Privacy Policy

The following privacy policy applies to information collected online from users of this website. Per the policy, you can learn the kind of information we collect, how the information is protected, how and when we may use said information, and your choices regarding your personal information.

What personal information does this website collect and how is it used?

We use three methods to collect information about our users: directly from the user, through cookies, and using our own Web server logs. This information is used primarily to present you with a personalized Internet experience that delivers to you the most relevant and helpful information, resources, and services. None of the information you provide is shared with others, unless we believe in good faith that the law requires it, or unless we say so in this Privacy Policy.

User-supplied information

When you fill out the form for “contact” on this website, we’ll ask you to give us some personal information (basics, like your name, e-mail address, phone number and state). We only request your e-mail address on that contact form. Additionally, you may be asked to provide information if you participate in an online chat on our site if the site is providing that service. Please do not submit any proprietary, sensitive, or confidential,  personally identifiable information (e.g. Social Security Number; credit card, bank account or other financial information; date of birth; or driver’s license number) ( we call this collectively, “Sensitive Information”). If you submit any Sensitive Information, you do so at your own risk: we will not in any way be responsible for consequences of your submission, nor we will be liable to you for your submission or any consequences.  (EDITING STOPPED HERE)

Information you provide us through an online chat or contact form will be used so we can respond to your inquiry; we may also use this information in the future to communicate with you. If you prefer NOT to receive such communications, you can always opt out (unsubscribe) as described below.

Web server logs

We may track information about your visit when you visit the firm’s website and use web server logs to store that information (these logs are simply records of the activities on our sites). This information is automatically captured and saved electronically. Examples of potentially collected information include:

• your unique Internet protocol address;
• date and time of your visit;
• your unique Internet service provider’s name;
• the kind of browser or computer you use;
• the town/city, county/state and country from which you access our website;
• how many links you click within the site;
• any web page from which you arrived to our site;
• pages you viewed on the site; and
• certain queries/searches that you conducted using our website(s).

We use web server logs to collect information to aid us in administering the site, analyzing its usage, protecting the website and its content from inappropriate use and improving the user’s experience (including your experience).

Cookies

In an effort to provide a more personal, customized service, our websites and affiliated applications may use cookies and other similar technologies to help track and store information about you and your visit. Cookies are just small pieces of data sent from a Web server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. These cookies help remind us who you are and help you during your visits to navigate our sites. These cookies can tell us where visitors go on a website, allowing us to improve your visits for you, by saving your preferences, and allowing you to skip having to re-enter them each time you visit. Using cookies like this is relatively standard. While most Internet browsers are originally set up to allow cookies, you can set your browser to notify you about receiving cookies or to simply disable cookies.

If you wish, you can use your browser to disable cookies from our site. However, you should understand some features of many sites may not always or ever function properly unless you accept cookies. More information about managing cookies through your browsers can be found by following this link: All About Cookies. Likewise, Flash cookies from this website can be refused using Adobe’s Flash management tools. Finally, you can visit this link to opt out of Google’s use of cookies: Google’s Ad Settings.

By visiting our firm’s website, you are consenting to the use of cookies and technologies similar to cookes in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Third-party Services

We may use services hosted by Adobe Site Catalyst and by other third parties, and to help understand visitors’ use of our site and to assist in providing improved, customized services for our visitors, including you. These services may collect information, including your IP address or cookies, sent by your browser as part of a web page request. If this happens, the third-party services that collect this information do so anonymously and in the aggregate, without identifying individual visitors, in order to provide information that helps our practice, such as website trends

Furthermore we may use third parties services to display content, products, services and advertising that appears to be relevant to you. These third parties may collect or receive information from this website and elsewhere on the Internet using cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. Then they may use that information based on your previous visits to this website to provide measurement services to understand your interests and re-target advertisements. We do not intentionally share your personal information with any third-party advertiser, ad server or ad network.

Collection and use of information for ad targeting by some third parties is something you may be able to opt-out of by visiting this link:

www.aboutads.info/choices. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ad Settings. Visiting this page should also allow you to opt out of the targeted advertising of AdRoll and their partners. The section above entitled “Cookies” contains more information for controlling and limiting the use of cookies on your computer.

California Do Not Track

Our web services do not respond, alter, or change upon receiving “Do Not Track (DNT)” requests or signals from browsers. As more thoroughly described hereinabove, web server logs, cookies and similar technologies are used to track user activity. Such web server log information collection helps us improve user experience buy analyzing website usage. An improved, customized experience and the presentation of hopefully relevant advertising to you is possible by this use of cookies.

How is personal information protected?

Certain appropriate security measures are taken to help protect your personal information against unauthorized access, use or disclosure, and or accidental loss. Please be advised however that we do not and cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will always be unable to defeat our security measures.

Who has access to the information?

Under no circumstances will our firm sell, rent, or lease mailing lists or other user data to others, and your personal information will not be made available by us to any unaffiliated parties, except as follows:

• to contractors, agents, and/or website vendors who may be using it in connection with their relationship with us on our behalf;
• if we cannot to assist you with your matter, but know of an unaffiliated firm or attorney that might be able to help you, then we may refer you and share the information you provided to us with that party in order to help you; and/ or
• if required by law, if necessary or helpful in a matter of public policy or public safety, as needed in connection with the transfer of our business assets (for example, if another firm buys this practice or if our firm is liquidated as part of bankruptcy proceedings), or if we have a good faith belief that sharing the data is necessary to protect our rights or property.

How can I correct, amend or delete my personal information and/or opt out of future communications?

You can, at any time, opt out of any future contacts from us. Contact us via the email address, telephone number, contact form, or U.S.P.S. mailing address on our website at any time to:

• learn what data, if any, we may have about you;
• ask us to delete the data we have about you;
• opt out of our future communication; and/or
• change/correct data we may have about you.

Further questions or concerns about our privacy policy, should be directed to the firm via the phone number, email address, contact form, or U.S.P.S. mailing address listed on this website. Any important or significant changes to our information practices will be posted here.

Effective October 27, 2023.

We partner with Thomson Reuters, who might also collect data as part of our marketing efforts. To learn more about the Thomson Reuters privacy policy and the data that might be collected, please visit: Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement.