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American Legal Club, LLC PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: December 22, 2020
American Legal Club, LLC respects your concerns about information privacy and security, and is committed to safeguarding your privacy. We believe it is important for you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose information provided to us, or that we have obtained from you, as well as the choices and rights you have regarding your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information we collect or use both online and offline:
Collectively, we refer to the Websites, Apps, Social Media, Emails, Client Services, and Direct Data as the “Services.”
If you are a California resident, please review the “Additional Notice to California Residents” section below for important information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information about California residents and the rights California residents have under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
“Personal Information” is any information that, either alone or in combination with other information, identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. This includes:
Personal Information is also known as “personal data,” “private information,” or “personally identifiable information.”
We collect, and our service providers collect, Personal Information in a number of ways, including:
If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide the Services. If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We and our service providers may use your Personal Information in the following circumstances:
Specifically, we use your Personal Information for our legitimate business purposes, including the following:
1) To provide Client Services, including:
2) To provide the Services to you and fulfill your requests, including:
3) To provide you with our newsletter, other marketing materials, and facilitating social sharing, including:
4) To aggregate or anonymize Personal Information so that it will no longer be considered Personal Information. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose.
5) To accomplish our business purposes, including:
The particular “legitimate interests” upon which we and our service providers rely in processing your Personal Information include the following:
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We disclose Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, especially in connection with our contractual relationship with you, or when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so. This may include disclosure outside your country of residence. This includes the following:
American Legal Club, LLC does not rent or sell your Personal Information.
OTHER INFORMATION
“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual. This includes:
If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed above in this Policy.
We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:
We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information. If we do we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.
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, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.
OPTION TO DISCONTINUE MARKETING-RELATED EMAILS
If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out by following the unsubscribe instructions in any such message or by contacting us by email at alerts@americanlegalclub.com. We will undertake efforts to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you choose to discontinue receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, which you cannot elect to discontinue.
DATA PRIVACY INQUIRIES AND ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you believe the Personal Information we have for you is inaccurate, incomplete, or no longer current, please contact us at alerts@americanlegalclub.com so that we can update, remove, or correct the information as appropriate.
If you are a California resident, you may submit a request that American Legal Club, LLC (i) disclose your Personal Information collected, used, or shared, or (ii) delete your Personal Information collected or maintained. Please review the “Additional Notice to California Residents” section below for more detailed information.
If you are in one of the following countries and accessing our Services, you can access, change, or delete your Personal Information: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
If you would like to request to review, correct, update, suppress, object, restrict, or delete Personal Information that you have previously provided to us, or if you would like to request to receive an electronic copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent any of these rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may contact us by email at alerts@americanlegalclub.com. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.
In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity and obtain other relevant information before implementing your request. We will undertake our best efforts to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and as required by law.
RETENTION PERIOD
We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
THIRD PARTY SERVICES
This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties.
This includes any third party operating any website or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us.
In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure, or security policies or practices of other organizations, such as Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM, LinkedIn, or any other application developer, application provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider, or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media.
SPECIAL NOTIFICATION ABOUT WEBINARS
Webinars offered as a service to users of the Services (“Webinars”) may be hosted by unaffiliated third party vendors, and not by us.
Our third-party vendors require users to provide Personal Information. This Personal Information may include your name, telephone number, and email address. Users seeking continuing legal education credit also may be asked to provide their State Bar number(s). Please note that this Personal Information may be collected by our vendors or by us. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of our respective vendors, which control how such vendors handle Personal Information provided by you to register for and participate in the Webinars.
Additionally, our third-party vendors provide us with Personal Information about users of our Webinars. We use this Personal Information to track attendance, to facilitate future communication with such users, and for other purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.
USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS
The Websites, Apps, Social Media, Emails, and Webinars are not directed to individuals under the age of eighteen (18), and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 18 for those services. At times, our Client Services include representation of individuals under the age of eighteen (18). We do not market our Client Services or the Services to individuals under 18.
CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER
Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers. By using the Services you understand that your information will be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information.
Some of the non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here). In the event that we are required, in connection with providing Client Services, to transfer Personal Information from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, we will put in place adequate measures, such as the use of standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission, to protect Personal Information. You may request details by contacting us as set forth below in the “Contacting Us” section.
SENSITIVE INFORMATION
Except when required in connection with the Client Services the firm provides to you, we request that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious, philosophical, or other beliefs, information related to sex life or sexual orientation, health data, biometric or genetic characteristics, criminal convictions and offenses, or trade unions membership) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.
ADDITIONAL NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
This Section applies only to consumers who are California residents, and to the Personal Information of those consumers that is collected by American Legal Club, LLC. For California residents, Personal Information is defined by the CCPA as any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California consumer or household.
This California Notice does not address or apply to:
The CCPA requires certain disclosures about the categories of Personal Information that we collect and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we share it.
Our collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information about a California resident may vary depending on the circumstances and nature of our interactions or relationship with such resident. We may collect the following categories of Personal Information (as defined by the CCPA):
For a more detailed discussion of our use of your personal information, and with whom we share your personal information, please see the “Collection of Personal Information” and “Use of Personal Information” sections above.
American Legal Club, LLC does not rent or sell your Personal Information as that term is defined in the CCPA.
California residents have the right to request: (1) that American Legal Club, LLC disclose what Personal Information about them we collect, use, and disclose, including the specific pieces of the Personal Information about them collected by American Legal Club, LLC in the preceding 12 months (known as a “request to know”); and (2) that American Legal Club, LLC delete the Personal Information about them collected or maintained by American Legal Club, LLC (known as a “request to delete”).
If you are a California resident and would like to submit a request to know or a request to delete, you may submit your request in one of the following methods:
Privacy and Security Officer
American Legal Club, LLC
1 Eves Drive, Suite 111
Marlton, NJ 08053
Requests will be responded to, free of charge, within 45 days of receiving the request. Consistent with California law, you may only make two such requests in a 12-month period, and the information provided will only cover the information collected in the preceding 12 months.
In order to process a request, we will need to verify your identity. We may request two or more data points of Personal Information and other proof of identification depending on the nature of the request and the Personal Information requested to verify your identity.
As a California resident, you also have the right to designate an agent to exercise these rights on your behalf. We may require proof that you have designated the authorized agent to act on your behalf and to verify your identity directly with us.
UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
The “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes 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
American Legal Club, LLC is the company responsible for collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.
If you have a complaint about our handling of your personal data, we would appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns directly and before you approach a regulator.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
You can reach us at alerts@americanlegalclub.com or at:
Privacy and Security Officer
American Legal Club, LLC
1 Eves Drive, Suite 111
Marlton, NJ 08053
Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include any sensitive information in your emails to us.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EEA
You may lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or region, or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs. See ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm.
PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE – FOR CLIENTS ONLY
Attorneys have been and continue to be bound by professional standards of confidentiality that are stringent. Therefore, we have always protected your right to privacy.
In the course of providing our clients with certain legal services, we receive significant non-public personal information from our clients. If you are a client of American Legal Club, LLC (ALC), you should know that all information that we receive from you is held in confidence, and is not released to people outside the firm, except as agreed to by you, or as required under an applicable law or ethical code. Even though the provisions of the Financial Modernization Act would allow ALC to share our client’s non-public personal information with a ALC subsidiary or other ancillary business entity, the rules of professional conduct prohibit this type of information sharing.
We retain records relating to professional services that we provide so that we are better able to assist our clients with their professional needs and, in some cases, to comply with professional guidelines. In order to guard our client’s nonpublic personal information, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with our professional standards.
American Legal Club, LLC COOKIE POLICY
Last Updated: December 22, 2020
We collect certain information by automated means when an individual visits www.americanlegalclub.com (our “Site”). By collecting this information, we learn how to best tailor the Site to our visitors. Like many companies, we collect this information through various means such as “cookies,” “web beacons” and IP addresses, as explained below.
By continuing to use our Site, you are agreeing to our placing cookies on your computer in order to analyze the way you use our Site.
If you do not want to accept cookies in connection with the use of our Site, you must stop using our Site or must change your web browser controls as set forth below in the “Opting Out of Cookies and Additional Information” section.
COOKIES
Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain websites. Cookies assist in providing a more customized website experience. We may use cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor, and to help us identify site features in which you may have the greatest interest.
There are two main types of cookies:
We may use both session and persistent cookies in connection with our Site. These cookies are used for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience while visiting the Site, as well as for online tracking purposes. We may also use cookies to gather statistical information about the usage of the Site in order to continually improve the design and functionality, to understand how visitors are using the Site, and to assist us with resolving questions regarding the Site.
In addition to cookies that send information to us, we may also use cookies that collect information and send it to our service providers. Further, where the Site allows you to access other websites from the Site using the links provided, the operators of those websites may use cookies in accordance with their own cookies policy, which may differ from ours.
WEB BEACONS
Certain pages on our Site may contain “web beacons” (also known as Internet tags, pixel tags, and clear GIFs). These web beacons allow third parties to obtain information such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, the time the page containing the beacon was viewed, the type of browser used to view the page, and the information in cookies set by the third party.
IP ADDRESSES
An IP address is a unique identifier that certain electronic devices used to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. When you visit our Site, we may view the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. We use this information to determine the general physical location of the device and understand from what geographic regions our Site visitors come. We also may use this information to enhance our Site.
We may use one or more of these technologies to gather information and statistics regarding use of our Site. For example, we may collect aggregated information about page visits and navigation to determine what articles and topics are of greatest interest and if users are able to find content easily. We also use site analytics and tracking information to generate various reports regarding use of our Site. These reports contain aggregated information about users use of our Site.
If you register on our Site we will use cookies to facilitate your registration and remember your preferences. It is not possible to register unless you accept the cookies used as part of the registration process. If you register on our Site, tracking and analytical information we collect may be linked to the other information we collect about you as part of the registration process, including your name and email address.
If you receive electronic mailings from us, we use technologies that track certain actions. We receive information that shows who opens our electronic mailings and whether links embedded in those mailings have been clicked on. This information helps us understand the effectiveness of the mailings and we may use the information to contact you about other events or services.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY ANALYTICS PROVIDERS
Some of the cookies we use are “analytical” cookies. Our analytics provider (Google Analytics) allows us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors use the site. We use this information to compile reports and to improve the way the Site works, e.g., by making sure that users are finding what they need easily. The following types of information are collected by our analytics software:
OPTING OUT OF COOKIES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preference by setting or amending your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. Information about the procedure you are required to follow in order to modify your preferences can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website. If you choose to reject cookies via your browser, you may still use our Sites, though your access to some functionality may be restricted. Unless you have changed your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies as indicated, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our Site.
If you would like to review more details about the specific cookies that are used in connection with our Sites, please contact us by sending an email with your request to alerts@americanlegalclub.com or submit your request in writing to us at:
Privacy and Security Officer
American Legal Club, LLC
1 Eves Drive, Suite 111
Marlton, NJ 08053
UPDATES TO THIS COOKIES POLICY
We may change this Cookies Policy from time to time. Please take a look at the “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this section to see when this Cookies Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Cookies Policy will become effective when we post the revised Cookies Policy on the Site. Your use of the Site following these changes means that you accept the revised Cookies Policy.
CONTACTING US
If you have any questions about our information practices, please contact us by sending an email with your questions to alerts@americanlegalclub.com or writing to us at:
Privacy and Security Officer
American Legal Club, LLC
1 Eves Drive, Suite 111
Marlton, NJ 08053
American Legal Club, LLC DISCLAIMER
The information contained in the ALC website is intended to supply general information to the public. It is not intended to constitute legal advice on any subject matter. The website is not intended to be advertising or solicitation. The information provided on the website is general and does not constitute a legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances.
ALC attempts to ensure the accuracy of the information as it is posted, but cannot guarantee that all of the information is accurate. ALC disclaims responsibility for the content of any other site accessed through links on this website.
Should you require legal advice, you should seek the assistance of counsel.
If you communicate with us by e-mail and you are not a present client, your correspondence will not be considered privileged or confidential. If you communicate with us by e-mail in connection with a matter for which we already represent you, you should note that the security of internet e-mail is uncertain. By sending sensitive or confidential e-mail messages which are not encrypted you accept the risks of such uncertainty and possible lack of confidentiality over the internet.