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Privacy Policy
We recognize that you may be concerned about our use and disclosure of your personal information. Your privacy is very important to us, and the following will inform you of the information that we, David Hopkins Brown Law Office, may collect from you, and how it is used. By using our website, www.dhblawoffice.com, you are accepting the practices described in this policy.

This notice (together with the Conditions of Use of Thompson Website) summarizes how David Hopkins Brown Law Office will process and protect personal information it receives about clients, prospective clients, and lateral partners, website visitors, office visitors, agents, suppliers, consultants, business partners and other third parties. Reference in this notice to your “personal information” means any information that identifies, or could reasonably be used to identify, you.

This policy does not cover how the firm processes the personal information of its employees. That is the subject of a separate internal Employee Notice.

INFORMATION COLLECTION

Collecting and Processing Your Information.

Our collection and processing of personal information varies by context. Scroll down to the category that applies to you.

Clients

What personal information do we collect during client work?

During our work for clients or prospective clients, we collect personal information about individual clients, employees and owners. We also collect personal information on others who have dealings with clients during transactions, disputes or investigations. We obtain this information from clients, public websites, research services, social media sites, discovery requests and other third-party sources.

How do we use client information?

We process personal information received from, or on behalf of, clients to:

Facilitate the provision of our professional services, including client due diligence, anti-money laundering checks, conflicts checks, credit checks, billing, marketing and complaints handling promote our services by sending you (unless you tell us that you prefer us not to) event invitations, alerts on timely legal issues, and industry newsletters and announcements improve and develop new services monitor our business and compile statistical data for internal analysis and research.

We also use a relationship-management tool, where permitted by applicable local law, to assess the strength of the relationship between individuals at David Hopkins Brown Law Office and at our clients or potential clients based on the frequency of email contact between them. We use that information to uncover marketing opportunities, serve our clients and update contact information within our marketing database.

Where personal data is provided to us for a specific purpose, such as anti-money laundering checks, our use of that data is limited to the specified purpose.

Who has access to client information?

We protect client information from disclosure in accordance with ethical obligations, legal privileges, and client requirements. We may disclose your personal information to third-party service providers in accordance with arrangements which maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal data; where we are required to do so by applicable law, regulation or court order; pursuant to discovery during litigation or arbitration; to enforce or defend our rights and property; or in connection with a reorganization or merger of our firm with another firm.

How long do we retain client information?

David Hopkins Brown Law Office generally retains client-matter information for 10 years after activity on the matter ends. Longer retention periods may apply for cases involving estate planning, criminal liability, litigation holds, General Counsel authorizations and other periods required or permitted by law. Shorter retention periods may apply to personal information that is collected to meet anti-money laundering or other regulatory due diligence requirements. The scope of retained material includes information reasonably required to evidence David Hopkins Brown Law Office’s work on the matter.

Website Users
What websites does David Hopkins Brown Law Office operate?

David Hopkins Brown Law Office sites include this website and other Brown-owned websites, extranets, collaboration sites, blogs, webinar platforms, social media sites and mobile device apps. To the extent that any of these sites or services have specific privacy notices or terms and conditions, they take precedence over this policy. Information input into web applications, for example, varies by application.

What personal information do we collect from website users?

Our websites use “cookies” to facilitate use of the site. For detailed information on the cookies used and the purposes for which they are used, see our Cookie Notice. Other personal data from website visitors is voluntarily provided.

How do we use website user information?

We use Information collected directly from website users to provide the services that users request, such as subscribing for events and legal updates, becoming part of our alumni community, or applying for a position at the firm. Other data collected via cookies is used to administer David Hopkins Brown Law Office sites or analyze our business.

Who has access to website user information?

Our marketing team, website development personnel and our third party service providers access website user information for the above purposes. We also provide reports with website user information to our management.

How long is website user information retained?

Information collected directly from users is retained as long as it is needed to provide requested services. Personal information collected via cookies is retained until you instruct us to delete it.

SECURITY

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
If we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Protecting Your Information Across Borders

Regardless of where your data is stored or processed, we have executed agreements with standard data protection clauses that require David Hopkins Brown Law Office and its vendors to protect personal information in accordance with standards imposed by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. Your personal information may cross borders in multiple scenarios:
We have offices around the world. We sometimes transfer information between those offices. Nevertheless, particular departments within David Hopkins Brown Law Office take steps to retain EU information within the EU. Recruiting personnel within the EU, for example, use a recruiting database that stores data in the EU.

We store information outside of the EU. For example, our primary servers for document management, web, vendor management and accounting are located in the United States.

We sometimes hire third party vendors that may store and process your information outside of the EU. For example, we hire vendors to process information related to client matters, recruiting, marketing and accounting.

Honoring Your Rights

David Hopkins Brown Law Office controls the information that it collects about you and is responsible for honoring your rights. Subject to our legal obligations and rights, residents may have numerous rights. Key rights include the following:

Access – You may request a summary or copy of your personal information that is retained or processed by David Hopkins Brown Law Office.

Rectification – You may request that David Hopkins Brown Law Office update your personal information when it is inaccurate or incomplete.

Erasure – You may request that we erase your personal information from our systems.

For more details on your rights and exceptions to those rights, contact us.

The lawful basis for processing your information varies by information type and context. David Hopkins Brown Law Office commonly relies upon four bases:

It is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the employee concerned is a party.

It is necessary for compliance with legal obligations.

It is necessary to protect the employee’s vital interests.

It is necessary for the Firm’s legitimate interests or those of a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or rights of the employee concerned.

To process “special categories” of information we rely upon one of the following additional legal grounds:

Processing is necessary for carrying out the obligations and exercising specific rights of the controller or of the data subject in the field of employment and social security and social protection law.

Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of a data subject who is physically or legally incapable of giving consent.
Data manifestly made public by the data subject.

Processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity.
The data subject has provided explicit consent.

The data subject has manifestly made the data public.

COOKIES

We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

SHARING

We will not sell or otherwise provide the information we collect to outside third parties for the purpose of direct or indirect mass email marketing.

We will disclose personal information and/or an IP address, when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities and conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on our company.

Protect and defend the rights or property of our Website and related properties.

Identify persons who may be violating the law, the rights of third parties, or otherwise misusing our Website or its related properties.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online – for example through e-mail, discussion boards, or elsewhere – that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online.

LINKS

This Website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

SURVEYS & CONTESTS

From time-to-time our site may request information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

CONSENT

By using this Website, you consent to the collection and use of information as specified above. If we make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page. Please review this page frequently to remain up-to-date with the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. You must review the new Privacy Policy carefully to make sure you understand our practices and procedures.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 1 (469) 646 0890  or via mail Attn: legalteam@dhblawoffice.com

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