Privacy Policy
Our Commitment to Privacy
Our
Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to
combine the highest-quality services for personal injury cases with the
highest level of integrity in dealing with our clients and partners.
The Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect,
use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to
assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our
services. This statement will be continuously assessed against new
business practices and our customers' needs.
What Information Do We Collect?
When
you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of
information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that
is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information
collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Credit Card Information
If
you choose to purchase products or services from us or our partners,
you may need to give personal information and authorization to obtain
information from various credit services. For example, you may need to
provide the following information:
- Name
- Mailing address
- Email address
- Credit card number
- Home and business phone number
- Other personal information (i.e. mother's maiden name)
- Email Information
In
addition to providing the foregoing information to our partners, if you
choose to correspond further with us through email, we may retain the
content of your email messages together with your email address and our
responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic
communications that we employ in the maintenance of information
received by mail and telephone.
2. Web Site Use Information
Similar
to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard
technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are
Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web
site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs
may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent
at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after
our Web site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None
of this information is associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly
speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our
business activities, providing customer service and making available
other products and services to our customers and prospective customers.
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you
about important changes to our Web site, new services and special
offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you
product and service offers are developed and managed under our
traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard the security and
privacy of our customers' personal information. As a customer, you will
be given the opportunity, at least once annually, to notify us of your
desire not to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies
are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers to
recognize the computer used to access a Web site. Cookies are small
pieces of data that are stored by a user's Web browser on the user's
hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on
one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by
the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's
transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to
move from Web page to Web page and to complete commercial transactions
over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier
and more personalized.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
We
use Web site browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs
to gather information about our Web site users' browsing activities, in
order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our
customers. This information assists us to design and arrange our Web
pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our
Web site to better meet the needs of our customers and prospective
customers.
Cookies help us collect important business and
technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the
paths followed by users to our Web site as they move from one page to
another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our
Web site and evaluate our Web site's visitor capacity. We do not use
these technologies to capture your individual email address or any
personally identifying information about you although they do permit us
to send focused online banner advertisements or other such responses to
you.
Sharing Information with Affiliates
We do
not, at any time, make information collected on our website available
to any third party interests. You can be assured the http://www.injury-attorneys.com keeps all records confidential.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally,
we may also use the information we collect to notify you about
important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we
think you will find valuable. As our client, you will be given the
opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by
clicking on a response box when you receive such an offer or by sending
us an email request at
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How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When
you send confidential personal credit card information to us on our Web
site, a secure server software (128-bit SSL encryption) which we have
licensed--encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us.
The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our
Web site.
Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we
advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your
transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not
send confidential information such as Social Security or account
numbers to us through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security.
We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the
confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized
access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices. Periodically,
our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with
corporate policies and procedures governing the security,
confidentiality and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations. Our corporate
values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the
protection of customer information. In general, our business practices
limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use
and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and
transactions.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You
may request access to all your personally identifiable information that
we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing
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Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
No.
We use aggregate information about our customers, sales, Web site
traffic patterns and related Web site information for internal use
only. We do not share data with any affiliates or third parties.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We
may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other
words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for
the protection of our legal rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We
are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to
or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein.
Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to
information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.