{"id":3,"date":"2022-05-09T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abradleygoodman.com\/?page_id=3"},"modified":"2022-07-08T03:49:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T03:49:47","slug":"privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/abradleygoodman.com\/?page_id=3","title":{"rendered":"PRIVACY POLICY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This law firm is dedicated to insuring your privacy. We NEVER sell your personal information, period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussions involving legal advice, given by an attorney to a client, are protected by attorney-client privilege. The content is strictly confidential. You cannot normally be forced to reveal them. However, if you repeat the discussions, by talking to uninvolved third-parties who are not part of the attorney-client relationship, the protection can be lost by &#8220;waiver&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our website address is: https:\/\/abradleygoodman.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PRIVACY STATEMENT AND COOKIE POLICY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a professional providing legal services A. Bradley Goodman, Esq., and all attorneys with whom he may form case-specific or general partnerships (the firm) is committed to protecting the privacy of Confidential and \u201cPersonal Information\u201d (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, law students, job applicants or others inside or outside the firm). The policy is to comply with the rules of professional conduct. These rules require attorneys to preserve and protect confidential client information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy (the \u201cStatement\u201d) is based on the privacy and data protection principles common to countries in which A. Bradley Goodman, Esq. operates. It is used to comply with the law, to preserve client confidentiality and to represent clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law. The intent of this privacy statement is to summarize the firm\u2019s data protection practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Statement is also applies non-clients who provide Personal Information or who visit or use the firm\u2019s websites, our apps, our social media sites, our extranets, as well as email messages that the firm sends to you or that we receive from you.  This is how we collect, process and disclose Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Collection and Use of Personal Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We may use that Personal Information where in our legitimate interest to do so for the following purposes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>to contact you and respond to your requests and enquiries<\/li><li>to personalize your visit and use of our Internet Services and to assist you while you use those services<\/li><li>to carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations<\/li><li>to conduct recruiting and selection of attorneys and clerical personnel<\/li><li>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<\/li><li>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<\/li><li>to enter into or carry out contracts of various kinds<\/li><li>to comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations that we may be subject to, including anti-money laundering requirements. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consistent with our professional obligations, we exercise the highestdiscretion regarding information entrusted to us by clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with the legal obligations to do so, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in the Statement and in our applicable policies. If you wish to obtain more details, refer to the \u201cContact Us\u201d section below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We do not disclose Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, 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. For example, if we need to obtain an e-signature from you, we need to send the document to an e-signature service provider, which handles the document, gets your e-signature on it, and eventually returns it to us &#8220;signed&#8221;.  We may use Google&#8217;s &#8220;Recaptcha&#8221; challenge, on various aspects of this website, to prevent spamming of our automatic calendar and\/or messaging functions. eIt is believed that Google collects data when its services are used, including but not limited to URL, location, the previous page the browser is coming from, and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consistent with our professional obligations, including the restrictions of attorney-client and work product privilege, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cookie Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cookie is a text file sent by a web server and placed on your computer by your web browser. Cookies can be usefully divided into two different types, session and persistent. Session cookies differ from persistent cookies primarily in that session cookies are temporary and expire and are normally deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies, in contrast, remain stored on your computer after you close your browser until they are deleted either because they expire or you delete them. The firm uses session cookies in connection with its Internet Services and some persistent cookies may be left on your computer by the web hosting services we use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cookies are often used in conjunction with other Internet technologies, such as web beacons, to understand behavior on the Internet. For example, the firm uses cookies in conjunction with web beacons, which are small sections of code that we may place in our Internet Services to understand the number of unique users that have visited a specific page. Similarly, we may use or receive reporting from tracking scripts that recognize unique cookies issued by another website. These tracking scripts are not used to gather information on your use of the Internet unrelated to the firm, and they do not identify you unless you choose to provide Personal Information to the firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The firm\u2019s Internet Services use cookies. The firm uses session cookies in connection with its Internet Services, specifically for cybersecurity purposes, to provide you with customization of your experience, such as highlighting your recently viewed items.  The firm does use Google Analytics to understand where and how clients are arriving on our website. However, no information other than that normally collected by Google from a person&#8217;s standard web browsing, is provided to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No 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 if you disable cookies. 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\u2019s Internet Services. For more information about how to manage your cookies preferences, you should access the &#8220;settings&#8221; on your web browser. You need to configure each browser on each device that you use if you wish to opt-out or block some or all cookies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do Not Track Signals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDo Not Track\u201d signals are options available on your browser to tell operators of websites that you do not wish to have your online activity tracked. Our website should operate no differently if these \u201cDo Not Track\u201d signals are enabled or disabled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Children<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to respect the privacy of minors, we do 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 Statement, the firm will only do so with the appropriate consent or as otherwise permitted under applicable laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Changes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We reserve the right to change this Statement 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact Us<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions relating to our use of your Personal Information please contact the Chief Privacy Officer at <a href=\"mailto:DataProtectionAdmin@Sidley.com\">administrator<\/a>@abradleygoodman.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This law firm is dedicated to insuring your privacy. We NEVER sell your personal information, period. Discussions involving legal advice, given by an attorney to a client, are protected by attorney-client privilege. The content is strictly confidential. You cannot normally be forced to reveal them. 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