Welcome to Gundzik Gundzik Heeger LLP (the “Firm”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), where we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard the personal data we may collect from you when you visit our website and use our products and services (collectively with our website, the “Services”). Please review this Policy carefully. By accessing or using our Services, you agree to the terms of this Policy on behalf of yourself or the entity or organization that you represent. If you do not agree to any term in this Policy, you should refrain from further use of our services.
1. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will post the updated Policy on this page. Your continued use of the Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We receive several types of information about you from various sources, including information and content that you give us, automatically collected information, and information from other sources.
a. Information You Give Us
i. Personal Information and Identifiers: When you contact us, schedule a consultation, or use our Services, you may provide personal details such as your name, email address, phone number, and any other details necessary for legal representation or for Services you have requested. You may also provide financial information such as your bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, and other financial information.
ii. Legal Services Information: You may also provide details about your legal matters when you contact us, schedule a consultation, or use our Services, including personal and confidential information.
b. Information Collected Automatically
i. Website Data: When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information, including:
· IP address
· Browser type and version
· Pages visited
· Time spent on pages
ii. Cookies: To improve your experience on our website, we utilize cookies. Please note, you have the option to manage or deactivate cookies using your browser settings.
c. Information from Other Sources
i. We may receive information about you from third-party service providers or publicly available sources for the purpose of verifying your identity or assisting with your legal matters.
3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use your personal information in a variety of ways, including:
a. to provide the Services to you;
b. to respond to comments and questions, and provide customer service;
c. to fulfill the purpose for which you provide such information, or fulfill any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information;
d. to communicate with you about your Services;
e. to inform you about important changes to, or other news about, the Services;
f. to operate, maintain, improve, personalize, and analyze the Services;
g. to monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities for marketing or advertising purposes;
h. to detect, prevent, or investigate security breaches, fraud, and other unauthorized or illegal activity;
i. to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
j. to maintain appropriate records for internal administrative purposes;
k. in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and
l. for any other purpose with your consent.
We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice and receiving your consent.
4. SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not sell your personal information. However, we may share your personal information with certain third parties for specific business purposes. In the preceding 12 months, the Firm has disclosed personal information for one or more of the business purposes below. We may share your personal information in the following circumstances:
a. When we work with service providers. To service providers, professional advisors, contractors, and other third parties that provide us with support services, such as payment processing, website hosting, information technology, email, or analytics services, and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
b. When we are required by law. To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
c. To help protect lawful interests. If we believe disclosure will help us protect the rights, property, or safety of the Firm, our clients, partners, agents, and others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection, and spam and malware prevention.
d. To fulfill the purpose for that information or with your consent. To fulfill the purpose for which you provide the information, for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information, or with your consent.
e. If we become involved in a sale or transfer of the Firm. If we become involved with a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Firm’s assets (whether as a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding), to business entities or people involved in the negotiation or transfer.
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).
6. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We take reasonable precautions to secure your personal information by implementing industry standard security measures. While we have employed security technologies and procedures to assist in safeguarding your personal information, no system or network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of your information at any time. 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 our website or through any of our other Services.
7. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
a. The Right to Know and Data Portability. You have the right to request that the Firm disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months.
b. The Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. We will delete or deidentify personal information not subject to an exception under applicable law from our records and will direct our service providers to take similar action.
c. Right to Opt-Out of Sale: Although we do not sell personal information, you have the right to opt out of data-sharing practices. For the purposes of this Policy and the CCPA, a “sale” refers to the sharing or disclosure of personal information to a third party in exchange for valuable consideration. To exercise your rights described above, please submit a request by email us at info@gghllp.com. Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request to know or delete related to your personal information.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online.
9. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND EXTERNAL LINKS
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. The Firm cannot be held liable for the privacy practices of these websites, or any damage or loss resulting from use of or reliance on any content, goods or services available on or through such websites. Please review their policies before sharing your information.
10. CHILDREN ACCESSING OUR SERVICES
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18
years of age has been collected, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at info@gghllp.com.
11. CONTACT US
We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy and this Policy. You can contact us at:
Gundzik Gundzik Heeger LLP Email: info@gghllp.com
Phone: (818) 290-7461
Address: 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste 420, Los Angeles, CA 90034