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PRIVACY POLICY OVERVIEW
This website is owned and operated by Lawyers Near You. This Policy applies to information collected on this website and any Lawyers Near You website accessed via a user’s computer, mobile, e-reader, tablet or other device (“Device”) used to access the online services, and applications and sites affiliated with Lawyers Near You products, that link to this Policy (collectively, the “Online Services”). This Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of use of this website (“Terms of Use”). Each time that you access or use the Online Services, you signify that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by the Terms of Use and this Policy. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use and this Policy, you must discontinue using our Online Services.
From time to time, Lawyers Near You may update its Policy. Lawyers Near You will post the new Policy with a new Effective Date to notify you of these changes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back to this Policy frequently for updates. By accessing the Online Services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current Policy.
- Email Newsletters: When you sign-up to receive free Lawyers Near You email information newsletters, Lawyers Near You may require that you supply your name, email address and other information.
- Registration for Other Lawyers Near You Products, Services and Events: When you register to receive Lawyers Near You products or services or sign up for various events, whether they are free or paid, and whether they are offered by us or provided in association with our third party partners, Lawyers Near You may require that you supply your full name, email address, contact information, and other information. In some instances, Lawyers Near You also collects credit card information to bill subscribers for premium products and to bill attendees for events.
- Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions. We may offer sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions (a “Promotion”) that may require registration. You will be asked to provide certain information in order to participate in any such Promotions, and any information you provide may be may be used and disclosed as set forth in this Policy, as well as in connection with the administration of such Promotion and as required by law or permitted by the Promotion’s official rules.
- Job Applications: When applying for select job postings at Lawyers Near You via the Online Services, you may elect to send us your resume or other relevant information online. Personal information collected in association with job postings at Lawyers Near You will be used for the purpose of accepting and evaluating candidate submissions for job postings.
- Research Surveys. You may elect to provide information in connection with Lawyers Near You research surveys or research surveys offered in conjunction with our advertisers and/or partners.
- Credit Card Information: If you use a credit card to pay for any Lawyers Near You products or services, Lawyers Near You may retain your credit card information in order to renew your account in the event you elect to renew your subscription. You should never provide detailed credit card information directly to Lawyers Near You via an unsecure form (such as email).
- Partner Products & Services Offered on the Online Services: Third parties, such as partners, sponsors or advertisers whose services are promoted or advertised on the Online Services may request that you provide personal information. Please see below for further details about this.
- Third Parties: Lawyers Near You may collect information about you that Lawyers Near You receives from other sources.
- Information Collected Using Technology. Lawyers Near You may use a variety of technologies (collectively, “Tracking Technologies”, which are further described here) to gather personal and non-personal information (which is any information that does not reveal your specific identity) automatically (or passively) whenever you visit or interact with the Online Services. We also work with third parties to provide certain functionalities on the Online Services and to improve the effectiveness of the Online Services and its content. Separate and distinct from information Lawyers Near You shares with third parties (as further described below), third party companies may also use Tracking Technologies to independently collect and store information about you and your usage of the Online Services and may combine this information with information they collect from other sources. Please note, we do not control Tracking Technologies used by third parties, and their use may be governed by the privacy policies of the third parties employing the Tracking Technologies. Some of the Tracking Technologies that may be used to collect information are described below. To learn how to turn off certain Tracking Technologies, see below.
- Device Information. Lawyers Near You may collect certain, non-personal information about the Device you use to access Lawyers Near You’s services, including but not limited to IP addresses for your Devices, unique device identifiers, browser types, browser language and other transnational information that does not personally identify you.
- User History: Lawyers Near You may log certain usage information about your use of the Online Services, which may include a history of the pages you view. If you download and use any Lawyers Near You software application on your Device, the log files will automatically be collected by the application and sent to Lawyers Near You’s servers when your Device syncs up for the latest content available.
- Mobile/Location Information. We may collect additional information from you if you access the Online Services through a mobile device, for example your unique device identifier, device’s operating system, mobile carrier, or location when you opt in for us to do so. However the degree to which your location can be identified depends on the device you are using (e.g. laptop, smartphone, tablet) and how you are connected to the internet (e.g. via cable broadband connection, WiFi, etc.). If you enable location services for the Online Services we may collect regional location data periodically as you use or leave open the Online Services. We may also collect your location information from you IP address or zip code. We may also use location data internally or in conjunction with our third party service providers to customize your experience and provide offers that may be relevant to you. Depending on the platform you use to access the Online Services (e.g., Apple™ iOS, Google™ Android, Windows, etc.) you may be able to control from within the settings on your wireless device whether location data is collected.
SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES AND LEXISNEXIS:
When you log into Lawyers Near You through your LexisNexis account or social networking accounts, link your social networking accounts with the Online Services or engage with Online Services through the LexisNexis platform or third party social media platforms, you understand that you may be allowing us ongoing access to certain information stored on those platforms. In addition, as you interact with the Online Services, you may also be providing information about your activities to LexisNexis or the third party social networking platforms, as applicable. You should make sure that you are comfortable with the information such services may make available to us by visiting the applicable platforms’ privacy policies and/or modifying your privacy settings directly with those platforms.
Lawyers Near You uses your personal and non-personal information that it collects from you and about you for the purposes set forth below. For the avoidance of doubt, Lawyers Near You may use and disclose non-personal information for any purpose, except where Lawyers Near You is required to do otherwise under applicable law. If Lawyers Near You is required to treat non-personal information as personal information under applicable law, then Lawyers Near You may use and disclose it for all the purposes for which Lawyers Near You uses and discloses your personal information. Lawyers Near You may use this information to:
- Enable Usage: Lawyers Near You uses the information it gathers about you to enable your use of Lawyers Near You’s products and services, including but not limited to accessing the Online Services, receiving e-newsletters, renewing paid services, participating in message boards and receiving requested product and services.
- Data Enhancement. Lawyers Near You may acquire information from other trusted sources to update or supplement the information that you provided or we collected automatically, such as information to validate or update your address or other information.
- Customizing Your Experience on the Online Services: Lawyers Near You uses the information that it collects and acquires to customize your user experience on the Online Services, including delivering content to you that we think would be most relevant and of interest to you and providing you with an enhanced experience based on the type of Device you are using.
- Advertising. We use third-party ad servers and ad networks that use tracking technology to collect information about your visits on other services and when you access the Online Services to send you targeted advertisements. They automatically receive your IP address or mobile device identifier when this happens. They may also use Tracking Technologies to measure the effectiveness of advertisements and to personalize the advertising content and to serve you advertisements that are relevant to your regional location. We may also use information collected using third party cookies and beacons on the Online Services and in our emails to deliver advertising about the Online Services displayed to you on third party services. Google is one of the companies that we use to serve advertising and perform analytics on some of the Online Services. We and third party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to the Online Services. To learn about Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the Web.
- Statistical Analysis: Lawyers Near You may perform statistical, and marketing analyses of user behavior for a variety of purposes, such as to measure interest in the various areas of Lawyers Near You sites, to better understand subscription and purchasing patterns for product development purposes and to inform advertisers about Lawyers Near You’s subscriber base. Lawyers Near You also uses third parties to provide Lawyers Near You with information, reports and analysis about the usage and browsing patterns of users of Lawyers Near You products and services.
- Account Maintenance and Service Updates: Lawyers Near You may utilize the contact information you provided at registration, such as your telephone number and email address, to contact you regarding your account, your subscriptions and other products or services which you have requested or in which you are currently enrolled. These may include order confirmations, renewals/expiration notices, notifications about credit card issues, and changes to the subscriber agreement and Lawyers Near You products.
- Push Notifications. The Online Services may include a function that allows us to use push notifications to send you updates, communications, and other messages about the Online Services. To opt out of getting these push notifications or other messages, you must turn off the push notification function within your device settings.
- E-Mail Newsletters: If you have registered to receive email newsletters, you shall receive emails specifically for such newsletters. If you choose to no longer receive such email newsletters, you may unsubscribe from such emails (see below for instructions).
- E-Mail Promotions. Lawyers Near You may also periodically send you email messages about products and services that Lawyers Near You or its partners think may be of interest to you. If you choose not to receive such emails, you may unsubscribe from such emails (see below for instructions).
- Other Emails: If you use the “Email This Article” feature to email links to articles, the email that you supply to Lawyers Near You may be saved for your convenience only (for clarification, any such email address provided to email links to articles will not be used or shared by Lawyers Near You for any other purpose). If you send Lawyers Near You emails, you should be aware that any information provided in an email may not be secure or encrypted and therefore may be available to others.
- Administrator Uses. If your use of the Online Services is managed for you by an account administrator then your account administrator and resellers who provide user support to your organization may have access to your personal information (including your email and other data). Please refer to your account administrator’s privacy policy for more information.
- Archival Purposes. Personal and other information that you provide to us in the course of participating in the Online Services may be gathered and stored in one or more of our corporate databases. We may retain information from canceled accounts to comply with law, prevent fraud, assist with investigations, resolve disputes, analyze or troubleshoot programs, enforce our terms of use, or take other actions permitted by law.
Lawyers Near You may, on occasion, choose to share the personal information collected about users with select third parties for certain purposes, such as the following.
- Third Party Promotions. Lawyers Near You may share your personal information with select third parties so that they may provide you with product or service offerings or promotions via email or direct mail which Lawyers Near You feels may be of interest to you. Many of Lawyers Near You’s subscribers find these email and direct mail promotions valuable, whether they are shopping for merchandise, taking advantage of special offers, or purchasing unique services. You may opt-out of having your personal information shared for this purpose, as described in greater detail below.
- Partner Products & Services Offered on the Online Services. If you provide personal information to third parties, such as partners, sponsors or advertisers whose services are promoted or advertised on the Online Services, you may be providing your information to both Lawyers Near You and the third party. Your personal information will be subject to this Policy as well as the privacy policy and practices of such third party. Lawyers Near You cannot make guarantees or warranties as to the nature of a third party’s use of your personal information.
- Third Party Event Sponsors. When you register for an Lawyers Near You event (including any webinars and recognition dinners) Lawyers Near You may share the information you provide, such as your name, company name, postal address and email address, with third parties who are sponsoring the applicable event. You may opt-out of having such information shared for this purpose, as described in greater below.
- Mobile Carriers. If you access the Online Services through a Device or app, we may also share your information with mobile carriers, operating systems and platforms.
Personal information about you as an individual subscriber or registrant may be shared, regardless of your “opt-out” status, in the following instances:
- Compliance with Law: Lawyers Near You may release information if it is required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) comply with the law or comply with legal process served on Lawyers Near You; and (2) protect and defend the legitimate business interests, rights or property of Lawyers Near You, its users, advertisers, customers, sponsors, advertisers or affiliates.
- Vendors: Lawyers Near You may on occasion use third-party vendors to assist it in performing its business functions, such as mailing statements to subscribers, email distribution, processing data and payments, and providing customer service. Personal information may be shared with these businesses or individuals to allow them to perform their assigned functions, but is limited to that information needed to perform the assigned function, and may not be used for any other purpose.
- Organizational Changes: Should Lawyers Near You undergo a sales, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganization or liquidation, Lawyers Near You’s accumulated customer information will be treated as an asset and, like other business assets, subject to transfer to or acquisition by a third party. We may also disclose information about our users in connection with a commercial transaction where we, or any one of our businesses, is seeking financing, investment, support or funding.
Lawyers Near You is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of websites to which it may link. This Policy applies solely to information collected by Lawyers Near You. You should consult the respective privacy policies of any applicable third parties to learn more about their privacy practices.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, Lawyers Near You has put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to protect the information Lawyers Near You collects online. Please understand, however, that while we try our best to safeguard your personally identifiable information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any social media or other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
A SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT CHILDREN AND NON-U.S. USERS
The Lawyers Near You site is directed to a general audience and not directed to those under the age of 18. Lawyers Near You asks that minors not submit any personal information. Lawyers Near You does not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18 years of age and if we obtain actual knowledge that a user is under 18 years of age, we will take steps to remove that user’s personal information from our systems.
The Online Services is operated in the United States and is intended for users located in the United States. If you are located anywhere outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect, including personal information, will be transferred to, processed and stored in the United States. The data protection laws in the United States may differ from those of the country in which you are located, and your personal information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in the United States according to the laws of the United States. By using the Online Services or providing us with any information, you consent to the transfer, processing and storage of your information in the United States. You are also consenting to the application of United States federal and New York state law in all matters concerning the Online Services and this Policy.
The laws of the State of New York shall govern any dispute, including those disputes arising from Lawyers Near You’s use of personal information or otherwise relating to privacy, as specified in the Terms of Use. This Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties.
- Email: Any recipient of email notices may opt out of receiving them at any time. To opt out of receiving emails, follow the unsubscribe instructions located near the bottom of each service update, newsletter or promotional email, or email your request.
If you are a print subscriber and do not wish to receive email bills, renewal notices and other communications regarding your print subscriptions by email, you can email your request. Please note that even if you opt out of receiving subscriber communications by email, we may continue to send you subscriber communications by direct mail.
- Research Surveys: You may elect not to receive Lawyers Near You research surveys by using the opt-out link contained in such emails and you may elect not to receive co-branded surveys by unsubscribing from emails from third party partners, as described below.
- Postal Addresses: Lawyers Near You collects postal mailing address information from you so that Lawyers Near You may fulfill the orders you submit and to inform you of Lawyers Near You programs, products and services in which you may be interested. You have the right to opt out of receiving postal mailings from Lawyers Near You. If you do not wish to receive postal mailings from Lawyers Near You in the future, please send an email.
- Third Party Partners. Lawyers Near You selectively makes its postal mailing address list and email list available to third party partners whose products or service offerings may be of interest to you. If you do not wish for Lawyers Near You to provide either your postal mailing or email information (or both) to third party partners, please specify this in an email.
- Third Party Event Sponsors. If you do not wish for Lawyers Near You to share any information you supply when you register for an event (including any webinars and recognition dinners), such as your name, company name, postal address or email address, please specify this in an email.
- Turning Off Tracking Technologies. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a persistent or session cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off such cookies through your browser settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. However, cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies, please click here. It is important to remember that many of Lawyers Near You’s services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. For example, Lawyers Near You needs first-party cookies to log you in to read stories that require registration or a subscription. In that case, you may set your browser to block third-party cookies and allow Lawyers Near You’s first-party cookies only.
- Google Analytics. Google is one of the companies that we use to serve advertising and perform analytics on some of the Online Services. We and third party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to help implement the above uses of your information. To learn about Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the Web, click here. To learn more about how Google uses cookies in advertising, you can visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy located here. You can opt out of receiving interest-based Google ads, or customize the ads Google shows you, by clicking here. Lawyers Near You also uses third party services for remarketing Lawyers Near You’s products and services, such as Google’s Customer Match via the Google platform, whereby we will deliver targeted ads to you based on your prior usage on the Online Services. If you want to opt-out of remarketing, please email us.
- Network Advertising Initiative. Some of our advertising service providers may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a single location to opt out of ad targeting from member companies. However, if you opt-out of receiving targeted ads in this manner, you will continue to receive advertising messages from us after you opt-out, but other members of the Network Advertising Initiative will not be able to target you based on your use of the Online Services and/or third party websites. If you would like more information about advertisers’ use of tracking technologies and about your option not to accept these cookies, you can go to http://www.networkadvertising.org. If you would like to learn more about how interest-based information is collected and to know your choices about not having information used in this manner, you can go to http://www.aboutads.info.
- “Do Not Track” Signals. Some third party browsers provide “do not track” machine readable signals for websites which are automatically applied by default and therefore do not necessarily reflect our visitor’s choice as to whether they wish to receive advertisements tailored to their interests. As a result, at this time, Lawyers Near You does not respond to browser “do not track” signals or other similar mechanisms. Go to http://www.networkadvertising.org or http://www.aboutads.info if you wish to learn more about your options to not accept tracking cookies for the purpose of receiving targeted interest-based advertisements. Please note that the-opt out is cookie-based and will only affect the specific computer and browser on which the opt-out is applied.
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