussions on Tax GO Website:. On Tax GO website/community, you can participate in discussions about our services. Only share private information if you’re happy for others to know it, and don’t post anything you don’t have the right to share
43. Limitations:. Some of our services may be subject to limits such as a cap on the number of monthly transactions
44. No-charge for beta services: Occasionally we may offer a service at no charge – for example, a beta service or a time-limited trial account. Because of the nature of these services, you use them at your own risk.
45. Things you mustn’t ever do:
    • . Undermine the security or integrity of our computing systems or networks
    • .Use our services in any way that might impair functionality or interfere with other people’s use
    • .Access any system without permission
    • . Introduce or upload anything to our services that includes viruses or other malicious code
    • .Share anything that may be offensive, violates any law, or infringes on the rights of others
    • .Modify, copy, adapt, reproduce, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or extract the source code of any part of our services
    • .Resell, lease or provide our services in any way not expresslypermitted through our services
    • .Repackage, resell, or sublicense any leads or data accessed through our services
    • . Commit fraud or other illegal acts through our services
    • .Act in a manner that is abusive or disrespectful to a Tax GO employee, partner, or other Tax GO customer. We will not tolerate any abuse or bullying of our Tax GO employees in any situation and that includes interaction with our support teams

Termination

.You can easily terminate your subscription with one month’s written notice. We may terminate your subscription as well with the same notice. If you violate these terms, we may terminate your subscription immediately

46. Subscription period: .Your subscription continues for the period covered by the subscription fee paid or payable. At the end of each billing period, these terms automatically continue for a further period of the same duration as the previous one, provided you continue to pay the subscription fee in accordance with the pricing plan. You may choose to terminate your subscription at any time by providing one month’s written notice in advance. You’ll still need to pay all relevant subscription fees up to and including the day of termination and delete your account
47. Termination by Tax GO: Tax GO may choose to terminate your subscription at any time by providing you with one month’s written notice in advance. Tax GO may also terminate or suspend your subscription or access to all or any data immediately if:
    • , you breach any of these terms and do not remedy the breach within 14 days after receiving notice of the breach
    • you breach any of these terms and the breach cannot be remedied,
    • you fail to pay subscription fees, or
    • you or your business become insolvent, your business goes into liquidation or has a receiver or manager appointed over any of its assets, you become insolvent or make any arrangement with your creditors, or become subject to any similar insolvency event in any jurisdiction.
48. No refunds: No refund is due to you if you terminate your subscription or Tax GO terminates it in accordance with these terms.
49. :Retention of your data Once a subscription is terminated by you or us, it is archived and the data submitted or created by you is no longer available to you. We retain it for a period of time consistent with our data retention policy, during which, as a subscriber, you can reactivate your subscription and once again access your data by paying the subscription fees. We retain data in case you need it as part of your record retention obligations, but you can get in touch with us to have your data removed completely if you wish.

Liability and indemnity

This section is important as it outlines liability terms between us and both subscribers and invited users, so we urge you to read it closely and in full.

50. This section is important as it outlines liability terms between us and both subscribers and invited users, so we urge you to read it closely and in full:You indemnify us against all losses, costs (including legal costs), expenses, demands or liability that we incur arising out of, or in connection with, a third-party claim against us relating to your use of our services or any third-party product (except as far as we’re at fault).
51. Disclaimer of warranties: Our services and all third-party products are made available to you on an “as is” basis. Subject to the exclusion in section 57, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranties of non-infringement, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
52. Limitation of liability: Other than liability that we can’t exclude or limit by law, our liability to you in connection with our services or these terms, in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, is limited as follows:
    • We have no liability arising from your use of our services for any loss of revenue or profit, loss of goodwill, loss of customers, loss of capital, loss of anticipated savings, legal, tax or accounting compliance issues, damage to reputation, loss in connection with any other contract, or indirect, consequential, incidental, punitive, exemplary or special loss, damage or expense.
    • For loss or corruption of your data, our liability will be limited to taking reasonable steps to try and recover that data from our available backups.
    • Our total aggregate liability to you in any circumstances is limited to the total amount you paid us for your subscription in the 12 months immediately preceding the date on which the claim giving rise to the liability arose.

Disputes

This section outlines how disputes may be resolved

53. Dispute resolution: Most of your concerns can be resolved quickly and to everyone’s satisfaction by contacting our support team by scrolling to the bottom of our website. If we’re unable to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction (or if we haven’t been able to resolve a dispute we have with you after attempting to do so informally), you and we agree to resolve those disputes through binding arbitration or small claims court instead of in courts of general jurisdiction. You and we agree that any dispute must be brought in the parties’ individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding.

Important housekeeping

Here we set out some additional terms. Take a read as they cover important issues.

54. Professional advice: .Just to be clear, Tax GO professional services or advice is limited to the knowledge of the agent or partner so we are not liable for any decision taken from the advice
55. Events outside our control: .We do our best to control the controllables. We aren’t liable to you for any failure or delay in performance of any of our obligations under these terms arising out of any event or circumstance beyond our reasonable control
56. Notices: . Any notice you send to Tax GO must be sent to legal@taxgogobal.com. Any notices we send to you will be sent to the email address you’ve provided us through your subscription
57. Exclusion:.In some places, there may be non-excludable warranties, guaranteee or other rights provided by law (non-excludable guarantees). They still apply – these terms do not exclude, restrict or modify them. Except for non-excludable guarantees and other rights you have that we cannot exclude, we’re bound only by the express promises made in these terms. Our liability for breach of a non-excludable guarantee is limited, at our option, to either replacing or paying the cost of replacing the relevant service (unless the non-excludable guarantee says otherwise)
58. Export limitations:. You must not use our services in violation of any export or trade embargo laws that apply to you
59. Excluded terms: The terms of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the Sale of Goods and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) do not apply to these terms.
60. Blocking your access, disabling your subscription, or refusing to process a payment: As our sites are global, different laws may apply in different countries that restrict our relationship with you. We may block your access, terminate your subscription, or refuse to process a payment if we reasonably believe there’s a risk - like a potential breach of a law or regulation - associated with you, your company, your subscription, or a payment. Examples of where we might do this include transactions where the payment is from a sanctioned person or country; or where we reasonably believe there is a legal or regulatory risk or a risk of loss being suffered by us or our customers or partners. You promise that you’re not located in a sanctioned country and are not on a sanctioned persons list. We may also block users from a country if we can’t receive payments from that country. You should check what payment methods are available in your country for making payments. We may take any of these actions without notice.
61. Relationship between the parties; assignment: Nothing in these terms is to be construed as constituting a partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship between you and us, or between you and any other subscriber or invited user. You’re solely responsible for resolving disputes between you and any other subscriber or invited user. Taxgoglobal may assign these terms - or any of our rights or obligations in these terms - to another Taxgoglobal entity as it deems appropriate. Taxgoglobal entities are the companies controlled by or under common control with Taxgogobal Limited (an Irish company with registration number 639799).
62. Changes to these terms: .We sometimes will decide to change these terms of use. But don’t worry, changes won’t apply retrospectively and, if we make changes, we’ll make every effort to let you know. You can keep track of changes to our terms by referring to the version and the date last updated at the top of the terms. Generally, we endeavour to provide you with 30 days’ notice of material changes before they become effective, unless we need to make immediate changes for reasons we don’t have control over. When we notify you, we’ll do it by email or by posting a visible notice through our services. If a change isn’t material, we may not notify you. If you find a modified term unacceptable, you may terminate your subscription by giving the standard advance notice to Tax GO
63. Enforcement of terms: .If there’s any part of these terms that either one of us is unable to enforce, we’ll ignore that part but everything else will remain enforceable
64. Interpretation: .Words like ‘include’ and ‘including’ are not words of limitation and where anything is within our discretion we mean our sole discretion
65. Tax GO contracting entity; law and venue:. All contracts are contracted with Taxgoglobal Limited Ireland for now, In the future we will list our foreign listed entities to abide by rules and regulations of certain countries that we operate in