PRIVACY STATEMENT AND COOKIE POLICY
As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services to clients in the State of California, Drukker Law Inc., including its Of Counsel (collectively, the “firm”), is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, or others inside or outside the firm). It has always been and remains the policy of the firm to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon attorneys and their associated personnel.
This Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is intended to summarize the firm’s data protection practices generally, and to advise our clients, website visitors, and other third parties about the firm’s privacy practices that may be applicable to them. We apply this Privacy Policy in light of our overarching obligations to comply with law, to preserve client confidentiality and to represent our clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law.
This Privacy Policy is also specifically addressed to parties outside the firm who provide Personal Information to the firm or who visit or use the firm’s website or our social media sites (collectively, the “Internet Services”). This Privacy Policy also describes how the firm collects, processes, and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and the Internet Services.
Please do not access or use our Internet Services if you do not agree to this Privacy Policy.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
The firm collects Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to its website or users of our Internet Services. We may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy.
We may use that Personal Information where in our legitimate interest to do so for the following purposes:
- to contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries
- to carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations
- to provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of the firm, and otherwise deal with you, and administer the matters you instruct us on
- to enter into or carry out contracts of various kinds
- to protect the security of our services and business
- to comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations to which we are subject.
Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information
Consistent with our professional obligations, it has always been the policy of the firm to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us. We maintain 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 website and provided while using our Internet Services. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
We ask that you do not submit confidential or sensitive information through our Contact page as information submitted through this page is not securely transmitted and may not be subject to the Attorney-Client Privilege.
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 the Privacy Policy.
If you wish to obtain more details on our information practices, please refer to the “Contact Us” section below.
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information
We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents 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.
Data Transfer
Drukker Law Inc. and our website provider, Squarespace, process Personal Information in the United States of America generally and in the State of California specifically. You should be aware that the United States and other countries have not harmonized their privacy regulations. Even within the United Sates, privacy regulations among the states are not always consistent. Because Drukker Law Inc. and our website provider are located in the United States, and because Drukker Law Inc. operates out of, and primarily serves clients who are located in, the State of California, Drukker Law Inc. has written our Privacy Policy to satisfy applicable California and United States regulations. By using our Internet Services or providing us with your information, you explicitly (i) acknowledge and agree that your Personal Information may be transferred to, and used by, entities located outside of your state, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction, and (ii) consent to the collection, transfer, storage, and processing of your information to and in the United States and the State of California and the use and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Squarespace
Our site is hosted by Squarespace. When accessing our site, Squarespace may log your IP address, access URL, time of access, geographic location, browser type, and referral URL in order to provide us with internal information regarding site traffic statistics. This information may also be used to identify users who are using our site for spam. Otherwise, this information is used in the aggregate, and is never linked back to any Personal Information.
Personal Information hosted by or through Squarespace is subject to their privacy policy which may or may not contain terms as protective as this Privacy Policy. By using our site, you are agreeing to be bound by Squarespace’s privacy policy, which can be found at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.
Cookie Policy
Squarespace
Squarespace and our other service providers may use cookies (both session cookies and persistent cookies) to analyze trends, administer our site, track your movements around our site, better understand how you interact with our site, determine interest in particular content and monitor aggregate usage by visitors and online traffic routing. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual and aggregated basis.
Squarespace and our other service providers may also use “pixel tags,” “web beacons,” “clear GIFs,” or similar means in connection with our site and HTML-formatted e-mail messages to, among other things, track the actions of users, to determine the success of marketing campaigns and to compile aggregate statistics about site usage and response rates. This information is collected anonymously, in a manner that does not personally identify you.
Google Analytics
Our site also uses Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage. The privacy policy for Google Analytics can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Need for and Disabling Cookies
None of these cookies are strictly necessary to access our Internet Services. You may reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to allow your browser to alert you when a cookie is set, however, certain parts of the Internet Services may function differently and not as well. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our Internet Services will issue cookies when you logon to the firm’s Internet Services. For more information about how to manage your cookies preferences, you should use the “help” menu of your web browser or explore the customer support sections of your web browser. Please note that you need to configure each browser on each device that you use if you wish to opt-out or block some or all cookies. If you do not wish to receive advertising cookies, you may wish to visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website by clicking here and the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) website here.
Do Not Track Signals
“Do Not Track” signals are options available on your browser to tell operators of websites that you do not wish to have your online activity tracked. Squarespace currently does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
Children
In order to respect the privacy of minors, the firm does not knowingly collect, maintain or process Personal Information submitted online via our Internet Services by anyone under the age of 18. To the extent the firm knowingly collects Personal Information on minors in the context of one of the purposes mentioned in the Privacy Policy, the firm will only do so with the appropriate consent or as otherwise permitted under applicable laws.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our website also contains links to information located on websites maintained by other organizations. Once you access an individual document that links you to another website, you are subject to the privacy policy of the website containing that document.
Your California Privacy Rights
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California customers are entitled to request information relating to whether a business has disclosed Personal Information to any third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. The firm does not ever sell or share your Personal Information with third-party companies for their direct marketing purposes.
Changes
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without advance notice. Should any new policy go into effect for our Internet Services, the firm will post it on this website and relevant Internet Services.
Contact Us
If you have any questions relating to our use of your Personal Information please contact us at info@drukkerlaw.com.