Data & Privacy Policy
Law Offices | Felicia Yates & Associates - Revised: June 29, 2020
This Data & Privacy Policy discloses the data and privacy practices for https://www.attyfeliciayates.com. This notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this website. We collect information about our users in three ways: directly from the user, from our Web server logs and through cookies. We use the information primarily to provide you with a personalized Internet experience that delivers the information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you. We don't share any of the information you provide with others, unless we say so in this Privacy Policy, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it. We also will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request (e.g. to process attorney's fees, or to submit court-related documents to the Superior Court on your behalf).
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via e-mail in the future to tell you about promotions, new products or services, case successes, changes to this Data & Privacy policy, to solicit your feedback as a current or former client, or to send you marketing materials such as newsletters and blog posts.
User-Supplied Information: If you fill out the “contact” form on this website, we will ask you to provide some personal information (such as an e-mail address, name, phone number, and case number). We only require that you provide a name and an e-mail address on the contact form. Further, if chat is available through this website, you may be asked to provide information if you participate in an online chat. Please do not use this website to submit any confidential, proprietary or sensitive personally identifiable information (e.g. Social Security Number; date of birth; driver’s license number; or credit card, debit card, bank account or other financial information) (collectively, "Sensitive Information"). If you submit any Sensitive Information, you do so at your own risk and we will not be liable to you or responsible for the consequences of your submission.
Information that you provide to us through the contact form or an online chat will be used so that we may respond to your inquiry. We may also use information you provide to us to communicate with you in the future. If you do not wish to receive such communications, you may opt out (unsubscribe) as described below.
Web Server Logs: When you visit our website, we may track information about your visit and store that information in web server logs, which are records of the activities on our sites. The servers automatically capture and save the information electronically. Examples of the information we may collect include:
- your unique Internet protocol (IP) address;
- the name of your unique Internet service provider;
- the town/city, county/state and country from which you access our website;
- the kind of browser or computer you use;
- the number of links you click within the website;
- the date and time of your visit;
- the web page from which you arrived to our website;
- the pages you viewed on the website; and
- certain searches/queries that you conducted via our website.
The information we collect in web server logs helps us administer the website, analyze usage, protect the website and its content from inappropriate use and improve the user’s experience.
Cookies: We use "cookies" on this website. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a website visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our website, and identify repeat visitors to our website. For instance, when a website uses a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in with a password more than once, thereby saving time while on a website. Cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website, and they enable us to track our website's performance, through the use of analytics. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our website. The use of cookies is relatively standard. Most Internet browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can use your browser to either notify you when you receive a cookie or to disable cookies.
Third-Party Services: We may use services hosted by third parties, including Adobe Site Catalyst, to assist in providing our services and to help us understand the use of our website by our visitors. These services may collect information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including your IP address or cookies. If these third-party services collect information, they do so anonymously and in the aggregate to provide information helpful to us such as website trends, without identifying individual visitors.
In addition, we may use services provided by third parties to display relevant content, products, services and advertising to you. These third parties may use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect or receive information from this website, and elsewhere on the internet. They may then use that information to provide measurement services so we can understand your interests and retarget advertisements based on your previous visits to this website. Please keep in mind that we do not share your personal information with any third-party advertiser, ad server or ad network.
You may be able to opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting by some third parties by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices. You can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ad Settings. You can visit this page to opt out of AdRoll's and their partners' targeted advertising. Please see "Cookies" in the section above for more information on how you can control the use of cookies on your computer.
California Do Not Track: Our web services do not alter, change, or respond upon receiving Do Not Track (DNT) requests or signals in browsers. As described in more detail above, we track user activity using web server logs, cookies and similar technologies. Information collected in web server logs helps us analyze website usage and improve the user’s experience. Cookies allow us to offer you a customized experience and present relevant advertising to you.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the e-mail address or phone number given on our website:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Who Has Access to the Information
We will not sell, rent, or lease mailing lists or other user data to others, and we will not make your personal information available to any unaffiliated parties, except as follows:
- To agents, website vendors and/or contractors who may use it on our behalf or in connection with their relationship with us;
- If we are unable to assist with your matter, but know an unaffiliated attorney or firm that may be able to help you, we may refer you and share information you provided us with that party; and
- As required by law, in a matter of public safety or policy, as needed in connection with the transfer of our business assets (for example, if we are acquired by another firm), or if we believe in good faith that sharing the data is necessary to protect our rights or property.
How is Personal Information Protected
We take certain appropriate security measures to help protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will always be unable to defeat our security measures.
When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect data (such as your full name, telephone number, e-mail address, and case information), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a green or gray colored lock icon in the beginning of the address bar for this website https://www.attyfeliciayates.com, as well as in the secure merchant account we use for processing fee payments online. While we use encryption to protect highly sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing, customer service, case preparation, or marketing) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
To reiterate...please do not use this website to submit any confidential, proprietary or sensitive personally identifiable information (e.g. Social Security Number; date of birth; driver’s license number; or credit card, debit card, bank account or other financial information) (collectively, "Sensitive Information"). If you submit any Sensitive Information, you do so at your own risk and we will not be liable to you or responsible for the consequences of your submission.
Links to Other Websites
This website may contain hyperlinks to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other websites. The appearance of external hyperlinks does not constitute an endorsement by Law Offices | Felicia Yates & Associates of the linked website, or the information, products or services contained therein. We encourage our users to be alert when they leave our website, and to read the data, privacy, and terms of use policies established by any other website that collects personally identifiable information.
Marketing Choice And Your Rights To Access And Correct Your Personal Information
To opt out of receiving marketing communications from us, notify us at attorneyfeliciayates@gmail.com. We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your personal data, restrict processing concerning you and object to processing, as well as the right to data portability.
We will provide you with access to your personal information on request so you may view, update or correct your information. To protect your privacy and security, we will verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make corrections. You have the right to complain to a competent supervisory authority if you feel that we are not complying with our data protection obligations. To access or correct your personal information, notify us at attorneyfeliciayates@gmail.com.
Your California Rights
If you are a California resident, California law provides you with specific rights regarding your personal information, including the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about the collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months and the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions. To make such a request, contact us at the e-mail address listed below, and indicate in your message that you are making a CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) request. Please note that we are only required to respond to two such requests per customer, per year. You also have the right not to be discriminated against if you exercise any of your rights under California privacy law.
Law Offices | Felicia Yates & Associates may have collected the following categories of personal information of California residents who visited the Website in the past 12 months: Identifiers such as a name, title, biographical information (from other sources in the course of our business), social media identifiers, physical address, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other, similar identifiers. Internet or other electronic network activity information.
This information is collected and used for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy. Law Offices | Felicia Yates & Associates does not sell the personal information of visitors to the website and has not done so in the past 12 months. Law Offices | Felicia Yates & Associates may have disclosed any of the above categories of personal information pursuant to an individual’s consent or under a written contract with a service provider for a business purpose in the past 12 months.
Consent
By using this Website, you consent to the collection and use of information as specified above. If we make changes to our Data & 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 Data & Privacy policy carefully to make sure you understand our practices and procedures.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this Data & Privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at (702) 817-4661 , via e-mail at attorneyfeliciayates@gmail.com, or via U.S. mail at Law Offices | Felicia Yates & Associates, P.O. Box 454, Needles, CA 92363, Attention: Privacy Officer