Privacy Policy
Freedom First Criminal Defense and DUI Lawyers
Thank you for visiting https://freedomfirstlawyers.com. Freedom First Criminal Defense and DUI Lawyers (hereinafter referred to as "The Firm", "the firm", "we", "us", "our"), is a law firm that is committed to protecting your privacy while providing you with a positive on-line experience. The Firm respects your privacy, and we believe you have the right to know what information we collect, how we use it and what security measures we have taken to protect your information.
Protecting Your Personal Information is Important
The Firm is committed to protecting your privacy while providing you with a positive experience. The Firm respects your privacy, and we believe you have the right to know what information we collect, how we use it and what security measures we have taken to protect your information. This privacy policy notice ("Privacy Policy") explains how The Firm handles the "personal information" we collect when individuals engage with us for our legal services (our "Services") including on our web site ("Site"), and the personal information we receive or share about individuals with third parties to provide our Services, including personal information subject to the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"). To affirm our continued commitment to the proper use of client information and the protection of your privacy, we have set forth the following privacy policies. In accordance with the foregoing, by visiting our Site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Site.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
The Firm will provide each client with initial notice of the firm's current policy when the client relationship is established. The Firm shall also provide each client with a new notice of the firm's current privacy policies at least annually. If, at any time, The Firm adopts material changes to its privacy policies, the firm shall provide each client with a revised notice reflecting the new privacy policies. Alternatively, the current version of this Privacy Policy can be accessed on our The Firm's website at the bottom of our homepage, or at the bottom of our other Site pages. By accessing our Site after we have posted changes to this Privacy Policy, you are agreeing to the terms of the Privacy Policy as modified.
How We Collect Information
We collect personal information to provide our Services, for legal and regulatory purposes and to manage our business and relationships. You will voluntarily provide most of your personal information directly to us. We will also obtain personal information from other sources or persons, including:
- Information Collected Directly from You: 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 on our Site, sign up for our mailing lists, register for events we host or sponsor, post comments on our blogs, or otherwise provide us information through the Site.
- Public Information: Information about you or your business which is publicly available, for example on your employers' web site, public professional social networking sites, the press, and relevant electronic data sources.
- Information from Third Parties: Information provided to us by third parties (for example by our or your clients, agents, suppliers, advisers, consultants, lawyers and other professional experts, previous, current and future employers, complainants, correspondents and enquirers, regulators and public authorities, relatives, and other persons) where such information is provided to us in connection with the relevant purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
- Information Collected through Our Site: When you visit The Firm's website and use our Site links such as our Contact Form, certain information may be collected. Among the types of information that may be collected are:
- Domain names of visitors to our Site;
- Your name, address, e-mail address and additional information you provide in any form;
- "Navigational information" regarding the traffic patterns of our Site, including the number of visits to a particular page, user-specific information on which pages a guest visits, the average length of time spent on the Site and similar Site usage data;
- Any information that you may choose to submit in connection with any e-mail messages, on-site surveys, registry programs, contests and the like;
- Cookies that track your IP address and certain other information from you when you visit our Site.
- Information Collected on Our Premises: If you visit our premises, your image may be captured on IP systems operated by our firm or the entity which manages our premises.
- Information Collected through Our IT Systems and Network: Our IT systems and network automatically filter email and other electronic communications for viruses and compliance with our internal policies. Usage of our IT systems is also automatically logged.
The Types of Information We Collect
The types of information we collect and how we process it will vary depending on the relationship we have with you and the context. Generally, this information can include:
- Personally identifying information such as name, telephone, address, date of birth, social security number, government identification, and marital status;
- Digital footprint data such as e-mail, login information, and IP addresses;
- Biographical data such as age, gender, and ethnicity;
- Employment data such as national insurance number, salary information, job position, tax information, business contact information;
- Financial Information such as bank information, salary information, credit card numbers, and pension;
- Health information such as medical history.
Special Categories of Information
In accordance with the above, there are certain circumstances where we will need to collect more sensitive personal information, such as diversity and health data, details of offenses, regulatory actions and related proceedings ("Sensitive Information"). Such information may be collected from you or, in those jurisdictions where it is permitted under applicable local law, from third parties. We will only request Sensitive Information where necessary and we are legally allowed to, and will put in place enhanced safeguards to protect such Sensitive Information.
Lawful Basis for Processing
The Firm may have one or more of the following lawful bases to process your personal information:
- Consent: your informed, and voluntary consent to process your personal information in connection with our Services.
- Contract: processing your personal information is necessary in order to fulfill a contract.
- Legal Obligation: processing is necessary to comply with applicable rules, laws, and regulations.
- Legitimate Interests: processing is necessary to the legitimate interests of our firm and/or a third party.
How We Use the Information We Collect
To Provide Legal Services
Where it is necessary to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request to enter into the contract, The Firm may collect or generate additional details about you during the course of such engagement in order to provide you with Services.
For Business Administration and Legal Compliance
We may also use your personal information to administer our relationship and maintain contractual relations; for accounting and tax purposes; for marketing and business development; to comply with the firm's regulatory obligations; to establish, exercise or defend legal rights; for historical and statistical purposes.
For Client Development
We may use personal information in order to respond to, prepare for and present pitches and other proposals, and identify potential business opportunities.
Analytics and Improvement
We may use your personal information to better understand how users access and use the Site, and for other research and analytical purposes, such as to evaluate and improve our services and business operations.
Newsletters, Mailing Lists, Direct Marketing, and Business Development
We may use your personal information 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. You may update your preferences or opt out at any time.
Providing Information to Third Parties
We may share personal information with the following categories of third parties as necessary:
- Our professional advisers, such as lawyers and accountants.
- Government and/or regulatory authorities.
- Professional indemnity insurers.
- Regulators, tax authorities and/or corporate registries.
- Third parties to whom we outsource certain services, such as document processing and translation services, management consultants, confidential waste disposal, IT systems or software providers, IT Support service providers, document and information storage providers, and other service providers.
- Third parties engaged in connection with our services, such as counsel, arbitrators, mediators, clerks, witnesses, court reporters, court, opposing parties and their lawyers, document review platforms and experts.
- Third party service providers to assist us with client insight analytics, such as Google Analytics.
Security
The Firm makes every effort to protect the security of your personal information. We are committed to keeping personal information secure and we have implemented appropriate information security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All of our employees, consultants, workers and data processors who have access to, and are associated with, the processing of personal information are obligated to respect the confidentiality of such personal information.
Individual Rights
To the extent permitted by the applicable law of your jurisdiction, in relation to your personal information, you may request:
- To have your personal information corrected, for example, if it is incomplete or incorrect;
- To opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time;
- The right to file a complaint with an applicable government regulator such as a Data Protection Authority.
If you are located in the European Economic Area ("EEA"), to the extent permitted by applicable law, you may additionally request access to your personal information, restriction or objection to processing, erasure, and data portability.
Retention of Personal Information
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we retain your personal information for the period necessary to serve the purposes for which we obtained it. We may also retain your personal information beyond such period in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, or another lawful basis, including but not limited to, compliance with our contractual obligations, legal obligations, regulatory obligations, legal claims, or another legitimate interest.
Data Transfers
We may transfer the personal information we obtain about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the information originally was collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your information to recipients in other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Data Controller
As identified under applicable law, the data controller for this Site is The Firm, located at: 4195 S Grand Canyon Dr Suite 106d, Las Vegas, NV 89147.
Site Appendix — Additional Information About Our Site
Security
As our Site is linked to the internet, and the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate to us online. Accordingly, any personal information or other information which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.
Links to Third-Party Websites
As a convenience to you, The Firm may provide hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties. When you select these hyperlinks, you will be leaving our Site. The Firm has no control over third party websites, their content, or security.
Do We Track Cookies?
We may use "cookies" to help us tailor our Site to better suit your needs and to provide a more effective route to various components of our Site.
Do We Respond to Do Not Track Signals?
Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. We do not track users across time or over multiple websites, we do not receive, or respond to, browser do-not-track signals or other similar mechanisms.
Information Collected on Our Site About Children
Our Site is not directed to children under the age of 18 years. By using our Site, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old.
Who Can You Contact at The Firm?
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or would like to exercise your rights, you may contact us at:
Freedom First Criminal Defense and DUI Lawyers
Attn: Privacy Officer
4195 S Grand Canyon Dr Suite 106d
Las Vegas, NV 89147