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We use a variety of technologies on our Web site. Among these are cookies, which are pieces of information that our Web sites provide to your browser. Cookies allow us to track overall site usage and determine areas users prefer. Cookies also allow us to customize your visit to our Web site by recognizing you when you return. You can choose to decline cookies while at our Web site, however, this may limit your ability to access certain areas of the Web site. Most browsers accept and maintain cookies by default. Check the "Help"" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preference.
When we track activity on this or other Intuit Web sites, we collect information such as your IP address, browser type and version, and pages you view. We also keep track of how you get to our sites and any links you click on to leave our sites. We do not track URLs that you type into your browser, nor do we track you across the Internet once you leave our sites. We use your Web site activity to assist you by reducing the need to re-enter your data and to help us resolve technical support issues. We may also use this information to offer you a personalized Web experience, and to tailor our offerings to you. Remember, you control whether you receive Intuit promotional materials.
We may access and set cookies using Web beacons, also known as single-pixel GIFs, which are invisible graphical images. These Web beacons tell us useful information regarding our site such as which pages users access. When we send you e-mails, we may include a single-pixel GIF to determine the number of people who open our e-mails. When you click on a link in an e-mail, we record this individual response to allow us to customize our offerings to you.
We use third-party service providers to serve ads on our behalf on other Web sites. These network advertising companies use pixels, or transparent GIF files to help manage our online advertising. These third party cookies are placed by the ad network to recognize a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our Web site. They may also collect anonymous information about your visits to our Web site and your interaction with our ads. Intuit does not control these companies' use of cookies. If you would like to opt out of the cookies set by these companies, you can do so by following the options provided by the Network advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
To assist us in collecting site usage data, we use service providers to place web beacons on specific pages of our site and pass back usage information about that page via the use of cookies to these service providers. Personally identifiable information is not sent to Intuit or our service providers through the use of these cookies or web beacons and all web navigation data is used only in the aggregate to improve our product and site performance.
To provide you with a seamless experience, we may occasionally use framing. Though your browser may indicate you are at Quickbooks.intuit.com, you may be on a partner's site. To determine which site you are on, right-click on the page and then select "properties". Mac users should press the control key, and click their mouse on the site and then look at "View Source".
