Last Updated: December 1, 2024
Collier Wilson Law PLLC (“CWLaw”) respects your privacy and is committed to collecting, maintaining and using personal information about you responsibly. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to all of your use of www.collierwilsonlaw.com (the “Site”).
This Policy describes how your personal information will be treated as you use the Site. This Policy does not apply to information provided to us in the course of our attorney-client relationships or which is protected by confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine or any other applicable protection. Nothing in this Policy should be understood as creating an attorney-client relationship with visitors to the Site or, alternatively, to reduce any of the protections resulting from such relationships.
1. Information We Collect From You When You Visit the Site
Like many websites, our server logs capture the following internet or other electronic network activity information: information regarding the Site users’ operating systems, browser software, IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, and the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstreams to, through and from the Site, including date and time. We may use this information to improve the services we provide through the Site, to monitor and improve the performance of our servers, to administer the Site, and to protect and defend our rights, property or safety or that of our clients and other users of the Site.
The Site also uses cookies. You can find out more about this in our Conditions of Use.
2. Information You Submit To Us Through the Site
You are not required to submit any information to the Site. However, you may choose to do so by completing forms available on the Site. If you join one or more of our mailing lists or otherwise choose to provide personal information to us through the Site, we will collect the following information about users of the Site: first name, last name, email address, phone number, postal address, description of personal and/or business interests; and professional and employment information; and educational information. We use that information for the purpose for which it was collected and in accordance with the privacy wording on the relevant part of the Site. In addition, we may use this information to:
- communicate with you about our business;
- provide publications, products and services you request;
- invite you to, and register you for, events;
- add you to mailing lists and send you marketing materials we believe will be of interest to you;
- process and respond to requests, enquiries and complaints; and
- for other purposes and operations which are reasonably related, such as administering, monitoring and improving the Site, our products, and services.
Your information may be accessed by third party service providers who will process that information solely for our benefit and in accordance with our instructions – see Section 5 below for more information. However, we will not provide your personal information to or share it with any third party for their own marketing purposes except in connection with requests you make that clearly involve third parties. This might include publications produced by third parties or events that are presented or sponsored by third parties. This will be made clear to you before you sign up for the publication or event.
3. Your Rights to Access and Update Your Personal Information
CWLaw takes appropriate steps to avoid unauthorized changes to personal information you submit to the Site. For so long as CWLaw elects to continue to provide the Site, and provided that you comply with all agreements concerning use of the Site, we will make all reasonable efforts to provide you with online access to your registration data and other personal information so that you may view, update or correct it. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take appropriate steps to verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make corrections.
We retain information that is collected through the Site only for as long as needed for the purpose for which it was provided, or as otherwise required for our legitimate business purposes. Your information may be retained for longer periods if there are valid legal grounds, for example if required by law or court order or to defend or pursue legal claims.
You may opt out of receiving marketing and market research communications at any time by using the unsubscribe links provided.
For further information on your Rights, see Section 10 below.
4. Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Information
The majority of the personal information collected by CWLaw is provided by you voluntarily on the Site, for example when you sign up to join a mailing list or register for an event, and is therefore collected with your permission. The remaining personal information is collected for CWLaw’s legitimate business purposes, for example to monitor and improve the quality of the Site and our services, and to protect and defend our rights, property or safety or that of our clients and other users of the Site.
5. Links
Links to web sites that are not operated by or for CWLaw (“Third Party Sites”) are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to Third Party Sites. We have not reviewed the Third Party sites, do not control and are not responsible for any of their content or their privacy policies, if any. We do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the Third Party Sites listed on or linked to from the Site, you should understand that you do so at your own risk.
6. Sharing of Information
The entity responsible for the management and use of the Site and personal information collected from them is Collier Wilson Law PLLC in the United States. The Site is operated on servers located in various jurisdictions, including the United States. When you access or use the Site, personal information about you may be transferred outside the country in which you are situated to these other locations.
CWLaw may also disclose and/or transfer your personal information (i) to its trusted third party service providers (for example, companies that provide systems, web hosting including microsites of the Site and other IT services; internal and external advisors and auditors); (ii) if required by applicable law; (iii) in connection with a reorganization or combination of our firm with another firm, (iv) if it believes that such disclosure is necessary to enforce or apply its terms of use and other agreements or otherwise protect and defend CWLaw’s rights, property or safety or that of our clients and other users of the Site; (v) in order to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or other legal obligation, or a regulatory or government inquiry; or (vi) with consent.
We have in the last 12 months disclosed for a business purpose the following categories of personal information: (i) Identifiers (name, email address, phone number, postal address, IP (Internet Protocol) address, personal and professional interests); (ii) Internet or other electronic network activity information (information regarding operating system, browser software, information regarding interaction with the Site, namely the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstreams to, through and from the Site; and (iii) professional and employment information.
7. Children’s Privacy
We are committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The Site and services are not directed to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If we receive personal information that we discover was provided by a child under the age of 16, we will promptly destroy such information. Schools and parents should supervise their children’s online activities and consider the use of other means to provide a child-friendly online environment. Additional information is available on the Direct Marketing Association’s home page at http://www.the-dma.org. If you would like to learn more about COPPA, visit the Federal Trade Commission home page at http://www.ftc.gov.
8. Security
The Site uses measures that are appropriate to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, and all our employees and any third parties that process your personal information on our behalf are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your information., However, we cannot and do not provide any assurance that these measures will be sufficient to protect the information you choose to transmit to our Sites.
The Site is not designed to store sensitive personal information such as financial, health, criminal, racial or ethnic origin or political affiliation and you should not use the Site for that purpose.
9. Agreement, Changes
By submitting your personal information on the Site you agree to the collection and use of your personal information on the basis described above. If you do not agree, please do not provide any personal information via the Site. If we decide to update our Privacy Policy, we will indicate this next to the Privacy Policy link on the front page of our Site. If there are material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will prominently post and/or communicate such changes prior to implementing them.
Any information collected under previous versions of our Privacy Policy will then become subject to the terms of our new Privacy Policy.
10. Contacts, Rights
In certain circumstances, subject to certain exceptions and applicable law, you may have the following rights in relation to personal information about you:
- the right to know (i) the specific pieces of personal information collected; (ii) the categories of personal information; (iii) the categories of sources of the personal information: (iv) the business or commercial purpose for collecting the personal information; (v) the categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose; and (vi) the categories of third parties with whom the personal information is shared;
- the right to have personal information corrected, for example if it is incomplete or incorrect;
- the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time;
- the right to request that personal information is deleted;
- the right to restrict or object to the processing of personal information;
- the right to receive a copy of personal information which you have provided to the firm, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (known as “data portability”);
- where you have provided personal information voluntarily, or otherwise consented to its use, the right to withdraw your consent;
- the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority (see further below).
11. Data Controller
The data controller for this website is: Collier Wilson Law PLLC, 1401 Lavaca St. Suite 41709 Austin, Texas 78701-1634 United States.
If you have any questions about your privacy or this policy, including if you need to access this policy in an alternative format, please contact us at hello@collierwilsonlaw.com.
