In short
- We set only the cookies needed to sign you in and keep your account secure.
- Your preferences, highlights, and some device-local records are kept in your browser’s storage.
- We count site visits without cookies, without storing your IP address, and not at all when your browser sends Global Privacy Control.
- We do not use advertising or targeting cookies, so there is no cookie banner to accept.
This summary is for convenience. The full text below controls.
Introduction and scope
This Cookie Notice explains how Virtus Professional Services LLC (“Virtus,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on the Virtus website and research workspace, and on any other site we own or control that links to this notice (together, the “Sites”). It is part of our Terms of Use and should be read with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal information more generally.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files a website asks your browser to store and send back on later visits. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser; persistent cookies last until a set time or until you delete them. First-party cookies are set by the site you are visiting; third-party cookies are set by a different website, often for advertising or tracking across sites.
Every cookie Virtus sets is a first-party cookie. We do not allow other companies to set cookies on our site.
Types of cookies we use
The table below uses the standard cookie categories and says what each one means on the Sites. The details follow it.
| Type | Description | Who serves them | How to control them |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advertising | Used by advertising companies to collect information about how you use sites over time and show you ads. | None. We do not use advertising or targeting cookies. | Nothing to opt out of. |
| Analytics | Help us understand how the service is performing and being used. | Our own page-view counter, on our own website. It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. | Send Global Privacy Control and your visits are not counted. |
| Essential | Necessary for the technical operation of the service, such as signing in and keeping your account secure. | Us (first-party cookies listed in section 3). | These cannot be turned off in the service. You can block them in your browser, but you will not be able to sign in. |
| Functionality and performance | Remember your preferences and enhance how the service works. | Us, through browser storage rather than cookies (listed in section 4). | Clear site data in your browser. |
| Social | Let you sign in through a social media account or share content through social media providers. | None on our pages. If you choose Google or Microsoft sign-in, you complete it on that company’s own page. | Use that company’s own settings. |
Strictly necessary
These cookies are needed to sign you in and keep your account secure. They cannot be read by scripts on the page and are sent only over secure connections. Without them you cannot sign in.
__Host-project6110.session_token
Keeps you signed in.
Ends after 30 minutes without activity and never lasts more than 12 hours. Removed when you sign out.
project6110.oauth_nonce
Set when you choose Google, Microsoft, or company sign-in, to confirm that the response belongs to the sign-in you started.
10 minutes. Removed when sign-in finishes.
__Secure-project6110.pending_mfa
Holds a two-step verification check while you complete it.
5 minutes. Removed when the check finishes.
Functionality
We do not use cookies to remember preferences. Your appearance, sidebar, and document-view choices are kept in your browser’s storage instead, as described in section 4.
Analytics and performance
We count page views with our own tool, on our own website. It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. For each page view it records the page address without search terms or other query text, the domain of the website that referred you, your country as determined from your connection, and whether you are on a phone, tablet, or computer. It does not store your IP address.
To count unique visitors, it combines your IP address and browser details with a random value that changes every day and keeps only the resulting one-way code. The daily value is then deleted, so the code cannot be used to identify you or to link your visits across days. Browsers that send Global Privacy Control are not counted at all. Visit records are kept for about 13 months.
Targeting and advertising
We do not use targeting or advertising cookies, and we do not allow advertising networks or social media plugins on our site.
Other technologies
Browser storage (local storage and session storage) works like a cookie but stays in your browser and is not sent to us with each request. Virtus uses it for the following:
virtus.ui.v1.theme, virtus.ui.v1.rail.collapsed, virtus.ui.v1.rail.groups, virtus.ui.v1.reader.view, virtus.ui.v1.reading, virtus.ui.v1.migration
Local storage. Remembers your appearance setting, whether the sidebar and its groups are open, how documents open, and your reading settings (text size, font, line length, reading theme, and keyboard shortcuts).
Until you change the setting or clear site data.
virtus.brand-intro
Session storage. Remembers that the logo animation has already played, so it runs once per browser session.
Until you close the tab.
virtus.pdf-annotations.v1:…
Local storage. Keeps the highlights and notes you add to an original document, one entry per document, on this device only.
Until you remove them or clear site data.
project-6110.local-matters.v1, project-6110.local-updates.v1
Local storage. Keeps research folders and which updates you have read when those features store them on this device.
Until you remove them or clear site data.
tsr-scroll-restoration-v1_3
Session storage. Remembers where you were on each page so the back button returns you to the same place.
Removed when you close the browser tab.
Browsers that used an earlier version of the site may also hold the same preferences under older names beginning with “project-6110”. Clearing your browser storage removes these items.
Web beacons and session replay
Some sites use web beacons (also called pixel tags or clear GIFs), Flash cookies, or session-replay tools that record clicks, scrolls, and keystrokes. The Sites do not use any of them, and we do not use advertising identifiers.
Third-party technologies
We do not load scripts, pixels, or cookies from other companies on our pages. Some actions take you to another company’s website, which sets its own cookies under its own policies:
- signing in with Google, Microsoft, or your company’s sign-in, which happens on the sign-in page of that company or of the company that runs sign-in for us;
- paying, managing a subscription, or viewing an invoice on our payment processor’s pages; and
- following a link to an official government website, such as irs.gov.
We do not control those cookies. Check the other website’s own policies.
Your choices
Your options for controlling what cookies and similar technologies collect include:
- Cookie preferences. The only cookies we set are strictly necessary, which do not require consent, so we do not provide a cookie preference dashboard or an “accept all” or “reject all” choice.
- Blocking cookies in your browser. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies and clear site data. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change the setting. These pages explain how:
We do not show a cookie consent banner because we use no advertising, targeting, or analytics cookies; the cookies we set are needed for the service you ask for.
We honor Global Privacy Control. If your browser sends it, your visits are not counted, and we treat it as a request to opt out of any sale or sharing of personal information.
There is no interest-based advertising on the Sites, so the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance opt-outs and mobile advertising ID controls have nothing to turn off here.
If you block our cookies, you will not be able to sign in and we may not be able to recognize your browser. If you clear site data, you will be signed out, your appearance and layout preferences will reset, and highlights, notes, and any other records kept only on that device will be permanently removed.
For more information about how we collect, use, and share your information, see our Privacy Policy.
US state privacy laws
Some US state laws, including California’s, give residents the right to opt out of the sale of personal information or its sharing for targeted advertising. We do not sell personal information or use cookies to share it for targeted advertising, so there is no cookie-based sale or sharing to opt out of. We still honor Global Privacy Control as described above, including for residents of Michigan and every other state. To exercise other privacy rights, see the Privacy Policy or write to admin@virtusprofessionalservices.com.
International users
Virtus is operated from the United States and is designed for United States federal tax research. If you visit from another country, the cookies and browser storage described here work the same way, and your information is processed in the United States as described in the Privacy Policy. Local law may give you additional rights; write to admin@virtusprofessionalservices.com to use them.
Changes to this notice
Information about the cookies and storage we use may be updated from time to time, so please check back for changes. We will update this notice when the cookies or storage we use change. The notice shows its effective date so you can identify the current version, and we will notify workspace administrators of material changes.
Contact
Send questions about this notice or privacy requests to admin@virtusprofessionalservices.com. For everything else, use the address that matches your request:
- General questions
- hello@virtusprofessionalservices.com
- Product help and account access
- support@virtusprofessionalservices.com
- Legal notices, arbitration notices, privacy and data requests, and security reports
- admin@virtusprofessionalservices.com
- Invoices, payments, billing disputes, and seat changes
- billing@virtusprofessionalservices.com
- Accounts receivable and remittance
- ar@virtusprofessionalservices.com
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