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As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services, Andersen, Tate & Carr, P.C. (the "Firm") is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and "Personal Information" (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, prospective clients, website visitors, staff, agents, lawyers, law students, job applicants or others inside or outside the Firm). Personal Information includes, for example, your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, the details of any legal matter you submit to us, and any payment or billing information you provide. It has always been the policy of the Firm to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information.
This privacy statement is based on the Firm's privacy and data protection principles. We apply it in light of our overarching obligations to comply with law, to maintain client confidentiality, and to represent our clients as effectively as possible. This statement is intended to summarize the Firm's data protection practices generally, and to advise our clients, interested law students, job applicants, website visitors, and other third parties about the Firm's privacy policies that may be applicable to them.
This statement is also addressed to parties outside the Firm who provide Personal Information to the Firm. This statement also describes how the Firm collects, processes, and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and the use of this website.
No Attorney-Client Relationship. Contacting the Firm through this website, submitting information about a potential legal matter, or making a payment does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and the Firm. An attorney-client relationship is formed only after the Firm has checked for conflicts of interest and you and the Firm have signed a written engagement agreement. Because information you send before the Firm agrees to represent you may not be treated as confidential or privileged and may not preclude the Firm from representing another party, please do not send any confidential, sensitive, or time-sensitive information through this website until you have been advised that the Firm will represent you and that it is appropriate to do so.
The Firm collects Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to this website. We may use that Personal Information where we believe it is in your, or our, best interest to do so, for the following purposes:
● to contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries
● to carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations
● to conduct our recruiting and selection process
● if you are or become a client of the Firm, to provide you with legal services, and otherwise deal with you and administer the matters you instruct us on, subject to additional written agreements between the Firm and clients, which more specifically govern the use of clients' information
● to contact you (unless you tell us that you prefer us not to) regarding legal or Firm developments that may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive publications or details of events or seminars that we consider may be of interest to you, you may do so by clicking on the unsubscribe link in electronic marketing communications
● to enter into or carry out contracts of various kinds
● to process payments and administer billing for legal services and to detect and prevent fraud
● to comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations that we may be subject to, including anti-money laundering requirements
Information You Provide. When you contact us or submit information about a potential legal matter through this website, we collect the Personal Information you choose to provide, which may include your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, and any details about your matter that you include in a contact or intake form or other communication.
Payment Information. If you make a payment through this website, payment card and billing information (such as your card number, expiration date, and billing address) is collected and processed by our third-party payment processor to complete the transaction. The Firm does not store full payment card numbers on its own systems, and our use of payment information is limited to processing your payment, maintaining billing records, and preventing fraud.
Information Collected Automatically. As with most websites, when you visit this website, we may automatically collect certain technical information, such as your IP address, device and browser type, and pages viewed, including through cookies and similar technologies. You can set your browser to refuse some or all cookies, though certain features of the website may not function properly as a result. Because there is no common industry standard for interpreting "Do Not Track" signals, our website does not currently respond to such signals.
Consistent with our professional obligations, the Firm exercises the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us. We maintain reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information. Payment transactions made through this website are encrypted in transit and are processed through a third-party payment processor that represents that it maintains compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). No method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, however, and, as noted above, communications you send to us before an engagement is established may not be secure; accordingly, we cannot guarantee that these safeguards will always work, and any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk.
If the Firm determines that a breach of the security of its systems has compromised your Personal Information, the Firm will notify you and any applicable authorities as required by, and within the time periods set by, applicable law.
We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in the statement and in our applicable policies.
We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the Firm, except in very limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents, payment processors, website hosting and analytics providers, data processors or other service providers and contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party and verified by the Firm, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you. Consistent with our professional obligations, we may provide Personal Information to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law, such as in connection with the investigation or assertion of our legal defenses or for our compliance matters.
The Firm does not authorize third parties to collect Personal Information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites for those third parties' own purposes. Third-party service providers we engage, such as our website analytics and payment providers, may collect information as described in this Statement solely to perform services for the Firm. The Firm does not knowingly collect, maintain, or store Personal Information of minors that is submitted via this website. To the extent the Firm collects Personal Information on minors in the context of one of the purposes mentioned in the Statement, the Firm will only do so with the appropriate consent or as otherwise permitted under applicable laws.
The Firm has a Chief Privacy Officer and regularly promotes compliance with privacy and data protection principles. If you have any questions relating to the use of your Personal Information, please contact the Chief Privacy Officer at pcallahan@atclawfirm.com.
We may update this Statement from time to time. When we do, we will revise the Effective Date shown at the top of this Statement and post the updated Statement on this website, and we encourage you to review it periodically. Any changes will apply to Personal Information collected after the updated Statement takes effect.