Privacy Policy

1 · Who is responsible for your information

The data controller is Obuke LLC Series 3, doing business as EIN Without SSN, at einwithoutssn.com. Questions about your information, and requests under section 8, go to hello@einwithoutssn.com.

2 · What we collect

Checkout and intake data. When you join, we collect your delivery email address, the responsible party's full legal name, your entity's legal name exactly as formed, your country of residence, and your region of residence, together with the plan you selected and your answer to the foreign-ownership declaration shown at checkout.

Form SS-4 application data. To prepare your EIN application we collect and record the facts Form SS-4 requires, as you provide and confirm them in your portal: the entity's legal name, its formation state and date, its mailing address, the responsible party's name, and the entity details needed to complete the form. Your filing documents, the CP 575 when the IRS issues it, signed filings, and transmittal receipts are held in your document vault.

Identity documents and the verification record. Before any filing work, each owner and the responsible party provides a photo of a government ID (passport, national ID card, or driver's licence), uploaded in the portal. From those documents we keep a verification record: document type, issuing country, the last four characters of the document number, the reviewer, and the date of the decision. The lifecycle of the images themselves is stated in section 6.

Contact and Examination data. If you write to us or request an Examination summary, we collect your email address, your name, your country and region of residence, and the content of your message or the answers you entered, so we can reply and route your case.

Payment and consent records. Payments are processed by Stripe, described in section 5. We keep records of your subscription, plan, payments, and renewals. We also keep the consent record described in the Terms: your email address, plan, the terms version, the timestamp, the state of the recurring-charge acknowledgment, and the screening verdict recorded with it. This site never sees or stores your full card number.

Screening records. The screening described in the Terms produces a record of the check and its verdict, held with your application record.

3 · Why we use it

• To prepare and submit your EIN application, manage its timeline, and deliver the CP 575.
• To verify identity before filing, as the Terms describe.
• To screen intake information against the OFAC sanctions lists before a charge and before a filing.
• To bill the Membership, process renewals, and send receipts and confirmations.
• To run the annual cycle coordination, the document vault, re-verification support, and the deadline calendar for as long as you are a member.
• To answer your messages and provide support.
• To measure and improve this website, through the tools named in section 4.

4 · Cookies and tracking tools

Our public pages load the following tools. They collect usage information about your visit, such as pages viewed, device and browser details, and interactions with the page, and the analytics and advertising tools may set cookies or similar identifiers on your device.

• Google Analytics 4, used to measure how visitors find and use this site.
• Microsoft Clarity, used to understand how visitors use this site, including heatmaps and session replay, which records how a visitor moved through and interacted with a page.
• Meta Pixel, used to measure advertising and page visits for Meta platforms. The Meta Pixel also loads on the checkout page, which does not load the other tools named here.
• Umami, a self-hosted analytics tool used for aggregate counts of visits and page views.

These tools are operated by their providers under their own privacy terms. You can limit cookies through your browser settings; blocking them does not affect your ability to read this site or to join the Membership.

5 · Who we share it with

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only as needed to run this service:

• Stripe, which processes your payments. Payments are taken through the Stripe account of PA Registered Office Services LLC as an interim arrangement, as the Terms disclose. Stripe receives the payment details you enter on its checkout page; we do not receive or store your full card number.
• PNR Wholesale Services LLC and Registered Agents Inc, the fulfillment partners named in the Terms. The EIN application data needed to place and file your order is passed to them so the application can be submitted. No other brand's data, and no data beyond the entity being served, enters that channel.
• The Internal Revenue Service, which receives your Form SS-4 itself, including the responsible party information the form requires.
• Service providers that operate parts of this service for us, such as email delivery for receipts, confirmations, and verification reminders, and the analytics providers named in section 4, for the purposes stated there.
• Authorities, where disclosure is required by law, or is required by the screening obligations described in the Terms.

6 · How long we keep it

• ID images are deleted 90 days after your EIN is issued. Until then they are used only to verify identity.
• The verification record is retained for seven years. That record holds the document type, issuing country, the last four characters of the document number, the reviewer, and the date, as section 2 describes. It does not hold the ID image.
• Subscription, consent, screening, and filing records are kept with your Membership record so the contract, the charges, and the filings can be evidenced, and for the period our record-keeping obligations require.
• Contact messages are kept for as long as needed to handle your enquiry and keep a record of the answer given.

7 · Security

ID images are stored encrypted and are accessible only to the reviewer handling your file. Access to verification decisions is recorded. No filing work begins on an application until verification is complete, and a file that has not been cleared stays blocked rather than proceeding on incomplete checks.

8 · Your rights

You may ask us, at hello@einwithoutssn.com, to tell you what personal information we hold about you, to correct information that is wrong, and to delete information we hold about you. Where a record must be retained under section 6, for example the seven-year verification record, we will tell you that and delete the rest. Requests are handled for the person the information concerns; we may ask you to confirm your identity in proportion to the sensitivity of the record, and ID images are the most sensitive records we hold.

9 · Processing in the United States

This service is operated for filings with United States authorities, and your information is processed in the United States, including when it is submitted to the IRS and handled by the payment and fulfillment parties named in section 5. Most of our customers live outside the United States; joining the Membership means your application data travels that route, because the filing itself does.

10 · Changes, and contact

If this policy changes materially, the updated policy is published on this page with its effective date, and members are notified by email before the change applies to charges taken after that notice. Questions about this policy go to hello@einwithoutssn.com, or through the Contact page.