PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: March 10 2025
DISCLAIMER FOR CALIFORNIA USERS.
Your
privacy and rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
and the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) are
important to us. We offer this document as a resource to view how we
collect, manage, store, and use your Personal Information in the
day-to-day running of our website. This Privacy Policy, intended for
California residents, can be applied to all website users to disclose
how we collect, manage, store, and use your Personal Information as
defined under CIV 1798.140(v) of the California Consumer Privacy Act
(CCPA).
THE BUSINESS.
This Privacy Policy is between you and the following organization:
Company Name: LawyersNearMe LLC
Address: 1810 E Sahara Ave, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89104
Phone: 6504660665
E-Mail: hello@lawyersnearme.com
Website.
Website URL: www.lawyersnearme.com
Website Name: LawyersNearMe
PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED.
Identifiers.
A real name or alias, postal address, signature, home phone number or
mobile phone number, bank account number, credit card number, debit
card number or other financial information, physical characteristics
or description, e-mail address; account name, Social Security Number
(SSN), driver's license number or state identification card number,
passport number, or other similar identifiers.
Commercial Information.
Records of personal property, products or services purchased,
obtained, considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or
tendencies.
Inferences Drawn From Other Personal Information.
Profile reflecting a person’s preference, characteristics,
psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes,
intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
Internet or Other Similar Network Activity.
Browsing history, search history, and information on a consumer's
interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
Geolocation Data.
Physical location or movements. For example, city, state, country,
and ZIP code associated with your IP address or derived through Wi-Fi
triangulation; and, with permission in on your mobile device
settings, and precise geolocation information from GPS-based
functionality on your mobile devices.
Professional or Employment Related Information.
Current or past job history, performance evaluations, disciplinary
records, workplace injury records, disability accommodations, and
complaint records.
Non-Public
Education Information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy
Act (20 U.S.C Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99).
Educational records directly related to a student maintained by an
educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as
grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student
identification codes, student financial information, or student
disciplinary records.
Hereinafter known as “Personal Information.”
SOURCES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT.
Using the website.
We collect certain information from your activity on our website,
starting when you first arrive and accessing it on an electronic
device. We may collect your IP address, device ID, advertising
identifiers, browser type, operating system, internet service
provider, pages visited (including clicks and duration), and other
related log information. For mobile phones, we may collect your
device’s GPS signal or other information about nearby Wi-Fi access
points and cell towers.
Creating a User Profile or Account.
We may collect information directly from you or an agent authorized
to act on your behalf. For example, if you, or someone acting on your
behalf, provides your name and e-mail to create a profile or an
account. We also collect information indirectly from you or your
authorized agent. This can be done through information we collect
from you while providing content, products, or services.
COOKIES POLICY.
Currently,
our website uses cookies to provide you with the best experience
possible. We, in addition to our service providers, affiliates,
agents, advertisers, or other parties in connection with the website,
may deploy cookies, web beacons, local shared objects, and other
tracking technologies for various purposes. Such shall be for
business use, marketing purposes, fraud prevention, and to assist in
the day-to-day operations of the website.
- “Cookies” Defined.
Cookies act as data that is communicated between a user’s web
browser and a website or application. They are stored on your device
to help track their areas of interest, provide the best experience
possible, and customize the content, products, services, offerings,
and advertisements served on the website. Most web browsers adjust to
your browser’s settings to decline or delete cookies, but doing so
may degrade the experience with our online services.
- 1-Pixel Images.
Clear GIFs, pixel tags, or web beacons, which are generally 1-pixel,
are transparent images located on a webpage or in an e-mail or other
trackable source and may be used on our website in addition to any
other communication offered by us. They are often used in connection
with advertisements served to you that are interacted with, whether
on our website or another online service and shared with us. This
type of tracking is specifically meant to recognize users, assess
traffic patterns, and measure site or campaign engagement.
- Flash Cookies.
Local Shared Objects, sometimes known as “flash cookies,” may be
stored on your device using a media player or other software. Flash
cookies are similar to cookies in terms of their operation but may be
managed in your browser in the same manner.
- First (1st)
Party & Third (3rd)
Cookies.
First (1st)
party cookies are stored by a domain (website) you are visiting
directly. They allow us to collect analytics data, remember preferred
settings (e.g., language, currency, etc.), and perform related
functions. Third (3rd)
party cookies are created by domains other than those you are
visiting directly, hence its name “third (3rd)
party.” They may be used for cross-tracking, retargeting, and
ad-serving.
- Essential Cookies.
Such cookies are technically necessary to provide website
functionality. They act as a basic form of memory, used to store the
preferences selected by a user on a given website or application.
They are essential to browsing functionality and cannot be disabled
by users. As an example, an essential cookie may be used to recognize
a past user from having to log in each time they visit a new page in
the same session.
- Performance and Function Cookies.
Such cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of
a website but are not essential to its use. However, without these
cookies, certain functions (like videos) may become unavailable.
- Advertising Cookies.
Such cookies are used to customize a user's ad experience on a
website. When using data collected from cookies, it can prevent the
same ad from appearing multiple times in the same session or that
does not offer a pleasant experience. Advertising cookies may be used
to serve a user with related services, products, or offerings that
they may have shown a level of related interest in their past user
history.
If
you would like to know more about cookies and how they are used,
please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
You
can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website
tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few
cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Our
website does not show advertisements to users. This includes
affiliate ads or any products and services offered by 3rd parties.
HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION.
We
may use or disclose your Personal Information for the following
purpose:
- Offerings.
To provide products, services, and offerings that serve the
best-matched advertisements.
- Alerts.
To provide e-mail alerts and other communications regarding our
products, services, and offerings that may be of interest or that you
registered to receive.
- Obligations.
To carry out any obligations for paid products, services, offerings,
or any obligations under our terms and conditions or terms of use.
- Feedback.
To get feedback on website improvements and generally provide an
overall better experience.
- Testing.
For testing, research, and analysis, of user behavior on the website.
- Law Enforcement.
To respond to law enforcement requests as required by applicable law,
court order, or governmental regulations.
- Intended Purpose.
As described for the intended purpose when collecting your personal
information.
- Assessment.
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restricting,
reorganizing, dissolution, or outright sale, either wholly or
partially, of our assets in which your Personal Information becomes a
part of such sale.
Our
usage of your Personal Information may change over time, and when
such changes occur, we will update this Privacy Policy accordingly.
SELLING PERSONAL INFORMATION.
Our policy is that we DO NOT
sell your personal information. If this should change, you will be
notified and this Privacy Policy will be updated.
SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION.
We
disclose your Personal Information to 3rd
parties for business purposes. The general categories of 3rd
parties that we share with are as follows:
- Our 3rd
party service providers that, without their services, our website
would not be able to function in its current manner;
- Affiliated
websites and businesses in an effort to bring you and our users
improved services, products, and offerings;
- Other
companies, affiliate partners, and 3rd
parties that help us advertise products, services, and offerings to
you, other users, and potential new customers;
- Third
(3rd)
parties to whom you, or an authorized agent on your behalf,
authorized us to disclose your Personal Information;
- Third
(3rd)
parties or affiliates in connection with a corporate transaction,
such as a sale, consolidation, or merger of our financial institution
or affiliated business; and
- Other
third (3rd)
parties to comply with legal requirements or to disclose Personal
Information to government authorities per the rule of law.
In
the last 12 months, it is recognized that we have disclosed the
aforementioned categories of Personal Information for business
purposes.
RIGHT AND CHOICES.
This
Section describes your rights and choices regarding how we collect,
share, use, and protect your Personal Information, how to exercise
those rights, and limits and exceptions to your rights and choices.
- Exceptions.
The rights and choices in this Section do not apply to you if the
information being collected is:
- Aggregate consumer information;
- Deidentified Personal Information; and
- Publicly available information.
- Access to Information.
If the above exceptions do not apply, and you have not made this
request more than twice in a 12-month period, you have the right to
request that we disclose certain information to you about our
collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12
months from the date we receive your request. Once we receive and
confirm your request on your behalf, we will disclose it to you or
your representative:
- The categories of Personal Information we collect;
- The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collect;
- Our
business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling such
Personal Information;
- The
categories of third parties to whom we sold or disclosed the category
of Personal Information for a business or commercial purpose;
- The
business or commercial purpose for which we sold or disclosed the
category of Personal Information; and
- The
specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you in a
form that you can take with you (also called a “Data Portability
Request”).
- Deletion (Erasure) Request Rights.
You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal
Information that we collect from you and retain, subject to certain
exceptions. Once we receive and verify your request, we will delete
and direct our service providers to delete your Personal Information
from our records unless an exception applies. We may deny your
deletion request if retaining the Personal Information is necessary
for us or our service providers to:
- Complete
the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information,
provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably
anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship
with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you;
- Detect
security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent,
or illegal activity; or prosecute those for such activity;
- Debug
to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended
functionality;
- Exercise free speech, or exercise another right provided by law;
- Engage
in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical
research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable
ethics and privacy laws when the businesses' deletion of the Personal
Information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the
achievement of such research if you previously provided informed
consent.
- Enable
solely internal and lawful uses of such Personal Information that are
compatible with the context in which you provided it.
- Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights.
To exercise the access, data portability, deletion rights, or any
other rights mentioned herein, a consumer or a consumer's authorized
agent may submit a verifiable request to us by using the contact
details mentioned herein.
- Requests.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data
portability in relation to this Section. We cannot respond to your
request or provide you with Personal Information if we cannot verify
your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the
Personal Information is related to you.
Making
a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an
account with us. We will only use Personal Information provided via a
verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or
authority to make the request.
- Authorized Agent.
An authorized agent is any person or legal entity registered with the
Secretary of State or similar office that you have authorized to act
on your behalf. If a request is made by an authorized agent acting on
your behalf, we may require the following:
- Submission
of evidence by you with your permission for the authorized agent to
submit a verifiable request on your behalf;
- For
you to directly acknowledge, via electronic communication, that the
authorized agent is allowed to act on your behalf;
- Require the authorized agent to verify their identity; or
- For
a power of attorney document to be submitted that is signed in
accordance with state law.
We
reserve the right to deny a request from an agent that does not
submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your
behalf and cannot verify their own identity to us.
- Response Timing and Format.
As required under privacy laws, we agree to respond to any verifiable
consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more
time, with a maximum of 90 days, we will inform you, in writing, of
the reason. Such notification will be by e-mail unless there is
another preferred communication method provided.
If
applicable, the response we provide will also explain the reasons we
cannot comply with a request. For data portability requests, we will
select a format to provide your Personal Information that is readily
useable and should allow you to transmit the Personal Information
from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
No
fee will be charged to process or respond to your verifiable consumer
request.
- Right of Non-Discrimination.
We do not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights
in this Privacy Policy and under applicable laws. Unless permitted by
law, we will not:
- Deny
you goods or services;
- Charge
you different prices or rates for goods, services, and offerings,
including through granting discounts or other benefits, imposing
penalties; or
- Provide
you with a different level of quality of goods or services.
CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS.
We
reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at our discretion and
at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we agree to
notify you by e-mail or other preferred communication methods.
LINKING TO 3RD PARTIES.
We
may provide links to 3rd
party sources such as websites, applications, content, or software
(“3rd
Parties”). When you use a link online to visit 3rd
Parties, you will be subject to their privacy policy and the
jurisdiction of governing law. It is recommended to familiarize
yourself with its terms and disclosures regarding your Personal
Information. We are not responsible for the handling of your Personal
Information when using, accessing, or visiting 3rd
Parties.
SECURITY & PROTECTION.
We
use reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that
comply with federal standards to protect and limit access to Personal
Information. This includes device safeguards used in accordance with
industry standards.
It
is understood by you that the Personal Information you submit to us
electronically may not be secure when it is transmitted to us.
Specifically, we recommend that you do not use unsecured or public
channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information.
CONTACT
If
you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the
ways in which we collect and use your Personal Information, your
choices, or your rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your
rights, please do not hesitate to contact us by using the details
mentioned in this Privacy Policy.