Privacy Policy

Introduction

This Privacy Policy (or “Policy”) tells You how Lekht Law (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, secures, and eventually deletes, information collected from and about visitors to our Website. We are a limited liability partnership of the State of New York.

Scope of this Policy
This Policy covers both our online and offline data collection activities, including information that we may collect in person from meetings and events.
By continuing to visit and use our Website, You are agreeing to the terms of this Policy. If You do not agree, then please exit this Website and close Your browser.  
Additionally, if You attend one of our presentations or events, and You share Your Personal Information with us directly offline, You are consenting to the terms of this Policy as well.  If You do not consent to sharing Your Personal Information with us via our in-person presentations and events, please do not participate in the same and do not share any of Your Personal Information with us.

Definitions
“Client” means a natural person that has retained Lekht Law or a specific attorney in Lekht Law to provide legal services.
“Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual that is collected from our Customers and Users via our Website or offline at one of our in-person events or programs. Personal Information may include a User’s: full name, physical address, email address, IP address, or other identifier such as from a Cookie.  

Personal Information does not include any aggregate or anonymized data that may have been created from Personal Information but can no longer be used to identify, relate to or could reasonably be linked to a User.
"Potential Client” means a User or natural person that is interested in becoming a Client.

“Sensitive Personal Information” means any information collected from our Users that reveals a racial or ethnic origin, political opinion, religious belief, philosophical belief or trade union membership. It also may include a natural person’s genetic and biometric data, financial information, and data concerning their health, sex life or sexual orientation.

“User” means a natural person that visits and interacts with our Website.
“You” or “Your” means a Potential Client or a User. 
“Website” means www.lekhtlaw.com.
Information that We Collect from You when You visit Our Website
We collect certain Personal Information from You in order to operate our Website effectively and provide You with the best experiences when You visit and use it.

a. Information Provided by You
When You sign up for one of our publications, subscribe to our social media feed, or contact us via email, we will collect certain Personal Information about You such as Your name, address, e-mail address, and information about why you are contacting us. If You are a Potential Client, we may need to also collect Your Sensitive Personal Information, such as Your union status, Your health information, Your sexual orientation, Your racial origin, and Your financial information.

b. Information collected on Our Website
We also may use various technologies and methods to collect information directly from You or from Your computer or device and about Your activities on our Website.
i. Information collected automatically: We may automatically collect information from You when You visit Our Website. This information may include Your IP address, location data, Your browser type and language, access times, the content of any undeleted cookies that Your browser previously accepted from us, referring or exit website address, internet service provider, date/time stamp, operating system, locale and language preferences, and system configuration information.

We use Google Analytics to collect information about Your use of Our Website as well.).  To disable Google Analytics, please download the browser add-on for the deactivation of Google Analytics provided by Google at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en, To learn more about privacy and Google Analytics, please see:  https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

iii. Other technologies: We may use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons and other similar technologies, to track Your use of our Website. We also may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain in this manner enables us to customize the services we offer to Customers and Users of our Website, to deliver targeted advertisements, and to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, programming, or other activities. Web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or web bugs) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users or to access cookies. Unlike cookies, which are stored on Your device, web beacons are embedded invisibly on the web pages (or in emails) and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Web beacons may be used to deliver or communicate with cookies, to count visitors to certain pages, and to understand usage patterns. We also may receive an anonymous identification number if You come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website.

Why We Collect Your Information
We collect Your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information for various reasons, which are described below:

a. To Service Our Website
We use information collected to ensure that our Website is working as intended and for analytics purposes, to understand how our Website is operating and learn it can be improved. We also use this information as needed for auditing purposes as well.

b. For Our Marketing Purposes
If You have filled out a contact form with us, signed up to receive on of our publications, or otherwise contacted us, we may use this information to send You marketing communications, such as email communications. These communications may inform You about Lekht Law practice, updates or changes to the laws, and general announcements regarding our attorneys and their accomplishments.

c. In Order to Respond to a Request from You
If You have requested further information or in any other way requested that we contact You, we will use Your Personal Information to respond to such a request.
d. To facilitate and enable Your Interactions with our Third-party Social Media Sites
We may use information collected to allow You to migrate from our Website to a third-party social media website in order to show You our social media page.

e. For Our Other General Purposes
We may use information collected other general business purposes, such as to maintain the day-to-day operation and security of our Website, and to conduct internal marketing and demographic studies.

f. For Our Legal Purposes
We also collect information in order to comply with certain legal rules and regulations that we are subject to.

How Long do We Store and Maintain Your Personal Information?
We only store and maintain Your Personal Information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. For example, if You sign up to receive Our publications or to receive job alerts, we will store and maintain Your Personal Information to continue to send You these materials until You opt out of receiving such communications.

We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information
Lekht Law does not sell Your Personal Information that it has collected via Our Website to any third parties. We do not sell Your Sensitive Personal Information to any third parties and only use Your Sensitive Personal Information to provide our services to You if You seek those services. We do share Your Personal Information for cross-contextual advertising.

Who We Share Your Personal Information With
Generally, we share Your Personal Information only as necessary to run our Website and to provide the services You request. We also may share Your Personal Information when required by law; to protect Your rights and safety, and with Your consent.
Specifically, we may share Your Personal Information with third parties, including:
a. Authorized service providers: We may share Your Personal Information with our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include relationship management software; website hosting; evaluators, contractors and auditors; email marketing providers; customer service providers; providers that perform business and operations analysis for us; and providers that support and maintain our Website, including providing analytics services for us.

b. For a Legal Reason:  We may have to share Your Personal Information in response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.

c. To Prevent Fraud or Illegal Conduct: We may have to share Your Personal Information in situations where we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of our company, our consumers, our employees, or others; or to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements or policies.

d. With Your Consent: To other third parties that You provide consent to share Your information with or that You have requested that we share Your information with.

9. California Residents Legal Notice 
a. Categories of Personal Information that we collect:
Categories of Personal Information
Categories of Sources of This Information
Identifiers (i.e., a legal name, nickname, physical home address, internet protocol address, email address, phone number, an online identifier, driver’s license number, etc.)

Information You provide directly to us or collected from our Website.   
Biometric Information (i.e. photographs and video)
Information that may be  collected by our Website or that You provide directly to us. 
Internet Activity (i.e., browsing history, WiFi use, and internet search history)
Information You provide directly to us, collected from You from our data analytics providers, or allow us to collect and use from Your devices.
Geolocation Data (i.e. data describing Your current and past whereabouts)
Information You provide directly to us or is collected from Your use of our Website.

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• b. Sale or sharing of the Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information of Persons under the age of 16
  Our Website is not made for, marketed to, or directed at, children under the age of 16 years of age. We do not sell or share the Personal Information of persons under 16 years of age.
  c. Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
  We do not use or disclose Your Sensitive Personal Information for any other purpose other than to perform business services, including to provide our services to You.
  d. Sale or sharing of Your Personal Information for Our Business Purposes
  As noted above, we do not sell Your Personal Information. We do need to share Your Personal Information with third parties for our business purposes, as noted above.
  The categories of third parties that we need to share Your Personal Information with and the Categories of Personal Information that we share with those parties are:
  Categories of Third Parties 
  Categories of Personal Information Shared with the Third Party
  Data Service Providers
  We do not share Your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information directly with these providers, but they may receive records that may contain Identifiers, Geolocation Data, Biometric Information, and Internet Information.

• Legal Representatives
  Depending on the need, we may need to share Your Identifiers, Geolocation Data, Biometric Information and Internet Information.  
  IT Service Providers
  Identifiers, Geolocation Data, and Internet Information.
  Law Enforcement, Courts, or other related Legal third parties that are not our legal representatives
  Depending on the need and related law, we may need to share Your Identifiers, Geolocation Data, Biometric Information, Internet Information, Financial Information, and Other Sensitive Personal Information.  
  Auditors
  Depending on the need, we may need to share Your Identifiers, Geolocation Data,  Biometric Information, and Internet Information.
  Accounting Representatives
  Depending on the need, we may need to share Your Identifiers and Internet Information.
   

• e. Why We Collect this information from You
  We use this information from You to provide our services and offer our products to You and for our business purposes as outlined above in Section IV.
  f. Categories of Our business purposes that are used to Share Your Personal Information:
   

• As noted above, we share Your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information as needed in order to provide our services and products to You and for our business purposes. Specifically, these categories of business purposes are:
  i. Auditing – We may share this information with our third-party vendors, partners and service providers, and our own auditors related to an audit of our business. ​​​​​​​
  ii. Service Improvements – We may share this information with our third-party vendors, other partners, and service providers in order to improve our services, create new services, and to ensure that our Website is working as intended (to identify bugs and errors, and repair them).
  ​​​​​​iii. Service Partners – We may share this information our third-party vendors, other partners, and service providers in order to have them perform their services for us, pursuant to a written contract that includes the notified purposes permitted by the CCPA.​​​​​​​
  iv. Security and Legal Issues – We may share this information with law enforcement or other individuals pursuant to a valid subpoena or other legal obligation, our third-party vendors, other partners, and service providers in order to detect, prevent, and investigate security incidents.
  g. Your Rights under the CCPA
  1. You have the right to ask us to delete Your Personal Information.
  2. You have the right to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
  3. You have the right to limit our sharing of Your Personal Information.
  4. You have a right to be notified when we collect information from You, and we cannot collect new categories of information from You without notifying You first.
  5. You have the right to opt out of Sale of Your Information, but as noted above, We do not sell Your information.
  6. You have the right to correct inaccurate Personal Information that we have collected or maintain about You.
  7. You, or Your authorized agent, can request the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about You by emailing us. You can also request that we disclose how we have collected, used, and shared Your personal information over the past 12 months, including the categories of personal information we collected and our purposes for doing so. You may also request the categories of the sources of that information, the categories of the third parties with whom we have shared this information with for a business purpose, and our business purpose for doing so. 
  g. How to Exercise Your Rights
  If You would like to exercise any of the rights listed above with regards to Your Personal Information, then please contact us, or have Your registered agent contact us.
       10. Children’s Personal Information
  Our Website is not made for, marketed to or directed at children under the age of 16 years of age. We do not collect or sell the Personal Information of persons under 16 years of age. If the representation of a Client requires that we collect or process the Personal Information of a person under 16 years of age, we only do so with the consent of the child’s parent or guardian.
       11. Third-Party Tracking on Our Website
  Third-parties may be using Cookies or other technologies to collect Your personal information as You navigate through the internet including from Our Website. As described above, You may decline these third-party Cookies by changing Your browser settings.
      12. Third Party Applications and Sites
  Our Website may provide links to, or features from, other third party sites (such as third party social networks) that we do not own or control. When You visit these third-party sites and decide to share Your Personal Information with them, You are assuming the risk of doing so.  Lekht Law is not responsible for nor assumes any liability for the privacy practices of websites operated by any third parties, including those that may be linked to our Website, and including the content of those sites. You should check the applicable privacy notice and/or policy of the third-party website or application to understand how it collects and manages any information they collect from You.
  As noted in our Terms of Use (LINK TO TERMS),  Lekht Law does not endorse or control any other websites or applications besides Our Website, nor does the act of providing a link to a third party website or application constitute an endorsement, promotion or approval of such website or application.  
      13. NEVADA PRIVACY RIGHTS
  We do not sell, rent, or otherwise share Your Personal Information to any third party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration under any circumstances, except that we do share You’re Your Personal Information with our analytics providers. Pursuant to Section 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes, residents of Nevada may, at any time, submit a request to an operator of a website in Nevada directing the operator not to make any sale of any personal information the operator has collected or will collect about the consumer. Please not that You have the right to make the request to opt out, but we do not sell Your Personal Information.