Effective Date: March 1, 2023
PF Law, P.C. (the “Firm”) protects and respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) explains the personal information (such as your name, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, and other information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals) that the Firm collects and our information practices and your rights about such information.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
This Policy applies to those who view and communicate with us through our website, social media, mobile apps, and business communications. It also describes how the Firm collects, processes, and handles the personal information we receive in connection with legal and professional services, events, marketing, business development activities, and personal information from third parties (e.g., service providers, clients, or advisers).
Depending on where you live and in accordance with applicable laws, the Firm may collect various categories of information. Those categories include:
The Firm may store and use this information in accordance with applicable laws to:
You may choose not to provide personal information to the Firm by refraining from, among other things, submitting information directly to us. However, if you do not provide information when requested, we may be unable to assist you.
Protecting Your Personal Information; Data Retention
The Firm is committed to protecting the information we collect by appropriate technical, physical, and organizational measures. However, we cannot guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
To further protect the information, all our partners, consultants, suppliers, and vendors must maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors, including, where applicable, European Union’s data protection laws and regulations.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy and satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use or share such information without further notice.
Sharing of Personal Information
We do not disclose, sell, or rent your personal information to third parties outside the Firm except in limited circumstances. The Firm may share personal information with the following categories of third parties:
As an international firm, we operate systems that may make data related to your matters accessible from our various offices worldwide and often transfer client data, including Personal Information, between our offices. We have entered into EU Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers between our offices. If you are based within the European Economic Area, please visit our EU Policy at www.paolofranzo.com/privacy-policy/.
We may also disclose personal information as part of a corporate transaction (e.g., merger or acquisition) where we are permitted to do so by law.
Cookies and other devices
We may collect location information provided by a mobile or other device interacting with this website or associated with your IP address or other online or device identifier. We may collect this information through the lawful use and deployment of cookies and other tracking technologies. A cookie is a text file downloaded onto your device as you utilize our website. Cookies can be used to improve your experience of using a website or to track your use of a website so that it can be improved to meet your needs or to provide information that is relevant to you. The Firm’s website uses both session and persistent cookies. The former are temporary and expire each time you close your browser and do not remain on your browser. On the other hand, persistent cookies allow our website to remember your preferences and settings when you visit our website in the future until they are deleted either because they expire or you delete them. The firm uses session cookies in connection with its Internet Services, except for Internet Services that require you to log in, such as our client extranets, and a Region Code cookie that persists over time and ensures that you are directed to the correct version of our website.
Cookies are often used in conjunction with other Internet technologies, such as web beacons, to understand behavior on the Internet. For example, the firm uses cookies with web beacons, which are small sections of code that we may place in our Internet Services to understand the number of unique users visiting a specific page. Similarly, we may use or receive reporting from tracking scripts that recognize unique cookies issued by another website. These tracking scripts are not used to gather information on your Internet use unrelated to the firm. They do not identify you unless you provide Personal Information to the firm.
The firm’s Internet Services use cookies. The firm uses session cookies in connection with its Internet Services, specifically for cybersecurity purposes, to provide you with customizations of your experience, such as highlighting your recently viewed items, detecting and remembering your region and language preferences, and tracking your activities on the Internet Services. We also use a Region Code cookie that persists over time and ensures that you are directed to the correct version of our website.
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 Internet Services may function differently and not as well. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting to refuse cookies, our Internet Services will issue cookies when you log on to the firm’s Internet Services.] For more information about cookies and how to manage them, you can visit https://allaboutcookies.org/how-to-manage-cookies. If you do not wish to receive advertising cookies, visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1 and the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) website at https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN.
Additional Privacy Rights
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes.
Depending on where you live and subject to applicable laws, you may have additional rights, including i) the right to request access to the personal data that the Firm has collected about you to review, modify, or request deletion of such data; ii) the right to request a copy of your data and to have any inaccuracies corrected; and iii) the right to request that we cease processing your data.
If you would like to request access, review, or correct the personal data we have collected about you or to discuss how we process your data, please contact the Firm’s Data Privacy Officer – see the “Contact Us” section for details.
To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We reserve the right to deny your requests where they may be manifestly unfounded, and/or excessive, or otherwise objectionable or unwarranted under applicable law.
Changes
We reserve the right to revise this Policy without advance notice. When we make changes to this Policy, we will post the updated Policy on the website and update the Policy’s effective date.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Policy, please contact the Firm’s Data Protection Officer at:
Phone: +1 212-901-0250
E-mail: contact@pflaw.us
Address: 250 Park Ave, Suite 7008, New York, NY 10177.
