Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how  (“we,” or “us”) collects, stores, uses, and discloses personal information about you. This Policy applies to information we collect when you access or use our websites and other online services and when you visit our offices, attend our events, apply for a job with us, or otherwise interact with us as described below (collectively, our “Services”). We may provide separate notices about our privacy practices, in which case the separate privacy notice will apply. For example, we have a separate privacy policy that applies to the information we collect from our clients in connection with providing legal services.

We may change this Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date of this Policy. We encourage you to review this Policy frequently to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

1. Collection of Information

The personal information we collect about you depends on how you interact with us or use our services. We describe below the categories of personal information we collect and the sources of this information.

Information You Provide to Us

We collect personal information you provide directly to us including when you become you access or use our services, subscribe to receive our emails, access or use any collaboration tools, participate in any interactive features of our services, send us an email, fill out a form, respond to a survey, comment on a blog, register for or participate in an event, apply for a job with us, interact with us on social media, or otherwise communicate with us.

The types of personal information we may collect include:

• Contact information, such as name, email address, postal address, and phone number;
• Education information, such as educational degrees, languages, professional memberships, qualifications, and certifications;
• Employment information, such as business unit/division, company name, job status, job title, employment history, office location, and LinkedIn profile information;
• Health and health-related information, such as accessibility requirements, dietary restrictions, and, where necessary and appropriate to protect the health and safety of our personnel and others, information related to symptoms of, or risk of exposure to, certain illnesses;
• Government-issued identification numbers such as a social security number, driver’s license number, or state-issued identification number in connection with your application for employment with us;
• Photos, videos, and audio files that contain images or voice recordings;
• Demographic information, which may include information about protected classifications, such as age, gender, race/ethnic origin, and nationality; and
• Any other information you choose to provide.

Personal Information We Collect Automatically When You Interact with Us

We automatically collect personal information when you access or use our services. The types of personal information we collect may include:

• Log Information: We collect log information about your use of our services, including your browser type and language, app version, access times, pages viewed, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, linked clicked, approximate geographic location, and the webpage you visited before navigating to our services.
• Device Information: We collect information about the device you use to access our Services, including mobile devices, which may include the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
• Location Information: In accordance with your device permissions, we may collect information about the precise location of your device. You may stop the collection of precise location information at any time.
• Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We and our service providers use various technologies to collect information about your use of our services and other websites and applications, including cookies and web beacons (or pixel tags). Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us to, among other things, improve our services and your experience, see which areas and features of our services are popular, and count visits. Web beacons (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) are electronic images that may be used on our services or in our emails and help deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness, and determine if an email has been opened and acted upon.

We use cookies for a number of reasons, like helping us see which features are most popular, counting visitors to a page, improving our users’ experience and keeping our services secure. The cookies we use generally fall into one of the following categories.

• Essential Cookies - These cookies are essential for our Services to function properly.
• Security Cookies - We use these cookies to help identify and prevent security risks.
• Performance Cookies - We use these cookies to collect information about how you interact with our services and to help us improve them.
• Analytics Cookies - We use these cookies to help us understand improve our services.

Although most browsers and devices accept cookies by default, their settings usually allow you to clear or decline cookies. If you disable cookies, however, some of the features of our websites may not function properly. To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, you can install Google’s opt-out browser add-on.

Information We Collect From Other Sources

We may also collect personal information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases, and combine that with information we collect through our services. For example, we may use information from LinkedIn to update information about you in our contact database.

Information We Derive

We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on other types of personal information we collect. For example, we may infer your location based on your IP address, or that you are interested in employment or participating in an event based on your browsing behavior on our Services.

2. Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect from and about you for various business purposes including to:

• Provide the information or services you request and send you related information;
• Maintain and improve our Services;
• Personalize and improve your experience on our Services;
• Respond to your questions, comments, and requests;
• Send you newsletters, updates, and other communications we think will be of interest to you, including about our services, programming, and events unless you have opted out of such communications;
• Administer surveys;
• Enable you to access our premises to attend events;
• Assess job applicants and make hiring decisions;
• Monitor and analyze usage, trends, and activities related to our services;
• Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
• Detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and protect the rights and property of this firm and others;
• Identify, report, and repair errors that impair the functionality of our services;
• Comply with our legal and financial obligations; and
• Protect the health, safety, and vital interests of our personnel and others.

3. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information as follows or as otherwise described in this Policy:

• We may disclose your name and bar number in connection with an application for CLE credit;
• With vendors, consultants, professional advisors, and other service providers that need access to your personal information to provide services to us;
• In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, financing, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale of this firm's assets or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company;
• In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements;
• If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of us or any third party;
• With other users of our Services if you post content to interactive areas of those Services. For example, any personal information you post in connection with an online profile, blog, or other interactive areas of our Services may be available to other users of those areas and, in some cases, may be publicly available; and
• With your consent or at your direction, including if we notify you that your personal information will be disclosed in a particular manner and you provide such personal information. We may also disclose your personal information with third parties when you intentionally direct us to do so or when you use our Services to intentionally interact with third parties.

We may also share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you. This firm processes, maintains, and uses this information only in a de-identified fashion and will not attempt to re-identify such information, except as permitted by law.

4. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

You have certain choices with respect to your personal information, as described below.

Data Subject Requests

Depending on where you reside, you may have the right to: (1) know more about and access the personal information we collect, use, and disclose about you and to receive your data in a portable format, (2) delete your personal information, (3) correct inaccurate personal information, and (4) object to, or request that we restrict, certain processing. 

We will verify your request by asking you to provide information sufficient to confirm your identity, such as your name, email address, and information about your interactions with us. If you would like to use an authorized agent to exercise your rights, we may request evidence that you have provided such agent with power of attorney, or that the agent otherwise has valid signed authority to submit requests on your behalf, and ask that you verify your identity directly with us.

Opting Out of Marketing Communications

You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us or request changes to your communication preferences by following the instructions in those communications or visiting our unsubscribe page. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as those about our ongoing business relations.

Cookies

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually set your browser to remove or reject cookies.

Links to Other Websites and Third-Party Content

We may provide links to or embed videos hosted by third-party websites, services, and applications, such as LinkedIn, that we do not operate or control. This Policy does not apply to third-party services, and we cannot take responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of third-party services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party service before providing any information to or through them. Our services may include an activity feed, social media buttons, and widgets, such as the Facebook "Like" button or the "Share This" button. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the third-party service that provides the feature.

5. California Privacy Information

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to explain some information using definitions and categories set out under the CCPA. If you are a California resident, this section applies to you.

We collect, and in the preceding 12 months, we have collected, the following categories of personal information: identifiers (such as your name, email address, or IP address), characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (such as your age), commercial information (such as events attended), internet and electronic network activity information (such as browsing history, search history, information about your activities on our Services), geolocation data (such as your city of residence), audio, electronic, visual, and similar information (such as recordings of selected events, conferences, or meetings), and professional or employment-related information (such as job title and employment history). 

Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer's Privacy Rights

This firm will not deny you Services or charge you a different price, level or quality of Services because you exercise any of your rights under the CCPA; however, we may not be able to provide Services if you refuse to provide us the personal information that is necessary for us to provide Services, or if you ask us to delete your personal information.

6. Data Retention

We store personal information for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it and for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.

Legal Basis for Processing

When we process your personal data, we will do so in reliance on the following lawful bases:

• To perform our responsibilities under our contract with you (e.g., processing payments for and providing the products and services you requested).
• When we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data to operate our business or protect our interests (e.g., to provide, maintain, and improve our products and services, conduct data analytics, and communicate with you).
• To comply with our legal obligations (e.g., to maintain a record of your consents and track those who have opted out of marketing communications).
• When we have your consent to do so (e.g., when you opt in to receive marketing communications from us). When consent is the legal basis for our processing your personal data, you may withdraw such consent at any time.

Privacy Rights

Subject to certain exceptions, you have the following rights with respect to your Personal Information:

• To receive or access a copy of the personal information that we hold about you;
• To request that any inaccurate or incomplete personal information be corrected or supplemented;
• To have your personal information erased, unless we have a legitimate reason to retain the personal information (such as if we are required to do so for legal reasons); and
• To ask us not to Process your Personal Information for a particular purpose, including for marketing.

All of these rights are subject to certain conditions and exemptions. We reserve the right to charge a fee in dealing with such a request as permitted by applicable law and regulations. You may also opt out of receiving additional marketing information by using the unsubscribe feature in any marketing email we send you.

Additional Rights

If you have a concern about our processing of personal data that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority where you reside. Contact details for your Data Protection Authority can be found using the links below:

8. Data Retention

We store personal information for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it and for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.