Privacy Policy

ONLINE PRIVACY STATEMENT AND COOKIE POLICY OF WENDEE GRADY LAW OFFICE, LLC

As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services, Wendee Grady Law Office, LLC (the Firm), is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential information and information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, job applicants or others inside or outside the Firm (Personal Information). It is the policy of the Firm to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and their associated personnel.


This Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy (the Statement) is based on common privacy and data protection principles. We apply it to comply with law, to preserve client confidentiality, and to represent our clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law. This Statement is intended to summarize the Firm’s data protection practices generally, and to advise our clients, job applicants, website visitors, and other third parties about the Firm’s privacy policies that may be applicable to them.


This Statement also specifically addresses parties outside the Firm who provide Personal Information to the Firm or who visit or use the Firm’s websites, social media sites, as well as email messages that we send to you that contain a link to this Statement (collectively, the “Internet Services”). This Statement also describes how the Firm collects, processes, and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and Internet Services.


Collection and Use of Personal Information

The Firm collects Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to its website or users of Internet Services. We may also collect Personal Information about you when you interact with us on social media sites and from other third parties and may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy.


We may use that Personal Information where in our legitimate interest to do so for the following purposes:


  • to contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries
  • to personalize your visit to our website and use of our Internet Services and to assist you while you use those services
  • to carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations
  • to conduct our recruiting and selection process
  • to provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of the Firm, and otherwise interact with you, and administer the matters on which you instruct us
  • to contact you (unless you tell us that you prefer us not to) regarding legal or law 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 comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations that we may be subject to, including anti-money laundering requirements. Where Personal Information is necessary for the Firm to carry out its anti-money laundering checks failure to provide such information may result in the Firm not being able to provide the representation.


Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information

Consistent with our professional obligations, it is the policy of the Firm to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.


We maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by a visitor to this website and provided while using other Internet Services. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.


We require consultants, suppliers and vendors to maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors, including data protection laws and regulations.


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.


Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information

We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the Firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, 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.


Cookie Policy

The Firm’s Internet Services use cookies. The Firm uses session cookies in connection with its Internet Services. Although the Firm uses the services of third parties in connection with these cookies, we do not allow the third-party service provider to use Personal Information about the users of our Internet Services.


None of these cookies are strictly necessary to access our Internet Services. You may reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to allow your browser to alert you when a cookie is set, however, certain parts of the Internet Services may function differently and not as well. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our Internet Services will issue cookies when you logon to the Firm’s Internet Services.


Children

In order to respect the privacy of minors, the Firm does not knowingly collect, maintain or process Personal Information submitted online via our Internet Services by anyone under the age of 18. 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.


Changes

We reserve the right to change this Statement at any time without advance notice. Should any new policy go into effect for our Internet Services, the Firm will post it on this website and relevant Internet Services.


Our Commitment

We will continue to maintain our dedication to protecting your privacy. If you have questions concerning this Statement, please call us at (785) 775-5600 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. weekdays or email us at info@wendeegradylawoffice.com.