Privacy Policy

 

 

Last updated: December 1, 2024

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?
  3. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION IS COLLECTED AND HOW?
  4. TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES USED IN TARGETED ADVERTISING
  5. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
  6. HOW THE FIRM SHARES DATA & INFORMATION
  7. U.S. STATES’ CONSUMER PRIVACY RIGHTS
  8. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY LAWS
  9. INTERNATIONAL PRIVACY LAWS
  10. INFORMATION SECURITY
  11. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

 

  1. INTRODUCTION. Lawrence & Lawrence Law, PLLC, (the “Firm”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors to our website, contacts for our clients and prospective clients, contacts for suppliers of goods and services to the Firm, candidates for employment or engagement, and any other individuals about whom the Firm obtains personal information (each, “you” or “Client”).  Please read the following disclosures, which sets out the principles governing the Firm’s use of personal information that we may obtain about you to understand how the Firm collects, uses, and otherwise processes your personal information as well as the rights that you have in relation to our processing of that information (the “Privacy Policy”).

This Privacy Policy covers the Firm’s practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing the personal information it receives both online, offline, in hosting its website(s), and by electronic communications. This Privacy Policy applies to the Firm’s website located at www.law2esq.com (“Website”), all individual pages thereof, and the Website’s features, functions, and transactional operations.

 

The Firm’s Website is not intended for use by children under 18 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from such individuals. Residents of certain states under 13, 16, or 18 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection, selling, and sharing of personal information. Please see U.S. States Consumer Privacy Rights section below for more information.

 

  1. WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION? While the definition of “Personal Information” varies across numerous countries and jurisdictions and the applicable law or regulations that apply to such personal information, consistent with such laws, personal information is defined herein as “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person where an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier (IP address), or to one or more factors specific to the physical, genetic, physiological, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.”

 

  1. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION IS COLLECTED AND HOW? Personal Information is provided directly to the Firm when Clients, users, visitors, and others interact with the Website; when businesses apply to become a vendor for the Firm; when Clients retain or inquire about the Firm’s legal services; when any person contacts the Firm in writing, via e-mail, or telephone calls; when a person applies for a job; or when any person responds to a survey or questionnaire or consents to receive the Firm’s direct marketing materials, such as newsletters.

The information that is provided in these interactions is subject to the Firm’s data minimization and protection procedures to help us lower the risk of unauthorized access to and/or disclosure outside of the purposes for which is it shared with us.

The categories of Personal Information we collect directly from you may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • First and Last Name
  • Company Name
  • Mailing Address (Street, Suite, City, State, and Zip Code)
  • Telephone Number
  • Email Address
  • Tax ID and Social Security Numbers
  • Birth dates

 

 

In the job application process, the Firm collects the Personal Information associated with a job application and/or resume, including:

  • Your first and last names
  • Contact information
  • Work history, education information, skills, professional and work-related licenses
  • Work authorization status
  • Cover letter
  • References
  • Information that is available publicly

 

The Firm may use an algorithmic enhanced job applicant screening product.

In the Website interaction process, the Firm may also collect certain information by automated means that may indirectly identify you. Please click here to learn more about the tracking technologies involved in the Website.

 

  1. TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES USED IN TARGETED ADVERTISING. Some laws, including certain United States (US) States consumer privacy and protection laws require that the covered natural persons where such laws apply be given a right to opt-out of receiving targeted advertising. Please see the section entitled How We Share Personal Information by clicking here, to learn more about the Firm’s service providers and merchants, and other data sharing arrangements that may include your Personal Information.

If you wish at any time to opt-out of data sharing that the Firm controls, please send us an email to privacy@l2esq.com.

 

  1. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION. The Firm uses data and information it collects to provide its Clients with the Firm’s services. This may include:
  • Provision of legal services – We use Personal Information that you voluntarily submit to us on the Website or during the course of our engagement, regardless of the media used, such as identification data, contact details, and other service data that we may process in connection with the provision of services. The Firm’s work for you may also involve providing such information to third parties, such as expert witnesses and other professional advisers in order to represent your interests most effectively, as well as the use of software, platforms, and other tools that are hosted in the cloud by third party service providers. This processing is necessary for us to perform our contract with you.
  • Administration of client and vendor relationships – We use identification data, contact details, financial data, and other service data, including for the processing of invoices, the updating of client records, and the management of our vendor relationships. This processing is necessary to perform our contract with you and in the course of providing our legal services.
  • Addressing client inquiries/feedback – We use identification data, contact details, and other service data for this purpose. This process is necessary to perform our contract with you. It may also be necessary for our legitimate interests to establish or maintain a relationship with you.  It is also in your interest to receive a response from us when you contact us.
  • Sending relevant marketing messages and inviting you to events/seminars – We use identification data, contact details, cookie and device data, and mailing list data to communicate with you by way of email alerts and post to provide you with information about our events, seminars, or services that may be of interest to you. This processing is necessary for our legitimate interest to send you tailored marketing messages, client newsletters, and invitations to relevant events and seminars.
  • Improving our Website – We use cookie and device data to improve the functionality and user-friendliness of our Website. This processing is necessary for our legitimate interests to constantly monitor and improve our online presence and services to you.
  • Keeping our Website and IT systems and processes safe – We use identification data, contact details, financial data, cookie and device data, and other service data. This processing is necessary to perform our contract with you and to ensure the security and confidentiality of your data. It is also necessary for our legitimate interests to prevent illegal activities, including fraud, which could harm you and us.
  • Complying with legal or regulatory inquiries/requests – We use identification data, contact details, financial data, cookie and device data, and legal and regulatory compliance data (including for anti-money laundering or fraud detection purposes, statutory returns and fulfillment of the Firm’s ethical obligations). This processing is necessary for the purpose of complying with legal requirements that apply to the Firm.
  • Recruitment – Personal information about job applicants is collected and processed for purposes of screening, identifying, and evaluating candidates for positions; record-keeping related to hiring processes; analyzing the hiring process and outcomes; and conducting background checks, where and to the extent permitted by applicable law, which may also be subject to relevant local recruitment privacy policy. If you are hired by the Firm, this data will be transferred to our employee record files for the purpose of your employment. This processing is necessary in order to take steps at the request of the job applicant in the context of recruitment prior to entering into a contract. In addition, job applicant data and legal and regulatory compliance data may be used as necessary to comply with legal, regulatory, and corporate governance requirements

 

  1. HOW THE FIRM SHARES DATA & INFORMATION. The Firm does not sell Personal Information of any Clients, Website users, or visitors in the sense of receiving value in exchange for such information. We may share your Personal Information with the following categories of recipients:
  • Other entities or law firms that associate with us to provide legal services to you and to administer any service provided to you that the Firm agrees to undertake;

 

  • Professional advisers, partners, and agents of the Firm to provide you with legal services, as required, and to administer our relationship with you;

 

  • Vendors that will process your personal information on our behalf and under our written instructions to carry out their services during the course of our business, such as IT service providers, financial institutions, customer relationship management databases and other platforms, software, tools, and solutions that are hosted in the cloud, third-party companies providing us with business analytics and statistics to assist with our marketing campaigns. We contract with such vendors to ensure that they only process your personal information under our instructions and ensure the security and confidentiality of your personal information by implementing the appropriate technical and organizational measures for such processing;

 

  • Any law enforcement, regulatory, or government agency requesting personal information in connection with any inquiry, subpoena, court order, or other legal or regulatory procedures, with which we would need to comply. We may also share personal information to establish or protect the Firm’s legal rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others, or to defend against legal claims;

 

  • Any third party connected with business transfers; we may transfer your personal information to third parties in connection with a reorganization, restructuring, merger, acquisition, or transfer of assets of the Firm, provided that the receiving party agrees to treat your personal information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy; and

 

  • To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to and not opted out of these disclosures. For more information, see United States’ Consumer Privacy Rights.

 

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes;

 

  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Firm, our Clients, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction; and
  • When it is anonymized or de-identified of personal information.

 

We are not responsible for the data policies or procedures or content of any linked websites.

 

We recommend that you check the privacy and security policies of each website you visit.

 

Choices about how the Firm uses and discloses personal information:  We strive to give Clients, Website visitors, and users choices about the personal information that is provided to it during their interactions with us. Here are some mechanisms businesses and individuals may use to exercise control over their information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising.    Certain internet browsers allow users to set up controls to refuse cookies or to alert them when cookies are being sent. One example is Google Analytics Advertising Features that include Google Ads. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across internet channels visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Other opt out means include NAI Consumer Opt Out (networkadvertising.org).
  • Unsubscribing/Marketing.  If you do not wish to have your email address used by the Firm to promote our own services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@l2esq.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Firm as a result of the provision of legal services.

 

Third-Party Collection or Use:  Our Website includes links to social media websites, including Facebook and LinkedIn, and the Firm does not control how such third parties collect or use personal information that is disclosed to them in whatever fashion, and the Firm is not responsible for such providers’ privacy practices, which we recommend that you review. These third parties may use cookies (alone or in conjunction with web beacons and other tracking technologies) to collect information about you when you use the Website.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control Signals.   Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do Not Track (DNT) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected.  At this stage, no uniform technology stands for recognizing and responding to DNT signals has been finalized. As such, the Firm does not currently respond to DNT browser signals.  If a standard for online tracking is adopted in the future that the Firm must comply with, we will revise this Privacy Policy and update you through that process.

In the case of the Global Privacy Control (GPC signals) that automatically communicate your choice not to be tracked online, some U.S. States require covered businesses to recognize and respond to GPC signals, the Firm intends to comply with such applicable laws. [NOTE TO CLIENT: HONORING GPC SIGNALS IS REQUIRED CURRENTLY IN CA, CO, & CT]

 

  1. UNITED STATES CONSUMER PRIVACY RIGHTS. As of the date of this Privacy Policy update, several U.S. States have enacted and are enforcing consumer-oriented privacy protection laws and regulations. As of the date of this Privacy Policy, those states are: California, Colorado, Utah, Connecticut, Montana, Texas, and Oregon, and five more – Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah – are expected to have laws in effect by 2025.

The Firm is endeavoring to be in continuous compliance with such laws and regulations as apply to it and as are available to residents of such U.S. States. The Firm encourages residents of U.S. States that have enacted effective consumer privacy and protection laws to learn about how their states laws apply and what rights such residents have under those laws.

General Consumer Privacy Rights.    Under current effective U.S. States’ Consumer Privacy Laws and Regulations, residents of the applicable U.S. States have the following rights:

  • Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal information.
  • Right to access your personal data.
  • Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data.
  • Right to request the deletion of your personal data.
  • Right to obtain a copy of your personal data previously shared with us.
  • Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights.
  • Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it used for targeting advertising (or sharing as defined under California’s privacy laws), the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

 

How to Exercise Your Rights.  To exercise these rights, if any, please contact the Firm at info@law2esq.com.

Notice at Collection and U.S. Multi-State Privacy Notice.  If you are a resident of one of the states listed above, please click on this link to the Firm’s U.S. Multi-State Privacy Notice.

  1. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY LAWS.

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights, subject to certain exceptions as set forth in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the CCPA):

  • Right to Know. You have the right to receive information from us regarding (i) the categories of personal information we have collected about you, (ii) the categories of sources from which we have collected your personal information, (iii) the business or commercial purposes for which we have collected, shared, or sold your personal information, (iv) the categories of third parties to whom we disclose your personal information, and (v) the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you, in each case, in the 12 months preceding your “right to know” request.
  • Right to Delete. You have the right to request the deletion of the personal information that you provided to us. Please note that in certain instances we may not be able to process your request, such as (i) due to the existence of a legal obligation, (ii) to detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities, (iii) in order to complete a transaction for which your personal information was collected, or (iv) to enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations and context.
  • Right to Correct. You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing of the personal information.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination. You have the right to be free from discrimination by us as a result of you exercising your privacy rights conferred under the CCPA including an employee’s, job applicant’s, or independent contractor’s right not to be retaliated against for the exercise of their CCPA rights.

If you wish to exercise these rights, you must submit a request by emailing privacy@law2esq.com or by calling us at 702-534-6446 (during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, except public holidays).  The CCPA requires us to verify requests we receive when one is seeking to exercise certain of the rights listed above.  We may ask you to provide certain information as proof of your identity such as a copy of your driver’s license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill in order for us to verify your request.  If you have an authorized agent submit a request, the Firm may require you to (i) provide the authorized agent signed permission to do so, (ii) verify your own identity directly with the Firm, and (iii) directly confirm with the Firm that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.

The Firm may have collected the following types of personal information about California residents in the preceding 12 months:

  • Includes your real name, any previous names or preferred name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
  • Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). Includes your name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.
  • Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. Includes your age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, and genetic information (including familial genetic information).
  • Internet or other electronic network activity. Includes browsing history, search history, information on your interaction with a website application, or advertisement. Please see the Policy on Computer Communications Resources and Social Media Usage for related information.
  • Professional or employment-related information. Includes your professional or employment-related information, including your resume, interview records, identity documents for work eligibility verification in the United States, Bar information, offer letter, employment dates, position, salary, bonuses, benefits information, attendance records, performance evaluations, and employee relations information (e.g., disciplinary records).

Disclosures for a Business or Commercial Purpose.  In the preceding 12 months, the Firm may have disclosed the categories of Personal Information listed above to its service providers for specific, limited business purposes, including for conducting background checks for job applicants, processing payroll, detecting data security incidents and troubleshooting software use, among other purposes listed in the Information Usage section of this Privacy Policy, which can be found above.

  • No Sharing/Selling of Personal Information with Third Parties. The Firm does not “sell” or “share” any of your Personal Information that is collected (as such terms are defined by the CCPA). The Firm therefore does not have actual knowledge that it sells or shares the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
  • Compliance with Section 7027(m). The Firm does not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in Section 7027(m) of the implementing regulations of the CCPA.

California “Shine the Light” Notice

  • If you are a California resident, you may request information about our compliance with the Shine the Light law by contacting us in the following ways: emailing info@law2esq.com or by calling us at 702-534-6556. Please note that the CCPA and Shine the Light are different laws offering different rights and requests must be made separately.

Please also see the Collection Notice Pursuant to California Civil Section 1798.100(b) at the end of this Privacy Policy regarding the collection of highly sensitive information.

  1. INTERNATIONAL PRIVACY LAWS. The Firm is a U.S. based company, and the data and personal information it collects, stores, uses, and otherwise manages is done in the United States. By using the Firm’s services, you acknowledge your personal information will be controlled in the United States. The Firm is the data controller in relation to any Personal Information that the Firm processes about you and is responsible for ensuring that such processing complies with applicable data protection laws, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and the CCPA. Your privacy is important to us. Please be aware that Firm personnel are required to comply with the Firm’s data privacy practices as set out in this Privacy Statement and other data privacy-related Firm policies.

 

  1. INFORMATION SECURITY. We have implemented technical and organizational security measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control. Such measures include, for example, limiting access to personal information only to staff and authorized service providers on a need-to-know basis for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, as well as other administrative, technical, and physical safeguards.

We endeavor to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information but cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose online. Please note that email is not a secure medium and should not be used to send confidential or sensitive information. By providing information online, you accept the inherent security risks of providing information over the Internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security, unless it is due to our negligence or willful default.

 

  1. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION.

Information Retention.  Your Personal Information is only stored and retained for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.  In determining the appropriate retention period, we consider the nature and duration of our relationship with you, the type of services provided, and the impact on our services if certain information is deleted.  In all cases, the Firm may retain Personal Information for additional time as required by applicable law; to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights; or, for other legitimate business purposes, including archiving and historical purposes.  We will maintain such data in an anonymized form where practical

Changes to Our Privacy Policy.  It is the Firm’s policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the applicable Website home page. If there are material changes as to how the Firm treats its Clients and Website users’ and visitors’ personal information, the Firm will notify you through a notice on the Website’s home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Us.     If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights above, please contact us by email at info@law2esq.com or by phone at 702-534-6556, or by U.S. Mail at 9480 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. 213, Las Vegas, Nevada 89123.