Privacy Policy

We value your privacy. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using the www.fortress-financial.com Website (the "Website") operated by Fortress Financial ("us," "we," "our"), a public accounting and advisory firm, headquartered in Ashland, Oregon, United States. This Privacy Policy contains important information regarding your privacy and how information is used on our Website.  

Your access to and use of the Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to everyone, including, but not limited to: visitors, users, and others, who wish to access or use the Website. 

By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any part of the Privacy Policy, then you do not have our permission to access or use the Website.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) sending us an email message; (c) submitting other information. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to products and/or services you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Fortress Financial does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.  

Fortress Financial may share data with trusted partners to send you email or postal mail, provide customer support or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Fortress Financial, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.  

Fortress Financial may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Fortress Financial or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Fortress Financial; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Fortress Financial, or the public.

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Fortress Financial secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When personal information is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.  

We will take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we intend to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed.  

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

• Delete your personal information from our records; and
• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.  

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:  

• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill services in accordance with federal law, provide a service or product requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
  Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the Oregon Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Fortress Financial does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

From time to time, Fortress Financial may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.  

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Fortress Financial, you may opt out of such communications by contacting us directly or by clicking on the unsubscribe button, if included in our communication.

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Fortress Financial reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Fortress Financial welcomes your questions or comments regarding this PrivacyPolicy. If you believe that Fortress Financial has not adhered to this Policy, please contact Fortress Financial at:  

Fortress Financial
295 E. Main St., Suite 10
Ashland, OR 97520
(541) 488-3600