Privacy Policy
Last Updated 10/25/2022.
This site (together with any successor site(s), computer systems, cloud-based storage accounts, associated social media websites, and all Services, as defined below, hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Site") is operated by Barnett Woolums, P.A. ("we," "us," or "Barnett Woolums").
We are concerned about privacy issues and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information, so that you can make educated and informed decisions. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through our Site, any of our mobile applications, or any other websites or content owned by us that links to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Services").
Please note that the Privacy Policy applies only to our online information-gathering and dissemination practices in connection with the Services, and does not apply to any of our practices conducted offline. If you have any questions or comments about the Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy receptionist@barnettwoolums.com.
Your use of any of the Services is conditioned on your agreement with all the terms of this Privacy Policy. Do not use the Services if you disagree with any part of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is written in the English language. We do not guarantee the accuracy of any translated versions of this Privacy Policy. To the extent any translated versions of this Privacy Policy conflict with the English language version, the English language version of this Privacy Policy shall control.
How We May Collect Personal Information
"Personal Information" is information that identifies you as an individual, such as:
- name;
- physical mailing address;
- telephone number;
- email address.
We and our service providers may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:
Through the Services: We may collect Personal Information through the Services, such as when you fill out a form, or access the Site.
From Other Sources: We may receive your Personal Information from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms, from people with whom you are friends or otherwise connected on social media platforms, as well as from other third parties.
How We May Use Personal Information
We may use Personal Information:
- To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you newsletters or publications that you request or to register you for events;
- To send you our legal updates and mailings relating to our seminars or events that we think may be of interest to you;
- To keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and use it to respond to you, if you contact us through the Services;
- To send administrative information to you;
- To allow you to send Services-related content to a friend through the Services. By using this functionality, you are telling us that you are entitled to use and provide us with your friend's name and email address;
- For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our business activities;
- As we believe to be necessary or appropriate to comply with legal process, respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence, enforce our terms and conditions, protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates, protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of our affiliates, you or others, and to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
How Personal Information May Be Disclosed
- To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, consistent with our goal of providing the highest level of service. Subject to local requirements, this information may be used to provide legal and related services offered by our other legal entities and for all the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. Barnett Woolums P.A. remains responsible for the management of the jointly-used Personal Information. If you are a Californian user of the Services, and would like more information regarding our provision of your Personal Information to affiliates of Barnett Woolums P.A., please refer to the "Special Notification for Individual California Users" section below.
- To our third-party service providers that provide services such as website hosting, Services-related consulting and monitoring, data analysis, information technology and related infrastructure, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar services.
- To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages through the Services.
- By you on services to which you are able to post information and materials. Please note that any information you post or disclose online may become public information, and may be available to us, to users of the Services and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your Personal Information, or any other information, on the Services.
- To a third party (whether affiliated or unaffiliated with us) in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
- As we believe to be necessary or appropriate to comply with legal process, respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence, enforce our terms and conditions, protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates, protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of our affiliates, you or others, and to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
Other Information
"Other Information" is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as:
- browser and device information;
- usage data;
- Internet Protocol (IP) addresses;
- information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies;
- demographic information and other information provided by you;
- aggregated or anonymized information.
Security
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us via email receptionist@barnettwoolums.com.
Choices and Access
Your choices regarding our use of your Personal Information for marketing purposes
If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out of receiving these marketing-related emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in any such message or by contacting us by email at receptionist@barnettwoolums.com. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, and you cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages.
How you can access, change or suppress your Personal Information
You may request to review, correct, update, delete, or otherwise modify any of your Personal Information that you have previously provided to us through the Services, or object to the use or processing of such Personal Information by us. You may exercise these rights by contacting us via email at receptionist@barnettwoolums.com.
Special Notification for Individual California Users
California residents who have provided us with their Personal Information during the creation of or during the course of an established legal services relationship that is primarily for personal, family, or household purposes ("Individual California Users") may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of Personal Information to third parties (i.e., our affiliates) for such third parties' direct marketing purposes. Such requests may be submitted via email to receptionist@barnettwoolums.com.
Retention Period
We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Cross-Border Transfer
The Services are controlled and operated by us from the United States, and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States. Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Services you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have different data protection rules than those of your country.
Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy. Please review the "Last Updated" legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at receptionist@barnettwoolums.com. Please note that email communications are not always secure; so please do not include credit card information or sensitive information in your emails to us.
