Updated July 24, 2021

Stuart Kaplow and Stuart D. Kaplow, P.A. (Stuart Kaplow) are concerned about privacy issues and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information.

We are pleased to provide this Privacy Policy to inform you of our practices in connection with information that we collect through our websites, blogs, and any mobile sites, applications, and other interactive features that link to this Privacy Policy (our Sites). Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to our online information gathering and dissemination practices conducted in connection with our Sites and does not apply to any of our law firm practices conducted offline including our law firm records retention and destruction policy that provides records are returned or destroyed one (1) month after use. If you have any questions or comments about the Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at info@stuartkaplow.com.

By accessing or using our Sites, you signify that you agree with all the terms of this Privacy Policy, so please do not access or use our Sites if you disagree with any part of this Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal Information We May Collect

We collect two types of information in connection with our Sites: Personal Information and Other Information. “Personal Information” is information that identifies you or relates to you as an individual. “Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual. Other Information is addressed below, under the heading “OTHER INFORMATION”.

We may collect Personal Information through our Sites such as:

Name
Email address
Telephone number

How We May Use Personal Information

We may use Personal Information:

to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you newsletters or publications that you request, to register you for events, and to sponsor events and evaluate sponsorship requests.
to send you legal updates and mailings relating to seminars or events that we think may be of interest to you, in accordance with applicable law.
to keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, if you contact us through our Sites, and to use such information and correspondence to respond to you.
to send you administrative information, including information regarding our Sites and changes to our terms, conditions and policies.
to provide services, including seminars and other events.
to facilitate social sharing functionality.
to provide relevant information that matches your stated preferences or your company’s industry on our Sites.
for our internal business purposes, such as improving or modifying our Sites and operating and expanding our business activities.
as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public or government authorities, including public or government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of you or others; or (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

How We May Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose your Personal Information:

to our third-party service providers which provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, IT services and infrastructure, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar services.
to a third party (whether affiliated or unaffiliated with us) in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding).
by you, on blogs and other services to which you are able to post information and materials. Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public information, and may be available to visitors to our Sites and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your Personal Information, or any other information, on our Sites.
to your friends associated with your social media account, to other website users as well as to your social media account provider, in connection with your social sharing activity, such as if you connect your social media account to your use of our Sites. By connecting your use of our Sites to your social media account you authorize us to share information with your social media account provider and you understand that the use of the information we share will be governed by the social media site’s privacy policy. If you do not want your Personal Information shared with other users or with your social media account provider, please do not connect your social media account with your use of our Sites and do not participate in social sharing on our Sites.
as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public or government authorities, including public or government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of our affiliates, you or others; or (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

OTHER INFORMATION

Other Information We May Collect

“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as:

Browser information
Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
Demographic information and Other Information provided by you
Aggregated information
Zip code

How We May Collect Other Information

We and our third-party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

Through your browser: Most Internet browsers transmit certain information to websites that you visit, such as your computer’s type (Windows or Macintosh) and its Media Access Control (MAC) address and screen resolution, and the type and version of your computer’s Operating System and browser. We use this information to ensure that our Sites functions properly.
Using cookies: Cookies are text files, containing small amounts of information, which are downloaded to your browsing device (such as a computer or smartphone) when you visit a website. Cookies allow us to recognize your browsing device to assist with your use of our Sites. This can include helping us understand how our Sites are being used, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests. You can find out more about the cookies we use and how you manage their use in our cookie policy.

If you do not want information to be collected through the use of cookies on your computer, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline the transfer of cookies to your computer, or to be given the choice of declining or accepting a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular website. If cookies are disabled, however, some features of our Sites may not operate as intended. Information about procedures to disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website.

Using applications: We may use applications, including mobile applications or widgets, to collect information from you.
Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used in connection with some Sites pages and HTML-formatted email messages to, among other things, track the actions of Sites users and email recipients, measure the success of marketing campaigns and compile statistics about Sites usage and response rates.
IP Address: Your “IP Address” is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP Address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user visits our Sites, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice on the Internet and is done automatically by many websites. We use IP Addresses for purposes such as calculating Sites usage levels, helping diagnose server problems and administering our Sites.
From you: We collect information when voluntarily provided by you, such as your company, title, interests and preferred means of communication. Unless combined with Personal Information, such information does not personally identify you or any other user of our Sites.
By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of our Sites. For example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code.

How We May Use and Disclose Other Information

Please note that we may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law. In those situations, we may use and disclose Other Information for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information, as well as for the uses listed in the “How We May Collect Other Information” section above.

In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your company and title). If we combine any Other Information with Personal Information, the combined information will be treated by us as Personal Information as long as it is so combined.

ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the Site and for analytics purposes. For more information about how Google Analytics collects and uses data when you use our Site, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. To opt out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

THIRD-PARTY SITES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site to which our Sites contains a link. Please read the terms, conditions and policies of such third-party sites before accessing or using such sites. The inclusion of a link on our Sites does not imply any endorsement of the linked site by us or by our affiliates.

SECURITY

We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information under our control. Unfortunately, no data storage system or method of data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please do not send sensitive or confidential information to us by email or by any other means in connection with our Sites. If you have reason to believe that your communications with us have been compromised in any way, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us as provided in the “CONTACTING US” section below.

CHOICES AND ACCESS

Your choices regarding our use of your Personal Information for marketing purposes:

If you no longer wish to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out of receiving these marketing-related emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in any such message. We aim to comply with such request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you administrative messages.

How you can access, change or suppress your Personal Information

You may request to review, correct, update, suppress or otherwise modify any Personal Information that you have previously provided to us through our Sites, or object to the use of such Personally Identifiable Information by us. You may exercise these rights by emailing info@stuartkaplow.com or logging on to the “Manage Subscriptions” section of our website. Additionally, you may also oppose the processing or transferring of Personal Information to the extent the laws of your country require, if you have a legitimate reason to do so.

In your request, please make clear what information you would like to have changed, and whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information. For your protection, we will 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 aim to comply with requests as soon as reasonably practicable.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records. Such information will not be removed. We may, from time to time, re-contact former users of our Sites. Finally, we are not responsible for removing information from the databases of third parties (such as service providers) with whom we have shared your Personal Information.

RETENTION PERIOD

We will retain your Personal Information and Other Information only for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required by law. Note this retention period applies to our Sites only and we reserve the right to supersede it with our law firm records retention and destruction policy that provides records are returned or destroyed one (1) month after use.

USE OF SITE BY MINORS

Our Sites is not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13), and we request that these individuals do not provide Personal Information through our Sites.

CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER

Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using our Sites you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have different data protection rules than those in your country.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., Social Security numbers, credit card or other payment card information, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through our Sites or otherwise to us.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

This section contains disclosures required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and applies only to “personal information” that is subject to the CCPA. Consumers with disabilities may access this notice by contacting us at info@stuartkaplow.com and requesting assistance.

We collect from consumers the following categories of personal information about California consumers:

Personal and online identifiers, such as name and email address;
Categories of information described in Section 1798.80(e) of the California Civil Code, such as telephone number;
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as interactions with our website; and
Professional or employment-related information.

We collect personal information from consumers, our clients, social networks, data analytics providers, and other third parties.

We use and disclose the personal information we collect for our commercial and business purposes, as further described in this Privacy Policy. Our commercial purposes include advertising and marketing, while business purposes include auditing related to our interactions with you; legal compliance; detecting and protecting against security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity; debugging; and performing services.

While we disclose all categories of personal information we collect to our service providers, we do not, and will not, sell personal information under the CCPA.

California residents have certain rights with respect to the personal information collected by businesses. If you are a California resident, you may exercise the following rights regarding personal information about you, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:

The right to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you, the categories of sources from which we collected personal information about you, our purposes for collecting or selling personal information, the categories of personal information that we have either sold or disclosed for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties with which we have shared personal information;
The right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you or maintain about you.
The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.

To exercise any of the above rights, please contact us by phone at 410.339.3910 or by email at info@stuartkaplow.com.

To verify your request, we will compare the information you provide in your request to any information we maintain about you. Note that we may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity or understand the scope of your request, although you will not be required to create an account with us to submit a request or have it fulfilled.

You may designate an authorized agent to make a CCPA request on your behalf by designating such an agent in writing or through a power of attorney. We will require the agent to provide us with proof that you have authorized the agent to make the CCPA request on your behalf prior to accepting a request from the agent.

FOR EUROPEAN RESIDENTS

Under the European Union’s (EU’s) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), transfers of personal information from the European Economic Area (EEA) may be made to jurisdictions that provide adequate protections to the rights of data subjects in the EU. The United States has not been deemed to provide such protection; therefore, we more generally rely on the following lawful basis for cross-border transfers from the EEA: standard contractual clauses, and the derogations available for contracts and consent.

In addition, residents of the EU, whose personal information, has been provided to us, may have additional rights under the GDPR, including, among other things, the right to see a copy of your personal information, the right to correct inaccurate information, the right to object to or restrict use of your information, and the right to have your personal information erased. If you would like to discuss or exercise these rights or have additional questions about our compliance with the GDPR, please contact info@stuartkaplow.com or call 1-410-339-3910.

UPDATED

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. Please take a look at the “UPDATED” legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on our Sites. By accessing or using our Sites following any such changes, you signify that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at info@stuartkaplow.com. Please note that email communications are not secure; accordingly, please do not include credit card information or other sensitive or confidential information in your emails to us.