Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. We developed this Privacy Statement so you know how we collect, use, share, and store your personal information. This Privacy Statement applies to our website (https://www.gkglaw.com), information we have received from third parties, and other information we receive in communications from you.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
“Personal Information” is information that, either alone or in combination with other information collected, identifies an individual. When we combine other information (i.e., information that does not, on its own, identify an individual) with Personal Information, we treat the combined information as Personal Information. Personal Information includes your name, mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, employer, and job function.
From time to time, we may collect contact and mailing information from you or about you, including your name, email address, mailing address, and telephone number. This information may be collected in the following ways and for the following purposes:
Inquiries With Our Firm and Prospective Clients
When you contact our firm, including by phone, mail, email, or the contact form on our website, we request contact and mailing information including your name, company’s name (if applicable), mailing address, email address, and telephone number. We collect this data:
- To respond to you regarding your inquiry with our firm regarding our legal services or other matters; and
- To verify that our responses to you do not pose a conflict of interest for our firm.
We keep a record of your correspondence or comments, including Personal Information, in a file specific to you. We may use this information to help us provide informed responses to you in the event that you contact us again.
Information Obtained from Third Parties
From time to time, we may receive your contact and mailing information from you in other contexts, such as if you are interested in receiving our periodic newsletters, e-alerts, and other updates containing information about developments in the legal areas in which our firm practices. We may use this information to send emails summarizing legal developments relevant to our practice areas, as well as information on events and other activities relevant to our practice areas.
Legal Services
We may receive personal information about individuals and companies related to the provision of legal services and advice for our clients. This personal information will only be processed to the extent required to fulfill our obligations to our clients.
WHY WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION
If we ever request additional Personal Information for different reasons or in a situation that requires your explicit consent, we will notify you of the reasons and request your explicit consent to the collection accordingly.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
We do not sell, trade, or rent to others the Personal Information we collect online or otherwise.
We use third party service providers to help us to administer certain activities on our behalf, such as (i) email and other online communication service providers, (ii) website hosting service providers, and (iii) providers of cloud data storage and processing. We may share Personal Information about you with such third-party data processors to the extent necessary for the sole purpose of enabling them to perform services on our behalf. Where we engage third parties to perform services on our behalf, we will require them to observe the intent of this Privacy Statement.
Other Disclosures
We may disclose Personal Information about you to others if we have your consent to do so in such form of consent as may be required under applicable law or as required to fulfill our obligations to our clients. Our firm will only disclose Personal Information in a manner consistent with the applicable rules of professional conduct.
We may also disclose Personal Information about you to others as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law or regulation, including laws or regulations outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public authorities and law enforcement officials, including officials outside your country of residence; (d) to assist or support theft investigations involving our products or property, (e) to enforce any of our terms and conditions or policies; (f) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates and subsidiaries; (g) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of our firm, you, our clients, or others; or (h) to permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We may also transfer Personal Information to an affiliate, a subsidiary or a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business or assets, including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes for which your Personal Information has been collected as outlined in this Privacy Statement unless a longer retention period is required by law.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
Our firm is based in the United States, where our servers and offices are located. Please note that any information you send to us by telephone, email, mail, or our website will be received in the United States. The United States may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information.
HOW YOU CAN REVIEW, CORRECT, UPDATE, AND DELETE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We take reasonable steps to help ensure that the Personal Information we collect from you is accurate, complete and current. You may request access to your Personal Information and request that erroneous or inaccurate Personal Information be corrected. You may request that your Personal Information be deleted. You may also request a copy of your Personal Information in our files. You can object to the processing of your data and, if you provided consent to allow us to process your data, you can withdraw your consent. We will respond promptly to your requests in accordance with applicable laws or rules of professional conduct.
For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We may decline to process requests that jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or would cause us to take any action that is not permissible under applicable laws or rules of professional conduct. Additionally, as permitted by applicable laws, we may need to retain certain Personal Information for a longer period of time for recordkeeping purposes, such as retaining records relating to your purchases for warranty or accounting purposes.
Access, correction or deletion requests can be made as follows:
Name: Tom Lewis
Email: info@gkglaw.com
Mail:
GKG Law, P.C.
1055 Thomas Jefferson Street NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20007
If you are in the European Union (“EU”), you also may contact your supervisory authority to lodge a complaint regarding if you have any issues with how we are processing your data.
