Brodbecks Law

Privacy Policy

Last modified: September 17, 2024

Introduction

Brodbecks Law, PLLC (“we” or “the firm”), a provider of New York-qualified legal services to clients worldwide, is committed to protect the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, or others inside or outside the firm). It is the policy of the firm to comply with the N.Y. Rules of Professional Conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information upon lawyers and their associated personnel.

This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.brodbeckslaw.com (our “Website”), our social media websites, as well as email messages that we may send to you that contain a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Internet Services”), and our practices for collecting, processing, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.  This Privacy Policy also describes how the firm collects, processes, maintains and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and the Internet Services.

The owner of the Website, the firm, is registered in the State of New York in the United States.  This Privacy Policy is based on the privacy and data protection principles common to the countries in which our clients reside. We apply it 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 applicable laws. This 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 policies that may apply.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using our Internet Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Internet Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to our Website or users of Internet Services. We collect several types of information from and about users of our Internet Services, including information:

  • Personal information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline; and/or
  • Personal information that is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Internet Services, and usage details.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us; and
  • Automatically as you access and interact with the Internet Services. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and web beacons, as described below in Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website; and
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We share this information with Squarespace, our Website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies).  This Website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this Website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this Website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This Website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data. 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 access the firm’s Internet Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our Internet Services will issue cookies when you access the firm’s Internet Services.  For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the firm, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

How We Use Your Information

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you;
  • To contact you and respond to your requests and enquiries;
  • To personalize your visit and use of our Internet Services and to assist you while you use those services;
  • To enter into or carry out contracts of various kinds;
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it;
  • 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 on which you instruct us;
  • To contact you (unless you tell us that you prefer us not to) regarding legal or law firm 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 comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations that we may be subject to, including anti-money laundering requirements. Where Personal Information is necessary for the firm to carry out any anti-money laundering checks, failure to provide such information may result in the firm not being able to provide the representation; and
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

Confidentiality, Security & Retention of Personal Information

Consistent with our professional obligations, it is the firm’s policy 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 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, as 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. If you wish to obtain more details on our information practices, please contact us by email at:  privacy@BrodbecksLaw.com.

Disclosure of Your 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 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 to our clients, a service that 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 also disclose your Personal Information if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Brodbecks Law, PLLC, our clients, or others.

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy to fulfill any purpose for which you provide it.

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. If you wish to obtain more details on our information practices, please contact us at: privacy@BrodbecksLaw.com.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.  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.
  • We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI”s website and the Digital Advertising Alliance website here.
  • Residents of certain states and global regions may have additional Personal Information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights and Your European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) Data Protection Rights for more information.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Internet Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. 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 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.

Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their Personal Information.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to: confirm whether we process their personal information; access and delete certain personal information; correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose; data portability; opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising (excluding Iowa), sales, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah); and/or either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data. Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales.

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. Residents who wish to exercise any of these rights should contact us at: privacy@BrodbecksLaw.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, please contact us at: privacy@BrodbecksLaw.com.

Your European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) Data Protection Rights

Under EU and UK data protection laws (UK GDPR/2018 Data Protection Act and EU GDPR), individuals may have certain data protection rights which may be subject to limitations and/or restrictions and which includes: (i) the right to request access to and, rectification or erasure of your Personal Information; and (ii) the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Information. You may also have a right to object to processing of your Personal Information where carried out for our legitimate interest or direct marketing. To exercise your rights under this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: privacy@BrodbecksLaw.com.

Individuals may also have a right to lodge a complaint about the processing of their Personal Information with their local data protection authority.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: privacy@BrodbecksLaw.com.