Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: June 21, 2022
KC Legal, PLLC d/b/a Mod Law Firm (“Mod Law Firm”, “we”, “us”, “our”) provides legal services, business and nonprofit guidance, and the sale of related digital products and materials (collectives, “Services”). Use of the Mod Law Firm Site, e-communication tools, and our social media sites (collectively, “Site”), including all materials presented on the Site, on our social media accounts, and through all Services provided by Mod Law Firm is subject to this Privacy Policy (“Policy”). This Policy applies to all Site visitors, customers, and all other users of the Site and our Services (collectively, “you” and “your”).
By using the Site or Services you agree you have read this Privacy Policy and agree to be bound by it. If you have any questions about this Policy contact us by the methods noted below.
Overview of Privacy Statement
Mod Law Firm cares about your privacy. We collect, use, maintain, and share your Personal Information as we deem necessary to effectively deliver our Services to you, and to communicate with you about the same. We also collect, use, maintain, and share your Personal Information as we deem necessary to operate our Site as further discussed in this Policy. This Policy explains what, how, and why we collect, store, use, and share your Personal Information when you visit our Site or utilize our Services.
“Personal Information” is any information you voluntarily share with us (or third parties that you use and direct to share information with us) that personally identifies you and your related identifiers such as your:
- Name
- Phone number
- Fax Number
- Postal address
- Email address
- Date of birth
- Internet or network activity
- IP Address
- Geolocation data
- Information collected from internet tracking technologies
- Information related to your use of the Site or Services
- Financial information for payment processing
- Personal characteristics and goals/ areas of interest
- Commercial information about your business
- Audio, electric, visual, or similar information
- Professional or employment information
- Information we infer based on our expertise and the Personal Information you share with us
This Policy may be accessed directly and at any time via a link on Mod Law Firm’s homepage. This Privacy Policy is part of Mod Law Firm’s Terms and Conditions of Use and is hereby incorporated into the Terms and Conditions of Use by this reference. The Terms and Conditions of Use can be accessed directly at any time via a link on Mod Law Firm’s homepage.
How We Use Your Personal Information
The Personal Information you provide to Mod Law Firm, whether directly or through a third party, is used for many reasons, including the ability of Mod Law Firm to:
- Identify you and compare information for accuracy;
- Provide, manage, and improve our Site and Services for you;
- Contact you when you need us;
- Administer our Site and make sure it’s working as expected;
- Conduct statistical analyses of Site user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Site and our Services;
- Analyze staff training for quality control purposes;
- Personalize your experience on our Site or through our Services;
- Measure the effect of our ads;
- Market our business;
- Manage, operate, and protect our business;
- Inform and make business related decisions;
- To enforce this Policy;
- Detect, investigate, and prevent illegal, unlawful, or harmful activity; and
- Comply with laws and enforce our agreements with you and with other people with whom we work.
Information from Children
Mod Law Firm’s Services and Site content is only available for use and purchase by those over the age of 18. To access or use the Site and our Services, you must be 18 years old or older, and have the requisite power and authority to enter into this Policy. Our Services and Site content is not targeted to, intended to be consumed by, or designed in any way to entice individuals under the age of 18. Mod Law Firm will not knowingly collect, use, or maintain Personal Information from people actually known to be under the age of 18. Individuals under the age of 18 are legally prohibited from using this Site or our Services. Please contact Mod Law Firm immediately if you know of or have reason to believe anyone under the age of 18 has shared their Personal Information with us, and we will delete it immediately unless we are legally required to keep it.
Site Access from Outside the United States
The Site and our Services are intended only for United States customers. If you visit the Site from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our Site is hosted. The data protection and privacy laws of the United States may not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using the Site and the Services available on the Site, you do so without our consent, and you hereby agree to the transfer of your information to the United States and its collection, storage, sharing, and use as described in this Policy. You further agree that all transactions relating to the Site and Services shall be deemed to have occurred in the United States.
Public Forums
There may be opportunities through the Services where you can post Protected Information and communicate directly with others via online meetings. Such postings are governed by the third-party link provisions below.
How We Use Tracking Technologies
Mod Law Firm or our authorized service providers may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect Personal Information whenever you use our Site or Services, including visiting Sites from third parties we use to facilitate our Services. Such technologies, if used, help us personalize your experience, measure the effect of our ads, and make business decisions.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and is stored in your computer’s hard drive. Mod Law Firm or third-party vendors may send your computer cookies. Some web browsers will allow you to customize cookie settings (e.g., notify you before one is received, giving you an opportunity to accept the cookie; option to turn off cookies, etc.). If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Site or third-party sites we use to provide Services may not work properly or at all.
Do Not Track Signals
Because there isn’t an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring Do Not Track signals, Mod Law Firm’s Site does not respond to them.
Other Tracking Technologies
In addition to cookies, Mod Law Firm or our service providers may use web beacons, pixels, and similar tracking technologies on our Site. If you do not want cookie information to be associated with our Site and you turn off cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies still detect visits but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.
How Third Parties Use Your Personal Information
From time to time we may share your Personal Information with third parties to help us provide Services, run and market our business, and comply with legal obligations. In such circumstances, we will not provide further notice to you beyond what is in this Policy, unless otherwise required by law or our attorney ethical obligations. The categories of third-party persons or entities with whom we may share your Personal Information may include:
- Service providers and advisors that help us with marketing and advertising, conducting research and analysis, compliance, corporate governance, communications, security, legal issues, recruiting support and related services, business and customer management, financial management, technology, Site hosting, and other third parties with whom we transact to manage, operate, and protect our business;
- Card networks and payment processors;
- Courts, governments, regulators, and law enforcement when accompanied by a lawful subpoena or other legal documentation that requires us to respond;
- Third parties that you request we connect with on your behalf;
- Third parties that you request we connect you with;
- Third parties that help us fight spam and abuse;
- Professional mentors and business partners;
- Social media providers;
- Video and teleconferencing providers;
- Site host providers;
- Advertisers; and
- Other third parties so we can 1) comply with laws; 2) facilitate a merger, purchase, reorganization, or sale of part or all of our business; 3) comply with card association rules; and 4) prevent harm or illegal activity.
By using our Site and our Services you agree that we are allowed to share your Personal Information with our third-party service providers to the extent we deem necessary (and in conformance with the attorney ethical standards to which we are subject) and for the reasons stated in this Policy; and that we may do so until you opt out of such disclosures. If such disclosures are restricted, it might restrict our ability to comply with the ethical standards to which we are subject, or to perform our contractual obligations to you, and we may not be able to provide our Services to you.
Third Party Links and Services
The Site or Service content may have links or embedded content to and from third-party Sites. Except as otherwise described in this Policy, this Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of Protected Information we collect from you. Third-party sites that are accessible through our Site or Services have their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of third parties and expressly disclaim any liability arising out of your use of linked or embedded content to and from third-party Sites. By visiting those Sites, you do so freely and at your own risk.
How Your Personal Information is Secured
Mod Law Firm exercises what we consider to be appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your Personal Information from unauthorized or unlawful access, and from accidental loss, destruction, or damage to your Personal Information. Such measures may include the use of secure passwords, SSL encryption, disk-based encryption, firewalls, antivirus and malware detection systems, and other measures that help us protect your Personal Information. However, no exchange of data over the Internet can be guaranteed as 100% secure. While we make every effort to protect the Personal Information you share with us through our Site and Services, by your use of our Site and Services you acknowledge and agree that:
- The Personal Information you voluntarily share with us may be accessed or tampered with by a third-party;
- You are responsible for making sure your Personal Information is accurate and up to date;
- You control the type and amount of Personal Information you share with us;
- You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your Personal Information in your possession for use of the Site or Services, except to the extent that our attorney ethical obligations apply to safeguarding your Personal Information;
- It is your responsibility to make sure no one else uses tools you use through our Site and Services, and that you log off or exit from such tools when done;
- You will not disclose any password you use to utilize our Services or our Site and will request to reset any such passwords that could be or are compromised;
- Mod Law Firm and its employees and agents are not responsible for any unpermitted intercepted Personal Information or liable to you in any way for such unpermitted interception except to the extent such unpermitted intercepted Personal Information occurs due to our breach our attorney rules of professional conduct; and
- You release Mod Law Firm and its employees and agents from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of such intercepted Personal Information in any unauthorized manner except to the extent such unpermitted intercepted Personal Information occurs due to our breach attorney rules of professional conduct.
Should a data breach of your Personal Information occur, Mod Law Firm will notify you via email at the last known email address we have for you within 10 business days of the date we become aware of the breach.
How We Communicate with You
Mod Law Firm may contact you directly or through a third-party service provider regarding our Services. With your consent or where allowed based upon legitimate interests, we may also contact you with timely information about products, services, features, surveys, newsletters, promotions, contents, upcoming events and the like that we think you’ll find valuable.
By using our Site or Services you agree that we may contact you until you otherwise opt out of our communications. However, if such communication limitations restrict our ability to comply with the ethical standards to which we are subject, or to perform our contractual obligations to you, we may not be able to provide our Services to you. If you do not use our Services, we will only contact you if you have elected to receive communications from us (e.g., signing up for our newsletter or subscribing to our social media). We may use the following tools to communicate with you:
- Client portal
- Video or telephone conferencing
- Messenger applications
- Text (SMS) messages
- Automated phone calls or text message
- Social media platforms
- Voice messaging
- Or any other third-party communication tool we deem necessary to effectively communicate with you.
CAN-SPAM Act
When sending you commercial content through email, Mod Law Firm agrees to the following:
- We will not use false or misleading header information;
- We will not use deceptive subject lines;
- We will tell you where we are located by providing you with a valid physical postal address;
- We will tell you how to opt out of receiving future commercial emails from us;
- We will honor your opt-out requests promptly and within 10 business days of receipt; and
- We will monitor what third-party email companies are doing on our behalf (if anything).
If you prefer not to receive any direct marketing communications from us and/or our third-party service providers, you can opt out at any time by following the contact instructions below.
How Long We Keep Your Information
Once your access to our Site and use of our Services end, we may keep your Personal Information for as long as we are required to under the law, under contract, and according to our data retention policies then in place, whichever is longer. We will exercise all reasonable safeguards to protect your Personal Information as long as we are in possession of the Personal Information.
Your Rights
In general, you can visit the Site without having to actively disclose Personal Information though Mod Law Firm may keep track of the domains of people who visit us, and we may analyze data derived from those visits to get insight into trends and statistics as we note above. Once you decide to utilize our Services and take active steps toward that end, Mod Law Firm will need to collect Personal Information from you as described above. When you share Personal Information with us through our Site or our Services you have certain rights with regard to that Personal Information.
Specifically, you have the right to:
- Control how your Personal Information is collected and shared with us and third parties;
- Control how Mod Law Firm communicates with you;
- Up to once a year, to request a free copy of your Personal Information or, to the extent a copy is unavailable or impractical, obtain a summary if the Personal Information Mod Law Firm maintains;
- Request that we update or correct your Personal Information;
- Ask us to delete or limit your Personal Information;
- Object to us processing your Personal Information; and
- Withdraw your consent to us processing your Personal Information (to the extent such processing is based on your consent and your consent is the only permissible basis for processing your Personal Information).
Control What You Share with Us
You are free to limit the Personal Information you share with us, but please understand it may impact our ability to adequately perform our Services provide personalized Services. If such limitations restrict our ability to comply with the ethical standards to which we are subject, or to perform our contractual obligations to you, we may not be able to provide our Services to you.
To modify or cause your Personal Information to be deleted or to opt out of receiving communications from us:
Control What You Share with Third Parties
If you use third parties to work with Mod Law Firm you may be able to manage how your Personal Information is collected, used, and shared by them, but you will have to read their privacy policies to identify the choices they offer you. The categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information and with whom you may also interact are identified above.
Control How We Communicate with You
We use many communication tools to stay in contact with you (e.g., email, client portal, text messages, telephone calls, video conferences, postal mail, etc.). Depending on the Services we are providing you and our contractual obligations to you, you may be able to decide how and to what extent we communicate with you during the Services. After Services are completed you may direct us not to contact you further and Mod Law Firm will respect your wishes.
Delete or Limit Personal Information
If you would like to see or have your Personal Information deleted or limited, please follow the instructions for contacting us located at the end of this Policy. Please understand that if you make such a request, Mod Law Firm will first need to verify your identity before we can respond to your request. If we are unable to verify your identity, we will not be able to complete your request. Additionally, Mod Law Firm may need to keep some of your Personal Information so we can 1) complete our Services and/or comply with our contractual obligations to you; 2) detect and prevent malicious, fraudulent, or illegal activity; 3) protect the legal rights of you or others; 4) manage our business processes that are reasonably related to your expectations when purchasing our Services; or 5) comply with the law.
Updates to This Privacy Policy
This Policy was last updated as of the Effective Date. Mod Law Firm reserves the right to change or update the Policy at any time and for any reason. By using the Site or our Services you acknowledge and agree that it is your sole responsibility to review this Site and this Policy periodically to be aware of any modifications.
If you have any concerns about the changes, please contact us according to the instructions below to let us know you do not accept the amended Policy. If you do not contact us to object to the amended Policy you will be deemed to have accepted the amended Policy. After the amended Policy becomes effective Mod Law Firm will collect, store, use, manage, and protect your Personal Information as documented in the amended Policy.
Contact Us
If you would like to ask a question about, or access, correct, amend, or delete your Personal Information and/or this Policy.