Copenbarger United States Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January 1, 2024
What Is This Policy About?
The Copenbarger Law Firm is committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors to our website and the security of the personal data shared by these website visitors. This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes the kind of information we may collect from you when you visit our website, and it explains how we use that information, who we share it with, and the steps we take to protect it. This Policy does not apply to personal data received by us during an attorney-client relationship, or to personal data we collect in other ways such as in person or on paper.
If you decide to provide us with personal data about yourself while using our website, you consent to the collection, processing, use, and transfer of that information in accordance with this Policy and subject to California law or other applicable state and federal U.S. laws.
When we make any significant updates to this Policy, which we may do from time to time at our discretion, we will publish the updated Policy on our website, while providing visitors with a link to previous versions.
For further information about your rights and obligations when using this website, please refer to our website Terms of Service.
- What Information Do We Collect About You, and How Do We Use It?
As a law firm, we may make available to our clients, prospective clients, and other contacts newsletters regarding legal developments, client alerts, blogs, invitations to seminars and similar events, and other marketing materials.
Therefore, when you visit this website we may, in certain cases, collect and process various pieces of your personal data, including, for example, your name, address, email address, phone number, and similar information.
We may collect this information if and when you elect to receive periodic newsletters, client alerts, blogs and the like via email from one or more of our practice areas or offices. We may also collect this information if you register to participate in a seminar, webinar, or other Copenbarger-hosted event.
We may use the personal data you provide via this website for internal marketing purposes, such as contacting you for the purpose of asking whether you wish to receive additional information about the firm, or our events, publications, or other prepared materials.
Registration pages accessible through this website and relevant to specific publications, events or activities in which you are interested may provide specific information concerning how we use your personal data for that particular purpose. Unless Copenbarger is subject to other legal obligations or court orders, we will use personal data that you provide only for the purposes for which you consented or for any other lawful purpose. You may review and correct the personal data you submit to us by contacting us as provided below.
- How Do We Use Cookies?
A “cookie” is a piece of data stored on your hard drive containing non-personally identifiable information about you. We use cookies and similar applications to enable us to evaluate the use of our website and improve the experience of visitors to it. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is sent to your browser and stored on the hard drive of your computer (or Internet-enabled device) when you visit a website. Session cookies are temporary cookie files that are erased from your device when you close your browser. Persistent cookies are cookie files that stay in one of your browser’s subfolders after you close your browser.
Copenbarger does not allow you to reject any types of cookies on our websites. Except for any functionality offered by your web browser or other third-party plug in application on your browser, you must accept all of the cookies when using our website. Certain cookies are necessary for the performance of our website. Others enhance the functionality. Your browser may be configured to allow you to refuse or delete cookies or to be notified when a cookie is stored on your device. To change your web browser settings for cookies, you can follow the instructions in the help section of your web browser or visit allaboutcookies.org.
The Copenbarger website uses necessary cookies, performance cookies, functional cookies, and targeting cookies. Because the Copenbarger website does not permit visitors to adjust or turn off any of these cookies, if you do not consent to the use of any of these types of cookies, you may not visit or use the Copenbarger website and its content.
This Policy only covers the Copenbarger website. Our website, newsletters, email updates, and other digital communications may contain links to other third-party websites. When you click on these links, you are exiting the Copenbarger website, and the personal data that you provide through such third-party websites is not subject to our privacy notice(s) and supplemental policies. If you follow any link to a third-party website, please note that that website will have its own privacy notice(s) which set out how your information is collected and processed by them. Some of these third parties may use applications that track your online activities across different websites and platforms over time.
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics works using cookies. We use the information collected by Google Analytics cookies to find out about how visitors use our website. Google will not combine the IP address sent by your browser in connection with Google Analytics with other data. You can prevent Google Analytics cookies from being stored by setting your browser software accordingly. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at google.com.
- What Information Do We Disclose or Transfer?
The Copenbarger Law Firm is a U.S.-based law firm with the majority of its operations and activities located within the state of California. However, because of the global nature of many of our third-party technology services, the information you provide via this website may be accessed by lawyers and personnel outside of California and, rarely, but from time to time, outside of the United States. Copenbarger will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data are protected in accordance with this Policy in all of our offices regardless of location.
We do not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose personal data about our website visitors to any unaffiliated third parties except when:
- We have retained external service providers to perform certain services on the firm’s behalf to improve the effectiveness or efficiency of our services, and these providers have agreed to use the transferred information solely as necessary to perform the service in accordance with the firm’s instructions and subject to appropriate nondisclosure limitations
- We reasonably believe that such disclosure is required by law or pursuant to legal process, or is necessary in connection with actual or threatened litigation
- We agree to sell, transfer or merge all or a portion of our business or assets.
- How Do We Protect Your Information?
We take the security of your personal information seriously. We take reasonable steps to ensure the security of any personal data that you provide us with online by employing appropriate security measures. Despite the security procedures we employ, you should be aware that it is impossible to guarantee the security of information that you transmit to us via the Internet.
We will, to the extent possible, control your personal data and, except as otherwise set forth in this Policy, we will not disclose your personal data to third parties. Although we are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of your personal data, if required by law, we reserve the right to disclose such information without first obtaining your consent.
- How Long Do We Retain Your Information?
We will keep the information that you provide us with for as long as is reasonably necessary to achieve the purpose for which you provided it, or to the extent necessary for the firm to protect its rights, or as required by applicable laws.
- How Can You Change or Remove Your Information?
We want to be sure that the contact details and other personal information you provide us with are as up to date as possible, and we hope you will help us in that effort. You may review, correct and update the personal data submitted to us, and you may withdraw your consent to our future use of your personal data at any time. If you wish to review or revise the information you submitted to us, you may do so at any time by sending an email to info@copenbarger.com. If you would like to unsubscribe from any newsletters or other commercial communications (except for marketing emails), you can do so by emailing info@copenbarger.com. To unsubscribe from any marketing emails, please follow the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of the email body. It may take at least several days from the date of receipt for us to process any change request, unsubscribe, or delete requests. It is possible that you will receive another email communication during the change period.
- What About Links to Third-party Sites?
For your convenience, our website may contain links to third-party websites whose information practices may be different from ours and which are governed by their own privacy procedures, policies and security measures. For instance, we may provide links to seminars, articles, and events offered or hosted by third parties. If you choose to visit any linked websites, you should be certain that you understand the applicable privacy policies, data protection standards and security procedures before you submit any information via those sites, as we have no control over data submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
- Do We Respond to Do Not Track Signals?
Certain browsers may provide individuals with the ability to communicate that they wish not to be tracked while browsing on the Internet. We currently do not have the ability to respond to such “Do Not Track” signals.
Additionally, we do not currently enable third parties to collect personally identifiable information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across different websites when a consumer uses this website.
- How Can You Contact Us?
If you have any questions about this Policy or wish to make any changes to the information you have provided us with, including removing it from a particular subscription list or deleting it from our system, please contact us at:
Copenbarger & Copenbarger, LLP
Attn: Data Privacy
200 Sandpointe Ave, Suite 150
Santa Ana, CA 92707
info@copenbarger.com