Effective Date/Last Modified: November 22, 2021

It it the policy of the law office to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and their associated personnel. This Privacy Policy summarizes the law office’s data protection practices generally, and advises our clients, interested law students, job applicants, website visitors, and other third parties about the law office’s privacy policies that may be applicable to them.

This Privacy Policy is also specifically addressed to parties outside the law office who provide Personal Information to the law office or who visit or use this Site, our social media sites, our extranets, as well as email messages that we send to you that contain a link to this Statement (collectively, the “Internet Services”).

This Privacy Policy also describes how the law office collects, processes and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and the Internet Services. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected through third-party websites or services that you may access through the Site or that you submit to us through e-mail or offline.

PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. When you submit information to or through the Site, you consent to the collection and processing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and consent to our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and made a part of our Terms of Use.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY PART OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY OR OUR TERMS OF USE, PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY OF THE SITE.

The Effective Date of this Privacy Policy is set forth at the top of this Policy. Whenever possible, the law office will provide you with advance written notice of our changes to this Privacy Policy. We will not make retroactive changes that reduce your privacy rights unless we are legally required to do so. Your continued use of the Site after the Effective Date constitutes your acceptance of the amended Privacy Policy. The amended Privacy Policy supersedes all previous versions.

INFORMATION THE LAW OFFICE COLLECTS

Types of Information

The law office collects various kinds of information that you provide to us as well as information we obtain from your use of the Site. Some of the types of information that we collect include:

“Personal Information”—information associated with or used to identify or contact a specific person. Personal Information includes: (1) contact data (such as e-mail address and telephone number); (2) demographic data; and (3) certain Usage Data (defined below), such as IP address.

“Usage Data”—information about an individual's online activity that, by itself, does not identify the individual, such as include all that apply:
• technical information, including your browser type, service provider, IP address, operating system and webpages visited;
• information about what you've searched for and looked at while using the Site;
• metadata, which means information related to items you made available through the Site, such as the date, time or location that a shared photograph or video was taken or posted.
(Generally, the law office does not consider Usage Data as Personal Information because Usage Data by itself usually does not identify an individual. Personal Information and Usage Data may be linked together. Different types of Usage Information also may be linked together and, once linked, may identify an individual person. Some Usage Data may be Personal Information under applicable law.)

“Location Data” is a category of Personal Information collected about the location of a mobile device or computer, including:
• the location of the mobile device or computer used to access the Site derived from GPS or WiFi use; and
• the IP address of the mobile device or computer or internet service used to access the Site;

How The Law Office Collects Information

The law office collects Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to the Site or users of Internet Services. We may also collect Personal Information about you when you interact with us on social media sites and from other third parties and may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy. We collect information about you in the following ways:

From You When You Use the Site. We collect Personal Information from you when you contact us for help or information or otherwise voluntarily provide your Personal Information. We collect the information and content that you submit to us.

From Our Business Partners and Service Providers. Third parties that assist us with our business operations also collect information (including Personal Information and Usage Data) about you through the Site and share it with us.

Usage Data. We also automatically collect Usage Data when you interact with the Site.

From cookies and other data collection tools. We, along with the service providers that help us provide the Site, use small text files called “cookies”, which are small computer files sent to or accessed from your web browser or your computer's or tablet's hard drive that contain information about your computer, such as a user ID, user settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using the Site. Cookies are not themselves personally identifiable, but may be linked to Personal Information that you provide to us through your interaction with the Site. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the “lifetime” of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier.

Cookies help us improve the Site by tracking users' navigation habits and storing users' password, customizing users' experience with the Site; enabling us to analyze technical and navigational information about the Site; and helping to detect and prevent fraud.

We also use other cookies and other data collection tools (such as web beacons and server logs), which we collectively refer to as “data collection tools,” to help improve your experience with the Site. The Site also may use data collection tools to collect information from the device used to access the Site, such as operating system type, browser type, domain and other system settings, as well as the operating system used and the country and time zone in which the computer or device is located.

Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. Some web browsers (including some mobile web browsers) provide settings that allow a user to reject cookies or to alert a user when a cookie is placed on the user's computer, tablet or mobile device. Most mobile devices also offer settings to reject mobile device identifiers. Although users are not required to accept cookies or mobile device identifiers, blocking or rejecting them may prevent access to some features available through the Site.

How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:
• to provide the Site to you;
• to operate and improve the Site, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us;
• for client service, security, to detect fraud or illegal activities, or for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Site;
•  to contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries;
• to better understand how users access and use the Site, for the purposes of trying to improve the Site and to respond to user preferences, including language and location customization, personalized help and instructions, or other responses to users' usage of the Site;
•  to provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of the law office, and otherwise deal with you, and administer the matters you instruct us on;
•  to contact you (unless you tell us that you prefer us not to) regarding legal or law office developments that may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive publications or details of events or seminars that we consider may be of interest to you, you may do so by clicking on the unsubscribe link in electronic marketing communications;
• to enforce our Terms of Use or other applicable policies; and
• to assess the effectiveness of and improve advertising and other marketing and promotional activities on or in connection with the Site.

Please note that, in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the Site, information collected through the Site may be used in an aggregated or individualized manner.

Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information

Consistent with professional obligations, it has always been the policy of the law office to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.
The law office maintains reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by a visitor to this Site and provided while using other Internet Services. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.

We require consultants, suppliers, and vendors to maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors, including, where applicable, European Union’s data protection laws and regulations.

We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and in our applicable policies.

Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information

We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the the law office except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you. Consistent with our professional obligations, we may provide Personal Information to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law, such as in connection with the investigation or assertion of our legal defenses or for our compliance matters.

We may transfer information, including your Personal Information, in connection with a merger or other change of ownership or control by or of us or any affiliated law firm (in each case whether in whole or in part). When one of these events occurs, we will use reasonable efforts to notify users before your information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Information Storage and Security

We retain Site information as long as it is necessary and relevant for our operations. We also retain Personal Information to comply with applicable law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, and other actions permitted by law. After it is no longer necessary for us to retain Site information, we dispose of it according to our data retention and deletion policies.

We employ industry-standard security measures designed to protect the security of all information submitted through the Site. However, the security of information transmitted through the internet can never be guaranteed. We are not responsible for any interception or interruption of any communications through the internet or for changes to or losses of data. Users of the Site are responsible for maintaining the security of any password, user ID or other form of authentication involved in obtaining access to password protected or secure areas of any part of the SIte. Access to and use of password protected and/or secure areas of any of the Site are restricted to authorized users only. Unauthorized access to such areas is prohibited and may lead to criminal prosecution.

Your Rights

It is important to us that you are able to access and review the Personal Information we have about you and make corrections to it or delete it, as necessary. If you have any questions about how to access your Personal Information, please contact us at https://philliplupton.com/contact.

Links to Third Party Services

The Site may contain links to third-party websites and services (“Third Party Services”) with which we have no affiliation. A link to any Third Party Service does not mean that we endorse it or the quality or accuracy of information presented on it. If you decide to visit a Third Party Service, you are subject to its privacy policy and practices and not this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to carefully review the legal and privacy notices of all other digital services that you visit.

Disclaimer: Not Child-Directed

The Site is not intended for use by children. If you are under the age of majority in your place of residence, you may use the Site only with the consent of or under the supervision of your parent or legal guardian. Consistent with the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), if we learn that we have received any information directly from a child under age 13 without first receiving his or her parent's verified consent, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child (or his or her parent or legal guardian) to inform the child that he or she cannot use the Site and subsequently we will delete that information.

Changes

The Company reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without advance notice. Should any new policy go into effect for the Site, the law office will post it on this website and relevant services.