Last updated December 26, 2019

Your privacy is important to us. This Online Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) explains Sara Hawkins Attorney At Law, LLC’s online information practices and your related choices.

This Privacy Policy applies to our website, sarafhawkins.com, and the services available through our website (our “Site”). This Privacy Policy is intended to disclose how Sara Hawkins Attorney at Law, LLC collects, uses and discloses personal information about users of our Sites, as well as to explain the choices and right individuals have regarding their personal information.

GDPR

We have also developed and posted a GDPR Privacy Notice, which is available here. Our GDPR Privacy Notice contains additional information about how Sara Hawkins Attorney at Law, LLC processes personal information that is subject to EU data protection laws (including those implementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation, or “GDPR”), and encompasses personal information about users of the Sites and others with whom we engage.

FOR CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS

If you are a California Consumer, please refer to Sara Hawkins Attorney at Law, LLC Privacy Notice for California Consumers.

The information we collect

We collect information directly from individuals online, as well as automatically through the use of our Sites.

  • Information collected directly
    We may collect personal information about you—such as your name, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, etc.—directly from you. For example, personal information may be collected when you fill out a ‘Contact Us’ form, sign up for our mailing lists, submit information as part of certain online services (e.g., schedule a consultation), post comments on our blogs, or otherwise provide us information through the Site. Generally, the information we collect includes your:

    • Name, company name and title/position.
    • Email address, phone number, mailing address and contact details.
    • Contact preferences and interests.
    • Business affiliations.
    • If you schedule a consultation, our payment provider will require additional information to process payment.
    • Other information related to your request or inquiry.
  • Automatically-collected information
    We use cookies, log files, pixel tags, local storage objects and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information when users access or use the services or visit our Site, such as an IP address, general location information, domain name, page views, a date/time stamp, browser type, device type, device ID, Internet service provider (“ISP”), referring/exit URLs, operating system, language, clickstream data, and other information about the links clicked, features used, size of files uploaded, streamed or deleted, and similar device and usage information. For more information, see the “Cookies and similar devices” section below.

Our use of personal information

We use the personal information you provide to respond to your request or inquiry and in the ordinary course of conducting our business. Generally, we use the information (including personal information) that we collect online as follows:

  • Providing support and services
    To provide and operate our Site, communicate with you about your use of the Site, provide troubleshooting and technical support, respond to your inquiries, fulfill your orders and requests, process your payments, communicate with you, and for similar service and support purposes.
  • Responding to your requests
    To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your orders and requests.
  • Personalization
    To tailor content we may send or display on the Site, including to offer location customization and personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences.
  • Newsletters, mailing lists and direct marketing
    For direct marketing purposes, including to send you newsletters, client alerts and information we think may interest you. If you are located in a jurisdiction that requires opt-in consent to receive electronic marketing messages, we will only send you such messages if you opt-in to receive them.
  • Analytics and improvement
    To better understand how users access and use the Sites, and our other products and offerings, and for other research and analytical purposes, such as to evaluate and improve our services and business operations and to develop services and features.
  • Protect our legal rights and prevent misuse
    To protect the Sites and our business operations; to prevent and detect fraud, unauthorized activities and access, and other misuse; where we believe necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety or legal rights of any person or third party, or violations of our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy.
  • Comply with legal obligations
    To comply with the law or legal proceedings. For example, we may disclose information in response to subpoenas, court orders, and/or other lawful requests by regulators and/or law enforcement, including responding to national security or law enforcement disclosure requirements.
  • General business operations
    Where necessary, for the administration of our general business, accounting, record keeping and legal functions.
  • Anonymous and de-identified information
    We create and use anonymous and de-identified information to assess, improve and develop our business, products and services, and for similar research and analytics purposes.

Disclosure of personal information

We will not rent or sell your personal information, nor will we share it with third parties, outside of Sara F. Hawkins Attorney at Law, PC, for their marketing purposes.

We may share personal information with the following categories of third parties:

  • Third party service providers that provide services to us or to whom we outsource certain services, such as data hosting or software or technology services.
  • Our professional advisers, such as lawyers and accountants.
  • Government and/or regulatory authorities.
  • Regulators, tax authorities and/or corporate registries.

In addition, we may disclose personal information to other third parties under the following circumstances:

  • Business transfers
    As part of any merger, sale and transfer of our assets, acquisition or restructuring of all or part of our business, bankruptcy, or similar event, including related to due diligence conducted prior to such event where permitted by law.
  • Legally required
    If we are required to do so by law (e.g., to law enforcement, courts or others, e.g., in response to a subpoena or court order).
  • Protect our rights
    Where we believe it necessary to respond to claims asserted against us, comply with legal processes (e.g., subpoenas or warrants), enforce or administer our agreements and terms, or for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, and to protect the rights, property or safety of Sara F. Hawkins Attorney at Law, PC, our clients and customers, or others.

We may also share aggregate or de-identified information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual.

Cookies and similar devices

We and our service providers use cookies, pixels, log files and other mechanisms to gather information about your use of our Site.

  • Cookies
    Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Site, while others are used to enable a faster log-in process or to allow us to track your activities while using our Site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
  • Clear GIFs, pixel tags and other technologies
    Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer’s hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (also referred to as web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with our services to, among other things, track the activities of users of our services, help us manage content, and compile statistics about usage of our services. We and our third party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, to identify when our emails are viewed, and to track whether our emails are forwarded.
  • Log files
    Most browsers collect certain information, such as your IP address, device type, screen resolution, operating system version, and internet browser type and version. This information is gathered automatically and stored in log files.
  • Third party analytics
    We also use automated devices and applications, such as Google Analytics (more info here) to evaluate the use of our services. We use these tools to gather non-personal data about users to help us improve our services and user experiences. These analytics providers may use cookies and other technologies to perform their services, and may combine the information they collect about you on our Site with other information they have collected for their own purposes. This Policy does not cover such uses of data by third parties.
  • Do-not-track signals
    Our Site does not respond to do-not-track signals. For more information about do-not-track signals, please click here. You may, however, disable certain tracking as discussed above (e.g., by disabling cookies) and as set out in our Cookie Policy.

Our Cookie Policy contains further information about our use of cookies.

Direct marketing

As noted, we may send periodic promotional emails to you, and where required by law, we will obtain your consent to do so. You may opt out of such communications at any time by following the opt-out instructions contained in the email or email us at [email protected]. If you opt out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you emails about your account or any services you have requested or received from us.

International transfers

When you submit personal information to us, or when others provide personal information to us, we will receive it and process it in the United States, or where we have service providers. To provide services, we also may need to transfer your personal information to locations in other jurisdictions.

If you are based within European Economic Area (EEA), please note that where necessary to deliver the services, we will transfer personal information to countries outside the EEA.

You have a right to obtain details of the mechanism under which your personal information is transferred outside of the EEA; you may request such details by contacting us as set forth in the “How to contact us” section below.

Access and correction

If you would like to review the personal information we have collected about you via the Site, or request that we update or delete it, please contact us at [email protected].

Third party websites and links

Our Site contains links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites’ privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

Our commitment to security

We employ security measures to prevent unauthorized access to information that we collect online. However, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

How to contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about the Privacy Policy for Sara Hawkins Attorney at Law, LLC or its implementation, you may contact us using the information on our Contact page. If at any time you decide that we should no longer hold any of your personal information, or you wish to change the use to which any such information can be put, please let us know by contacting us using the information on our Contact page.

Revisions to our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to revise this Policy or any part of it from time to time. Please review the Policy periodically for changes. If we make material changes, we will endeavor to provide notice ahead of such changes, such as by email or through a notice on sarafhawkins.com.