PRIVACY AND COOKIES

 

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BY USING THE SITE YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.  PLEASE READ IT.

 

Ghalchi & Associates respects your privacy and is committed to collecting, maintaining and using personal information about you responsibly.  This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to all of your use of this website (the “Website”).  This Policy does not apply to any information provided to us in the course of any attorney-client relationship or protected by confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine or any other applicable protection.  Nothing in this Policy should be construed to create an attorney-client relationship with visitors to our website or, conversely, to detract from any of the protections resulting from such relationships. 

 If you visit this Website simply to browse, we may collect general information about the way in which you use our site to identify levels and areas of interest in our firm and to improve and refine our Website.  These include the time and duration of visit, type of Web browser used, the operating system/platform you are using, your IP address, the websites from which you linked to us, and your CPU speed.  We also may note whether and how you use the Website by recording site traffic patterns and "clickstreams."  

 If you choose to provide us with personal information about yourself, either through a form on our Web site or by sending us e-mail, we may collect and use that information to contact you or to send you additional information.  

 We do not sell any personal information collected from the use of our Website by our visitors.  Nor do we share with any third party any personal information collected from the use of our Website by our visitors, except (i) possibly general information about the way in which visitors to our Website use it in order to identify levels and areas of interest in our firm and to improve and refine our Website and our services, or (ii) as may be legally required.  (Please also remember the additional warnings under "Attorney Advertising & Terms of Use" not to send confidential or sensitive information to us through this Website).

 Although we use security that we believe to be appropriate to protect the limited personal identifying information disclosed to us on this Website, we do not guarantee that our security precautions will protect against and we expressly disclaim any liability for any loss, misuse, or alteration of your information or from your access to or use of our information and Website.

 We may use "cookie" technology.   A cookie is a small amount of data that may be sent by our Website and stored on your computer's hard drive that our Website can read and which may help us keep track of how you use our Website.  Many Web browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but contain an option for you to turn off the cookie acceptance or clear cookies if you prefer.

If you do not want us to further use information previously given by you on or through this Website to contact you, or if you wish to correct such information, please contact us.

Links to Other Websites

Links to websites that are not operated by or for Ghalchi & Associates (“Third Party Websites”) are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave our Website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to Third Party Websites.  We have not reviewed the Third Party Websites and do not control and are not responsible for any of their content or their privacy policies, if any.  We do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them.  If you decide to access any of the Third Party Websites listed on our Website, you should understand that you do so at your own risk.  (Please also remember the additional warnings and disclaimers under "Attorney Advertising & Terms of Use" regarding links to third party websites).

Agreement, Changes

To the extent permitted by applicable law, by using this Website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information as described above.  In the event we decide to update our Privacy Policy, any information collected under our old Privacy Policy will not be subject to the terms of our new Privacy Policy.