PRIVACY POLICY

Lucia Law and its affiliates want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect online and offline: through our website (the “Website”); through our social media properties (“Our Social Media”); and through any other offline business interactions you may have with us (“Offline Interactions"). Collectively, we refer to the Websites, Our Social Media, and Offline Interactions as the “Services.”

 

Collection of Personal Information

“Personal Information” is information that identifies an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. We collect the following categories of Personal Information:

• Personal Information we receive from you:

  • ​Name & contact details

  • Identity information

  • Business contact details

  • User content

  • Relationship history

  • Matter information

  • Involved individuals information

  • Recordings

• Personal Information we collect through your use of our Services or from other sources, such as clients or service providers:

  • IP address

  • Social media information

  • Device information​

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We need to collect Personal Information in order to provide the requested Services to you. 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.

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Use of Personal Information

We and our service providers use Personal Information for legitimate business purposes, including:

• Providing the functionality of the Services

• Providing our legal services

• Fulfilling your requests

• Marketing and relationship building and engagement

• Improving and developing new work product and Services that we may provide to you

• Operations and general business, including:

  • For data analysis

  • For security and fraud prevention

  • To meet our legal and regulatory obligations

  • Client and counterparty due diligence

  • For operating and expanding our business activities

 

Aggregating and/or anonymizing Personal Information

We may aggregate and/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.

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Disclosure of Personal Information

We disclose Personal Information:

• To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

• To our third party service providers, to facilitate services they provide to us, for example, our information technology and other service providers.

• By using the Services, you may elect to disclose Personal Information

 

We also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, including:

• To comply with applicable law and regulations.

• To cooperate with public and government authorities.

• To cooperate with law enforcement.

• For other legal reasons, such as: to enforce our terms and conditions, and to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.

• In connection with a sale or business transaction, for example: disclosing or transferring your Personal Information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). Such third parties may include, for example, an acquiring entity and its advisors.

 

Other Information

“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual

• Browser and device information

• Information collected through cookies and other technologies

• Demographic information and other information provided by you that does not reveal your specific identity

• Information that has been aggregated in a manner such that it no longer reveals your specific identity

 

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 in this Policy.

 

We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including: 

• Through your browser or device:

  • Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, and Internet browser type that you are using.  We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.

• Using cookies

  • Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using.  Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences and other traffic data.  We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals. 

• IP Address

  • Your IP address is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider.  An IP address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited.  Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services.  We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels, diagnosing server problems and administering the Services.  We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.

 

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.

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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 or by our affiliates.

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User of Services by Minors

The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of eighteen (18), and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 18.

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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.  

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Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through the contact form on the Website. Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your emails to us.