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PRIVACY POLICY

 

Effective Date:  November 14, 2023

 

Abrams Fensterman, LLP (“we”, “us” or “our”) recognizes the importance of our users’ privacy concerns when visiting our website and online resources. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to Personal Information (defined below) collected online from users of our website, www.abramslaw.com (the “Website”). This Privacy Policy applies to all individuals who access our Website, mobile apps, job applications, blogs, alerts, newsletters, webinars, publications, social media sites or programs and other communication services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that is collected offline or otherwise outside of the Website. In this Privacy Policy, you can learn what kind of information our Website collects, uses, maintains, protects, and discloses.

 

“Personal Information” means any data that relates to an individual who can be identified from that data, or from that data and other information. If you are a resident of a jurisdiction with data protection legislation that provides a different definition for this or any similar term (e.g. “personal data” or “personally identifiable information”), then “Personal Information” shall also include the data covered by such definition. For the avoidance of doubt, if you are a California resident, as of January 1, 2020, the term Personal Information includes the definition of “Personal Information” under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).

 

To the extent we provide you with notice on the Website of different or additional privacy policies or practices (e.g., at the point of our collection), those additional terms shall govern such data collection and use.

 

Please read this Privacy Policy regarding your information and how we will use it. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you must not access the Website.

 

BY ACCESSING OR USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR COLLECTION, USE AND SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION AND DATA, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES, AS DESCRIBED BELOW.

 

Changes to the Privacy Policy:

 

This Privacy Policy is subject to change and may be revised from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes will be effective immediately when we post them. If you continue to use the Website following the changes, it means that you accept and agree to the changes. However, we will not use the previously collected Personal Information in a manner materially different than represented at the time it was collected without your consent.

 

Children Under the Age of 16:

 

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Website. This Website does not offer products or services to children and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please visit https://www.abramslaw.com/contact-us/  (“Contact Us Page”)

 

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their Personal Information. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

 

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION IS COLLECTED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE AND HOW IS IT USED?

 

We collect information about our users in four (4) ways:

  • directly from the user
  • from our Web server logs
  • through cookies, and
  • through third parties.

 

We use the collected information primarily to provide you with a personalized Internet experience that delivers the information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you. We don’t share any of the information you provide with others, unless we say so in this Privacy Policy, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it. We may also use the information we collect to determine the demographics of our visitors and to audit the use of our Website. We may share your Personal Information with third parties under various circumstances but we do not share your information for marketing purposes.

 

We may share your Personal Information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. This includes, without limitation, third parties that: host the Website; assist with certain functions of the Website operations.; archive data; send communications; analyze data; and provide other services or functions on our behalf, including business analytics, customer service, marketing, employment or hiring-related activities, data security functions, and fraud prevention.

 

We reserve the right to share your Personal Information with our affiliates in connection with a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, or restructuring, the sale of substantially all or a portion of our business or assets.

 

User-supplied information:

 

If you fill out the contact form on this Website, make a payment, or apply for a job, we will ask you to provide some Personal Information (such as e-mail address, name, phone number and state). If you are making a payment through our website, the information we collect will also include your client number and credit card information. If you are submitting an application for an open job, we may ask for your employment history. Further, if chat is available through this site, you may be asked to provide information if you participate in an online chat. We only collect and process the Personal Information we need to allow us to respond to your request and/or provide the particular service you have sought. If you submit any Sensitive Information, you do so at your own risk and we will not be liable to you or responsible for consequences of your submission.

 

Information that you provide to us through the Contact Us Page or an online chat will be used so that we may respond to your inquiry. We may also use information you provide to us to communicate with you in the future. If you do not wish to receive such communications, you may opt out (unsubscribe) as described below.

 

Web server logs: When you visit our website, we may track information about your visit and store that information in web server logs, which are records of the activities on our sites. The servers automatically capture and save the information electronically. Examples of the information we may collect include:

 

  • your unique Internet Protocol address (“IP Address”);
  • your internet service provider;
  • your browser type;
  • the town/city, county/state, and country from which you access our Website;
  • information about your device and internet connection;
  • your operating system;
  • the number of links you click within the Website;
  • the date and time of your visit;
  • the web page from which you arrived to our Website;
  • the pages you viewed on the Website; and
  • certain searches/queries that you conducted via our Website(s).

 

COOKIES:

The information we collect in web server logs helps us administer the site, analyze its usage, protect the Website and its content from inappropriate use and improve the user’s experience. Cookies are simply small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. In order to offer and provide a customized and personal service, our Website and applications may use cookies to store and help track information about you. We use cookies to help remind us who you are and to help you navigate our Website during your visits. Cookies allow us to save passwords and preferences for you so you won’t have to re-enter them each time you visit. We also use Cookies to gather information to help us improve our functionality, design, and security.

 

The use of cookies is relatively standard. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. However, if you prefer, you can set your browser to either notify you when you receive a cookie, or to refuse to accept cookies. You should understand that some features of many sites may not function properly if you don’t accept cookies. For more information about using browsers to manage cookies, please see All About Cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org.

 

Third Party Service Providers:

 

We may receive and collect information about you from third parties, particularly if you interact with Abrams Fensterman LLP on social media networks. This information may include your name, username, gender, age, location, profile picture, connections, and any other information that you have publicly shared on the social network.

 

HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

 

The information we collect is used to improve our services in the following ways:

  • To respond to your questions and inquiries
  • To provide you with information about legal news and developments, updates to our services and our Firm, and information pertaining to your account
  • To provide a better user experience on our website
  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns
  • To improve the security of our website and digital infrastructure
  • To assist with recruiting and potential employment at Abrams Fensterman, LLP
  • To electronically process client invoices
  • To assist with marketing of our services

 

Any information collected is done so with a legitimate business reason to improve Abrams Fensterman’s services, including:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you,
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us,
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it,
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection,
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it,
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as a part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us about our Website users or consumers is among the assets transferred,
  • In any way we may describe when you provide the information, and
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

 

We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you.  If you have agreed to receive marketing material, you may always opt out at a later date.  If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes please opt out via our Contact Us Page.

 

HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTED?

 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.  We take very seriously the security and privacy of Personal Information that we collect pursuant to this Privacy Policy. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website.  Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk.  We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website. Nonetheless, we take certain appropriate security measures to help protect your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. We protect Personal Information by taking measures: (i) to protect the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of our processing systems and services; (ii) to restore the availability of and access to Personal Information in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident;

and (iii) to regularly test, assess, and evaluate the effectiveness of our technical and organizational measures. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will always be unable to defeat our security measures.

 

WHO HAS ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION?

 

We will not sell, rent, or lease mailing lists or other user data to others, and we will not make your Personal Information available to any unaffiliated parties, except as follows:

  • to agents, website vendors and/or contractors who may use it on our behalf or in connection with their relationship with us;
  • anyone you have expressly given us consent to share your information with;
  • if we are unable to assist with your matter, but know an unaffiliated attorney or firm that may be able to help you, we may refer you and share information you provided us with that party; and
  • as required by law, in a matter of public safety or policy, as needed in connection with the transfer of our business assets (for example, if we are acquired by another firm or if we are liquidated during bankruptcy proceedings), or if we believe in good faith that sharing the data is necessary to protect our rights or property.

 

HOW LONG IS MY INFORMATION STORED?

 

We store your information for as long as necessary to properly serve you or when we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so, such as for legal, regulatory, accounting or reporting requirements. When our legitimate interest in retaining your Personal Information ceases to exist, we will either delete or anonymize your information so that it can no longer be attributed to a particular individual.

 

HOW CAN I CORRECT, AMEND OR DELETE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR OPT OUT OF FUTURE COMMUNICATIONS?

 

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. Contact us via the phone number, Contact Us Page or mailing address on our Website at any time to:

  • see what data we have about you, if any;
  • change/correct any data we have about you;
  • ask us to delete any data we have about you; and/or
  • opt out of future communications from us.

 

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us via the phone number, Contact Us Page or mailing address listed on this website. If our information practices change in a significant way, we will post the policy changes here.

Residents of certain states, such as Nevada, Colorado, and Virginia may have additional Personal Information rights and choices.  Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

 

Your State Privacy Rights

If you are a Nevada, Colorado, or Virginia resident, your state’s laws may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your Personal Information.

 

California

 

If you are a California resident, you have the right to request certain information from us regarding the manner in which we share with third-parties certain categories of information that identify you. We do not sell Personal Information with third parties for those third parties’ own direct marketing purposes.

 

Effective January 1, 2020, the CCPA provides California residents with additional rights related to data privacy. Pursuant to the CCPA, upon a verifiable request, California residents have the right to request that we disclose certain information we collected and how we used the information over the past 12 months.  We will disclose:

  • The categories of sources for the Personal Information and the Personal Information we collected about you.
  • Our commercial or business purpose for collecting that Personal Information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share that Personal Information.
  • Specific parts of the Personal Information we collected about you.
  • If we sold or disclosed your information, two separate lists disclosing:
    • sales, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
    • disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

 

You may request that we delete your Personal Information, subject to certain exceptions.

 

Under California’s “Shine the Light” law (California Civil Code Section 1798.83), California residents have the right to request information about third parties with whom we have shared Personal Information about you for their marketing purposes during the previous calendar year and a description of the categories of Personal Information shared.  To make such a request, please visit our Contact Us Page or send a letter to 3 Dakota Drive, Suite 300, Lake Success, NY 11042 with “Request for California Privacy Information” in the subject line or written request.  Requests may be made only once a year and are free of charge.

 

Nevada

 

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain Personal Information sales.  Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request by visiting our Contact Us Page.

 

Colorado

 

Colorado provides their state residents with rights to:

  • Confirm whether we process their Personal Information,
  • Access and delete certain Personal Information,
  • Data portability,
  • Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales,
  • Correct inaccuracies in their Personal Information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose,
  • Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

 

To exercise any of these rights please visit our Contact Us Page or write us at:  Privacy Request, 3 Dakota Drive, Suite 300, Lake Success, NY 11042.

 

Virginia

 

Virginia provides their state residents with rights to:

  • Confirm whether we process their Personal Information,
  • Access and delete certain Personal Information,
  • Data portability,
  • Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales,
  • Correct inaccuracies in their Personal Information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose, and
  • Choose to remove themselves their profiles in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

 

To exercise any of these rights please visit our Contact Us Page or  write us at:  Abrams Fensterman, LLP, Attention: Privacy Request, 3 Dakota Drive, Suite 300, Lake Success, NY 11042.