Privacy Policy
ABOUT OUR PRIVACY POLICY: Burns Smith Law is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of our customer's personal protection. This page will inform you about the information we collect, how we manage the data, and how we protect your personal information that you choose to provide via our website.
Internet Privacy Policy & GDPR Compliance
This privacy policy sets out how Burns Smith Law uses and protects any information that you provide through our website. Our privacy policy specifically addresses the information we collect and how we manage information we retain.
Security for Data Protection
Our law firm is committed to maintaining a high degree of ethical standards throughout every facet of our law firm. our law firm recognizes our responsibilities, and client expectations, to protect personal information provided to our law firm. In order to mitigate server breaches, unauthorized access or accidental disclosure of information we maintain physical measures and data management practices to safeguard client information
Collection and Retention of Information
We require certain personal information in order to manage your account and our contractual obligations. Any information we retain shall be treated with an appropriate level of security and privacy protection. Our internet privacy policy and data hygiene process are designed to specifically protect our clients from identity theft, third party nuisance e-mails or telephone solicitations. Under no circumstances will be knowingly or intentionally provide information which might be deemed to be collusion, unethical or represent a conflict of interest.
Types of Information We May Retain
- Name and Job Title
- Contact information including email address, phone number
- Location information such as physical, mailing, shipping address
- Information derived from form mail, surveys, registrations
Exceptions to Sharing Personal Information
We will not share, disclose or sell private data or information to any persons or organizations not directly involved in our law firm fulfilling our obligations. However, we do take exception and reserve the right to provide information under certain circumstances including:
- Persons or entities involved in the fulfillment of a client’s project. (i.e., investigators, expert witness, etc.)
- Law enforcement or Court actions (i.e., protective orders, summons, subpoenas, arrest warrants, etc.)
- Third parties investigating identity theft, credit card fraud, or other problem behaviors.
- Collection agencies, independent labs, or other third-party agents assisting our law firm.
We do not partner with or have working business relationships with advertising companies that involves providing said companies with client information. An example of an exception is providing Google Ads (Adwords) with client billing information and related business or marketing information. Any information that we may share would be done so because we believe that in so doing, it would benefit our customer(s).
Why We Collect Information
We require certain information to understand your needs, provide quality service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- Client account management
- Facilitate improvements to our services
We may occasionally use client provided information such as testimonials or reviews, in promoting or advertising our law firm. Any use of customer information will be treated with an appropriate level of discretion and sensitivity. We will not use information which we consider to be confidential or private.
Cookies and Browsers
What Are Cookies
A cookie is a small electronic file which asks permission to be placed on your computer. A cookie is not a virus, trojan or malware. Cookies do not allow our law firm to have any access to your computer. The purpose of a cookie is to allow our website to recognize you when you return to our website. Cookies improve a website user’s experience by allowing websites to respond to you as a recognized entity (i.e., remember login information, preferences, etc.).
Implied Consent for Use of Cookies
Presently we use an “implied consent” policy, meaning we assume you accept the standard practice of using cookies. If you object to the use of cookies you should either not use our website, or you should delete cookies after visiting our website. Another option is to browse our website using an anonymous browser setting (i.e., "Chrome Incognito", "Edge InPrivate", "Firefox or Safari Private Browsing").
How to Manage Cookie Setting on Popular Browsers
Users can at any time delete cookies that reside on their computer. For more information on restricting the use of cookies you may visit www.AboutCookies.org. This website provides information managing cookie settings on most popular browsers.
Website Analytics That Use Cookies
We utilize website analytics services, which use cookies, to gather information on how visitors interact with our website. No personal data is collected by us via analytics. Although no Personally Identifiable Information is acquired, analytics does track date and time of a website visit, time spent on individual pages and our site overall, the particular search engine from which you came to our site and your type of browser. Website analytics are important to us because it provides information that allows us to improve our website, which ultimately makes our site more user-friendly.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics protects your website tracking transactions with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Website visitor information is secure, and Analytics reports do not include Personally Identifiable Information. Google adheres to the policies stated in the Google Privacy Policy.
Our site may utilize Remarketing with Google Analytics as part of our online marketing. The DoubleClick cookie enables remarketing for products like Google Ads (AdWords) on the Google Display Network. For more information about this cookie, visit the Google Advertising Privacy FAQ. To opt out of remarketing, and manage your settings for this cookie, visit the Ads Preferences Manager.
How to Opt-Out of Google Analytics Tracking? visit Google Analytics Opt-Out.
Paid Search Advertising
Using paid search ads (i.e., Google Ads, Bing Ads) coding we may identify sources and pages brought people to our website. This allows us improve our paid search advertising campaigns. Personally Identifiable Information is not gathered in this process.
DoubleClick
DoubleClick is part of our Google Ads analytics. The DoubleClick cookies enable us to match users with ads that relevant advertising for our law firm. Personally Identifiable Information is not gathered in this process.
Other Services That May Use Cookies
Third-Party Content Services
We sometimes use third-party services to add content to our website. Examples of third-party content services and applications are YouTube, Constant Contact, Survey Monkey, HubSpot and SlideShare. We may use other sites, and in any event, we do not control when or how these services collect information relative to your use of content they host. If you are not logged-in to these services they will not be able to get any Personally Identifiable Information through our website.
Email and Instant Messaging Campaigns
Our routine personal correspondence or emails do not contain any type of cookie. Our marketing efforts may use email marketing campaigns which do include cookies. These cookies do not collect personal information. They do collect metrics that enables us to measure the effectiveness of our email marketing. Our email marketing cookies collect information such as which recipients opened our email (open rates) or clicked on a link (click rate). All of our email campaigns are done in accordance with the CAN-SPAM ACT of 2003. All recipients of marketing emails will be provided a link to “opt-out or unsubscribe” from future emails.
Social Media Platforms
Our website does include “social media buttons” which have links to our social media pages (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.). These sites are owned and managed by third parties. We do not control when or how they collect information. For information on their data collection, management and privacy policies you should review the formal privacy policy statements on each website.
our law firm makes reasonable efforts to update and maintain our internet privacy policy, any changes made are effectively immediately and may not be formally announced or otherwise advertised. We do not guarantee that we will issue any type of formal or informal notice of any changes to our website, policies or other information.
Users of our website may also be interested in our Website Terms of Use statement.
Last updated February 14, 2024