Privacy Policy

Durgin Otterson Bruzzone LLP (the “firm”) is committed to protecting the privacy of personal information (“Personal Information”) you may provide us.  This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) is intended to summarize the firm’s data protection practices generally, and to advise our clients and visitors to our website about the firm’s privacy practices.

This Policy is also specifically addressed to parties outside the firm who provide Personal Information to the firm or who visit our website. This Policy also describes how the firm collects, processes and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

The firm collects Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to clients and may collect information provided by visitors to our website. We may also collect Personal Information about you when you interact with us and may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information as described below in connection with the use of cookies.

We may use Personal Information for the following purposes:

• to contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries.

• to personalize your visit and use of our website and to assist you while you use those services.

• to carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website.

• to provide you with legal services if you are or become a client of the firm.

• to contact you regarding legal or law firm developments that may be of interest to you (unless you tell us that you prefer us not to contact you for these purposes).  

• to comply with applicable laws, regulations or professional rules by which we are bound.

Confidentiality, Security and Retention of Personal Information

Consistent with our professional obligations, as a matter of policy we attempt to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.

We maintain reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by a visitor to this website. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will work in every instance.

We require consultants, suppliers and vendors to maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors, including, where applicable, data protection laws and regulations imposed by the State of California and the European Union.

We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in this Policy.

Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information

We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law. Consistent with our professional obligations, we may provide Personal Information to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law.

Cookie Policy

A cookie is a text file sent by a web server and placed on your computer by your web browser. Cookies are often used in conjunction to understand behavior on the Internet. For example, the firm may use cookies in conjunction with web beacons, which are small sections of code that we may place on our website to understand the number of unique users that have visited a specific page.  

Although the firm may use the services of third parties in connection with these cookies, we do not allow the third-party service provider to use Personal Information about the users of our website.

None of these cookies are strictly necessary to access our website. You may reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to allow your browser to alert you when a cookie is set, however, certain parts of the website may function differently and not as well.  

 Children

We respect the privacy of all individuals, including minors.  The firm does not knowingly collect, maintain or process Personal Information submitted by anyone under the age of eighteen. If you are under the age of eighteen, please do not use our website or submit information to our law firm.

Your California Privacy Rights

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.100 (the California Consumer Privacy Act), California residents may have certain data protection rights regarding their Personal Information. These rights, which may be subject to limitations, include: (i) the right to disclosure, deletion, access, and nondiscrimination; and (ii) the right to opt out of having your Personal Information shared or sold. The firm does not sell or share your Personal Information with third-party companies. To exercise your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, please send us your request by contacting any of our attorneys.

The following are categories of Personal Information defined under the Act we may collect, receive, or maintain in the course of administering firm business or receiving information from a client in the course of providing legal services: Identifiers, Personal information described in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law, Commercial information, Biometric information, Internet or other electronic network activity, Geolocation data, Sensory data, Professional or employment-related information, Non-public education information, and inferences drawn from other personal information.

Your European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) Data Protection Rights

Under EU and UK data protection laws (UK GDPR/2018 Data Protection Act and EU GDPR), individuals may have certain data protection rights which include: (i) the right to request access to and, rectification or erasure of your Personal Information; and (ii) the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Information. You may also have a right to object to processing of your Personal Information where carried out for our legitimate interest or direct marketing. To exercise your rights under this Privacy Policy, please send us your request by contacting any of our attorneys.

Individuals may also have a right to lodge a complaint about the processing of their Personal Information with their local data protection authority.

The firm’s data protection officer responsible for EU and UK matters is David Otterson, whose contact information is available on our website.

 Changes to our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this Policy at any time without notice.  

Disclaimer

The material on this website may contain an attorney advertisement under applicable rules of professional responsibility. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

The content on this website is for informational purposes only. It is not legal advice and should not be construed as such. The material on this site contains general information and is not guaranteed to be correct, complete, or up-to-date. The information on this website, or contact with the firm or its attorneys on an unsolicited basis, does not establish any form of attorney – client relationship. An attorney-client relationship will only be established after the firm decides that it is willing and able to accept the engagement and the firm and the client execute a written engagement letter. Any information sent to the firm or its attorneys on an unsolicited basis may not be treated as confidential, nor will sending email to any of our attorneys be considered as a request to take action with respect to the information submitted. The firm expressly disclaims all liability in respect to actions you may take or refrain from taking in response to the information contained in this website.

To comply with the requirements imposed by IRS Circular 230, we inform you that any US federal tax advice contained in this website or in any email, attachment, or other writing (including any attachments), unless specifically stated otherwise, is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code, or (ii) promoting, marketing, or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein or therein.