Privacy

Privacy Policy

LAST UPDATED: September 10, 2012

This Privacy Policy describes the practices of Reiss+Preuss LLP in connection with information that we may collect through our website, www.reisspreuss.com (the "Site"). The Privacy Policy applies only to our online information-gathering and dissemination practices in connection with the Site, and does not apply to any of our practices conducted offline or to electronic communications not initiated via the Site. If you have any questions or comments about the Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at info@reisspreuss.com or via the mailing address or phone number provided below.

By using the Site you agree with all the terms of this Privacy Policy, so please do not use the Site if you disagree with any part of this Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal Information We May Collect

"Personal Information" is information that identifies you, or relates to you, as an individual, such as:

Name
Mailing address (including billing and mailing addresses)
Telephone number
Email address

How We Use Personal Information

We may use Personal Information:

to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you newsletters or publications that you request or to register you for events.
to send you our legal updates and mailings relating to our events that we think may be of interest to you, in accordance with applicable law.
to keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and use it to respond to you, if you contact us by email through the Site.
to send you important information regarding the Site, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information.
to provide services, including the provision of seminars and other events.
subject to local requirements, to allow you to send Site-related content to a friend through the Site. By using this functionality, you are telling us that you are entitled to use and provide us with your friend's name and email address.
as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

How Personal Information is Disclosed

Your Personal Information may be disclosed:

to our third party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, auditing services and other similar services.
to identify you to anyone to whom you send messages through the Site.
to a third party (whether affiliated or unaffiliated with us) in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business or assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

OTHER INFORMATION

Other Information We Collect

"Other Information" is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as:

Browser information
Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
Demographic information and other information provided by you
Aggregated information

How We Collect Other Information

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

Through your browser: Certain information is collected by most browsers, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system version and Internet browser type and version. We may use this information to ensure that our Site functions properly.
Using cookies: Cookies are small files containing information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Site, pages visited, language preferences, and other anonymous traffic data. We and our service providers may use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience while visiting the Site, as well as for online tracking purposes. We can recognize your computer to assist your use of the Site. We may also gather statistical information about the usage of the Site in order to improve the design and functionality, understand how customers use the Site and to assist us with resolving questions regarding the Site. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies, or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie from a particular website. If cookies are disabled, however, not all features of the Site may operate as intended. Information about the procedure you are required to follow in order to disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider's website.
Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used in connection with some Site pages and HTML-formatted email messages to, among other things, track the actions of Site users and email recipients, measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about Site usage and response rates.
From your IP Address: Your "IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP Address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user visits the Site, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice on the Internet and is done automatically by many web sites. We use IP Addresses for purposes such as calculating Site usage levels, helping diagnose server problems, and administering the Site.
From you: Information such as your location, as well as other information, such as your preferred means of communication, is collected when you voluntarily provide this information. Unless combined with Personal Information, this information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site.
By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site, (for example, we may aggregated Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code).

How We Use and Disclose Other Information

Please note that we may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then, in addition to the uses listed in the "How We Collect Other Information" section above, we may use and disclose Other Information for all the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information.

In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your geographical location). If we combine any Other Information with Personal Information, the combined information will be treated by us as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

THIRD PARTY SITES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site to which this Site contains a link. The inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site by us or by our affiliates.

SECURITY

We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

If you choose to communicate with us from this Site via email you should be aware that the content of email messages is not necessarily confidential but may be reviewable by anybody with the necessary technical means. By interacting with us via email you acknowledge and agree that email is not a confidential way of communication, although widely used in communications between attorneys, their clients and third parties. Upon request, we may in our discretion provide alternative channels of electronic communication to clients or prospective clients that provide a heightened level of confidentiality.

If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the "Contacting Us" section below.

CHOICES AND ACCESS

Your choices regarding our use of your Personal Information for marketing purposes

If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out of receiving these marketing-related emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in any such message or by contacting us by email at info@reisspreuss.com. We aim to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, and you cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages.

How you can access, change or suppress your Personal Information

You may make reasonable requests to review, correct, update, suppress, or otherwise modify any Personal Information that you have previously provided through the Site, or object to our use of such Personal Information. You may exercise these rights by logging on to any subscriptions account that may be made available here or by contacting us at info@reisspreuss.com.

In your request, please make clear what information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information. For your protection, we will only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We aim to comply with your reasonable request as soon as reasonably practicable.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping and, if you are a client, billing purposes, and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed therefrom. We may, from time to time, re-contact former users of the Site. Finally, we are not responsible for removing information from the databases of third parties (such as service providers) with whom we have shared your Personal Information.

RETENTION PERIOD

We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

USE OF SITE BY MINORS

The Site is not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13), and we request that these individuals do not provide Personal Information through the Site.

CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER

Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in the United States or in other countries by us or by service providers we engage, and by using our Site you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, which may have different data protection rules than in your country.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

We recommend that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., information relating to your case or any other legal matter you want to discuss with us, Social Security numbers, credit card or other payment card information, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Site to us.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Privacy Policy. Please take a look at the "LAST UPDATED" legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. Your use of the Site following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the following contact details:

Reiss+Colleagues P.C.

200 W 41st St.,
20th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Phone: +1 646 731 2770
Email: info@reiss.law