Last Updated: November 14, 2012
The Law Office of Tiffany Clark (“we” or “us”) is concerned about privacy issues. We created this Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) to give you help you understand how we collect, use and disclose information through our “Website,” which includes:
- www.tiffanyclarklaw.com (together with any successor site(s));
- Any Facebook, Twitter, or similar such interface we offer; and
- All of our online Services generally (as defined below).
This Privacy Policy applies regardless of how you access the Website (including through the internet, through Wireless Access Protocol (commonly referred to as “WAP”), through a mobile network, or otherwise).
This Privacy Policy discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices solely with respect to our Website and does not apply to our practices conducted offline. Because the Internet is global, information about you that our Website collects or that you submit through our Website may be transferred to, processed in, and held in countries (including the United States) other than the one in which you reside.
1. Acceptance and Updating of Privacy Policy.
By using our Website, you explicitly consent to such use of your Personal Information and Other Information (both defined below), and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We may edit this Privacy Policy from time to time, in our sole discretion. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the Website. We may notify you of such edits by any reasonable means, including by simply posting the revised version of this Privacy Policy on the Website.
It is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure that you continue to agree with all of its terms. You can discover when we last updated this Privacy Policy by seeing the “Last Updated” legend above. Your use of the Website following changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of those changes. You agree that we shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Website.
2. Entire Agreement.
This Privacy Policy constitutes the entire agreement between you and us, with respect to its subject matter. This Privacy Policy governs your use of the Website, superseding any prior agreements between you and us with respect to its subject matter (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of this Agreement). You also may be subject to additional Privacy Policies that may apply when you use other websites, services or products, third-party content or third-party software that may be linked from the Website. Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, this Privacy may only be modified in a writing signed by Tiffany Clark.
3. Description of the Services.
We make available on the Website general information and services, which may include, but is not limited to, newsletters, legal updates, articles, attorney profiles, event details, videos, audio files, photos, blog posts, text, data, similar content, event registration, subscription management, research tools, video players, and links to third-party websites (such information and services, collectively called, the “Services”).
WHILE THE SERVICES ON THE WEBSITE OFTEN CONCERN LEGAL ISSUES, AND MAY INCLUDE “GENERAL LEGAL INFORMATION,” THEY DO NOT CONSTITUTE LEGAL ADVICE. LEGAL ADVICE IS MEANT TO BE CURRENT, ACCURATE, AND TAILORED TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION. GENERAL LEGAL INFORMATION NOT NECESSARILY CURRENT OR ACCURATE, AND IS DEFINITELY NOT TAILORED TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION.
THE ONLY WAY TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE FROM US IS TO FORM A WRITTEN, SIGNED, ATTORNEY-CLIENT FEE AGREEMENT WITH US. YOU CAN BEGIN THE PROCESS OF APPLYING TO BECOME A CLIENT, BY FILLING OUT OUR CONTACT FORM, BEING SURE TO INCLUDE ONLY NON-CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
NO ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP IS CREATED THROUGH THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE. FURTHER, NEITHER RECEIPT OF INFORMATION PRESENTED ON THE WEBSITE, NOR ANY EMAIL OR OTHER ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SENT THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL CREATE AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP. AGAIN, ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS WITH US ARE ONLY CREATED VIA WRITTEN, SIGNED CLIENT FEE AGREEMENTS. AND IT IS ONLY WITH SUCH A CLIENT FEE AGREEMENT THAT YOU CAN OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE.
PLEASE ALSO NOTE, THE USE OF THE WEBSITE IS NOT INTENDED TO CONSTITUTE, AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE, A SOLICITATION FOR THE FORMATION OF AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP.
4. Sensitive Information; Confidential Information
You agree not to send us or otherwise disclose any sensitive Personal Information (defined below), such as Social Security numbers, racial or ethnic origin information, political opinions, religious or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership, or credit card or other payment card information, except when such information is specifically requested, in writing, and is pertinent to your interaction with us.
IN ADDITION, YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT THAT, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE INDICATED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY, NEITHER THE FACT OF, NOR THE CONTENTS OF ANY EMAIL, ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SENT THROUGH THE WEBSITE, OR COMMUNICATION BY ANY OTHER MEANS WILL BE TREATED BY US AS CONFIDENTIAL, EXCEPT 1) WHEN THE COMMUNICATION IS BY A CLIENT OF OURS AND IT CONCERNS A MATTER SPECIFICALLY COVERED BY AN EXISTING, WRITTEN, SIGNED, CLIENT FEE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THAT CLIENT AND US, IN WHICH CASE CONFIDENTIALITY WILL HAVE LIMITATIONS EXPLAINED IN THAT AGREEMENT; OR 2) THE COMMUNICATION IS OTHERWISE SPECIFICALLY INVITED IN WRITING, WITH EXPLICIT WRITTEN ASSURANCES THAT WE CAN MAINTAIN THE CONFIDENTIALITY RE THE PARTICULAR SUBJECT MATTER OF THE COMMUNICATION, SUBJECT TO WHATEVER LIMITATIONS TO OUR ASSURANCES OF CONFIDENTIALITY THAT WE MAY EITHER EXPLICITLY DESCRIBE OR THAT ARE OTHERWISE REQUIRED OR PERMITTED UNDER LAW.
5. Information You Agree We Can Collect.
Personal Information (“Personal Information”)
This is personally identifiable information about you, including, but not limited to:
- Name
- Postal address (including billing and shipping addresses)
- Telephone number
- Email address
Other Information(“Other Information”)
This is non-personally identifiable information about you, including, but not limited to:
- Information our servers automatically collect;
- Your IP addresses (the number assigned to computers on the Internet);
- Your Internet service provider (e.g., AOL);
- Your browser software (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer);
- Your software platform (e.g., Windows 7);
- The device you are using to access our Website (e.g., an iPhone);
- Your usage data;
- The duration of your visit to the Website;
- The domain (e.g., .COM, .NET, .JP) of the site from which you arrived at our Website;
- Demographic information;
- Your location;
- Information provided by you;
- Aggregated information; and
- Information collected by cookies and tracking technologies, which allow us to track the actions of users of our Website.
6. Ways You Agree We Can Collect The Information.
Personal Information
You agree we may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to:
- Through the Website. For example, when you sign up for a newletter or register for a webinar.
- Through other Sources. For example, public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms, people and entites with whom you are connected on social media platforms, third party service providers available through our Website, and other third parties.
Other Information
You agree we may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to:
- Through your browser or device.
- Through cookies, which are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using.
- Through pixel tags and other similar technologies.
- Through automatic collection of your IP address, which is a number automatically assigned to the computer you are using, by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
- Information provided by you, such as your location and your preferred means of communication.
- Through aggregating information, such as the aggregation of Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who use the Firefox browser.
7. Ways You Agree We May Use Your Information.
Personal Information
You agree we may use your Personal Information for any purposes allowed under applicable law, which in some cases may originate outside your country of residence, including, but not limited to:
- To fulfill your requests, such as to email you newsletters or register you for webinars for which you sign-up;
- To respond to your inquiries, such as questions you submit about the Website or the possiblity of becoming a client;
- To maintain a record of your information and correspondence;
- To send Website information, such as changes to our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy;
- To provide services, such as webinars;
- To track attendance;
- To facilitate future communication;
- To enable you to send Website related content so someone through our Website, such as through a Facebook share link. By doing so, you are committing to us that you are authorized to use, share, and permit us to use and share that person or entity’s information.
- For our business purposes, such as identifying usage trends, monitoring and preventing fraud, audits, improving or changing our Website, analyzing data, calculating how effective our marketing, services, operation, and expansions is or has been, etc.
- To do whatever we conclude is otherwise necessary or allowed: under applicable law, including laws outside of your country of residence; to comply with legal processes or requirements; to respond to public and government authority requests or mandates, which may originate outside of your country of residence; to enforce our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy or other rights; to protect our operations or those of our clients or other affiliates; to protect our safety, property, rights, privacy, or those of our clients or other affiliates; and to enable us to seek available remedies or limit our potential damages.
Other Information
You agree we may use your Other Information:
For any purpose, except where we are required to so otherwise under applicable law, which in some cases may originate outside your country of residence.
8. Ways You Agree We May Disclose The Information.
Personal Information
You agree we may disclose your Personal Information for any purposes allowed under applicable law, which in some cases may originate outside your country of residence, including, but not limited to:
- To our third-party service providers, that provide Website-related services such as data analysis, auditing, customer service, website hosting, consulting, monitoring, information technology and related infrastructure, and email.
- To anyone to whom you send messages through the Website.
- To the public, when you do such things as post information on our Website. We urge you to take care in deciding what to disclose in posts you make through our Website, because the information you disclose will become completely public, available for all to see and use as they wish.
To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of any or all of our business or assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings); - To do whatever we conclude is otherwise necessary or allowed: under applicable law, including laws outside of your country of residence; to comply with legal processes or requirements; to respond to public and government authority requests or mandates, which may originate outside of your country of residence; to enforce our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy or other rights; to protect our operations or those of our clients or other affiliates; to protect our safety, property, rights, privacy, or those of our clients or other affiliates; and to enable us to seek available remedies or limit our potential damages.
Other Information
You agree we may disclose your Other Information:
For any purpose, except where we are required to so otherwise under applicable law, which in some cases may originate outside your country of residence.
9. Third Party Services.
Some of our Website services, or those linked through our Website, are offered by third parties, and not by us. These third party providers may collect your Personal Information or Other Information. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of such third parties, as those will be the provisions that governs the handling of such information.
YOUR USE OF THIRD-PARTY WEB SITES AND RESOURCES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK, WHETHER OR NOT LINKED FROM OR OTHERWISE PROVIDED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE. YOU AGREE TO REVIEW THEIR POLICIES AND PRACTICES, TAKE DUE CARE IN DECIDING WHAT INFORMATION TO DISCLOSE TO AND THROUGH THEM, AND ACCEPT ALL RELATED CONSEQUENCES.
This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are in no way responsible for the privacy, terms of use, or other practices of any third parties, including those linked or otherwise offered through our Website. The inclusion of a link or third party service on our Website does imply any endorsement of said site or service and not mean we have either reviewed or approved such third party’s terms of use, privacy policy or other practices. Indeed, most likely we have done neither.
In addition, we are not responsible for the policies and practices (including those regarding data security, information collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices) of other third party organizations, such as app providers, social media platforms, or wireless service providers. As with third party services linked from or otherwise provided through our Website, you are responsible for reviewing such parties policies and practices, for taking due care in considering what Personal Information to disclose to them, and for the consequences of such disclosure, and of their practices with collecting either your Personal Information or Other Information.
10. Security.
We use standard organizational, technological and administrative measure to protect Personal Information. Unfortunately, however, no storage system, or data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot guarantee its security. If you have any reason to believe security has been compromised, please contact us through our Contact page.
11. Your Choices.
If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us in the future, you may opt-out of receiving these marketing-related emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in any such message. However, if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages. Unfortunately, you cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages.
If you now want to update, review, correct, suppress, or otherwise modify Personal Information you have previously submitted, please contact us through our Contact page. For your protection, we may only be able to execute requests regarding Personal Information that’s associated with whatever email address you provide in your request. We may also need to verify your identity prior to executing your request. In any event, we will endeavor to respond to your request in a way that meets your need for timeliness.
Nevertheless, even in cases where we can largely comply with your request, we may need to keep particular information for our record-keeping reasons. Also, residual information may remain within our databases and other records and not be removed or removable.
12. Retention Period.
We will keep your Personal Information for whatever period is necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is permitted or required by law.
13. Minors.
We request that any one under the age of thirteen (13) not provide Personal Information through the Website.
14. Cross-Border Transfer.
The Website is primarily controlled and operated by us from California, in the United States. However, the location in which your information is stored or processed may include locations outside of California when, for example, our service providers reside outside of California. In any event, nothing regarding the control, operation, or information transfer or processing related to the Website is intended to subject us to either the jurisdiction or law of any geographic area other than California. Given the foregoing, by using the Website you consent to the control and operation of the Website, and transfer and processing of your Personal Information, in locations that may be outside of your state or country of residence, and which may have different data protection rules than those that exist where you reside.
15. Contact Us.
If you have any questions or concerns, regarding the meaning or application of this agreement, please let us know via our Contact page.