Last Updated On June 22, 2024

Introduction

This Privacy Policy describes the Firm’s policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information that the Firm collects when you use this website (the “Service”).

The Service uses Cookies. Where those Cookies are not strictly necessary for the use of the Service, the Firm will ask you to consent to the Service’s use of them.

By accessing or using the Service, you are consenting to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the same, you may not access or use the Service.

The Firm may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service. The revised Privacy Policy will be effective 180 days from when the revised Policy is posted in the Service and your continued access or use of the Service after such time will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. The Firm therefore recommends that you periodically review this page.

1. Definitions

  • “Business,” for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the Firm as the legal entity that collects Consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers’ personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information, that does business in the State of California.
  • “Firm” refers to The Alemayehu Law Firm, 275 Wembley Circle, Atlanta, Georgia 30328.
  • “Consumer,” for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means a natural
    person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual
    who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.
  • “Cookies” are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history and activity on that website.
  • “Device” means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cell phone or a digital tablet.
  • “Personal Data” is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. For the purposes of the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to,
  • describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.
  • “Service” refers to this website.
  • “Service Provider” means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the
    Firm. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Firm to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Firm, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Firm in analyzing how the Service is used.
  • “Usage Data” refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or
    from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

2. Information Collected

2.1 Communication Data

The Firm may process information contained in or relating to any communication you send to the Firm or that the Firm sends to you. In addition to the content of the communication and the attendant metadata, the communication data the Firm collects and processes may contain the following personal information about you:

  • Full name
  • Email address
  • Phone number

2.2 Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when you use the Service. Usage Data may include the following information about you:

  • IP address
  • Geographical location
  • Browser type/version
  • Operating system
  • Where you were referred from
  • Time/date of your visit
  • The length of your visit
  • A list of pages viewed
  • The order in which you view pages
  • Frequency of your use of the Service

When you access the Service via a mobile device, Usage Data may also include:

  • Type of mobile device
  • Mobile device unique ID

2.3 Cookies And Other Tracking Technologies

The Service uses Cookies and other similar tracking technologies, including beacons, tags, and scripts, to track activity and store information related to such activity on the Service. The Firm uses Cookies for the following purposes:

  • Necessary Cookies: These Cookies are essential to the Service’s ability to operate. Without these Cookies, the Service, which you have requested to use, will not work.
  • Cookie policy Cookies: These Cookies identify whether a user has accepted the use of Cookies on the Service. The purpose of these Cookies is so that you can avoid having to re-enter your cookie preferences each time you access the Service.
  • Functionality Cookies: These Cookies allow the Service to remember choices you make (e.g., language preference) when you access the Service. The purpose of these Cookies is so that you can avoid having to re-enter your functionality preferences each time you access the service.
  • Tracking Cookies: These Cookies are used to track and measure information about traffic to the Service and how users use it. The information gathered by these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. These Cookies are administered by third parties. The Service’s analytics platform is Google Analytics.

3. How The Firm Uses Your Personal Data

3.1 Operation Of The Service

The Firm may process your Personal Data for the purposes of operating the Service. The legal basis for this processing is the Firm’s legitimate interests in the proper administration of the Service.

3.2 Communications With You

The Firm may process your Personal Data to contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent methods of electronic communication in response to your requests to the Firm. This does not include communicating with you for the purposes of direct marketing. The legal basis for this processing is your consent.

3.3 Research And Analysis

The Firm may process your Personal Data for the purposes of analyzing the use of the Service, including research and analysis of your other interactions with the Firm. The legal basis for this processing is your consent.

3.4 Security

The Firm may process your Personal Data for the purposes of security of the Service and the prevention of fraud or other criminal activity. The legal basis for this processing is the Firm’s legitimate interests in protecting the Service and the Business.

3.5 Legal compliance

The Firm may process your Personal Data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation.

4. How The Firm Shares Your Personal Data

The Firm will not share your Personal Data with any third party without your consent, except in the following limited circumstances:

  • Service Providers: The Firm shares your Personal Data with Service Providers for the collection of website analytics and to facilitate communication requests initiated by you.
  • Business transfers: The Firm may share or transfer your Personal Data in connection with any merger or sale of the Firm or its assets.
  • With the Firm’s affiliates: The Firm may share your Personal Data with affiliates of the Firm, in which case the Firm will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy in its entirety.

5. Retention Of Your Personal Data

The Firm will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. The Firm will retain and use your Personal Data for longer periods if necessary to comply with legal obligations. Residual anonymized or aggregate information, neither of which identifies you directly or indirectly, may be stored indefinitely.

6. Transfer Of Your Personal Data

Your Personal Data is processed at the Firm’s operating office and in any other places where the parties  contained herein involved in the processing are located. This means your Personal Data may be transferred to and maintained on computers located in governmental jurisdictions where the data protection laws may differ than data protection laws in your home state, province, or country.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy constitutes your agreement to that transfer. The Firm will take reasonably necessary steps to ensure that your Personal Data is treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

7. Security Of Your Personal Data

While the security of your Personal Data is important to us, given the risks inherent in transmitting data over the internet the Firm cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, the Firm cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to the Firm. Any information you transmit to the Firm is done at your own risk.

8. Detailed Information On The Processing Of Your Personal Data

The Service Providers the Firm uses may have access to your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about your activity on the Service in accordance with their  respective Privacy Policies.

8.1 Analytics

The Firm uses Google Analytics to monitor and analyze the use of the Service.

8.2 Contacting Us

The Firm may use your Personal Data to contact you in response to one or more requests from you. The Firm uses MyCase to facilitate this use.

8.3 Scheduling Meetings

The Firm may use your Personal Data to contact you to update, cancel, or reschedule a meeting, consultation, or other interactive session you schedule with the Firm. The Firm uses Calendly and Google to facilitate this use.

8.4 Payments

The Firm provides paid services within the Service. The Firm uses Calendly to facilitate the transactions for the foregoing and PayPal and Stripe for payment processing. The Firm will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to the aforementioned third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their respective Privacy Policies. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

9. CCPA Provisions

This privacy notice section for California residents supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy and it applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.

9.1 Categories of Personal Information Collected

The Firm collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following is a list of categories of personal information which the Firm may collect or may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.

Please note that the categories and examples provided in the list below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact collected by us, but reflects the Firm’s good faith belief to the best of the Firm’s knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been collected. For example, certain categories of personal information would only be collected if you provided such personal information directly to the Firm.

  • Category A: Identifiers.
    Examples: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, email address, account name, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
    Collected: Yes.
  • Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
    Examples: A 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. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
    Collected: Yes.
  • Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
    Examples: Age (40 years or older), 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, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
    Collected: No.
  • Category D: Commercial information.
    Examples: Records and history of products or services purchased or considered.
    Collected: Yes.
  • Category E: Biometric information.
    Examples: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.
    Collected: No.
  • Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
    Examples: Interaction with the Service or advertisement.
    Collected: Yes.
  • Category G: Geolocation data.
    Examples: Approximate physical location.
    Collected: Yes.
  • Category H: Sensory data.
    Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
    Collected: No.
  • Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
    Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
    Collected: No.
  • Category J: Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).
    Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
    Collected: No.
  • Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.
    Examples: Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
    Collected: No.

Under the CCPA, personal information does not include:

  • Publicly available information from government records
  • Deidentified or aggregated consumer information
  • Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, such as:
    • Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data
    • Personal Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994

9.2 Sources of Personal Information

The Firm obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

  • Directly from you (e.g., the forms you complete on the Service, preferences you express or provide through the Service)
  • Indirectly from you (e.g., from observing your activity on the Service)
  • Automatically from you (e.g., through Cookies the Firm sets on your device as you access the Service)
  • From Service Providers (e.g., third-party vendors who monitor and analyze the use of the Service, third-party vendors for payment processing, or other third-party vendors that the Firm uses to provide the Service to you)

9.3 Use of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes

The Firm may use or disclose personal information the Firm collects for “business purposes” or “commercial purposes” (as defined under the CCPA), which may include the following examples:

  • To operate and provide you with the Service
  • To respond to your inquiries
  • To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information, such as if you share your contact information to inquire about working with the Firm
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations
  • As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA
  • For internal administrative and auditing purposes
  • To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, including, when necessary, to prosecute those responsible for such activities.

Please note that the examples provided above are illustrative and not intended to be exhaustive. For more details on how the Firm uses this information, please refer to Section 3.

9.4 Disclosure of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes

The Firm may use or disclose and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes:

  • Category A: Identifiers
  • Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
  • Category D: Commercial information
  • Category F: Internet or other similar network activity
  • Category G: Geolocation data

Please note that the categories listed above are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact disclosed, but reflects the Firm’s good faith belief to the best of the Firm’s knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been disclosed.

9.5 Sale of Personal Information

As defined in the CCPA, “sell” and “sale” mean selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to a third party for valuable consideration. This means that the Firm may have received some kind of benefit in return for sharing personal information, but not necessarily a monetary benefit.

Please note that the categories listed below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact sold, but reflects the Firm’s good faith belief to the best of the Firm’s knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been shared for value in return.

The Firm may sell and may have sold in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information:

  • Category A: Identifiers
  • Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
  • Category D: Commercial information
  • Category F: Internet or other similar network activity
  • Category G: Geolocation data

9.6 Share of Personal Information

The Firm may share Your personal information identified in the above categories with the following categories of third parties:

  • Service Providers
  • Payment processors
  • Third party vendors to whom you authorize the Firm to disclose your personal information in connection with services the Firm provides to you

9.7 Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under 16

The Firm does not knowingly collect personal information from minors under the age of 16 through the Service, although certain third party websites that the Service links to may do so. These third-party websites have their own Privacy Policies and parents and legal guardians are encouraged to monitor their children’s internet usage and instruct their children to never provide information on other websites without their permission.

The Firm does not sell the personal information of Consumers the Firm actually knows are less than 16 years of age, unless the Firm receives affirmative authorization from either the Consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age or the parent or guardian of a Consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to the sale of personal information may opt-out of future sales at any time. To exercise the right to opt-out, you may contact the Firm and submit a request.

If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 (or 16) has provided the Firm with personal information, please contact the Firm with sufficient detail to enable the Firm to delete that information.

9.8 Your Rights under the CCPA

The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If you are a resident of California, you have the following rights:

  • The right to notice. You have the right to be notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
  • The right to request. Under CCPA, You have the right to request that the Firm discloses information to you about the Firm’s collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes and share of personal information. Once the Firm receives and confirms your request, the Firm will disclose to you:
    • The categories of personal information collected about you
    • The categories of sources for the personal information collected about you
    • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information
    • The categories of third parties with whom the Firm shares that personal information
    • The specific pieces of personal information collected about you
    • If the Firm sold your personal information or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, the Firm will disclose to you:
      • The categories of personal information categories sold
      • The categories of personal information categories disclosed
  • The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data (opt-out). You have the right to direct the Firm to not sell your personal information. To submit an opt-out request please contact the Firm.
  • The right to delete Personal Data. You have the right to request the deletion of your Personal Data, subject to certain exceptions. Once the Firm receives and confirms your request, the Firm will delete (and direct the Firm’s Service Providers to delete) your personal information from the Firm’s records, unless an exception applies. The Firm may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for the Firm or the Firm’s Service Providers to:
    • complete the transaction for which the Firm collected the personal information, provide a service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of the Firm’s ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform the Firm’s contract with you;
    • detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities;
    • debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
    • exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law;
    • comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.);
    • engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you
      previously provided informed consent;
    • enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us;
    • comply with a legal obligation; or
    • make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
  • The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your consumer’s rights, including by:
    • denying goods or services to you;
    • charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;
    • providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or
    • suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

9.9 Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights

If you are a California resident, in order to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA you can send the Firm an email at privacy@dtthelawyer.com.

Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf may make a verifiable request related to your personal information. Your request to the Firm must:

  • provide sufficient information that allows the Firm to reasonably verify you are the person about whom the Firm collected personal information or an authorized representative;
  • describe your request with sufficient detail that allows the Firm to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

The Firm cannot respond to your request or provide you with the required information if the Firm cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request or confirm that the personal information relates to you.

The Firm will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request. The Firm may extend this time period once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice. Any disclosures the Firm provides will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request’s receipt.

For data portability requests, the Firm will select a format to provide your personal information that is reasonably usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

9.10 Do Not Sell My Personal Information

You have the right to opt-out of the sale of Your personal information. Once the Firm receives and confirms a verifiable consumer request from you, the Firm will stop selling your personal information. To exercise your right to opt-out, please contact the Firm.

The Service Providers the Firm partners with may use technology on the Service that sells personal information as defined by the CCPA law. If you wish to opt out of the use of your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.

  • The NAI’s opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
  • The EDAA’s opt-out platform http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
  • The DAA’s opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN

The opt out will place a cookie on your computer that is unique to the browser you use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, you will need to opt out again. You may need to opt out on every browser that you use.

Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps you use in order to serve you ads that are targeted to your interests:

  • “Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” on Android devices
  • “Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS devices

You can also stop the collection of location information from your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device.

10. Children’s Privacy

The Firm does not address anyone under the age of 13. The Firm does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided the Firm with Personal Data, please contact the Firm. If the Firm becomes aware that the Firm has collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, the Firm takes steps to remove that information from the Firm’s servers.

If the Firm needs to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, the Firm may require your parent’s consent before the Firm collects and uses that information.

11. Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by the Firm. This Privacy Policy does not address the privacy policies of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service that may be accessible via a link on the Service. The Firm strongly advises you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. The Firm has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy

From time to time, the Firm may update this Privacy Policy. The Firm will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

The Firm will let you know via email or via a prominent notice on the Service prior to the change becoming effective. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact the Firm at privacy@dtthelawyer.com.

 

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