Privacy Policy
This privacy policy will explain how Avery & Upton (“the firm”) uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.
What data do we collect?
User-supplied information
This is information supplied directly by users of the website. The firm collects the following user-supplied data: Personal information, including your name, email address, phone number, and any other information you have voluntarily supplied or included in correspondence with the firm. Information that you provide to us will be used in order to respond to your inquiry. We may use such information to communicate with you in the future, but you may opt out of communications at any time by contacting us as follows:
Email us at: info@averyuptonlaw.com
Call us: 1-301-762-7644
Or write to us at: Avery & Upton, 51 Monroe Street, Suite 707, Rockville MD 20850
Web server logs
Web server logs are records of visitor activities on our website that are automatically captured and saved electronically.
Examples of the information we may collect and store include:
- your unique Internet protocol (IP) address and name of your Internet service provider (ISP)
- the referral site that has sent you to your page (i.e. the website you were on immediately prior to arriving at our website)
- the geographic location from which you access our website
- type of browser and/or electronic device you use to access our website
- what links you click within the site
- the pages you viewed on the site and time spent thereon
- the date, time, and duration of your visit
- any searches/queries you performed on our site
The information we collect in web server logs helps us administer the site, analyze its usage, protect the website and its content from inappropriate use and improve the user’s experience.
Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit any part of our website, we reserve the right to collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use cookies?
Our Company may use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:
- Keeping you signed in
- Understanding how you use our website
- Any other legitimate use
What types of cookies do we use?
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website may use:
Cookies that improve functionality – cookies and similar technologies are common on websites and are used to store and help track information about you. The firm may use these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies may be used.
Cookies for advertising – The firm may use these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. The firm reserved the right to shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
How to manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website (https://www.allaboutcookies.org/) tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, it is possible that if you disable cookies some of our website features may not function as a result. For information on disabling Google’s use of cookies, you can refer to Google’s Ad Settings.
How do we collect your data?
You directly provide the firm with most of the data we collect. If you fill out any of the contact/message/email forms on this website, we will ask you to provide some basic personal information (such as e-mail address, name and phone number ). Please DO NOT submit any confidential or sensitive personally identifiable information (for example, your Social Security Number). If you submit any confidential or sensitive personally identifiable information via our website, you do so at your own risk and we will not be liable or responsible for any consequences of your submission.
We collect data and process data when you:
Send a message via one of the forms on our website, contact us via email, telephone, or telefax, register online for an event or forum, request information, request the firm newsletter, request a digital download by entering your email address, contact us regarding any legal service or other aspect of the firm, provide customer feedback, engage with the firm via any type of social media, use or view our website (via your browser’s cookies, see below).
The firm may also receive your data indirectly from other sources, including, but not limited to, other legal service providers and referral services.
How will we use your data?
The firm collects your data so that we can:
Send you information related to the law firm and the firm’s legal services, newsletters, announcements, advertisements, special offers, information about our services.
Understand how our website, services, and products are being used.
Third parties
The firm may send or share your data with appropriate third-party contractors for identifying/analyzing website usage and trends, marketing/advertising, search engine optimization, web design and development purposes. We also may share information you provided us as required by law, or with another attorney or firm that may be able to help you if we cannot assist with your matter.
How do we store and protect your data?
The firm takes reasonable precautions to securely store your data, but we rely on commonly used technologies provided by several third-party services, including, but not limited to, LawPay, WordPress, Microsoft Outlook, WPEngine, Cloudflare, and JotForm. The firm makes no representation, guarantees, warranties of any kind regarding the security of these products. We take certain appropriate security measures to help protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will always be unable to defeat our security measures.
Marketing
The firm may send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those from companies or businesses we partner or collaborate with.
If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date.
You have the right at any time to stop the firm from contacting you for marketing purposes or sharing your data with third-party contractors.
If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please contact us as follows;
Email us at: info@averyuptonlaw.com
Call us: 1-301-762-7644
Or write to us at: Avery & Upton, 51 Monroe Street, Suite 707, Rockville MD 20850
Privacy policies of other websites
The firm website contains links to other websites as well as embedded content from other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, be aware that their privacy policy may be substantially different and you should read their privacy policy.
Changes to our privacy policy
The firm may amend its privacy policy at any time without advance notice, but we will post policy changes here. By visiting this website, you consent to all policies outlined in this Privacy Policy.
This privacy policy was published on February 8, 2020.
How to contact us
To request copies of your personal data (there may be a small fee for this), or if you have any questions about the firm’s privacy policy or the data we retain, would like to opt out of future communications, or would like to request that the firm correct, amend or delete your personal information, please do not hesitate to contact us as follows:
Email us at: info@averyuptonlaw.com
Call us: 1-301-762-7644
Or write to us at: Avery & Upton, 51 Monroe Street, Suite 707, Rockville MD 20850
